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After the big snow dump during the last weekend of January, it seemed like locals were excited to see the Truckee River flowing at full force again.

I even saw some folks on social media fretting that the river might spill over its banks like it did during the Great New Year’s Flood of ’97. But it also seems to signify healthier local water levels after a couple of dry years. The river, like everything else in this town, seems to fluctuate from a pathetic trickle to a mighty Amazon.

After a while, that boomand-bust cycle just seems like the nature of life here in the high desert. It’s like that in the local economy, but also culturally. Some years, the local art and music and food scenes just seem to explode. Other years, even the most die-hard Nevadans consider moving to richer climes. We have dry years and wet years. Red years and black years. Rich years and poor years.

And the Truckee River, with its fluctuating water levels, seems like a convenient symbol at the heart of that constant change. Remember, this town was started because somebody needed to maintain a bridge over that river. And it looks like the newest iteration of that bridge is developing nicely.

In other news, watching the Iowa caucus results roll in on Monday night awakened my inner political junkie. That beast lays dormant for three years but then, around this time every election year, I transform into the kind of monster who checks the latest poll results every morning—even before I check my email or log into social media.

Don’t get me wrong—I always try to stay informed and up to date, but during election years, I start following the races with a fervor akin to baseball fandom—obsessing over minute statistics and percentages. And this presidential election is going to be an exciting, weird race.

The Democratic rivalry might be as close and hard fought as the 2008 primary. And the Republican field is a rogues gallery that rivals Batman’s nemeses. But it’s hard to say who’s the biggest joker.

Re “Mandatory minimum terrorism” (Let freedom ring, Jan. 21): The misinformnation and spin (’rifling’) in this Freedumb Ding is noteworthy. Malheur is a wildlife refuge, not a preserve and these terms have real meaning. The CCF seems more into CCW, no?

Twisting this takeover into a rant about mandatory minimums belies the real issues, which are policies- not politics. There is no reporting that suggests the agency (Fish and Wildlife Service) has “harassed” any ranchers.

Parley first, posse later.

I suggest the armed takeover isn’t much different than McVeigh or the Wacos when it comes to domestic terrorism—they are armed and on the fringe, right? It pains me to see these dullards sitting at a real working desk of a wildlife professional.

Throw the book at these Mormon crickets, assay.

Steev Klutter Sun Valley

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I do have a bone to pick with the Nevada Right to Life ad on the back page of the RN&R [Jan. 21]. Now that the Texas supreme court has ruled all these statements they make about Planned Parenthood as totally false doesn’t this organization have a responsibility to be truthful?

I know this is not your ad, but it is a blatant lie and as Planned Parenthood found cancer in my breast when I was in my 20s that probably saved my life—I’m 58—I resent such slandering lies about this organization.

I believe in freedom of speech, not freedom to lie.

Robin Zeare Lake Tahoe So now that money equals (buys) speech according to Citizen United per the Supreme Court of the United States, the full page advertisement

on your back page (volume 21, issue 49) provided your paper with lots of money to spread vile, disgusting lies to the public. News flash: Along with dozens of other state attorneys’ general, Texas’s attorney general has exonerated Planned Parenthood via the grand jury and indicted the videographers. Trust me, if they could have indicted PP, they would have loved to. But they couldn’t, ’cause it didn’t happen.

I believe in free speech, but would discourage papers from publishing demonstrable lies just for the revenue.

I discourage abortion but would leave that choice to the woman and her doctor because it’s none of my business. So the question is: Will you print this in your letters column or do I have to purchase advertising space? We have already agreed on your role, now we’re just haggling over price.

Michael Jeffers Sparks Editor’s note: We do not use the forum provided by this newspaper to prescribe what is error in politics.

That would put us in the position of also deciding what is truth. We would not accept advertisements for harmful products, but that is commerce, not politics, which is pure speech. The same applies to government, by the way, which is not permitted under federal law to tamper with the content of political commercials that are carried by government-regulated broadcast stations. Those commercials must run exactly as candidates produce them, complete with error or prejudice.

We trust the public will sort it out in the marketplace of ideas, as these readers did. Incidentally, the attorney general of Texas did not clear Planned Parenthood, a grand jury called by the lieutenant governor did.

Attorney General Ken Paxton said after the grand jury’s action, “The fact remains that the videos exposed the horrific nature of abortion and the shameful disregard for human life of the abortion industry.”

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Drugged prices Several news stories in the past few months have shown pharmaceutical companies abusing their ability to increase drug prices without an explanation. As a result, many presidential candidates are talking about these injustices and prompting congressional investigations. During the Democratic debate Sen. Sanders brought up an important point—one out of five seniors cannot afford prescribed medicines that are used to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry rakes in billions with a very low proportion of profit going into research and development to improve current drug therapies.

Indeed, companies should be able to make a reasonable profit, but healthcare is an industry that is supposed to be ethical. However, this is not the case. As a neuroscience undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Reno this is concerning, because I aspire to have a career as a research scientist. I want to make discoveries that would help people with neurological diseases.

However, for people to benefit from such a discovery pharmaceuticals should be an affordable price, not

something out of reach for people who need it. I am glad many candidates are still talking about the topic and hope they continue to through the general election.

Josue Regalado Reno

Corrections Re “Fighting the future” (cover story, Jan. 21): In referencing net metering legislation at the 2003 Nevada Legislature, we described its sponsorship incorrectly. It was sponsored by legislators Lynn Hettrick, Jason Geddes, Joseph Hardy and Ron Knecht. David Bobzien sponsored measures in 2007 and 2013. In addition, a Bobzien statement that “the perception that they weren’t always taking into account the larger purposes, particularly renewable energy” was a reference to the state Bureau of Consumer Protection, not the Public Utilities Commission. Our apologies.

Re: “Rock’n caucus” Jan 28): The Democratic caucuses will be held on Feb. 20, not Jan 20. The Republican caucuses will be held on Feb. 23, not Jan. 23.

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What would a Nevada NFL team be named?

Asked at Brew HaHa Beer Fest Erik Ottmann Marketing manager

We actually had a discussion about this because the Raiders were looking at moving to Las Vegas, and I said they should change their name to the Las Vegas Flyers because they have all the flyers for all the women down on the Strip.

Robert Gaines Social Security employee

Oh, boy. Let’s see. How about the Sage Hens? Isn’t that the ones that are going endangered? The Sage Hens? There you go. The Sage-Grouse.

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It’s got to be something to do with silver. Silver Backs, because we’re the Silver State, right?

There may be a difference between art museums The recent exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, and history museums, but we’re not sure there should Tahoe: A Visual History, was terrific for the community be. People should be able to argue and discuss what and for visitors from outside our area. Even for locals they are seeing. who thought they knew the history involved, there was In the case of the Tahoe exhibition, the Nevada new information. Pieces that have never been gathered Museum of Art was functioning as a history museum. together made a historical mosaic that will likely not be People frequently took notes on the items they viewed. seen again. An unwieldy but equally informative coffee Students made repeat visits. Their tasks would have been table book was published to accompany the exhibition. made easier if they could have taken photos. If faded it all made history more accessible. parchment or copyright was a concern, those specific When we went through the halls, we heard few exhibits could have been posted for no photos. There complaints. One was that there was too little on the was no reason to shield the entire movies made at Lake Tahoe. A visiWe hope the NMA exhibition. tor from Texas mentioned it, but he Having said all that, we hope the also understood that there were limits is not finished NMA is not finished with Lake Tahoe. to an exhibition that covered two centuries, and it could not include with Lake Tahoe. There is still much of its story to be told. Is it possible that there is a second everything.

Tahoe exhibit in the NMA’s future?

Another complaint was that Besides Tahoe motion pictures, there is the era of photography was not allowed, and that one, we believe, had greater merit. It speaks to what museum experiences graceful development of the basin, when great estates were built and steamships crossed the lake, when lumber should be. They should not be on-tiptoe, hushed-respect returned after the Comstock annihilated Tahoe’s forests, experiences. Many people dislike museums for exactly when millionaires and local families rubbed elbows at that reason, and they learn to dislike them at a formative local markets and environmental despoliation was far in time—in childhood. Being hushed can translate to a the future, when hustlers promoted plans to drain the lake lifetime habit of avoiding museums. for irrigation in Nevada or water supplies in California, That’s one of the reasons the Nevada State Museum when 1920s-1930s drought exposed wonderful scientific in Carson City is such a great place to take children. finds on the lake bottom.

Things are more informal, less structured. Visitors take People went out of Tahoe: A Visual History chatpictures of each other in front of exhibits. Speaking in tering about it. It was a joy. We hope the museum a casual tone is not chastised. It is a good first museum will build on the impression that exhibition made on for children to visit. This, too, helps make history more the public by returning to the topic again. Ω accessible.

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Yeah, I think something along those lines, like the Silver Backs. I like that because of the Silver State, right?

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I don’t know. What would we be called?

The Silver Strikers. I don’t know. Why not? The Nevada Silver Strikers because they struck silver. Silver Strikers. That’s why, because there was so much silver here. We are the Silver State.

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White guys only need apply They didn’t even bother with a token this year. The seven speakers at the Chamber of Commerce seminar last week (“DIRECTIONS: Engines of Change”) were all-white, all-male, and all self-promoting in their role as the “deciders” for our community.

Sponsors saw no need for gender, by racial, or income diversity at the Sheila Leslie podium, either by design or by neglect.

Instead, the Chamber featured Daniel Witt, Tesla’s senior manager of business development and policy, waxing proud but hardly grateful for the billion-dollar subsidy we gave the company for the honor of hosting them in our region. Brothel owner Lance Gilman, the managing partner of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, lauded the entrepreneurial spirit of Nevada. Mike Kazmierski, CEO of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada and denier-in-chief of any concern that growth doesn’t really pay for itself was there, too.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

You might shrug and say, So what? The Chamber is hardly representative of the population, and they certainly don’t speak for the majority of people who live here. If a good-old-boys insiders club wants to get together to reinforce their values of profits over people, why should we care?

This is why. These self-styled leaders heavily influence our elected officials from their positions of power. Ever wonder how the City of Reno got so far underwater, buying up properties to “help” their baseball buddies build a stadium? Or why the committee tasked with coming up with funds to build more schools for the children of the new Tesla and Switch workers immediately landed on raising our sales and property taxes? They’re certainly not interested in listening to a lecture about the regressiveness of the sales tax where the burden falls most heavily on those who earn the least.

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low-income people or their advocates are invisible, their concerns will naturally go unvoiced. Who will bring up the lack of affordable housing as new workers enter an already under-resourced market? Who will talk about the seniors living on social security or the lack of quality, affordable child care or the struggling families who will struggle even more in a boom economy that leaves them behind?

When contacted by women and community activists expressing disappointment at the lack of diversity and incredulity at the disrespect shown to women and minorities by excluding them from the podium, several speakers said not to worry; they’d make sure it didn’t happen again next year. But actions speak louder than empty promises.

Hans Schulz of the InterAmerican Development Bank recently observed that men who care about gender equality must start acting on their beliefs if they truly want to see change. He wrote, “If my male colleagues and I keep

participating in all-male panels, we will continue to do ourselves and our field a disservice. The timeless tradition of group-think has failed to solve our biggest development challenges. Incorporating more diverse perspectives, including those of women, offers the best chance of devising new and more effective approaches.”

The same could be said of speakers who provide racial and income diversity. Without these voices, Kazmierski will continue to be mystified at our community’s skepticism of the “added-value” his “engines of change” will bring to Reno. That skepticism is bound to turn into resentment and anger if the Chamber refuses to listen to alternative views, as uncomfortable as they may be.

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Liberty and porn The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was held in Las Vegas last month. Pornographic art has existed since prehistoric man drew stick figures with an extra leg on cave walls. Pornography is by far the most popular art form on the planet. Advances in inexpensive video production and the internet’s by Brendan power of distribution on both free Trainor and subsciption platforms allow millions of new watchers access to a dizzying variety of recorded human copulation. The days of men in raincoats whacking in a seedy XXX theatre is over.

Pornography is also constitutionally protected art and speech.

Self-described libertarian porn magnate John Stagliano is the director who invented “Gonzo Porn,” and “Point of View”(POV) porn, which together greatly increased the market in America for inexpensive HD camcorders. He was recently on trial in a Los Angeles court for violating California occupation and health (CAL/OHSA) regulations because his performers do not use condoms.

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initiative approved by the voters in 2012, mandates condoms and even dental dams and goggles be worn during porn productions. The initiative has been hard to enforce.

CAL/OHSA withdrew its fine during Stagliano’s court appearance. Other companies have settled for a slap on the wrist.

Sex work is under bipartisan attack. The religious right is as always involved in legal actions against porn. But increasingly the enemy of the industry has been the left. The left doesn’t want to save working girls’ souls, but rather protect their bodies from being exploited by the army of leeches the laws against sex work have themselves created, the pimps and “sex traffickers” who have “enslaved” them. The left sees sex workers just as they were portrayed in 19th century Virginia City, as “fallen doves” who today need the tender care of the therapeutic state instead of a good prayer meeting.

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Proposition B is largely the product of one man, Michael Weinstein, and his organization, the Aids Health Foundation (AHF).

The mission statement of AHS is to Stamp Out Aids. The organization has done much good work informing the public of the dangers of HIV and providing free condoms and assistance to victims. But beware of those who want to “stamp out” anything more than a brush fire.

The religious right often sees things from the perspective of the End Times and teaches preparation for the Rapture. Sometimes these eschatological preparations include using state police power to cleanse sin from the world through laws against sex work, drug use, gambling and other vices.

The left is also prone to religiously apocalyptic visions of government redemption. Climate change is their statist religion, with dire prophesies of “tipping points” and “peak oil” and other impending doomsdays that never materialize.

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AHF’s vision was forged in the awful 1980s when so many gay men tragically just suddenly got sick and died. But HIV infection is no longer a death sentence. Gay people are no longer threatened with apocalypse.

Ironically, Weinstein’s puritanical zeal causes him to oppose the first HIV prevention drug, Truvada.

Only turning sex into an occupational hazard is acceptable to him.

Weinstein wants to be California’s porn czar. The very idea invites a XXX parody.

Weinstein plans to bring his occupational mandates to Nevada.

Libertarians see his regulations as violations of the right to contract and free expression. Sex workers know of the increased rates of sexually transmitted diseases in their profession. But that is one reason why it pays well. The American porn industry provides excellent private testing and medical help. Those infected with HIV can’t work.

LA is having problems implementing Weinstein’s law. Let’s hope Nevada never passes it. Ω

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At the Sparks Labor Temple, Jim Hightower told unionists this election is an opportunity to curb corporate power. The banner in the background was used at the special session of the Nevada Legislature that granted the car company Faraday Future $335 million in incentives.

Clinton changes the subject Hillary Clinton is drawing Nevadans’ attention to Bernie Sanders’s record on guns.

The Clinton campaign sent a Washington Post fact checking article on Sanders’s gun record to Nevada media offices on Jan. 26. Clinton has been trying to keep campaign dialogue off Sanders’s issues of economic justice and financial regulation, and she seems to be having some success, since the Post has run several fact checkers on Sanders and guns. This latest piece was titled “Everything you wanted to know about Bernie Sanders’s record on guns.”

The Nevada Democratic caucuses are on Feb. 20, the third presidential nominating event in the nation.

Hightower said, “It’s a personal thing.

They have a person they can vote for. … And by the way, Texans are pissed off that you offered Tesla more.”

Where Sanders’s votes will come from in Nevada became an even more urgent question with the photo finish in the Iowa caucuses. He is running on a platform of ending the decline of the middle class by combating income inequality, breaking up the too-bigto-fail banks, and doing something about big money in politics, while also advancing policies like addressing climate change, increasing the minimum wage and Social Security benefits, and free college tuition.

Utility regulators faulted Renowned author and war correspondent Jacques Leslie has denounced the Nevada Public Utilities Commission for failing to move past traditional utility practices. It’s the role of regulators, he wrote, to build the “grid of the future [in which] energy costs will decrease and utilities will become, instead of climate change enablers, part of the solution to the problem.”

Leslie, two-time Pulitzer nominee who wrote the book Deep Water/The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, wrote in an essay on the New York Times oppositeeditorial page that base motives have influenced the PUC: “All three commission members were appointed or reappointed by Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, whose two election campaigns have received a total of $20,000, the maximum allowed donation under Nevada law, from NV Energy, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned utility that is a major beneficiary of the rate changes. Two of [Gov.] Sandoval’s closest informal advisers, Pete Ernaut and Gregory W. Ferraro, are NV Energy lobbyists. The American Legislative Exchange Council, which drafts model bills for right-wing state legislators and receives financial support from fossil fuel interests, has campaigned for rates like those the commission adopted, and, according to Greenpeace, NV Energy was at one time an ALEC member.”

The Nevada Legislature, too, was once an ALEC member.

Mike Fondi 1937-2016 Former Nevada judge Mike Fondi has died of cancer at age 78.

Born in Ely, Fondi graduated from Stanford and Hastings Law. He spent nearly 40 years in public service. He was a legal aide to Gov. Grant Sawyer and then a deputy attorney general. He was elected Carson City district attorney in 1970 and was appointed state district judge, serving from July 1, 1977, until Aug. 20, 2000. He was elected to FONDI that judgeship in 1978. At the time of his death, he was president of the Nevada Judicial Historical Society.

As a state court judge in 1982, he presided over a lawsuit against AMC Jeep that helped get the deadly Jeep CJ-5 off the market and its manufacture halted. He ignored frantic efforts by AMC to settle the case before he could file his findings and filed them anyway. Those findings were mooted by the settlement but still helped turn the tide against the dangerous CJ-5 Jeep.

He held that the vehicle tended to overturn, that passengers were not protected by the rollbar, that it oversteered, that the windshield frame was defective, and that the company knew the defects and failed to tell the public. The Nevada Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling written by Justice Thomas Steffan, said Fondi erred by releasing his decision after the two sides had settled. It voided his ruling, akin to un-ringing a bell.

“I think it probably saved hundreds of lives because it set the wheels in motion for the demise of that design,” trial lawyer Peter Chase Neumann said in 2004. “I believe they would have kept making that Jeep for another five years or so. They were selling about 500,000 of them a year.”

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Can Sanders crack Nevada Inc.?

Silver State not known for Berning anger U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential candidacy has relied partly on anger and partly on hope, but the anger is by an essential component. It raises the Dennis Myers question of whether Nevadans will respond, when they went through the entire Great Recession with little show of anger.

Last year, the Nevada Legislature enacted, at Gov. Brian Sandoval’s request, the largest single package of corporate welfare in human history for Tesla. The Nevada grassroots showed little distress. Democrats who said they went to the capital to curb the incentives caved in and voted unanimously for them.

“Trump is false anger.

Bernie is real anger.”

Jim Hightower Columnist Nevada is a tax haven in which the wealthy establish residences to shelter their incomes from taxation, giving the state an artificial average income that costs the state federal funding. It doesn’t seem to bother anyone.

Foreclosures are still happening at a relatively high rate, with foreclosed home auctions still happening on the Washoe County Courthouse steps. No one seems worked up.

For the asking, the Nevada Legislature hands out corporate liability waivers like cookies to industries from casinos to storage units. They litter Nevada Revised Statutes by the dozen, possibly by the hundreds (no one is certain), and few object.

State unemployment is still fairly high, but politicians detect no discontent among the jobless.

No other state lays down for business like this one, and the state’s soak-the-poor tax structure shows it.

Workers suffer in silence.

So is there the outrage among Nevadans that has fueled previous economic populist candidacies like those of Estes Kefauver and Robert Kennedy?

Jim Hightower, a Texas populist who was elected to statewide office there three times and now is a syndicated columnist and radio host, swept through Nevada last weekend campaigning for Sanders in union halls and among ranchers and farmers, trying to arouse those groups to turn out for his candidate.

“Why the hell are you going to pay more taxes for health care and schools and human needs at the same time we’re letting Tesla out of paying?” he asked. “There wasn’t a campaign here against that, and now there can be.”

Asked why the public would respond to Sanders when they didn’t respond to the Tesla welfare,

Outsiders Nevada political analyst Fred Lokken acknowledged that Nevadans tend to suffer in silence, but he’s not sure that will be true this year.

“Yes, I think there is an anger that can be mined by Sanders,” he said.

“He is literally connecting with people who are angry and frustrated.”

He said he suspects that unemployment is still in double digits. The official unemployment figure is 6.4 percent. That’s the lowest in five years, but is still relatively high (it’s 3.4 percent in the other early caucus state, Iowa)—and that doesn’t count those who have stopped receiving unemployment benefits.

“People are unhappy,” Lokken said. “They’re against the wealthy because everything is set up as unfair. … Well, you wonder if 2016 will be the exception.”

Lokken, who was skeptical of Sanders early in the campaign and thought he did not belong in the Democratic race, said he is surprised at how people are responding to him, and at the way Republicans have set things up for Sanders.

“Conservative Republicans have come across as mean-spirited, greedy, and Sanders is compassionate and kind with ideals that people can respond to,” he said. “We haven’t had a candidate in their lifetime who talked this way. There is compassion and an agenda no one else is talking about.

Something connected.”

Hightower said Sanders’s socialist background can be dealt with by responding, “I mean, Franklin Roosevelt”—and by listening to Sanders.

“He says he doesn’t want the government taking over, but he wants the public to have a full say,” Hightower said.

Sanders’s best friend. Its record could get people to caucuses.

“The result is legislation that we haven’t seen come through the legislature before—no progress on minimum wage, undercutting union rules,” Lokken said. “Those are the catalysts that should allow the Democrats to govern.”

“Something connected.”

Fred Lokken Political analyst The Sanders campaign sent Hightower to rock-ribbed Republican Douglas County over the weekend to talk with people in agriculture—Hightower is a former Texas agriculture commissioner—and his visit represents outreach to groups that Democrats tend to have written off in the past. U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said after John Kerry’s defeat in 2004 that the Democrats need to try to bring rural areas to the party, but some Nevada candidates who tried it were not successful. But economic populism originated in the farm states, and Hightower thinks the right Democratic candidate could get those constituencies to respond to the party.

The Nevada Democratic caucuses, third presidential nominating event in the nation, will be held on Feb. 20. Ω

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He also believes that Sanders wants to redeem unfulfilled promises from the Obama years. “Again, that’s bringing the outside in,” he said.

Obama, Hightower believes, talked a lot about opening his administration but, then, after becoming president, tended not to bring the public in.

Hightower characterized it as, “Thank you. I’ll take it from here.”

Lokken agrees, saying that people feel “used or played” depending on a leader’s approach. Lokken also believes Obama and the Democrats have unfinished business, whether because they think some issues are already resolved or because the Republican Congress won’t let anything Democratic through.

The promise has not been kept,” he said. “Health care is not affordable. The price of Obamacare keeps going up.”

Lokken, who teaches at the college level, said he has found the young decidedly unconcerned about the socialist label.

“They do want to see wealth redistributed. We’re back at the sense of injustice everywhere” that accompanied some earlier periods of history, he said.

As for whether the working poor in Nevada could become activists for a change, Lokken said the 2015 Nevada Legislature with its GOP majorities have been

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Even during winter, the sagebrush slopes of much of the Great Basin are spotted with the golden-brown remains of last year’s crop of cheatgrass, an invasive species that helps spread wildfires in the West. Researchers from the Great by Kelsey Basin Institute in Reno are now investigating a means for controlling this Fitzgerald fast-growing invader with a weed-suppressing bacteria called ACK55.

ACK55, a strain the Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria, occurs naturally in the environment and is found in all soils, including those of the Great Basin. This particular strain was discovered and isolated from a soil sample taken near Pullman, Washington, by soil scientist Ann Kennedy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kennedy’s initial tests showed exciting results – ACK55 produced a compound that reduced the root growth in certain species of invasive grasses, but didn’t harm the surrounding plant community.

“We searched through 25,000 isolates to find those that suppressed cheatgrass, medusahead, and jointed goatgrass, but did not inhibit crops or native plants,” said Kennedy. “In addition, the bacteria does not inhibit broadleaf plants.”

Now, a Reno-based research team is working with Kennedy to test the effect of ACK55 on controlling the spread of cheatgrass in the warm, dry soils of Nevada’s sagebrush habitats. Cheatgrass, a type of grass introduced from Eurasia during the late 1800s, is problematic for several reasons. It begins growing during winter, earlier than many of our native plants and grasses. By getting a head start, this invader is able to outcompete surrounding plants for water and nutrients. It grows quickly, produces large numbers of seeds, and finishes its life cycle by mid-June; the body of the plant then dries, leaving behind fuel that contributes to the spread of wildfires.

Great Basin Institute: www.thegreatbasininDuring September 2015, researchers from the Great Basin Institute in stitute.org/ Reno began setting up experimental study plots to test the effectiveness of ACK55, working in collaboration with Kennedy, the U.S. Fish and US Fish and Wildlife Service Partners Wildlife Service Partners Program, the Great Basin Landscape Conservation Program: www.fws.

Cooperative and private landowners. gov/nevada/partners/ The team found property owners near Spanish Springs and in Humboldt Great Basin Landscape County’s Eden Valley who were willing to give the bacteria a try on parcels Conservation of cheatgrass-infested rangeland. The bacteria are most active during times Cooperative: www. of year when temperatures are cool and grass root growth is most competigreatbasinlcc.org/ tive—late fall and early spring.

In November, associates Zac Haley and Lindsey Boyer worked from an ATV to spray an ACK55 solution across one-acre plots. The team will spend the next three years monitoring to see what happens, setting up photo points and collecting data on plant growth. What do they expect to find?

“It’s supposed to inhibit the root growth, which will then allow the native plants to achieve more water uptake and therefore outcompete the invasive grass,” Haley said. “It’d just be really good for taming cheatgrass in all kinds of fire-damaged areas.”

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parents recently sent me a small gift containing an empty vial.

All I had to do, according to a note on the box that read like something from Alice in Wonderland, was spit.

So I spat. Then I spat several more times to reach a fill line. And then I sent the sample off to a lab, where technicians extracted epithelial cells from my saliva and extracted DNA from those cells. While well over 99 percent of my DNA is exactly like yours (and about 96 percent the same as a chimp’s, by the way) the results I would receive would only involve the few and tiny differences in my strands—the sequences of nucleotides that make me truly me.

Just spit! And find out more about where you came from, who you really are and what will happen to you next.

It’s like your body telling a secret to your mind. It’s like tea leaves or palm readings or tarot cards—if any of those things were solidly based in scientific fact. It’s like getting a cheat sheet to your life, information that could change how you see and do everything.

I had read articles here and there about the genetic testing company, 23andMe, that analyzed my DNA. There were stories of people finding their long-lost children, but also stories of people finding out their dad wasn’t their biological dad. There were stories of people learning amazing facts about their past, but also stories about people discovering secrets better left buried.

There were stories about how DNA testing could even save your life, but also stories about genetics companies hoarding medical information. Was I opening a double-stranded can of worms for no reason except curiosity?

DNA testing would be like opening a gift—and mine was literally a gift—except the contents could be good or bad or both—and that’s the feeling I had when an email informed me several weeks later that my results were ready to view.

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Personal genetic testing has grown up.

Are there benefits to knowing the deeper truths about yourself and your chromosomes?

To test or not to test?

I am not exactly a stranger to the wonders of DNA. My parents both happen to hold doctorates in medical science and have professional backgrounds that run fairly parallel to the unfolding story of genetic research over the last five decades. I grew up in a home where science ruled. When I asked where babies came from, I got a Darwinian fairytale from my father.

When I asked what happens when we die, I got a blunt but loving lesson in decomposition from my mother.

Although I was ambivalent about spending hundreds of dollars on genetic testing—current 23andMe kits run $199—my parents seemed much more aware of the benefits and opportunities that could come from the experience.

Finally, they told me, with commercial

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DNA sequencing we would receive three pieces of information denied all humans who came before us: unimaginable answers about our past (through analyzing our mitochondrial DNA), insights into our present (through analyzing our traits) and hints about our future (through analyzing our known health risks).

My mom, who has always loved being on the cutting edge of technology (she boasts having owned one of the first calculators, one of the first VCRs, and, more recently, one of the first Apple watches), saw the potential of a revolution in how individuals could care for their own health, from how doctors would decide on cancer treatments to how annual physicals would be conducted. I didn’t quite understand the extent of her excitement about DNA home testing until I read her 23andMe profile, which reads simply, “To be able to participate in the dawn of personalized medicine is beyond my wildest dreams.”

Was I opening a double-stranded can of worms for no reason except curiosity?

Ancestral maneuvers The first half of your DNA results deal with your ancestors: who you are, based on where you came from. When I first logged onto the 23andMe website, I was welcomed by a visual breakdown of my ancestral composition based on region, a list of my known relatives with 23andMe accounts, based on our common genes, and a rough sketch of a shaggy Neanderthal, who informed me of my exact percentage of Neanderthal ancestry: 2.8 percent. I looked at the Neanderthal, who, like all sketches of Neanderthals, seemed to be looking off to the side, as if focused on evolving off the page. I hoped we did not share the same brow.

The details of my ancestry results contained one immediate surprise—and one that was echoed in my father’s and grandmother’s results. Although we had considered it a fact that my “Maw-Maw” was Korean, her genes

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told a different story. She is actually also 25 percent Japanese. Two generations later, I am about 15 percent Korean and 10 percent Japanese, with about 5 percent of random East Asian genes mixed in—math that only works due to chromosomal crossover.

While my immediate family took the news with interest and acceptance—after all, as my dad pointed out, you can literally see Korea from Japan—it was information that wasn’t especially welcomed by my older Korean relatives, all of whom harbor understandable animosity toward the Japanese after a long history of conflict between the nations and cultures. We debated telling my 92-year-old grandmother at all, or simply withholding the information. One of my great uncles hasn’t spoken to my dad since he mentioned the genetic discovery, highlighting one of the possible hazards of getting your DNA analyzed—finding out that you are literally your own worst enemy.

The next ancestry surprise landed in my email inbox months later, when a stranger named Derek Dohrman sent me a message simply titled, “Fam?” It was from a computer programmer about my age who shared 1.56 percent of my analyzed segments, making him a probable second or third cousin. I referred him to my mom, who in addition to being a biologist is also a genealogy buff who has traced our family tree back hundreds of years.

My mom looked at Derek’s DNA results as well as the results of his father, David.

For a geneticist, the conclusion was black and white:

“David shares a little more than 10 percent of genetic variants with me,” my mom explained. “So if you backtrack, his mother would have shared a fourth with me. While we haven’t proven anything, it’s pretty obvious that Derek’s grandmother was my half-sister.”

It was a piece of information that fit into what we had already pieced together.

David’s mother, Shirley, who passed away 15 years ago, was adopted and never knew her biological parents. My grandfather lived in Shirley’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, at the time she was born. My mom suddenly had a half-sister. All of us suddenly had new blood relatives.

Finding out I am one-tenth Japanese and that I had an aunt I never knew were certainly interesting facts, as was finding out my mitochondrial DNA traces my heritage back to the ancient Sami reindeer herders 40,000 years ago. But the real treasure is that these discoveries led to conversations with my family members, and those conversations led to stories.

My dad told me about my great grandfather who lost everything after the Japanese invaded Korea in 1910. He immigrated to Hawaii after reading an advertisement that said he could get rich there, but then spent the rest of his life working on sugar cane plantations in poor conditions, exploited for cheap labor.

My mom told me about my grandfather’s life before he was a Louisiana farmer with eight kids, when he worked in a GM factory in Flint before he was fired for dancing all

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night and being late for work—not once, but twice. Possibly, we know now, he was dancing with a woman who became pregnant and gave their baby up for adoption.

In these cases, the DNA information resulted not in an epiphany, but rather acted as a prompt. It was a gateway into stories I would have otherwise never heard. While a lot of people refer to DNA analysis as a way to find missing puzzle pieces, I found that my DNA results simply encouraged me to appreciate the puzzle.

Window to the future The far more controversial half of DNA testing is the health results. Based on research conducted around the world—including some research involving data from 23andMe participants—the website outlines your health risks, your possible drug interactions, toxicity and response issues, and your likely inherited conditions. For example, my biggest health risk is a 20.8 percent chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer during my lifetime, almost twice the risk of the average woman.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration heavily restricted DNA testing health results in 2014 and 2015 but has allowed 23andMe to share modified health results beginning again this year. The reason for the restrictions have been twofold. The FDA required 23andMe to prove its health results were accurate (and accurately portrayed), and they were concerned users of the service did not have enough knowledge or information to understand or process their results.

Telling someone they have a genetic marker associated with colitis, for example, is very different than having colitis, developing colitis in the future, or passing colitis on to your children.

When I asked my mom what she thought were the biggest drawbacks of getting your DNA tested, she echoed the second concern.

“For people who don’t have much of a science background,

they might jump to conclusions,” she said. “They might just assume they’re going to get a disease. They might not talk to their doctor about it. They might become depressed about it. Or they might start demanding expensive tests. It is not as simple as it used to be. It’s not like Mendelian inheritance with big Bs and little Bs like you learned in high school. The interactions of genes and proteins can throw everything off. You might have one marker that counteracts another marker. Our DNA is doing a lot more than most people have any idea.”

The main concern posed by critics of direct-to-consumer genetic testing is that there is no requirement for a doctor to be involved—no one to interpret or explain your results, no one to guide your medical decisions after analyzing your traits and risks, no one to tell you the difference between a diagnosis, a trait or a risk, not even someone to explain the extent of your risk, which can be more difficult to understand than it first appears. While doctors are now offering DNA analysis and being trained to interpret and use the information, it is not a mandatory component of testing.

The 23andMe platform now tries to combat these issues by educating its users, which can be a challenge since what we know about genetics changes literally by the day. When I clicked on my 20.8 percent risk for breast cancer, for example, I was sent to a page with links to support groups, genetic counselors and additional DNA tests specific to breast cancer. I also saw detailed information about my risk—of eight breast cancer markers, I had an increased risk for cancer based on six markers and decreased risk for two.

The page also reminded me that getting breast cancer is only an estimated 27-40 percent genetic. Under that reminder is a list of steps I could take to protect myself, from maintaining my weight and limiting alcohol intake to avoiding hormonal birth control.

I suddenly felt a huge, new accountability for my health. Now that I knew I was at risk for breast cancer, would I feel guilty every time I gained 5 pounds or ordered a pint of beer? If I do get diagnosed with breast cancer, will I feel that it was 60-73 percent my fault?

I also experienced some of the fear that many have raised about personalized medicine: Could this or other genetic information be used against me? I gave 23andMe permission to use my information for research, but how could others use it in the future? Could having breast cancer markers affect the price of my health insurance or my status in society or even my daughters’ abilities to find partners or have children?

While some of these concerns edge toward conspiracy theory, there are real questions about how raw DNA data will be used 10 or 20 or 100 years from now.

And yet other people in my family had breakthroughs in their health that permanently changed their lives for the better. My mom discovered her body doesn’t metabolize caffeine and other drugs efficiently, which was causing her frightening heart problems.

And my brother was able to better understand the autoimmune issues he has been struggling with since he was a kid. They agree the information they discovered was worth the risk of their genetic information now existing in a computer file.

Finding out I am onetenth Japanese and that I had an aunt I never knew were

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the average person, that I likely have slightly better body odor than average, and that I probably perform well under pressure.

These trait results sounded more like a horoscope than the results of DNA analysis, and in a way, they are, since the science is both complex and far from perfect. For me, being told who I am seemed much more personal than being told where I come from or where I might go.

For example, I carry the A1 variant, which everyone agrees is bad. It’s associated with not being able to learn from your mistakes, with addiction problems, with the inability to be persistent, and with the inability to respond to errors. As I read about this trait, which lives in each and every one of my cells, I wondered how I should process this knowledge about myself. Do I fight against it? Do I accept it? Do I simply try to be more aware of my weaknesses? It’s the heart-dropping feeling you get when you walk into the break room and your coworkers are joking about something you do, except you know with certainty what they are saying is true. It’s a flaw in who you are, in plain language, laid bare.

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Perhaps the oddest part about DNA analysis is that you get a lot of information you already know and a lot of simple statements about who you are, right now. I am a female with straight brown hair and brown eyes. I am lactose intolerant. I tend to have big babies. I like the taste of broccoli. I have wet earwax, whatever that means.

But from there, it gets stranger. As researchers delve deeper into genetic research, they are making connections between genes and traits that are more and more subtle and abstract. Promethease, a computer program that analyzes your raw data DNA file and compares it directly to SNPedia, a public human genetics database, provides anyone who has access to their DNA file with ongoing information about their variants as researchers make progress. For $5, I uploaded my 23andMe data file to have Promethease tell me that I have a higher pain tolerance than

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As I spoke to my family members about their experiences with DNA testing, patterns and themes began to emerge. Most people said they didn’t think about their results very often. Most people said they are glad to know about future health risks. And everyone said they would do it again. But the biggest consensus surprised me. Almost everyone I spoke to said they had initially spit into that little vial to find out how they were different and special, but what they ended up feeling was closer to everyone else—that the 99 percent of our genome trumped that 1 percent.

My new-to-me cousin Derek put it best: “It changed how I feel about myself. When you start to trace your DNA back, you see how many people you are related to, all over the world. It’s just a big web of people. It opens your mind up. There’s no reason to be so clannish or us-versus-them. We’re all related. It’s arbitrary and temporary to group ourselves or label ourselves. It’s made me a little bit more open.”

A little more open and a little bit connected is how I feel, too. To reindeer herders and my Asian ancestors and people who have trouble learning from their mistakes. To a family who lives in Flint, Michigan. To my four aunts who have battled breast cancer. To my mom and dad. You can see DNA testing as a time machine, a mirror, a fortune cookie, a diagnostic test, but perhaps what it is most is a simple reminder that we are all in this together. Ω

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icentennial Park is calling out for more than trees and flowers,” said Christine Fey, the city’s arts and culture manager, as a compact digital timer beeped to tell her that her tea was done steeping at Hub Tea Bar.

Bicentennial Park is the little sister to downtown Reno’s Wingfield Park, just across the pedestrian bridge.

It’s a block-wide triangular parcel of well-kept grass. Its eastern point is marked by the Portal of Evolution sculpture, a 26-foot-high steel butterfly, and at its west end, across from the Greyhound station, homeless people gather on shaded benches with knapsacks.

While Wingfield’s amphitheater and proximity to shops make it a popular gathering spot, Bicentennial is used largely for passing through.

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population there “respectful.”

While it makes sense to her that a park that size would be used largely as a corridor, she called it “under utilized” and said she’d like it to attract more families.

Across the shiny, white tea-house table from Fey, Marlene Olsen from Rotary Club of Reno’s downtown chapter pulled out a map of Bicentennial Park that includes five gray blocks representing some proposed additions: sculpture pedestals and a concrete pad. The map details a project called the Rotary Club of Reno Sculpture Garden at Bicentennial Park, which has been approved by the city and is slated to open this summer.

Olsen, who is chairman of the Rotary’s 100th anniversary project, said the club had sought an

ambitious project with which to mark its centennial.

“It’s almost funded,” said Olsen. She said the Rotary is contributing $25,000 to the project. Fey said that for 2016, the city’s entire annual public art budget of $50,000 will go toward the park. Fundraising is underway for another $25,000.

While the monetary cost is expected to be about $100,000, Fey clarified, “It’s more like a $150,000 project with all the in-kind services.”

The design phase The project manager for the sculpture park, Lindsey York, principal at Centerline Consultants, is a new Renoite and new Rotarian who is donating her services. Early in 2015, she moved here from Seattle with her husband, who now

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York said she’s carefully considered such details as how much weight pedestals can hold, how much wind they can handle if a sculpture happens to be sail-shaped and how to make them flood-proof and vandalproof. Modifying the park to accommodate sculptures will also require adjustments such as reorienting the sprinklers so they don’t water the artwork and removing a large tree.

York said the park will feature granite slabs that were originally part of Reno’s old city hall, which was demolished in 1963. The slabs were unearthed in 2009 during construction on a flood control levee on the Truckee River and collected by landscape architect Richmond Breen, who stored them, intending for them to eventually be used in a public project. When the sculpture park opens, York said, they will serve as additional seating.

The city has set a few ground rules for the park’s artwork.

“It needs to be approachable by the public,” Fey said. “It

has to be, for lack of a better word, G-rated.” Classical nude sculptures made of marble, for example, may fly in Rome, but Reno’s city officials and Rotary club don’t consider them public fare. (Even Rome got momentarily self-conscious, temporarily covering up its unclothed statues when Iran’s socially conservative President Hassan Rouhani visited the city on Jan. 26.)

The artwork will also need to be durable enough to withstand the elements for a year and designed or modified to bolt down to one of the fourfoot concrete cubes that will serve as pedestals.

Still, Fey said, she’d like to see work that challenges people’s expectations: “People will see something they don’t ordinarily get to see.”

To that effect, the exhibit is scheduled to change each year, and she’s invited different experts with different tastes to serve as curators. The 2016 curator has not been officially named, but the city is in conversation with the Nevada Museum of Art. NMA spokesperson Amanda Horn said, “The museum supports the idea of a sculpture park and may be involved with the artwork selection and curation this year — or in three years.”

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Public art beyond Bicentennial Fey, who is largely responsible for acquiring and maintaining public art in Reno, talked about her philosophy on outdoor sculptures and how it came to develop: “When I started the program 25 years ago, I looked for best practices in places like Portland and Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and to a lesser extent Los Angeles.” She borrowed ideas and ordinances from other cities.

“And now, I’m flattered to say, others borrow from us. At least once every month or two I get a call out of the blue from some place: ‘Our mayor was there. He loved what you’re doing.’”

“When I go to an Americans for the Arts Conference and my colleagues and I are talking on the bus somewhere, they say, ‘What’s going in Reno?’ They hear that we have 185 pieces in our outdoor collection. They’re like, ‘what?’”

Fey said that’s considered a large collection for a city of Reno’s size. Ω

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proposed curators. “Every year it’s going to be completely different. It’s going to be very cool.” Fey may implement a “people’s choice” voting process, in which the community’s favorite works would be purchased by the city and installed in area parks that don’t currently have artwork.

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In 2017, Paul Baker Prindle, curator of the University of Nevada, Reno’s art galleries, is expected to curate the park.

“I have some artists in mind who are going to take a look at the site,” Baker Prindle said. No plans are set in stone yet, but he’s considering a design firm from Montreal called Daily tous les jours. The group is known for playful, accessible public works that encourage interactions among people. Examples include a large swing set that makes music when people swing in synchrony and a hi-tech installation that allowed pedestrians to communicate across San Francisco’s busy Market Street using musically enhanced crosswalk lights.

The pieces Baker Prindle contracts for Bicentennial Park will have to be smaller in scale than those examples, but he wants to find something similar in spirit.

“No matter what, I’m interested in really thinking about it as a site where the visitors are absolutely essential to making the meaning happen,” he said. “I want to see the space feel very alive and dynamic, and I don’t want it to be work that you just look on. I want the viewer to be part of the work.”

For 2018, Burning Man has been asked to curate. The festival organizers have not yet announced specific plans for the park. In the last several years they’ve been involved in placing public art that tends to be quirky, accessible and sometimes interactive in Reno, Fernley, San Francisco and other cities.

“Their voices are so different,” said Fey of the three

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She has a new exhibition at Oats by Josie Luciano Park Art Center called Cirque. It’s a two-room show whose larger gallery is decked in light-soaked watercolors depicting West Coast rock formations. Each painting—a portrait of geological antiquity and passing light—is either timestamped, location-stamped, or both to distinguish pieces like “Mt. Whitney 6:36am” from pieces like “Mt. Whitney 6:40am.”

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qualities of both the 2D and 3D work are interesting enough to stand on their own, especially the threedimensional work.

All of Lassaline’s airy sculptures have a neutral palette (black, white, tan) with pops of color (crimson, mustard yellow) and delicate moving parts. They look like set pieces from a Wes Anderson movie about the science fair. There are scales, swings, a timekeeper, a flying machine, and instruments for recording underwater sounds.

“The functions are there, but they’re completely imaginary, and I’m really dead serious about them,” said Lassaline. “It’s essential that they’re not useful in real life, but there is an imaginary function.”

The pretend-purpose of “The Five Dot Weather Vane” is like that. It’s Lassaline’s take on the “weather rock” you made in elementary school, but instead of a hanging rock that senses rain (when the rock is wet), wind (when the rock is swinging), and hot or cold temperatures (when the rock is hot or cold), Lassaline’s instrument responds to weather patterns with drooping feathers, blooming amaranth, melting wax, and blowing flags. Whether it actually performs these functions is questionable and ultimately not too important.

Imagining is also enough for “The Hilarri,” a scale-like invention that balances five rocks from Lake Powell against a white-paint-coated counterweight. Its nonsensical measurement brings up questions about other values we might weigh (and their comparative absurdity to five rocks from Lake Powell).

“The Timekeeper” almost works on a functional level. Though it has a passing resemblance to a sundial, the small statue-like sculpture is loaded with extra features (a dried flower pod, red wax, a piece of lobster claw) that get in the way of actually telling time. A quick study of the corresponding drawing reveals some handwritten notes that detail the artist’s daily activities. Events like “breakfast/pet pets,” “work, paint, draw” and “warm up/outside” have no real way of being tracked with this object, even if the user wanted to.

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The second gallery is filled with 16 small, whimsical sculptures made of things like wood, wire, white paint, string, beeswax, cheesewax, and other “treasures found in forests, beaches, gardens, and attics.” A row of annotated drawings serves as a key to the objects’ peculiar functions.

On the surface, the two rooms look like distinct bodies of work with only an artist in common. But the glue is in the title.

“In French [Cirque] means circus and in geography and geology it refers to a feature where mountains are carved out by ancient glaciers,” explained Lassaline.

Both definitions loosely cover the rock-centered watercolors and theatrical assemblage of found objects on display. And for those grasping for more connections, they can be found in Lassaline’s nature walks—the inspiration behind both her realistic paintings as well as the collection of rocks, kelp, and seedpods that show up in the artist’s various sculptures.

People not concerned with overlap might be the most pleased of all with Cirque. That’s because, for all the scrubbed connections between the two halves of the exhibit (even Lassaline admits the show’s concept is “a little clean”), the formal

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The fish tasted fresh, and the citrus marinade was excellent, but I could have done with a little less cucumber.

The result—though tasty—was akin to a cucumber salad, seasoned with fish.

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salad (really more of a lettuce, onion and tomato garnish). For the money, there was quite a lot of rice and beans on the plates. The beans had the flavor and texture that tells you they didn’t come from a can, but the rice was kind of just there. Adding some of that good chunky salsa gave it more reason to be on the plate.

Although not indicated on the menu, the chille relleno plate featured not one, but two sizeable peppers stuffed with melted cheese, drenched in ranchero sauce, and sprinkled with cotija cheese. Or at least I think the sauce was supposed to be ranchero.

The tomato puree was pretty bland with not much seasoning to speak of, but the addition of a little hot sauce perked things right up.

The beef steak with onions was very tasty, featuring a 10-by-4-inch well-seasoned and grilled skirt steak served with what appeared to be an entire grilled onion. Seriously, there was so much onion I couldn’t see the meat until I cleared it aside. Not that this is a bad thing. I love steak with onions and boy, they really hit it out of the park. The flavor of an adobo spice blend combined with fresh garlic—and other things I can’t name—was perfect. Just don’t plan on kissing anyone after eating this dish, unless, of course, you both ordered the same thing.

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The OKest minutes The Finest Hours I haven’t been on a boat in many, many years. The Finest Hours kind of makes me feel OK about that particular character trait of mine.

In 1952, an oil tanker called the Pendleton split in two during a blizzard off the coast of Cape Cod. All eight crewmembers who were in the stern at the time the boat broke in two perished. Thirty-three men initially survived by in the bobbing bow section of the ship, mere Bob Grimm hours away from certain death.

Upon hearing news of the situation, bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om a four-man crew boarded the smallish CG-36500 boat and set out to sea, a violently choppy sea, in search of the Pendleton and its crew.

Director Craig Gillespie has crafted an exciting sea-faring movie. That is, an exciting sea-faring movie when it is actually out at sea. Some of the stuff that happens back on shore bogs the movie down in schmaltziness.

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That’s OK. The action sequences, and the performances during those sequences, put The Finest Hours over the top as an entertainment worthy of your time.

Chris Pine plays Bernie Webber, who captains the tiny ship tasked with saving over thirty men. Yes, this provides the opportunity for the guy who plays Captain Kirk to be called Captain a lot during the course of this film. It’s a slight distraction, but a good one nonetheless.

As Ray Sybert, one of the unlucky fellows aboard the Pendleton when it met its fate, Casey Affleck is rock solid as the man who takes charge in the face of great peril. When some of the crew thinks it’s a good idea to board the lifeboats in the middle of gale force winds, Sybert gives them a demonstration that renders that option moot. Affleck, one of the more underrated actors in the biz, offers the film’s best performance.

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Unlike the dreadful In the Heart of the Sea that Ron Howard shat into the ocean last year, this one packs a major, exciting action punch with a lot of water. I haven’t felt this freaked out watching people ride into slamming waves since Wolfgang Petersen tortured Clooney and Wahlberg in The Perfect Storm.

Bernie rides into the belly of the beast with three crewmembers played by Ben Foster, John Magaro and Kyle Gallner. All four are terrific at looking scared shitless while being drenched and bounced about like a 5-year-old in a bounce house with a bunch of energetic and older fat people. When the action covers their voyage, or Affleck’s struggles aboard the sinking vessel, the movie is top notch.

Sadly, Gillespie feels the need to make this a love story, too. Holliday Grainger battles hard against the sap monster back on shore, and it’s a battle she loses despite an admirable effort. She plays Miriam, Bernie’s new girlfriend, and her face-offs with Bernie’s commander (Eric Bana with a distracting accent) at Coast Guard HQ are tiresome stuff.

Bernie and Miriam’s courtship is actually kind of sweet in the early part of the movie, but their love story becomes nothing but an unwelcome distraction once waves start hitting Bernie’s boat.

The film looks and plays a lot like a movie that could’ve been shot in black and white.

Some of the faces in this film (especially Foster’s) look like old timey actors, and there were times I was expecting one of the Bowery Boys or Humphrey Bogart to show up and lend a hand. There are times when the film has a palpable classic vibe.

Pine comes to life when his character is out at sea, but his stilted choices back on shore seem almost gimmicky. He’s very charismatic in most of his roles, and the sheepishness he portrays on dry land feels forced and overdone. He salvages his work during the action sequences, for sure, but the movie does feature some of his career worst work at times.

If you are looking for a good seafaring movie with a decent love story, your best bet is still Titanic. The Finest Hours is no masterpiece, but it gets the job done. Ω

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The 5th Wave

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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 hurt my standing at the workplace, in 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.” 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.

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

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.

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The Big Short

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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Daddy’s Home

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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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Jack Black returns as the voice of Po in this decent second sequel in the saga of the Panda warrior and his warrior cronies.

This time out, Po encounters his long lost dad, Li (the warm growl of Bryan Cranston), who takes him to the land of the pandas so that he can learn the powers of his chi. Such an advancement in his warrior techniques is absolutely essential for the lands are being threatened by a spirit realm warrior named Kai (J.K. Simmons voicing what I think is some sort of super muscular yak-type thing). The stuff with Po and Li is cute, with the added element of Po’s adopted dad (James Hong) being a little jealous. There’s a cool psychedelic look at times, and the animated series continues to impress on artistic levels. The story feels a bit like a repeat of the previous two. That’s OK, but doesn’t necessarily place this chapter high on the originality scale.

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.

Pipe dreams Pipes on the River Attending a Pipes on the River organ recital is a kinesthetic experience. The interior of Trinity Episcopal Church hums with by Jeri the force of compressed air moving Chadwell-Singley through the pipes spread from the front to the back of the church. The j eri c@ news r eview.c om vibration is conveyed to the body through the floor, the pews and the air itself.

It’s an invigorating experience and not a bad way to spend a Friday lunch hour, which is exactly what church organist and director of music Dr. Philip Manwell invites people to do on the first and third Friday of every month.

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Dr. Philip Manwell plays Trinity’s pipe organ. The organ has 37 stops and a total of 2,177 pipes.

According to Manwell, the organ was always intended for the enjoyment of the whole community, not just the church’s parishioners.

“It was designed and built with that in mind—that it would have flexible use, so that church services and all of those things could be nicely played, but also recitals could be played, concerts could be played,” Manwell said.

The Pipes on the River recitals have been a staple of the church’s music program since the organ was installed in 1999.

“Downtown was growing, changing,” Manwell explained. “More businesses and offices could take their lunch hour, walk over to the church, listen to some music, get back to work on time.”

According to Manwell, Trinity’s is the largest pipe organ in Northern Nevada. In the early days after its installation, organists traveled from around the country to play recitals on it. For many years, the recitals were held every Friday. They were

You can catch Pipes on River every first and third Friday of the month at 12 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 200 Island Ave. near Wingfield Park.

Visit http://bit. ly/1KbBXbH to see the organ in a virtual tour of Trinity Episcopal.

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eventually scaled back in an effort to keep costs under control and public interest in the program high.

Manwell would like to see Pipes on the River return to a weekly schedule, but, for now, he’s plenty busy with the church’s expanding music programs, which include a new children’s music program and continuing performances from local groups like Bella Voce and the Nevada Gay Men’s Chorus. And he’s looking to use the church for yet another musical purpose.

“I’m very interested in having university students do their degree recitals here,” Manwell said. “We’ve had three wonderful recitals—all singers and their accompanists, and that’s bringing a whole kind of new feeling to how we use the church for musical purposes.”

Manwell has been working with the music department at the University of Nevada, Reno—where he teaches organ—in an effort to increase the number and variety of degree recitals held at Trinity. He’s also working with the church’s new organist and associate musician, Michael Lynch, who is learning the ins-and-outs of Trinity’s organ. According to Manwell, the placement of pipes in both the front and back of the church presents a unique set of challenges for organists.

“The challenge and the fun for organists is to get both of them to sound simultaneously without the audience hearing a delay, because there’s just enough length between these pipes and those pipes, and the acoustic makes just a sort of infinitesimal delay between this and this,” Manwell said. “The challenge for the organist, if you’re going to use it all together, is to play in way that the listener hears it all happening simultaneously, rather than an echo happening all the time.”

It’s that simultaneous sounding of the pipes spread throughout the building that lends the distinctive physical dimension to the recital experience.

“It was a great idea when they were designing the instrument, and probably a little ahead of its time—for this church, and for the size of the building, and for all of the rest—to try to create that versatility and variety between sound coming from the rear and sound coming from the front and combining those in very different ways,” Manwell said. “It just makes the instrument more flexible. It was very ingenious.” Ω ART OF THE STATE

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

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

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219 Boys, Miss Cooper and Her Pet 219 Boys, Hookup, Miss Cooper Her Pet Craigslist Trentand Thomas, 10pm, $5 Craigslist Hookup, Trent Thomas, 10pm, $5

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

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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

Ultra Ultra Violent Violent Rays Rays Feb. 4, 9 p.m.

Feb. 4, 9 p.m.

Monolith Bar Monolith Bar 100 N. Arlington Ave. 100 N. Arlington Ave. 284-0840 284-0840

5 STAR SALOON 5132STAR SALOON West St., (775) 329-2878

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Karaoke, 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 OF AMERICA 10042 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee; (530) 587-2626

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

Uncle Funkle, 9pm, no cover Uncle Funkle, 9pm, no cover

Uncle Funkle, 9pm, no cover Uncle Funkle, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

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

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

Asking Alexandria, We Predict A Riot, For Asking Alexandria,Salythian, We Predict A Riot,$20 For Those Searching, 7:30pm, Those Searching, Salythian, 7:30pm, $20

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

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

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

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

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

Winter Whiteout II: Jauz, Aryay, Winter II: Jauz, RangerWhiteout Bass, 9pm, $28 Aryay, Ranger Bass, 9pm, $28 Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover Neil O’Kane, 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

Vokab Kompany, 8pm, $14 Vokab Kompany, 8pm, $14 Traditional Irish Tune Session, Traditional Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, noIrish cover 7pm, Tu, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

Songwriters in the Round, Songwriters in the Round, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover

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

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: 3rd Comedy Street,Night 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, Comedy & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, Night no cover W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson Carson 507Ester N. Carson St.,F, Carson City,Nugget, 882-1626: Steinberg, 7:30pm, City, 882-1626: Ester Steinberg, 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 553-1022: Rocky Tahoe, LaPorte,Stateline, Ron Morey,(800) Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Rocky LaPorte, Sa, 8pm, 10pm, Ron $30;Morey, DarrylTh-F, Lenox,Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Darryl Lenox, Tracey MacDonald, W, 8pm, $25 Tracey MacDonald, W, 8pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Laugh Factory Resort Casino, 407at N. Silver VirginiaLegacy St., 325-7401: Casino, 407 N.Th,Virginia St.,$21.95; 325-7401: Gerry Bednob, Su, 7:30pm, F-Sa, Gerry Bednob, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Don Barnhart,F-Sa, Tu, W, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Don Barnhart, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, S. Virginia St., $10; 686-6600: Ester100 Steinberg, Th, 8pm, 686-6600: Ester Steinberg, 8pm, $13-!5 $10; F, 9pm, $13-$15; Sa, 6:30pm, Th, 9:30pm, F, 9pm, $13-$15; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $13-!5

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Lucas Papenfusscline, 7pm, no cover Lucas Papenfusscline, 7pm, no cover

Mile High Jazz Band, 8pm, Tu, $5 Mile Jazz noon, Band, W, 8pm, Tu, $5 DaveHigh Leather, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Jeff Campbell, 7pm, no cover Jeff Campbell, 7pm, no cover

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

VooDoo Dogz, 9:30pm, no cover VooDoo Dogz, 9:30pm, no cover

The Last Kings, 9:30pm, no cover The Last Kings, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Karaoke w/Nitesong Tu, Border Line Fine, Productions, 9:30pm, W, no9pm, cover Tu, Border Line Fine, 9:30pm, W, no cover

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

Greg Austin, 9pm, no cover Greg Austin, 9pm, no cover

The Heidi Incident, Chaz O’Neill Band, The Heidi9:30pm, Incident,noChaz O’Neill Band, 7:30pm, cover 7:30pm, 9:30pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Body Rampant, Artcls, CLMNCY, The Body Rampant, Empty Beds, 8pm, $5Artcls, CLMNCY, Empty Beds, 8pm, $5

Useless Eaters, The Staches, Useless Eaters, Staches, Maraudeur, TasteThe Buds, 8pm, $5 Maraudeur, Taste Buds, 8pm, $5 Tim Vee, Jake Houston, 9pm, $2 Tim Vee, Jake Houston, 9pm, $2

Childbirth, Werewolf Club, Lisa Prank, Childbirth, 8pm, $5 Werewolf Club, Lisa Prank, 8pm, $5

Houseboy, Stabby Unicorn, Houseboy, Stabby Unicorn, Wizard Colors, 8pm, W, $5 Wizard Colors, 8pm, W, $5 Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, no cover Blazin 9:30pm, M, no9pm, cover Cash’dMics!, Out, The Atomiks, Tu, $7 Cash’d Out, The Atomiks, 9pm, Tu, $7 Outspoken: Open Mic Night, Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover 7pm, M, no cover

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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

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

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FRIDAY 2/5 FRIDAY 2/5

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

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

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

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, Magic Fusion 7:30pm, M, Tu,w/Tony $35 Clark, 7:30pm, M, Tu, $35 Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover Whatitdo Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover

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

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

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

MONOLITH BAR MONOLITH 100 N. ArlingtonBAR Ave., (775) 284-0840

Ultra Violent Rays, 9pm, no cover Ultra Violent Rays, 9pm, no cover

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

Jenni Charles & Jesse Dunn, Jenni 8pm, Charles no cover& Jesse Dunn, 8pm, no cover

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

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

100 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 284-0840

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

Erin & The Project, 8:30pm, no cover Erin & The Project, 8:30pm, no cover

Erin & The Project, 8:30pm, no cover Erin & The Project, 8:30pm, no cover

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

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

Open Mic Night w/Wabuska Yachting Open w/Wabuska Yachting Club, Mic 7pm,Night no cover Club, 7pm, no cover

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

Newbound, Crush, Basha, Newbound, Crush, Basha, June Rebellion, 8pm, $5 June Rebellion, 8pm, $5

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

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

Enforcer, Warbinger, Cauldron, Enforcer, Warbinger, Cauldron, 6:30pm, $12 6:30pm, $12

From Ashes To New, 8pm, M, $10, Geoff From To New, 8pm, M, 9pm, $10, Geoff Tate’sAshes Operation Mindcrime, Tu, $20 Tate’s Operation Mindcrime, 9pm, Tu, $20

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

Gallows Bound, Barnyard Stompers, Gallows 10pm, M,Bound, $TBA Barnyard Stompers, 10pm, M, $TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erin & The Project, Liam Kyle Cahill, Erin Project, Liam Kyle Cahill, 9pm,&noThe cover 9pm, no cover

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

Bands For Bernie with Jelly Bread, Bands Forcover; Berniedonations with Jellyaccepted Bread, 8pm, no 8pm, no cover; donations accepted

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

Step Back Saturday, 10pm, no cover Step Back Saturday, 10pm, no cover

Industry Night w/DJ Keenan, Industry w/DJ Keenan, 9pm, Tu, Night no cover 9pm, Tu, no cover

Thick As Thieves, 9pm, no cover Thick As Thieves, 9pm, no cover

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

Feb. 9, 9 p.m.

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

Jonathan Rolling, Doctors of Feelgood, Jonathan Rolling, Doctors of Feelgood, 8pm, no cover 8pm, no cover

The Rhino vs. Mr. Rooney, 9pm, no cover The Rhino vs. Mr. Rooney, 9pm, no cover

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

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2) Kick, 8pm, no cover 2) Kick, 8pm, no cover

2) Kick, 4pm, no cover 2) Kick,10pm, 4pm, no cover Mimic, Mimic, 10pm, no cover

2) Kick, 4pm, no cover 2) Kick,10pm, 4pm, no cover Mimic, Mimic, 10pm, no cover

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2) After Dark, 6pm, no cover 2) After Dark, 6pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Steve Lord, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) The Motet, Sophistafunk, 1) The$20-$40 Motet, Sophistafunk, 9pm, 9pm, $20-$40

2) Horsemouth, 10pm, no cover 2) Horsemouth, 10pm, no cover

2) Mustache Harbor, 10pm, no cover 2) Mustache Harbor, 10pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 , 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 2) Apple Z, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Apple Z, 10:30pm, no cover

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1) Footloose, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose , 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 2) Apple Z, 10:30pm, no cover 2) 10:30pm, no cover 3) Apple DJ RoniZ,Romance, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 , 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 2) Apple Z, 10:30pm, no cover 2) Apple Z, 10:30pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 7pm Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 2) Live Band, Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover 2) Karaoke, no cover DJ Live ChrisBand English, 10pm,10pm, Tu, noM,cover DJ ChrisBoys, English, 10pm, W, Tu, no no cover cover Garage 10:30pm, Garage Boys, 10:30pm, W, no cover

2) Lex Fridays w/Romeo Reyes, 2) Lex $15 Fridays w/Romeo Reyes, 10pm, 10pm, $15 Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 3) Country 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

2) Lex Saturdays w/Miles Medina, 2) Lex $15 Saturdays w/Miles Medina, 10pm, 10pm, $15 Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 3) Country 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

1) Achilles Wheel, 9:30pm, no cover 1) Achilles Wheel, 9:30pm, no cover

1) Rudy Colombini & The Unauthorized 1) RudyStones, Colombini & The$15 Unauthorized Rolling 9:30pm, Rolling 9:30pm, $15 2) RyanStones, Whyte Maloney, 9pm, no cover 2) Ryan Whyte Maloney, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Enfo, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 2) DJ JosBeatz, 3) DJ ArtyEnfo, the Party, 9pm, no10pm, cover$20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) Tower of Power, 7:30pm, $45.87 1) Power,DJ7:30pm, $45.87 2) Tower BrookeofEvers, Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 2) RicknoGee, 10pm, $20 3) Brooke Arty theEvers, Party,DJ 9pm, cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover

1) Decadence, 9:30pm, $32.75 , 9:30pm, 1) Decadence 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm,$32.75 no cover 3) Jackie Landrum, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,no nocover cover Mark Mackay, 8pm, Mark Mackay, 8pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,no nocover cover Mark Mackay, 8pm, Mark Mackay, 8pm, no cover

1) Chris Twomey, 8pm, no cover 1) Chris Twomey, 8pm, no cover

1) Chris Twomey, 8pm, no cover 1) Twomey, 8pm,8pm, no cover 2) Chris The Utility Players, $15 2) The Utility Players, 8pm, $15

1) The Piano Guys, 8pm, $65.50-$79.50 1) Piano Guys, $65.50-$79.50 2) The Superbad, 9pm, 8pm, no cover 2) 9pm,9pm, no cover 3) Superbad, Fashion Friday, no cover 3) Friday, 9pm,9pm, no cover 4) Fashion Halie O’Ryan Band, no cover 4) Halie O’Ryan Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, 1) Mike$49.50-$65.50 Tyson: Undisputed Truth, 9pm, 8pm, 2) Superbad, 8pm, $49.50-$65.50 2) Saturdays, Superbad, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction no Seduction Saturdays, $5 cover 4) Halie3)O’Ryan Band, 9pm, no 9pm, cover $5 4) Halie O’Ryan Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

2) Flirt Thursdays, 10pm, no cover 2) Thursdays, 10pm,Colt no cover 3) Flirt Country Nights w/DJ Ainsworth, 2500 E. Second (775)Nightclub 789-2000 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) Lex 3) Sports Book 3) Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

HARD ROCK HOTEL HARD ROCKLAKE HOTEL & CASINO TAHOE & CASINO LAKE(844) TAHOE 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 588-7625 50 Hwy.2)50,Center Stateline; 1) Vinyl Bar (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

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

15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; 1) South Shore Room (775) 588-6611 1) Shore Room 2) South Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge 2) Peek Nightclub 3) Center Stage Lounge

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

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

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

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm,no nocover cover Mark Mackay, 8pm, Mark Mackay, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

407 N. Virginia St., Hall (775)2)325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) 8pm, no coverof Aura, University 1) Exposition Hall4)2)Silver Rum Baron BullionsLounge Island Bar 3) 3) Grand Aura Ultra Lounge University 9pm, no coverof Aura, 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Silver Baron Ballroom 9pm, no cover 5) Silver Baron Ballroom

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Mike Tyson Mike Tyson Feb. 6, 8 p.m.

Feb. 6,Legacy 8 p.m.

Silver Silver 407 N. Legacy Virginia St. 407 N. Virginia St. 325-7401 325-7401

Karaoke Karaoke 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

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

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

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

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PICTURES OF THE UNIVERSE: Join mem-

galleries and music by The Sextones (formerly the Mark Sexton Band).

Th, 2/4, 5-7pm. $10 general admission; free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

ART WALK RENO: The monthly art walk features works of local and regional artists on display in venues within the Arts District, between Liberty Street and Second Street and Virginia Street and Arlington Avenue. The walk begins at 5 p.m. at Liberty Fine Art Gallery, 100 W. Liberty St., where you can purchase a ticket for $10, which includes a glass, raffle ticket and program for the evening. There are 18 stops. A portion of all proceeds from Art Walk Reno will be donated to non-profit groups focused on art, education and community. First Th of every month, 5-9pm. $10. Liberty Fine Art, 100 W. Liberty St., (775) 232-8079, http://artspotreno.com.

NIGHT OF INDULGENCE: Celebrate health and wellness while being treated by experts in massage, jewelry, beauty and more. Shop, sip wine and nibble on treats. F, 2/5, 4:30-7pm. Free.

Family First Chiropractic, 2155 Green Vista Drive, Ste 202, Sparks, (775) 337-0184.

RENO/TAHOE SENIOR GAMES: Participants age 50 and older compete within age groups to win gold, silver and bronze medals.

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

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240.

FIRST THURSDAY: THE SEXTONES: Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly event includes wine, beer, viewing of its

REPTILE CONSERVATION DISCUSSION:

bers of the Astronomical Society of Nevada as they present pictures of the known universe and discuss the phenomena in our night sky. The presentation will be followed by viewing the night sky. Sa, 2/6, 6pm. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

Jason Jones discusses what he is doing for reptile conservation and how the public can help. F, 2/5, 6-9pm.

Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 247-3819, www.greatbasinherp.org.

EPIC CONCERT SERIES: TOCCATA—Tahoe 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 Elijah, Part 2. Guest violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn will perform the Brahms Violin Concerto in D major. F, 2/5, 7pm. $5-$40; free for youth under age 19 in general seating. Cornerstone Church, 300 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 313-9697.

Art ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE: Luscious Abstracts. The abstract art gallery is open for First Thursday Art and Wine Walk on Feb. 4, 4-9pm. 142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

MASQUERADE: P’Opera! presents an

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY:

evening of mystery, Mardi Gras and music. The group will perform a variety of musical selections which include musical theater, light opera, jazz, grand opera and contemporary music. Su, 2/7, 5 & 7:30pm. $30 admission; does not include food and beverage. The Bridge Restaurant & Bar, 425 S. Virginia St., (775) 233-5105.

Shades of Red. Artists Co-op of Reno presents an all-member and friends showcase celebrating “one of the most passionate and fiery colors in the artist’s palette.” The opening reception is on Feb. 7, 11am to 2pm.

M-Su, 11am-4pm through 2/29. Free.

627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

CHARLIE B GALLERY: John Rotheram :

RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH BILL WATROUS AND GARY URWIN: The

Pots On Earth. The gallery holds its grand opening and a reception for Carson City potter John Rotheram (1941-2013) on Feb. 12. Proceeds from the sale of Rotheram’s work will sponsor a scholarship in his name at Carson City Pottery. Tu-Sa, 10am-5pm through 2/29; F, 2/12, 5-9pm. Free. 114 W. Telegraph St., Carson City, (775) 575-7333.

17-piece big band orchestra will share the stage with famed trombonist Bill Watrous and conductor/arranger Gary Urwin. Sa, 2/6, 7:30pm. $20 adults, $10 students.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., http://renojazzorchestra.org.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Media

VOICES OF THEIR LANDS: The University of Nevada, Reno’s Argenta Trio performs Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor, opus 76 by Joaquin Turina, Piano Trio in F-sharp minor by Arno Babadjanian and Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, opus 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich. F, 2/5, 7:30pm. $25; $5 for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

Technology: Past & Present. Visitors will enjoy a display of media technological leaps through this exhibit on display in the Whittemore Gallery of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. M-Su through 6/30. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

MORRIS BURNER HOTEL: The Artwork of Cindy Gunn. The art opening features live music, live painting and artwork and a raffle. F, 2/5, 5-10pm. Free, donations accepted. 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

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NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andy Diaz

SWEET SOUNDS Claire Lynch Band

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Gold in 1997 (the latter two albums garnered Grammy nominations). In 2005, she formed the Claire Lynch Band, which has won critical praise for pushing the boundaries of bluegrass music. “Claire Lynch can be claimed by fans of many genres … but the sound she makes with her band truly belongs in the ears of all who love heartfelt music by accomplished artists,” writes Music Matters Magazine. The show begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Cantina Los Tres Hombres, 926 Victorian Ave., Sparks. Tickets are $20 for Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association members and $25 for non-members. Call 225-9462 or visit www.nnba.org.

he Grammy-nominated bluegrass artist brings her band to Sparks as part of what may be her last tour with the group. Lynch, a three-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Female Vocalist of the Year award, reportedly plans to retire from full-time touring later this year (although she will continue to write new music). She began her music career as co-lead vocalist of the Front Porch String Band during the 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when there weren’t many female-led groups in the bluegrass genre. After the Front Porch String Band retired in 1981, she became an in-demand session singer and songwriter. In 1991, she rejoined the Front Porch String Band for the album Lines and Traces. Lynch released her solo albums Friends for a Lifetime in 1993, Moonlighter in 1995 and Silver and

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Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Cedra Wood: A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15; Daniel Douke: Extraordinary, W-Su through 4/24; Don Dondero: A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10; Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, W-Su through 4/17. Opens 2/6; Monuments & DeLIMITations: Projects by David Taylor and Marcos Ramírez ERRE, W-Su through 4/17. Opens 2/6. $1-$10.

160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

THE BOOK OF MORMON: Broadway Comes to Reno presents the Tony Awardwinning Best Musical from the creators of South Park. Contains explicit language. Tu, 2/9, 7:30pm; W, 2/10,

7:30pm; Th, 2/11, 7:30pm; F, 2/12, 8pm; Sa, 2/13, 2 & 8pm; Su, 2/14, 2 & 7pm. $75 and up. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: A PORTRAIT IN COURAGE: In this stage adaptation 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. Th, 2/4, 8pm; F,

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Great Basin Native Artists Exhibit. Great Basin Native Artists’ exhibition features the work of contemporary Native American artists. 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.

2/5, 8pm; Sa, 2/6, 8pm; W, 2/10, 8pm; Th, 2/11, 8pm; F, 2/12, 8pm; Sa, 2/13, 8pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

OUTSIDE MULLINGAR: The Restless Artists’ Theatre (formerly known as Reno Artists’ Theatre) presents John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy set in rural Ireland. Th, 2/4, 7:30pm;

Music CODE: LIFTOFF: Code: Collective is preparing to journey into the multiverse for their search of the best artists they can find to bring back to Earth for a special event coming this April.

Dance the night away to some of Reno’s best local DJs at this send-off party. Sa, 2/6, 8pm-2am. $5 suggested minimum donation. Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

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

COME IN FROM THE COLD FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES: The 2016

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However, for anyone seeking “happily ever after” instead of “hookuppily,” Tinder can pose a problem, and that problem is too much choice. But choice is a good thing, right? The more the better! It’s the principle behind those “endless options!” deli menus—you know, the ones with a page count that makes you forget whether you’re supposed to decide what to have for lunch or whether Ayn Rand was a bad writer.

Unfortunately, our psychological operating system evolved in an environment where the level of choice was more like “Sir, can I bring you the grubs or the grubs?” So research finds that we’re easily overwhelmed by a slew of options—often choosing poorly and being bummed about it afterward or feeling too snowed to choose at all. Social psychologist Barry Schwartz explains that these problems with choosing are about protecting ourselves from regret— the pain of blaming ourselves for making the wrong choice. But having a lot of options isn’t necessarily unmanageable—if we have enough information to differentiate between them and narrow the field. However, on Tinder, there’s minimal info—only age, location, pics, and a few lines about a person— making it an endless swipestream of “she’s hot” and “she’s hot in a slightly different way.”

Also consider that Tinder is not designed to help you find love—that lasts for more than a few sweaty hours. Tinder is designed to keep you Tindering. The psychological hook is “intermittent reinforcement.”

Predictable “rewards”—like if you swiped and always got a match—quickly give us the yawnies. But Tinder’s unpredictable rewards—the random ding! “It’s a match!”—turn you into a coke-seeking lab rat, relentlessly swiping for your next high.

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You may decide to keep nibbling at Tinder’s mobileglobal man buffet, but dates that come out of real-life meetings are probably more likely to lead to second dates and maybe more. At a party, you’re, say, one of eight single women, five of whom a guy isn’t that attracted to and one of whom he broke up with last year. And finally, there’s how face-to-face meetings come with behavioral constraints that Tinder convos lack. You should find it’s the rare guy at the coffee shop who immediately follows up “That a soy latte?” with a casual “Wanna see my dick?”

Shirknado My girlfriend has been feeling neglected and keeps worrying that I’m mad at her. I love her, but I have big business problems now and I don’t want to burden her with them. Also, since we have a good thing, does it make sense to focus on the stuff that’s a mess?

Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to outsource your relationship to some guy in the Philippines: “Please stay on the line. Your feelings are very important to us …”

Men and women tend to deal with crisis in different ways. Women manage their emotions by expressing them; men just hope theirs will go away. Evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby explain that men evolved to be the defenders of the species, and in battle, it would have put them at a disadvantage to show their feelings—especially those reflecting vulnerability, like “Yikes, I’m totally out of my league!”

Being predisposed to bury your feelings in the backyard doesn’t mean you should—assuming you don’t want your next startup to be a new relationship. This isn’t to say you need to blather on about everything, Oprah’scouch style. You just need to share the bad as well as the good, even just by texting, “tough day, babe.” You might even put reminders on your phone to send brief sweet messages a few times daily. Maybe that seems dumb and unromantic. What’s dumber and more unromantic is adding breakup problems to your business problems because you didn’t put in 46 seconds a day telling a woman that she matters. Sure, misery reportedly “loves company,” but let’s not be hasty in filling the flower vases and putting out the good towels. Ω

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I like people

who unbalance me,” says Irish writer Colum McCann. Normally I wouldn’t dream of encouraging you to make the same declaration, Libra. My instinct is to help you do everything necessary to maintain harmony.

But now is one of those rare times when you can thrive on what happens when you become a bit tilted or uneven or irregular.

That’s because the influences that unbalance you will be the same influences that tickle your fancy and charge your batteries and ring your bell and sizzle your bacon.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The African

Association was a 19th-century British group dedicated to exploring West Africa.

Its members hoped to remedy Europeans’ ignorance about the area’s geography. In one of the Association’s most ambitious projects, it commissioned an adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to chart the course of the legendary Niger River. Nicholls and his crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have already found.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Richard P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics.

He also played the bongo drums and was a competent artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself— and you are the easiest person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic reminders that we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection.

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

connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuisine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, South Carolina, he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga.

“Frankly,” he told his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.”

Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting super-intense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop short of taking extreme measures. You know why.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty. Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books, that one has for 20 years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence.

Then after 20 years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: It is like a revelation.” I foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Leaning

Tower of Pisa is eight stories high, including its belfry, and tilts sideways at a 4-degree angle. When builders started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the top 10 in Italy. Its flaw is the source of its fame and glory. What’s the equivalent in your world, Pisces? Now is a favorable time to take new or extra advantage of something you consider imperfect or blemished.

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Magazine man Oliver X Reno Tahoe Tonight is turning 7 this month. We checked in with the magazine’s editor and publisher, Oliver X, to see what he’s up to these days and what’s in store for the magazine in years to come.

So, you guys are turning 7, and I heard that you’re throwing a big bash.

We are. Since our launch in 2009, we threw parties for ourselves. It’s sort of like a thank you to the staff, the team, the contributors, the readers, for supporting us. But from day one I wanted to launch on Bob Marley’s birthday every year because I like to do a party on Feb. 6 every year, and this was a great excuse.

You work across mediums. Can you tell me a little about what you’re doing with local television and radio?

Yeah. I have a KNEWS 107.3 FM weekly radio show on Shamrock. It airs Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m., and it was an idea to—you know, I’ve always been in radio in some way. I was in college radio at U.C. Berkeley on KALX, and I did a community affairs show there called Amandla. I just really have always liked radio, so as a brand extender, and as an idea to cross market, I wanted to have a radio presence. And then—because we do so many events as coverage and I’m a promoter—I wanted to also share stories, so Fox News asked

So, I know that Oliver X is your legal name, but is there an origin story behind the X?

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• Last week was a tough one for the Jefferson Airplane. Not only did founding guitarist/vocalist Paul Kantner check out of the Earth Hilton, but the Airplane’s original “chick” singer, Signe Anderson, departed as well. And on the exact same day, 1-28-16! That’s just one of those freaky cosmic coincidences, along the lines of the all-time greatest combo swan dive ever, when President 2 John Adams and Prez 3 Tom Jefferson both expired on the same day in 1820—and that day was July the freakin’ Fourth! As many 19th century reporters said back then—Kuh-RAZY! Signe was the female voice on the very first Airplane album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, which featured some nifty tunes like “It’s No Secret,” “Come Up The Years,” and the Airplane’s version of deluxe OPINION

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Yes, there is. Gosh, it seems like a world ago when people expressed their social convictions through how they named themselves. … The X part—the earliest book that I grew up seeing was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. As I emerged as a growing young man after my father’s death, I was looking for role models. And so, knowing my father was very deeply convicted to trade unionism, and was a person who actually admired Malcolm X, and referred to himself as Oliver X, I—once I was able to, in California—I changed my name to X. Now, why that is, is because there’s a concept in Swahili called kujichagulia, which means self determination—the ability to name yourself and to lead your life. … So self determination is the power to name oneself. So, for me, I thought it would be very symbolic to honor not only my father but also Malcolm X, who I consider to be a political figure and a spiritual figure, who went through a transcendence. He went from prison to basic priest and then also disavowed racism.

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me to be a contributor, and I’m a weekly contributor on Fox Mornings on 11 on the news every Wednesday. I have a thing called “What to do Wednesday,” which is a hump-day broadcast about what to do in the coming weekend. It’s pretty cool. So, it’s just a small segment, but I love it. And then I book their weekly live local show on Friday.

Right on. So, the magazine’s come a long way in seven years.

I wonder, where does it go in the next seven?

We started with 16 pages in 2009, and now we’re at 104. We’re sort of stretching the limits of saddle-stitching, as far as—we might have to go to perfect binding. But what we did—we innovated by adding a third staple when needed. … We started that recently, and it’s been working. I think I want to get up to about 124 pages, and that should be fine for us. And I like the size that we’re at still, as well—eight and half by five and a half [inches] wide. The future really is to drill down and to be better at

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what we’re doing, you know. Irrelevance is the enemy for us. We want to be relevant, and we want to extend some of the culture. We see ourselves as a mirror of culture, but not necessarily of mainstream culture—of emerging culture, indie culture, underground culture. We were the first to do a story on Chor Boogie, who was the 2008 Beijing muralist, in Beijing—first time a street artist had ever done anything for the Olympics.

∫y Bruce Van Dye Bandstand in ’67.

After doing one of their Gracie hits, AB host Dick Clark wandered over to interview various band members, and he said to Paul, “Older people worry. They see the way you’re dressed, they hear your music, they don’t understand it. Do parents have anything to worry about?” Kantner did not flinch.

“I think so. Their children are doing things they didn’t do and they don’t understand.” Perf! A line delivered with that sly “I’m on the bus and you’re obviously not” sorta smirk.

• The other day, I bumped my elbow.

No big deal. Or so I thought. Now, it’s all swole up with a bulging blister sack of fluid. Jesus. And it reminded me of something my dad would say in his waning years. “Growing old is for the birds, kid.” He’d let that sink in for a sec, then follow up with, “Hey, make me another drink, wouldja?” Ω

hippie anthem “Let’s Get Together.”

In the summer of ’66, Signe married a Prankster, got pregnant, and decided it was a good time to split the JA and be a momma. Her last gig was on October 15, ’66, and she told the folks at the Fillmore that night, in words that perfectly capture the times, “I want you all to wear smiles and daisies and to box balloons. I love you all. Thank you and goodbye.”

The band was ready with Signe’s replacement, and on the next night, introduced a sassy, spunky, smartass knockout named Grace to the Fillmore crowd. The Great Gracie brought two songs to her new group, “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit,” and the band kicked into kaleidoscopic hyperdrive for about four years before they ran out of gas, only to morph into the Starship of the early ’70s.

Like Kantner, Signe was 74 when Mr. Reaper came a-callin’, a victim of complications from COPD. One of my favorite Kantner moments can be seen on YouTube, when the Airplane played on American

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