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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

I always feel more comfortable explaining the facts of life to kids than to adults, but here goes: Our free enterprise system is built on the idea that more powerful entities exploit less powerful ones. That means an employee can never earn what their labor is worth.

The system requires that labor be sold as part of the markup in the cost of goods, which is the true determinant of value. So the profit on an individual’s labor goes to the exploiter.

The only exceptions I can think of for this are areas where the government limits the supplies of people doing a certain job. For example, physicians are paid far more than they’re worth, which creates the system that makes them attractive to sue, which makes them and their insurance companies bump up healthcare costs to maintain profits.

I spend quite a bit of time trying to figure out how not to hurt people and how not to enable the exploitation of myself and others. For example, when I installed my solar PV system, I did it in part because I believe solar-generated power is less hurtful to people and the planet than coal or nuclear or even natural gas.

The Nevada PUC’s decision to take the power my “factory” generates and sell it back to me at a loss for me instead of break-even for both of us— saving the power utility money in the long run—puts me on the “being exploited” part of the contract.

My only logical choice to prevent my own exploitation is to buy a set of batteries and a generator, which—over the 15 years it will take me to pay them off—will save me approximately $4,000 and not contribute to the green grid.

That means it will cost NV Energy about $8,000, during that time period, and maybe $95,000 over the life of the house. Seems kind of shortsighted to me, but the fossil fuel industries know they’re on the way out, and they’re going to exploit while the exploiting is good.

Re “White guys only need apply” (Left Foot Forward, Feb. 4): It must be fun to just take shots at people trying to make our community better. Sheila’s ability to issue judgment on others with little reference to the facts shows that she lives in the glass-is-half empty, everything-is-negative world.

The more than 14,000 residents, over the past four years, who are no longer unemployed (fact), many low income and women, may find little comfort with her crusade to represent or “help” them.

As for the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, an organization that is run by a woman chair, that has as many woman executives as male, and has more than a dozen female board members in a business community that is traditionally dominated by males, may not be the best example of an organization that is gender bias.

Maybe Sheila should take the time to consider all the great things happening in Reno, due in part to EDAWN’s efforts, rather than showing her many biases. One of these days she may actually write something positive about our community?

Mike Kazmierski Reno

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Note: Mike Kazmierski is president and chief executive officer of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), a private organization that tries to bring new companies to the area.

Re “White guys only need apply” (Left Foot Forward, Feb. 4): I was a little surprised this morning when I received this article about the “Directions: Engines of Change” conference from a colleague. In her column, Sheila Leslie claims there was no “gender, racial, or income diversity at the podium,” the speakers were “all-white, all-male and all self-promoting,” and she

goes on to claim that the Chamber of Commerce, which presents the event, failed to represent the community. I was surprised because I was a speaker at the event and, it is also important to note that I am a minority myself. I had the honor of welcoming over 700 attendees, delivering a speech on the blueprint for success, and officiating at the closing ceremony. I’m not writing this response to criticize Leslie.

I actually agree with parts of her letter. It is important to have people of color in leadership roles.

Here are a few facts about the chamber in our community: The chamber’s past chair and current chair are both minorities. Almost 40 percent of our new board members are female or people of color. The chamber is working with the Washoe County School District, community college, Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, and university to improve our education system, not just for the future, but for the present with programs and certificates that help our underemployed and unemployed qualify for jobs.

After reading Leslie’s letter, I looked at the makeup of our Directions: Engines of Change committee team (50 percent female and people of color), and the process used to select companies and industries highlighted at the conference. I am confident that there was no bias in the way our decisions were made.

Nevertheless, I hope Leslie and others in our community will continue to look for opportunities to promote diversity, and I invite them to join the efforts the chamber already has underway. Leslie, I would very much enjoy taking you to lunch and discussing the many ways we could work together to positively impact our community.

Danny DeLaRosa Reno

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Now it’s time, I think, to tell the utility company to bugger off. I am certain that just one 100 watt solar photovoltaic panel will adequately power at least three 30-watt LED lights for illumination in the standard house, all off grid, all free any time that ol’ sun doth shineth.

I’ve seen latest generation LEDs and they are damned bright. But then who turns on the lights in houses when the sun is shining, after all?

Well, I do.

If the power companies are going to screw us, then perhaps it’s time to take one or two of those nice panels you have off line, and off grid, and use them direct. Any designers out there? I’m ready to rock on this. Put on your thinking caps. Imagine, direct use of solar energy, what a concept.

PS. There’s a whole lot more to solar than just fancy PV panels, too, kids.

Craig Bergland Reno

Re “Fighting the future” (cover story, Jan. 21): Dennis Myers’ solar article is an example of high art done by a master researcher; it deserves several reads.

I hope Dennis, an extraordinary writer, will dig into our private utilities’ penchant for delivering high line voltages, which has been ongoing for at least this decades that I know. This “hidden tax” may be what prompted Buffett to buy the company, having made it appear perhaps more ’efficient’ that it actually is. Or not, but I won’t go there just yet.

Jeb Bateman [laid-off solar worker] is a wonderful man with a delightful family and has been at the front of solar for a long time.

I am confident that things will turn around again and that we will continue to develop solar here in sunny Northern Nevada. We do have the second best solar in the country according to some, and we need people like Jeb here, not in California.

Erik Holland

Note: Danny DeLaRosa is board chair of the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce and a vice president of United Federal Credit Union.

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What song makes you cry?

Asked at Recycled Records, 822 S. Virginia St. Jeremy Burger Dog behaviorist

That is a good question. OK, so I’d say “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys. I think it’s just the lyrics and the delivery are just—the combination of the two—get to me every time. I’ve heard that song probably my whole life, but it never really resonated with me until adulthood.

Kyndra Valceschini Clerk/student

There’s a lot. The one that makes me cry every single time is Bob Dylan’s “Wedding Song” because I think it’s just the perfect love song, and when I first heard it, I was so obsessed with Bob Dylan.

I had bought every book I could find on him and just learned so much about him—then learning so much about him and then hearing that song.

Charlie Hadley Job seeker

Cut the county sales tax A committee of the Washoe County School District is getting close to sticking it to the working poor in our county. Their weapon? The sales tax. Again.

Time after time, our state’s affluent dump the job of paying for the state’s needs on those who can least afford it. The planned tax hike is expected to be either a combo property/sales tax hike or, most likely, a sales tax hike. No one is proposing solely a property tax hike.

Nevada was free of a sales tax until the mid-1950s.

No one dared propose one because the sales tax is regressive—that is, it hits the working poor harder than the affluent. Workers spend a greater portion of their income on sales taxes than do the wealthy. But under the pounding of the baby boom on the state’s schools, legislators enacted a 2 percent sales tax in large part because then, as now, the wealthy and business would not allow taxes on themselves. Gambling, tobacco and income taxes were beyond the realm of allowable discourse. So teachers’ leaders decided to push for a sales tax, thus screwing their own members, who were poorly paid and would be hard hit.

In 1960, the Nevada Legislature commissioned a report on taxation in Nevada. That report, known as the Zubrow Report, guided state taxation for the next two decades. It called the sales tax regressive and recommended against raising it in the future. It was based, the report said, on what “might be termed the ‘sucker theory’ of taxation, and has no place in the formulation of a sound tax program.” The meaning was that the rate of collection of sales taxes is so gradual that members of the public have no idea how heavily they are being taxed.

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That’s hard. I’d have to think about it.

Maybe “The Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunnymen. I don’t know, it’s just—I think it might have to do with this one time I was really trippin’ on mushrooms, and I just started thinking about all my old ex-girlfriends. And I was just driving down a highway at night, and all the lights from the cars made me feel like I was just going through outer-space.

But time after time the state kept going back to the sales tax well. Screwing the poor was politically easier than tapping the rich who funded campaigns.

In 1981, the Zubrow findings were totally thrown to the winds and the Legislature pushed the sales tax up to a near-doubling of its then-rate. The result is that state finances have been uncertain ever since. The sales tax is unreliable, fluctuating with economic conditions. There have been chronic, and costly, state budget crises ever since 1981.

In 1997, the Legislature authorized a sales tax hike in Washoe and Clark counties. We say “authorized” because the legislators were too cowardly to enact it themselves, so they gave local officials the power to impose the tax. In Clark County, the public was allowed to vote on it and approved the hike. No one expected that to happen in Washoe, where some of the money was intended for the casino-demanded train trench project to lower the railroad tracks at a $250 million-plus cost. So the public was not allowed to vote. Instead, two lame duck county commissioners who had been defeated on the issue of the train trench pushed the sales tax hike through the commission after the election.

Right now, the state sales tax rate is 6.85 percent— eighth highest in the nation. Local portions of that rate have pushed the tax in Washoe County to 7.725.

No doubt speaking for the working poor, Chamber of Commerce CEO Len Stevens said from his lofty income, “We can do it [raise the sales tax] at a price everyone can afford.”

Workers in this county need relief from that high rate, not a hike. Ω

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Yes, AC/DC, “Back in Black.” Yes, I always have a tender moment with that song. I don’t know. I think it came out the same year I was born—maybe that’s why.

Marleen Lorenzo Barista

I do think maybe a Beatles song would probably be the best answer. “Hey Jude,” maybe, like towards the end when they keep repeating the chorus I think that part is probably what gets me. There’s something about it, like the feeling of everybody singing together—that there was something there that the song captured. A sense of community, maybe. |

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Just sign here (heh-heh) When someone stops you at the grocery store with a petition during the next few months, take a close look before you sign.

It might be someone trying to repeal the Commerce Tax approved by the 2015 Legislature which finally forced big box stores to pay a small by amount for the privilege of doing Sheila Leslie business in Nevada. Don’t sign it unless you think it’s fair that Target pays a corporate tax in every state that surrounds Nevada, contributing to education funding, while Nevada gives them a free ride.

If the referendum qualifies for the ballot and is passed by voters in November, the repercussions include another round of harsh budget cuts or a shift of the tax burden right back down to the rest of us who already pay some of the highest sales taxes in the country. Decline to sign that petition and keep the small Commerce Tax in place.

Then again, the signature gatherer could be an activist trying to raise the minimum wage in Nevada from $7.25 an hour (with health

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benefits)/$8.25 (without health benefits) to a more reasonable $13 per hour over the next eight years. Although the Chamber of Commerce tried to get a judge to throw out the petition, he rejected their arguments, clearing the way for signatures to be gathered. Take a stand against income inequality and sign. You’ll be helping hardworking, struggling families earn enough to live a decent life.

Proponents of rooftop solar systems have their own petition, a referendum to take the cap off of net metering and allow people to sell back their excess power to NV Energy at a reasonable rate. And there’s another petition to get rid of the NV Energy monopoly through deregulation.

Perennial right-wing fanatic Sharron Angle has several initiatives, so check carefully before you sign anything that talks about voter identification or repealing the state health insurance exchange. All you need to know is that it’s an Angle petition. Just say no and walk away.

I’m not a fan of government by petition for a number of reasons, not least of which is the language of the initiative cannot be updated or changed by the Legislature but must go back to the people for another vote if unintended consequences surface later. But when elected officials ignore the expressed will of the people, sometimes it’s the only way to move an issue forward.

Such is the case when it comes to background checks for gun purchases. Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed a bill passed by the Legislature in 2013, despite widespread support in Nevada for subjecting gun show sales to the same requirements as retail gun stores. The initiative easily gained the needed signatures to qualify for the ballot so voters can close the gun show loophole in November.

Plan on it.

The legalization of recreational marijuana will also be on your ballot, and people making a mint off medical marijuana dispensaries can hardly wait. If it passes, Nevada

will join a handful of other states in defying the federal government’s stance that marijuana is a controlled substance. While low-level marijuana users shouldn’t be incarcerated, I’m none too crazy about a lot more stoned people driving on our highways. I’m out of the progressive mainstream on this one. Chalk it up to far too many years working in drug court.

Nevadans have used the ballot box to override balky politicians before, perhaps best exemplified by the 1990 referendum, Question 7, which reaffirmed the statute codifying reproductive rights of women. That statute now cannot be amended, repealed, or otherwise changed without a direct vote of the people. Neither the Legislature nor the governor can override the voters’ decision to keep abortion legal.

Sometimes the people really do know best. Ω

Ballot petitions are used mostly by those who can pay for signature gathering: http://prospect.org/ article/direct-democracy-billionaires

Is occupation terror?

Google the phrase “I would rather die than be caged.” I thought maybe the search would pull up a heroic Native American, like Crazy Horse, who was killed in federal custody.

Instead, it pulled up 54-year-old Arizona rancher Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. He spoke those words in by Brendan an interview he gave during the Trainor protest takeover of an unoccupied building at Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. That takeover was done by, among others, Ammon Bundy, son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, and others who called themselves Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. Finicum said he could not stand to be in prison and not be able to “get on my horse in the morning and go tend to my cows.”

On Jan. 26, Finicum was killed in the act of being arrested by FBI and Oregon State Police. Arrested were Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan, and six other “militants.”

Two were women.

Finicum particpated in a lightly armed “occupation” of a deserted building on a public wildlife preserve in sparsely populated Hanley County, Oregon. CCF was protesting mandatory minimum sentences of five years handed down to two members of the local Hammond family for setting firebreaks on their own property that ran over into federal land. The CCF takeover of essentially a Keurig coffeemaker in a maintenance shack was to protest how federal land agencies treat ranchers.

The people of Burns, Oregon, near Malheur were conflicted over the CCF takeover of the maintenance building. Bundy and Finicum appeared at several town halls to explain their actions.

On that Tuesday, Finicum, Bundy and others in two cars were stopped by a state police roadblock on the way to a community meeting. There is only one video of the incident, taken from a helicopter.

Finicum, in the lead car, pulled

away from the roadblock, then swerved off the road into a snow bank. When he got out of the car, his hands were up in gesture of surrender. He took a few steps towards an officer who was pointing his service weapon at him.

Then Finicum turned back to the car where the others were still getting out. His hand appears to move to his chest. The police say he was reaching for a loaded 9 mm pistol in a coat pocket. The officer behind Finicum opened fire, hitting him in the back. (An autopsy report is pending.) The troopers are accused of shooting him when down.

Was Finicum, the father of 11 children, actually going for a loaded weapon when he looked back toward his companions emerging from his vehicle? There is no audio, but witness testimony says the state police fired numerous rounds at the car, wounding Ryan Bundy but miraculously none of the others. Did he reach for a gun

because they were firing on the car? Did he just stumble in the snow? So far, there is no evidence that the CCF protesters were firing at the officers. There are no reports of law enforcement officer casualties.

I see the police shooting of Finicum as another shooting that will never be fully explained.

The investigation will no doubt conclude favorably for the law enforcement officers the same way nearly all these probes conclude favorably for them.

Ammon Bundy called for the few remaining occupiers to leave. Those coming to Bend are being asked to leave rifles at home. Stand down.

The incident is now in the courts.

No doubt the charges will be tied to terrorism for the heinous crime of taking over an empty maintenance shack. The CCF protesters will probably be looking at five-year mandatory minimums. Ω

Atlantic Monthly on Oregon and mandatory minimums: http:// tinyurl.com/gve9ha4

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Workshop leader Lauren Harmon teaches activists how to hone their sales pitches.

Metering still national issue The decision by the Nevada Public Utilities Commission to layer net metering with new fees is drawing continued comment across the nation, much of it likely to persuade alternative energy firms to look elsewhere.

Bloomberg Businessweek magazine reported on Jan. 28, “First, NV Energy deployed its lobbyists to limit the total amount of energy homeowners and small businesses were allowed to generate to 3 percent of peak capacity for all utilities. Then it expertly argued its case before regulators, who rewrote the rules for net-metering customers. In December it scored a major win: Nevada’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) imposed rules that not only make it more expensive to go solar, but also make it uneconomical for those who’ve already signed up.

Similar regulatory skirmishes are playing out in dozens of other states, but no other has gone as far as Nevada to undermine homeowners who’ve already installed solar arrays.”

The headline in Investor’s Business Daily: “Will Nevada NetMetering Vote Cripple Solar Financing?”

London Guardian: “Nevada solar industry collapses after state lets power company raise fees.”

Meanwhile, an initiative petition has been filed to end NV Energy’s monopoly by breaking up the corporation. It was sponsored by an outfit called Nevadans for Affordable, Clean Energy Choices.

Encyclopedic errata Readers may have heard of the uncertain reliability of information on Wikipedia. Perhaps a demonstration would be useful.

Under the topic “Nevada caucuses,” Wikipedia reports, “Prior to 2008, Nevada usually held primary elections, not caucuses to choose delegates for the Democratic and Republican national conventions. In both cases, these delegates then choose party nominees for the general presidential election.

Many parties have held state level caucuses since the 1960s; however, 2008 is the first time both the Democratic and Republican parties held caucuses throughout the local (precinct), county, and state levels.”

This information is false.

Nevada has not “usually” held presidential primaries. It has always held caucuses, including the mere four occasions when it held presidential primaries (1912, 1976, 1980, and 1996). The caucuses are held at the precinct level. The delegates to the national conventions are chosen at the state party conventions.

This information is footnoted by Wikipedia to a Nevada Secretary of State’s website page that does not contain the same information.

Pick a card The Iowa coin tosses that settled some disputes in the presidential caucuses and also threw the final result into question have sometimes been used in Nevada. That is, chance has been used, though not specifically coin tosses.

In 2002, a 107-107 tie in an Esmeralda county commission race was settled by choosing cards from a new deck fanned out, high card winning.

Ties in a 1982 contest for Eureka county clerk and a 1972 Gabbs justice of the peace race were also settled with cards.

Some states have used drawing lots in the case of ties.

Logo news The Washoe County District district attorney’s office has a new logo. A statement from the DA’s office said it “replaces an older version that was used for many years, but was ready for a change.”

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Summit As caucuses approach, political training is held “Any of you here want to run for office?” asked Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve.

Schieve was closing the last by session of a progressives “summit” Dennis Myers for Northern Nevada, held for training and planning purposes.

A few hands went up in response to her question.

“It is not easy,” she said of officeseeking. “I had no idea.”

She also gave it to them straight about what most politicians consider the worst part of running for office.

“I had to call people up to ask for money,” she said. “Do you know how hard that is? … I think it’s the worst part of running for office. … It’s not comfortable for everyone.”

“Saying ‘Get money out ’ seems unrealistic.”

Lauren Harmon Consultant

That practical piece of advice may have been a surprise to the young activists in the audience who think the venom in politics is its worst feature. This summit, in fact, was called in part to increase the ability of progressives to deal with the virulent tone of politics.

In one workshop, titled “You vs. Sheldon Adelson (Money in Politics),” participants were taught to

re-frame issues when an approach they were using seemed not to work. This is particularly advised when an issue seems too huge to deal with, such as the mammoth amount of corporate money that floods Congress.

Center for American Progress trainer Lauren Harmon said bewailing the corrupting power of money isn’t necessarily the best way to attack it.

“It just seems too huge,” she said.

“And saying ‘Get money out’ seems unrealistic.”

She suggested breaking it into less unwieldy parts that relate better to the concerns of voters: •●Drug corporations writing health care legislation drives up prescription drug prices.

•●When coal companies weaken carbon emission legislation, children end up with asthma and other respiratory problems.

•●When the private prison industry can get addiction prevention money killed while pushing through longer sentences, more kids go to jail instead of to school.

One participant in the workshop offered a local variant: “When NV Energy is a political power, we end up with old fashioned energy sources.”

There were indications of some of the dilemmas facing progressives, including the name itself, which gave a defensive tone to the event. The term liberal was avoided.

And the group kept encountering problems in which progressives have often been the worst offenders. During

the Adelson workshop, one participant suggested using a pitch that George W. Bush’s closeness to the banking industry had led to the repeal of usury and to payday loan outfits that have enslaved some people to debt.

The problem is that there is an awkward bit of political history to this issue—it was the Democrats who repealed it, back in the days when deregulation was all the rage in Democratic circles.

Author William Greider: “Usury used to be illegal in the United States but it was “decriminalized” in 1980— the dawn of financial deregulation. A Democratic president [Jimmy Carter] and Congress repealed all interest-rate controls and the federal law prohibiting usury. Thirty years later, American society is permeated with usurious practices—credit cards charging 30 percent and higher, subprime mortgages and other forms of predatory lending, the notorious ‘payday’ loans that charge desperate working people an effective interest rate of 500 percent or more. Businesses, especially smaller firms, are also prey to usury in less direct ways.”

In addition, if progressives get too deep into relating Bush’s money from the banking industry to public policy, it raises one of the issues in the current Democratic presidential campaign— candidate Hillary Clinton’s millions of dollars in fees from financial institutions for speeches whose content has gone undisclosed.

In fact, the Democratic presidential campaign was omnipresent during the summit. Representatives of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were on hand to work literature tables and recruit. Outside the building, the campaign in the third-in-the-nation Nevada caucuses went on.

Campaign trail With Sanders expected to win the New Hampshire primary three days after the summit, he would be looking for where he could next win. Nevada’s caucuses on Feb. 20 are the next presidential nominating event for the Democrats. Sanders would dearly love to take Nevada, which went for Clinton over Obama in 2008.

This year, Clinton has a highly efficient organization in Nevada. AfricanAmericans—a mainstay of support for the Clintons—are a small group in Nevada, and there are indications that Sanders is gaining with them. Nevada has a large Latino population and a substantial labor union presence in Las Vegas hotel/casinos. Sanders aide Tad Devine told the Boston Globe that internal campaign polls of Nevada

show Sanders is beating Clinton among Hispanics under age 50, but he did not provide the polls to the Globe.

Ethnic groupings, in fact—including Latinos, blacks and Asians—are getting the lion’s share of attention in the run-up to the Nevada caucuses.

Although Nevada was selected for an early berth in the presidential race in part because of its Latino population, Latino turnout has not been great.

In 2008, Latino turnout was about the same percentage of those attending the caucuses as African-Americans, though the number of blacks in the population is considerably smaller.

(The 2012 caucuses are not considered a good indicator because there was no race for the Democratic presidential nomination.) That could be a break for Clinton, because Latinos are less bewitched by the Clinton name.

Whites made up about two-thirds of turnout, not the diverse showing the national party hoped for when it designated Nevada an early site.

Nevada immigration activist Astrid Silva’s endorsement of Clinton on Feb. 3 set off an unseemly dispute between the two campaigns when Sanders press aide Erika Andiola posted a tweet: “Difference btw showcasing ‘Dreamers’ & organizing w/ ‘Dreamers’? 1 will get you a press hit, other 1 will build political power.”

Silva responded with her own tweet: “I crossed a river at 4 years old to get to this country. A little water hardly means anything.”

It’s hard to imagine the flap helping anyone, or the public even understanding it (or the tweets). Another dispute, between the Culinary Union and the Sanders campaign was settled after the union accused Sanders workers of posing as union members to gain entry to casino employee dining rooms, a charge the campaign denied. The Culinary endorsed Obama over Clinton in 2008 but is not endorsing this year.

It all seems like campaigning on trivia.

Clinton campaign people in Nevada seemed comfortable if nervous. If insurgents are successful, their adversaries often do not see them coming, and there has been little indication that Sanders is gaining much in Nevada. However, there have been few indices like polls to provide hard news. Alternet ran a Jan. 20 article with the unwieldy headline “Why Hillary Isn’t Such a Lock to Win the Key Early State of Nevada Anymore,” but the only firm indicator it contained was the Culinary’s declaration of neutrality.

At the summit, Scheive called out, “How many of you are for Hillary”—and then had to specify she was referring to Clinton. She then called for Sanders supporters to raise their hands. There was a scattering for each candidate, but most participants seemed to be into other forms of activism. Ω

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Jeff Biales, creator of Virginia Lake’s plastic bag dispensers, wants dog-walkers of Reno to know that there is no poop fairy.

Soiled soil Keeping parks feces-free At Virginia Lake Park in Reno, a plastic-bag dispenser holds an important message, hand-painted in friendly blues and greens: “Attention Dog Owners: Please pick up after your dog. Thank you!” Below, the message is translated into by Kelsey dog-speak: “Attention Dogs: Grrr, Bark, Woof, Woof. Good Dog!” Fitzgerald Jeff Biales, the artist and creator of the dispenser, hopes that the message will make dog-walkers smile. He also hopes that it will draw needed attention to what he believes is a real problem in our community —dog poop, and owners who don’t pick it up.

The issue may sound silly, but there are many reasons why dog waste in city parks is no joke. First, there’s the ick-factor—who likes scraping dog poop from their shoes? Second, there are health and sanitation issues.

According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, dog feces harbor bacteria, parasites and diseases that can be spread to humans, such as Campylobacteriosis, dog tapeworm, dog hookworm, Echinococcosis, E. coli, Giardia, Leptospirosis and Salmonella. Third, there are water quality concerns to consider, especially when feces is abandoned in close proximity to bodies of water such as Virginia Lake where contamination can occur.

Although Biales isn’t a dog owner himself, he lives close to Virginia Lake and has taken a personal interest in the problem. He regularly walks around the lake picking up trash and dog waste, and last fall, he worked with Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful to organize a volunteer park cleanup.

“One of the problems that we identified prior to [the cleanup] was that there were a couple little doggie bag holders that the city had put up a while back, and they don’t maintain them anymore,” Biales said. “They For more information on the were always empty. So I committed to making four new, bright, colorful Truckee Meadows doggie bag holders with clean bags. And we put those up around the park.”

Parks Foundation’s Biales’ dispensers were made with materials donated by Western campaign for dog Nevada Supply and Reno Paint Mart, each hand-painted with a unique waste awareness, design and message, and each sponsored by a different neighborhood dog. visit: www.tmparksfoundation.org/#!dogHe and other volunteers keep the dispensers stocked with leftover plastic waste-awareness/ bags from their homes. “That was a good start, but it still hasn’t solved the q6jyu problem,” Biales said.

Nate Daniels from the Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation sees dog waste on the ground in every park that he visits, and believes that part of the problem is that Reno’s city parks department can no longer afford to keep plastic bag stations filled, due to budget cuts and low staffing levels.

“A lot of people get to a trailhead and don’t have a bag, so when their dog does go to the bathroom on the trail, they aren’t prepared to deal with it,” Daniels said.

Another large part of the problem, according to Daniels, lies in public education. Through a new partnership with Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful, Daniels and TMPF hope to address the issue of dog waste via a public awareness campaign, handing out free bags and educational materials at community events. Though this program is still in the planning phases, TMPF and KTMB are seeking volunteers and donors who would like to get involved.

“It’s a problem community-wide. And the best way to combat that problem is education, so that’s what we’re trying to do this year,” Daniels said. Ω

MUSIC OR LYRICS? WHY DO CERTAIN SONGS INVOKE TEARS?

Perhaps a decade ago, I was driving in Sparks when “In My Life” by the Beatles came on the radio and then, about halfway through the song, I was crying, apropos of nothing.

Well, not nothing. Plainly, the lyrics say something, and not just to me. In 2000, a group of renowned songwriters convened by Mojo magazine selected “In My Life,” written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and made a hit by the Beatles, as the greatest song ever written.

The Beatles’ famed producer, George Martin, produced a farewell album of his own, gathering a group of “heroes and friends” to perform Beatles songs. He titled it In My Life.

The song itself may partly explain why I reacted to it the way I did. “Though I know I’ll never/ Ever lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ I know I’ll often stop and think about them.”

It’s a song of my time, my experiences, my generational identity. I get why it resonates with me.

But there’s another song that does it, too—“I’ll Be Seeing You.” It’s not a song of my experiences and generation. I wasn’t even aware of it until I heard it in my 40s in a movie, The Philadelphia Experiment.

It’s a World War II song, and I’m a baby boomer. Why does it get to me?

I began asking people and writing others to learn if there were songs that could make them cry. It was an occasional hobby stretching over the years, for so long that one of my respondents, former Nevada schools superintendent Eugene Paslov, passed away. His contribution, spanning decades of times and experiences, is included here. Some participants speak here of family or friends who are also gone. I thank those in whom my queries awakened painful memories but who assisted me, anyway. I’d like this article to pique interest so that some readers will go looking for some of these titles.

One thing I didn’t want was a cluster of recent hits. I vividly recall all those end-of-century lists in 1999, of movies and albums and books that named the greatest—or worst—of the 1900s (we were still a year away from the end of the 20th century). They tended to name titles within the memory of those who were asked, meaning they tended to be bunched around the late 1900s.

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There is even a song called “The Saddest Song” by the Ataris. The lyrics portray a man who grew up without a father—and whose son is now growing up the same way: “So I pretend I’m doing all I can/ And hope someday you’ll find it in your heart/ To understand why I’m not around/ And forgive me for not being in your life.”

But I would argue that it is not just sad songs that make us cry. It is meaningful songs that resonate with us, some of which are sad. Some people are moved simply by the power of music, not necessarily the lyrics—I’m that way myself.

Sparks therapist Lori Floto names “Danny Boy” as a song that makes her tear up. “I think it’s because it’s about fathers, and longing, and loss.”

Nevertheless, she says, “For me, it’s almost always more about the music than the lyrics.” (“Danny Boy” is now usually sung to an earlier melody, “Londonderry Air.”) For former television anchor Lise Mousel, lyrics aren’t even necessary.

She names the second movement of Beethoven’s seventh symphony—“It steals my breath with its beauty and force.

Sometimes it makes me feel sad, other times powerful. Either way, it affects me deeply every time I hear it.”

Journalism professor Jake Highton: “I don’t know of any song that makes me cry. But opera has arias that bring tears to my eyes. I think it depends on your mood, time and place of the song and/or aria. I have listened to opera, seen opera, where tears of joy pour from my eyes, moved by the beauty of song, the human voice at its greatest, the music.”

The most commonly named title I heard was “Amazing Grace.”

University of Nevada, Reno English lecturer Mary Webb: “Mine is ‘Amazing Grace’—every time I hear it I weep. …

‘Amazing Grace’ was my father’s favorite song; it was played at his funeral. The sense of hope and grace resonate for me.

I always loved that line, ‘and saved a wretch, like me.’”

Dr. Trudy Larson, director of the School of Community Health Sciences: “‘Amazing Grace’ often brings tears to my eyes. Granted, it is usually sung at solemn events but still the melody just reminds me of loss and sadness.”

Musician and retired teacher Patty Carrico Dickens: “The song is comforting, something I sing mostly when I’m feeling grateful and loved. Also, the melody is simple, lyrical and expresses the text perfectly.”

Interestingly, we received a vote against “Amazing Grace.” One person said, “I hate that ‘a wretch like me’ stuff.”

She seemed to think that God would not regard his creations so disdainfully, and that we should not so regard his creations—even if they are us.

Close to home Not surprisingly, family is the source of feeling for many people about the songs that can make them cry.

Jo Nell Simonian, daughter of wellremembered Reno High teacher Simon Simonian, names Dan Fogelberg’s “Leader of the Band” and “Silent House” by the Dixie Chicks. She relates both to her “parents’ diminishing health. ... The line that keeps coming back to me is ‘I’ll try to connect all the pieces you left/ I will carry it on, so you can forget./ I’ll remember the years when your mind was clear/ How your laughter and life filled up this silent

one of our answers came from someone who still has that sense—actress Dawn Wells, Miss Nevada 1959: “My song that makes me tear up is ‘America the Beautiful.’ It fills me with such pride, and standing at Pikes Peak looking over the vastness, one ‘hears’ the beauty of the song. It says it all! We are a beautiful country. With times the way they are, I so appreciate who we are and where we live.”

I decided not to ask any elected officials, though. I had a feeling most of them would decline, and those who agreed to participate would likely assemble their staffs or advisors to reach a consensus on what to name.

I contacted John J. Miller, a writer for National Review, the conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr. Miller once compiled a list of conservative rock songs for NR. “I can’t think of a song that makes me weepy,” he replied. “If one comes close, it’s probably ‘Question,’ by the Old 97’s—a really sweet ballad by a country-punk band.” “Question” is one of the Dallas band’s most familiar pieces, in part because it has frequently been used on series television: “Someday somebody’s gonna ask you/ A question that you should say yes to/ Once in your life.”

house.’ I often think of my amazing mom who lived and continues to live (even with her dementia) her life with such warmth and grace. … My father was very sick from kidney disease and congestive heart failure. He had just gotten out of the hospital and was determined to see me married. He and mom and [brother] Lane drove up in the station wagon with dad lying in the back most of the way.

He made it and lived to see both my sons born. I still can’t make it through that song without memories of my father and moist eyes.”

Ed Rugg, a graduate of Manogue Catholic High School and UNR and now manager of a fashionable restaurant in Newport Beach, still responds to one aspect of his upbringing: “I went to a lot of Italian funerals when I was young, the most notable one being my grandfather’s.

The ‘Ave Maria’ was usually played during a service to a chorus of weeping aunts and uncles who were usually the most jovial at family dinners, picnics at Bowers mansion and Idlewild Park.

Among the few records we had in our home in Reno in the early ’50s, before TV, was Mario Lanza’s ‘Ave Maria,’ which I would play and sing along to.”

Former casino executive Phil Bryan: “I haven’t been able to listen to such songs since the death of my daughter Phyllis in late 2012. She was the best ‘soul’ singer in our family. ... Your question opened floodgates of tearful and joyful memories. When Phyllis was very young she learned ‘What the World Needs Now,’ Burt Bacharach and Hal David. … Phyllis could sing all versions, but more like Dionne [Warwick] and Jackie [DeShannon] in my memory.”

Trisha White, a former reporter: “‘Forever Young’ by Rod Stewart. My dying brother asked that this be played to comfort his children.”

Disc jockey Laurie Adamson: “There are a few hymns that I associate with my dad’s passing that always make me cry.

‘On Eagle’s Wings,’ ‘Here I Am, Lord’ and ‘How Great Thou Art.’. That last one, especially done by Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill. A gusher! … ‘Here and Now’

by Luther Vandross. It’s just a beautiful love song that means so much to me because of my love for [husband] John.

When I hear it, if John’s around, he knows I’m going to make him dance with me and he also knows the tears will fall.”

Laurie Yarborough of Reno, a mother and community activist: “Butterfly Kisses” by Tim McGraw. “It represents the greatest of gifts—beauty, innocence and the preciousness of children, which really is the love that inspires us to do good, to be present, to cherish this time which is ever so fleeting. ... [I]t makes me wish I could go back in time to that preciousness and hug a little longer, listen a little more, play more dress up, have more tea parties, giggle more, be silly a little longer, because that time has passed.”

Both pain and joy, when set to music, can bring tears.

U.S. State Department official Shannon Runyon of Reno: “‘Live Like You Were Dying’ shares the advice of a man who has been diagnosed with something fatal.

And since life is 100 percent fatal, it reminds us that the only thing different about people who get the ‘bad news’ that their clock is ticking faster than expected (i.e. 6 months to live) and the rest of us is that they have a more specific time frame to work with. What would you do if you knew for a fact that tomorrow (or this week, or this month) was your last time on earth? Would you go to the office? Would you avoid that phone call from a friend?”

Job Corps principal Joe Reading: “As a certifiable girly man, (i.e., feminist), I can get emotional or cry over almost anything.

Whenever I choke up, my daughter calls it a ‘nerdgasm.’ Songwise, how about Dolly Parton’s ‘Coat of Many Colors,’ Woody Guthrie’s ‘1913 Massacre’ which I just heard yesterday on XM and can’t get out of my mind, but also—and more compellingly—‘Deportees.’”

We, the people This is not an era in which government makes it easy to have faith in country, but

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“In Your Eyes”

A couple of weeks ago, Washoe Superintendent of Schools Traci Davis was watching Jordan Sasser sing “It’s All Coming Back” on American Idol and something in the song got to her: “It reminded me of my parents. They’re going to celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary. … I don’t know, for me, I heard him singing that song, and I was thinking about relationships and how we impact people’s lives.”

Joe Bell, a former UNR student body president, served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, has returned there twice and also traveled to Kenya and Tanzania. “I have to say the main theme from Out of Africa. Probably obvious, it reminds me of several of my African experiences, especially Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Ethiopia. Being in Africa changed my life.”

Reno mother Heidi Waterman: “‘Some Enchanted Evening.’ It’s from South Pacific. My Dad used to serenade my mom with that song, so it makes me tear up when I hear it.”

Amy Saathoff of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges: “One of the things I love about music is that, when you hear a certain song, it can transport you to a favorite memory. Whether it’s the lyrics or the notes, something inside us is triggered to think back to another place and time.

So, it is not such a stretch that some of those memories may make us sad.

Maybe because we recognize a missed opportunity or because we reminisce a sad event that the lyrics speak to or it reminds us of a happy time and we recognize how blessed we truly are. For all of those reasons, the song that can make me cry is ‘In Your Eyes’ by Peter Gabriel.”

Todd Gitlin was the first president of Students for a Democratic Society and today is a journalism professor at Columbia: “Some choking up, anyway: Springsteen, ‘Who’ll Be the Last to Die for a Mistake?’” The lyrics, drawn from John Kerry’s 1971 congressional testimony on behalf of Vietnam veterans: “A voice drifted up from the radio/ We saw the voice from long ago.../ Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break/ Who’ll be the last to die for a mistake?”

Yolanda Garcia runs Harry Reid’s Carson City office. She didn’t initially respond. Replying to a second request, she said, “I didn’t send my favorite song as it is in Spanish—‘Paloma Querida’ or, translated, ‘Beloved Dove’ We played it at our wedding.” A Coby Lubliner translation of José Alfredo Jiménez’s lyrics: “I don’t know if my life is worth living/ But to give it to you is my aim/ I don’t know how you’ll take what I’m giving/ But I’ll leave you my life all the same.”

Bernie Sanders organizer Carol Cizauskas: “Wedding Song (There Is Love)” by Noel Paul Stookey. “I do believe that marriage is divinely inspired, as the song goes, ‘The union

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I spoke with people who teared up when recalling various tragedies—personal or societal—or even their contacts with history’s terrors.

Vanessa Gower Coates, a young woman who spent her childhood in Reno and now lives in Denver, spoke of a loss with which many will identify.

Her song summons up memories of a beloved dog: “The song that makes me cry every time is ‘Arms of an Angel’

by Sarah McLaughlan. [Husband] Bob made a video about Sam when he died, using this song. I still tear up when I hear this.”

UNR art professor Howard Rosenberg named “More Than You Know,” a song of aloneness that has been recorded hundreds of times, from Billie Holliday to Eddie Vedder: “All of us have, at one time or another, met someone, cared for someone, were involved with someone, and we didn’t realize how important that person was, and we let that person get away or lost touch with that person. It may have been a friendship or a romance or a family member. And that person was a part of our life, our emotions, our heart more than we know.”

One reader named “Hallelujah”

by Leonard Cohen, as sung by Rufus Wainwright: “You can hear it on the Shrek 1 soundtrack. The CD was given to me by the love of my life who was shortly thereafter killed in a car accident.”

Historian Guy Louis Rocha was devastated by his first visit to the United States Holocaust Museum.

He named a piece with the riveting title “Auschwitz-Birkenau” from the Schindler’s List soundtrack. “I cannot describe the utter despair and pathos that wells up in me when I hear these songs. I’m crying now as I compose this email. The scenes from Schindler’s List will live with me as long as my memory survives. ... I had a friend take a stone from Nevada and place it on Oskar Schindler’s grave in Jerusalem some years ago.”

I conclude with Gene Paslov’s email response to my question.

Gene Paslov: “‘Blowing in the Wind’ does it for me. Also any Pete Seeger piece. I was actually an adult in the ’60s but I think of myself as a ‘child of the ’60s.’ And I’m a Korean Conflict veteran—early ’50s—flew around the world with atomic bombs in a B-47 as a 19-year-old flight engineer; and I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the early ’60s—one of the few veterans to serve in both war and peace. I think I’ve earned the right to call myself a child of the ’60s (but I did pot in the ’50s). I might also add that I break into tears when I hear a Mozart Opera! Go figure!

Gene.” Ω

Carol Cizauskas • Bernie Sanders Organizer

“Wedding Song (There Is Love)” Noel Paul Stookey

Dawn Wells • Miss Nevada 1959

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Ed Rugg • Restaurant Owner

“Ave Maria” Mario Lanza

Howard Rosenberg • UNR Art Professor

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Lise Mousel • Former television anchor

“Seventh Symphony, Movement 2” Beethoven

Mary Webb • UNR English Lecturer

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Phil Bryan • Former Casino Executive

“What the World Needs Now” Bacharach/David

Traci Davis • Washoe Superintendent of Schools

“It’s All Coming Back” Jordan Sasser

Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.”).

Dylan’s lyrics resonated later in the decade with the Vietnam generation: “So many young men died/ So many mothers cried/ Now I ask the question/ Was God on our side?”

Former state legislator and Washoe airport authority member Dawn Gibbons named “That’s Life,” with its lyrics “That’s life/ That’s what all the people say/ You’re ridin’ high in April/ Shot down in May.” She said, “The ups and downs in anyone’s journey brings challenges. That’s life.”

of your spirits here/ Has caused Him to remain/ For wherever two or more of you/ Are gathered in His name/ there is Love.’ I also really like that the song asks unanswered questions, the questions I believe everyone should ask before marrying.”

Ken Bode, a former McCarthy and McGovern staffer who later reported for NBC and CNN and moderated Washington Week in Review, named an early version of “With God on Our Side,” a storied 1963 Bob Dylan song touching on one of the themes of Lincoln’s second inaugural (“Both [sides] read the same

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Shopping malls are still a hangout for those on the outskirts of retail

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or a brief period of time in the late ’80s and early ’90s, my sister and I were a small part of the mall-walking scene at Northbrook Court in the Chicago suburbs.

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our grandparents’ Buick Roadmaster, and roll with the 70-and-over crowd until we were covered in sweat or the retail shops opened or both. It was good exercise and family time, but—more importantly to our 7- and 10-year-old selves—it was a glimpse into the

mythical place where kids just a little bit older than us would go to hang out.

These days, the sheen of the shopping mall has dulled considerably, but you can still find mall walkers, and a few mallrats, if you know where to look. Or when to look.

Pat and Stan Ramer arrive at Meadowood Mall at 7 a.m. each morning. It’s a tradition that the couple has observed for the last 10 years since they retired and moved to Reno from San Rafael, California. Now in their early 70s, the Ramers consider mall walking an antidote to boredom.

“I don’t want to be in the house all day—you need to be able to get out and do something different,” said [Pat] Ramer. “I like the fact that it’s warm, it’s safe, there’s restrooms, and, as you’re walking, you see the same people, and you develop a rapport with them.”

Then there’s the fitness upside.

Anyone who has ever blown out their joints playing team sports, running, or simply does not have $50 a month to fork over for a gym membership knows that there are limited options for self-directed exercise. Home fitness. Biking.

Walking outside. All are good choices some of the time for some of the people.

But mall walking anywhere is like mall walking everywhere, which is kind of the point. It’s got everyone covered. Even when it’s 20 degrees outside, malls are temperature controlled, have even surfaces, and are great places for active seniors to go hard during their workout without going too hard on their bodies.

As a former RN, Ramer is wellacquainted with the many health benefits of walking.

“It’s good for the heart. It helps you with your weight, and if you’re a person that tends to get depression, it can help you with that. It’s good for the endorphins in the brain.”

According to the American Heart Association, walking is just as effective as running in lowering your risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

More importantly, it counteracts the effects of sitting. In a recent report from the British Journal of Sports Medicine, studies show that the average American spends 9-10 hours sitting each day—a

statistic that ups your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer by a whopping 90 percent.

Staying fit is the number one reason mall walkers give for their early morning habit. And while some walkers have been getting their cardio in the mall for years, others have just begun.

“We’ve been doing this for probably about five months now,” said Elizabeth Purtee, a Reno resident and mall-walking newcomer (who also happens to be this year’s Miss Senior Northern Nevada).

“We always thought we would be in that ‘old fogey’ category if we really resorted to mall walking.”

Though Purtee and her mallwalking partner have only been coming to Meadowood Mall for several months, the two women have been friends since their Wooster High School days and still consider themselves on the younger end of the mall-walking spectrum.

“There are young-old, there are medium-old, and there are old-old,” said Purtee. “And we consider ourselves the young-old. We’re both over 60.”

And then there’s the young-young.

Like Purtee and her walking companion, high school students Ethan Paradis and Mason Dunn also like to hang out at the mall— just not so early in the morning.

“Usually I walk around, and I try to find people that I know and say hello,” said Paradis.

For Dunn, the mall has the advantage of being “a place everyone knows” which is useful for arranging gatherings of friends.

Clean cut and missing the 100-yard-glare of the mallrats of my youth, Paradis and Dunn could pass for shoppers. Still, they usually draw the line at making a purchase.

“It’s very rare that I actually buy something,” said Paradis. “I just come here to socialize. … A lot of people come here day in and day out. I think it’s just fun to see different people here, say hello.

Hang out.”

Commercial free Perhaps the most unexpected supporter of non-paying visitors to the mall is the mall itself.

“I think it’s just good PR,” said Jeannie McAllister, jewelry consultant at Zales Diamonds and 20-year employee at Meadowood Mall. “[The walkers] are here early in the

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a gift,’ or ‘Macy’s is having a big sale’—whatever it is.”

Good publicity is something shopping centers should not take for granted. Since my Northbrook Court days, malls have risen in popularity, peaked, and remain in steady decline with some 15 percent of malls predicted to close over the next 10 years—that’s adjusted from the 10 percent failure rate forecast in 2012 by real estate research firm Green Street Advisors. Though Simon-owned properties, like Meadowood, are considered to be industry leaders, the company only managed to post flat mall-traffic rates in last week’s earnings report.

According to the Green Street Advisors’ 2015 U.S. Mall Outlook, the biggest risks to mall solvency are “e-Commerce” and something called “anchor obsolescence” (the circumstance where waning anchor stores like Sears and J.C. Penny drag down, rather than carry, the malls they occupy). The threat is creeping, but it is real.

The good news for malls? Retail is still on our minds. From Kevin Smith’s confirmation that Mallrats 2 is in the works, to Donald Trump’s escalator-ride-turnedpresidential-announcement, to a recent TimeTrade finding that an overwhelming majority of consumers still enjoy the experience of physically “going shopping”—it seems like people are ready to feel nostalgic about malls at the very least.

No, at the very least they can show up, hang out, and walk.

That’s something we can count on every day of the year.

Mall walking anywhere is like mall walking everywhere, which is kind of the point. morning, and while they’re walking around, they’re window shopping.”

McAllister also understands the appeal of the mall as a safe space for youth. “I used to hang out in the mall when I was a teenager. I think it’s kind of a meeting place for them. It’s a social thing.”

Meadowood Mall Director of Marketing Jeannine Lahr Hall, also has a take on the presence of visitors who don’t necessarily feed the bottom line.

“We don’t expect everyone to shop, but it’s nice when they do, of course,” said Lahr Hall. “[It’s about] being able to provide a memorable experience where if they want to come back and get something they can. They’ll be walking and see, ‘Oh there’s a sale here at this store,’ or ‘I know I need to go to See’s Candy to get OPINION

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Time to shine Radium Girls If ever there were an appropriate time for audiences to appreciate D.W. Gregory’s Radium Girls, it would by Jessica Santina be now, in the wake of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. After all, both make plain the devastation that comes when corporations wield absolute control over scientific matters they know nothing about. You’d think that since the 1920s, when the Radium Girls story actually took place, we’d have learned our lesson about the dangers of obsessing over wealth and commercializing science, but obviously that isn’t the case.

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The play is based around factory workers Grace Fryer (Katty Perrell), Irene (Libby Bakke) and Kathryn (Anna Pidylpchak). It opens on the three gossiping about the recent funeral of a former coworker thought to have had syphilis.

More and more women begin getting ill—teeth falling out, bloody coughs. Grace Fryer, the real-life crusader, begins noticing strange symptoms of her own. Deciding she won’t miss her upcoming wedding or quietly watch her friends die, she seeks the help of consumer activist Miss Wiley (also played by Bakke), who spearheads the women’s effort to retrieve compensation from their employer and bring to light the dangers in the factory.

Only Perrell and Chamberlin play one character each; the remaining seven actors carry multiple roles in this narrativedriven play featuring a sort of Greek chorus of journalists, lawyers and corporate cronies delivering lines that are a soundtrack of the radium days of the 1920s. All perform their roles ably and with appropriate gravitas and timing. The strength of the acting is, in fact, what enables the audience to follow the weighty script laden with heavy doses of information. In particular, Chamberlin is effective at conveying Roeder’s plight through expressions and body language. He’s clearly a man being ripped apart by the demands of his stockholders and the human costs of his work.

Because most of the action takes place off stage and is mostly told to us, a visually compelling set helps to keep audiences engaged through those long scenes. The RLT set is remarkable. Two levels of steel risers extend the stage upward and allow scenes to take place on three different levels, creating a factory atmosphere.

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Gregory’s play tells about the women working for the U.S. Radium Corp. when the radioactive element was believed to be a miracle cure for everything from gout to insanity. U.S. Radium, having secured a military contract to manufacture timepieces with glow-in-the-dark faces for soldiers, employed women to paint the dials with radium-laced paints.

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Our favorite was a garlic chicken pizza featuring cubed chicken breast, creamy garlic sauce, green bell pepper, red onion and plenty of mozzarella cheese on top. The crust was a good balance between thin and thick with a bit of crispness on the bottom, and the “pizza bones” held up well when dipped in Ranch dressing. The red sauce wasn’t a standout on spice, yet provided the basic presence that says “pizza.” Although my group agreed the chef could make some adjustments—to further crisp the crust and brown the cheese—the overall result was pretty tasty.

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sauce and cheese. The sausage had a texture and flavor that told me it was likely purchased pre-cooked in that balled-up state, but I’ve had worse from chain stores. I appreciated the preference of red onion versus white or yellow on all the pies.

A veggie pizza turned out to include everything on the combination, sans meat. In hindsight, I wish I’d noticed the “extra veggie style” available for an additional $2. I don’t know what else it would have included, but I’m guessing it might have had a little more pizazz.

Perhaps to compensate for the lack of protein, this pie had so many veggies they almost obscured the cheese. My olive-averse buddy had to wave off on this one.

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A film that has virtually no plot, but gives Joel and Ethan Coen a chance to pay tribute to just about every kind of movie Hollywood was making in the ’40s and ’50s by adapting the styles of those films into their weirdo universe?

Hell, yeah. Sign me up.

The Coen brothers bring a blast of by creativity to early 2016 with a movie that, Bob Grimm frankly, had a lot of their fans, including myself, a little worried. It was moved out bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om of the 2015 awards season and dumped into February, usually a cinematic graveyard. It wasn’t screened for critics until a couple of days before its release, a tactic reserved for the likes of Deuce Bigalow and Transformers movies, not the Coens.

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In truth, this movie probably scores highest with diehard Coen fans, those who react with glee to the notion that it takes place at a studio called Capitol Pictures. That’s the same fictional place where Coen creation Barton Fink suffered the most classic of writer’s block all the way back in 1991.

While there is the obvious nod to Barton Fink, the film that Hail, Caesar! feels most like from the Coen collection is The Hudsucker Proxy, another period piece that featured fast-talking caricatures, unabashed silliness and astonishing period detail.

Like Hudsucker, Hail, Caesar! is a bunch of great performers playing with great writerdirectors in a movie that looks great.

It follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a studio enforcer at Capitol Pictures tasked with keeping stars out of trouble and assuring moving pictures stay on schedule. In the middle of filming a biblical epic, huge star Baird Whitlock (George

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Clooney) is kidnapped by Hollywood communists, who demand one hundred grand in ransom money.

Mannix must figure out how to get his star back while dodging two gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton in increasingly hilarious wardrobe), navigating the latest scandal of studio star, DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) and comforting hot director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes), who has had a marble-mouthed stunt actor named Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) forced into his romantic comedy.

The plot is paper thin, but it does give the Coens a chance to do their quick interpretations of old timey movie Westerns, screwball comedies, Esther Williams pool epics, overblown Bible movies, Gene Kelly musicals, and more. The film is comprised of short homages to all of these cinema genres, and each one of them is a total blast to behold.

On top of that, the movie features communist writers in a manner far less serious than the recent Trumbo.

The Coens have a way with making small moments so grandiose. While Hobie Doyle waits for a date, he opts to play with his lasso in a way that reminded me of the kid in Hudsucker sampling a hulahoop. Fiennes and Ehrenreich have an exchange over a simple movie line that is one of the funniest things the Coens have ever put to screen.

Right there with it is a moment involving a scarf and Coen staple Frances McDormand.

And if you don’t laugh when Clooney’s Whitlock beholds the Christ, well, there’s just something wrong with you.

For sheer show-stopping homage, Channing Tatum does career best work in an On the Town-like bar sequence that has him dancing and singing up a storm. It’s a sequence that is at once gloriously perfect and seriously demented, the kind of thing only the Coens could pull off.

I wish the Coens had a lot more time on their hands, because it would be a delight to see the further adventures of Mannix, Hobie Doyle and DeeAnna Moran. They each deserve their own movie. Hail, Caesar! gives total silliness a seriously grand treatment, and reminds us that nobody does silly better than the Coens. Ω

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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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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 fasttalking banker/narrator. It’s a drama, but it’s often funny. (Margot Robbie in a bubble bath … brilliant!) McKay shows that his chops go well beyond directing Will Ferrell with a fireman’s mustache.

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The Finest Hours

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 perished. Thirty-three men initially survived in the bobbing bow section of the ship, mere hours away from certain death. Upon hearing news of the situation, 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 seafaring movie.

That is, an exciting seafaring movie when it is actually out at sea. Some of the stuff that happens back on shore bogs the movie down in schmaltziness. Chris Pine plays Bernie Webber, who captains the tiny ship tasked with saving over 30 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. 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. Casey Affleck is terrific as a member of the Pendleton crew trying to keep everybody alive. The film rocks when there’s lots of water involved, but it falters when the story turns to Bernie’s new love affair. Holliday Grainger is given a tough role to pull off as the love interest. Most of her scenes simply distract from the good stuff.

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Kung Fu Panda 3

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.

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The zombie movie craze hits what I hope to be its low point with this crap attempt at horror comedy featuring a fairly faithful take on the Jane Austen classic mixed with the undead. Lily James, so delightful in Cinderella, plays Elizabeth Bennet, one of the esteemed Bennet sisters and zombie hunter.

She sets her sight on Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), who thinks she’s pretty and all that but must refrain from serious courtship in order to behead some ghouls. For starters, director Burr Steers shoots for a PG-13 rating, which results in much of the action taking place off screen, via incomprehensible editing, or in the dark so as to reduce the bloodletting. The movie features so much carnage that it feels incomplete for soft-shoeing the yucky stuff. As for the balance of period romance and comedic bloodletting, Steers never finds a comfortable place. The movie feels uneven and sloppy, with lousy special effects and players that look lost.

Like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter before it, a perhaps clever idea gets lost in messy direction and lousy scripting. It’s a shame, because Riley and James are much better than this.

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The Revenant

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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.

Up to the sky Satellite of Love The bar scene in Reno was a completely different animal back in 2003. Every bar was smoky as all hell. With a by Brad Bynum couple of prominent exceptions, live music was rarely heard. Slot machines br a db@ were on every bar top, and TVs were newsr eview.c om mounted in every high corner. The barstools seated immobile regulars.

There wasn’t much dancing.

When Satellite Lounge opened in October of that year, there was suddenly a bar in Reno that played great music, had no TVs or gambling, and featured dance parties and a wild mix of live music on a regular basis. Some longtime locals might’ve quickly gotten scared and dismissed it as a “hipster spot,” but for other folks, it was exciting to finally have a watering hole that was as sleek, fun and exciting as anything in San Francisco or Chicago.

Photo/Brad Bynum

Former Satellite co-owner Noel Judal saddles up to the bar at The Loving Cup.

Satellite was located where The Loving Cup is now, and that bar is hosting Satellite of Love, a Satellite reunion night on Feb. 13.

“It was so different from what bars had been like in Reno before that,” said Noel Judal, who co-owned the bar with Jessica Kleiderman from the day it opened until they sold it in 2006. “All of the bars here had gaming, and there was no younger persons' bar in Reno. It was all old dive bars. Everyone told us that we were crazy, and we’d never make it.”

Satellite was also perhaps the first bar in the area to willfully go nonsmoking indoors.

“I wouldn’t want to say that they were the first bar that was into music and non-gaming, because I’m sure there were others,” said Andrew McCullough, a.k.a. DJ Andrew, who hosted Pop Sounds, a regular DJ night throughout Satellite’s existence. “I

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feel like Satellite was the first one to really focus on a mixture of interesting music, interesting style, and the social aspects of bars. It wasn’t tailoring to the tourist scene. It was catering to local young people who wanted something different. It seemed like right after that, everything in Reno changed, and cool bar after cool bar started popping up, and there were plenty of choices after that.”

Satellite paved the way for many of the best current bars in the valley. Ryan Gold and Justin Owen, co-owners of a handful of local hot spots, including Lincoln Lounge and Imperial Lounge, were bartenders there. Ryan Goldhammer, who now co-owns Monolith, Noble Pie and Pignic, was the booking agent for Satellite. The quality-oriented atmosphere of bars like Chapel Tavern and Saint James Infirmary would’ve been difficult to imagine in the valley before Satellite, which won “best bar” in our readers’ polls several times a decade ago.

McCullough said that part of what made the bar so special was that it was a place for people who were passionate about music, but didn’t define themselves by narrowly identifying with a single subculture.

“It brought together people who were a little more eclectic, or on the outskirts of normal culture, more into interesting subcultures, but not so into subcultures that they would just go to Goth nights or New Wave nights or just go to metal nights, but people who like all of those things together,” he said. “It was a place where you could mingle with not just one subculture but a bunch of them all together. … It was the only place in town where you could go and hear Sister of Mercy, the Beach Boys and Jurassic 5 all in the same night.”

The reunion event will feature specials on Mojitos, Satellite’s signature cocktail. Judal, Kleiderman and longtime tender Brook Marston will be behind the bar. There will be DJ sets by McCullough and Goldhammer, and live performances by a Runaways cover band called Queens of Noise and energetic headliners The Lovemakers, a Bay area band that played at Satellite regularly back in the day.

“They were the first, like, big band that we had there that everybody just went crazy for,” said Judal.

“The Lovemakers shows, for me, just remind me of the best days of Satellite.” Ω ART OF THE STATE

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

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Feb. 14, 9Dick’s p.m. Saloon Whiskey Whiskey Dick’s 2660 Lake TahoeSaloon Blvd.

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Comedy Comedy

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Kaminanda, 10pm, $10 Kaminanda, 10pm, $10

Pow Pow! Afterparty w/gLAdiator, Pow Afterparty w/gLAdiator, 10pm,Pow! $10-$15 10pm, $10-$15

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

Crunksworth Bentley, 9pm, no cover Crunksworth Bentley, 9pm, no cover

Big Heart, 9pm, no cover Big Heart, 9pm, no cover

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

Big Blu Soul Revue, 9pm, no cover Big Blu Soul Revue, 9pm, no cover

Big Blu Soul Revue, 9pm, no cover Big Blu Soul Revue, 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 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

One Nation: Healthcare, One Nation:$10 Healthcare, 6-9:30pm, 6-9:30pm, $10

ZOSO—The Ultimate Led Zeppelin ZOSO—The Experience, Ultimate 9pm, $20Led Zeppelin Experience, 9pm, $20

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

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

Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover Kelly Ann Miller, 9pm, no cover

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

In Stride Music, noon, no cover In Stride Music, noon, no cover

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

Green Weather, 7pm, no cover Green Weather, 7pm, 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 507DisMANtled, N. CarsonF,St., Carson City,Nugget, 882-1626: 7:30pm, City, 882-1626: DisMANtled, 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 Stateline, (800) Th-F, 553-1022: DarrylTahoe, Lenox, Tracey MacDonald, Su, 9pm, Darryl Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa,Lenox, 8pm,Tracey 10pm, MacDonald, $30; Will Durst, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Will Durst, Larry “Bubbles” Brown, W, 8pm, $25 Larry “Bubbles” Brown, 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., 325-7401: Paul Rodriguez, Su, 7:30pm, $27.45; F-Sa, Paul Rodriguez, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $27.45; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $32.95; Bob Zany, Tu, W, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $32.95; Bob Zany, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Reno-Tahoe Comedy Underground, 100atS.Pioneer Virginia St., Underground, 100 S. Virginia 686-6600: DisMANtled, Th, 8pm, St., $10; 686-6600: DisMANtled, Th, 8pm, $10;$12-$18; F, 9pm, $12-$18; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, F,Su,9pm, $12-$18; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $12-$18; 7:30pm, $12-$18 Su, 7:30pm, $12-$18

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

Pato Pato Banton Banton & & The The Now Now Generation Generation

THURSDAY 2/11 THURSDAY 2/11

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

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

SUNDAY 2/14 SUNDAY 2/14

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17

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

Strfkr, Com Truise, 8pm, $19 Strfkr, Com Truise, 8pm, $19

Keys N Krates, Ganz, Barisone, Keys N Krates, Ganz, Barisone, 7:30pm, Tu, $20-$25 7:30pm, Tu, $20-$25 Traditional Irish Tune Session, Traditional Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, noIrish cover 7pm, Tu, no cover CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover CW Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover Daveand Leather, noon, W, no cover Dave Leather, noon, W, no cover

Joe Grissino, 7pm, no cover Joe Grissino, 7pm, no cover Qarin with guests, 9:30pm, no cover Qarin with guests, 9:30pm, no cover

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

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

Rick Hammond Blues Band, Rick 9pm,Hammond no cover Blues Band, 9pm, 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

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

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

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

Velvet Murder, 9:30pm, no cover Velvet Murder, 9:30pm, no cover

2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-9799 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088

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

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

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

Young Blood Showcase, 6pm, $1 Young Blood Showcase, 6pm, $1

Reno Noise Night w/Thurst, Melodious Punk, Reno w/Thurst, Melodious Punk, Totality,Noise 8pm,Night no cover Totality, 8pm, no cover

Spoken Views: Youth Slam, Spoken 6pm, W,Views: $3-$5 Youth Slam, 6pm, W, $3-$5

Bibster, B3 The Shark, Doe the Unknown, Ghost Town Gospel, Bat Country, Bibster, The Shark, Doe the Town Gospel, Bat Country, Manyak, B3 Sinista Ninja, 9pm, $5 Unknown, Ghost 8pm, $3 Manyak, Sinista Ninja, 9pm, $5 8pm, $3

Blazin Mics!, 9:30pm, M, Left Coast Country, Blazin Mics!, Left W, Coast 9pm, Tu, $2, 9:30pm, Red Fang,M,8pm, $15 Country, 9pm, Tu, $2, Red Fang, 8pm, W, $15 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

THURSDAY 2/11 THURSDAY 2/11

FRIDAY 2/12 FRIDAY 2/12

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

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

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

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

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/15-2/17

SUNDAY 2/14 SUNDAY 2/14

SATURDAY 2/13 SATURDAY 2/13 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 WINE BAR 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

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

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

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

The Bob Home Show, 8pm, no cover The Bob Home Show, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover

Free Peoples, 8:30pm, no cover Free Peoples, 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

An Evening with Foreverland, tribute to An Evening with Foreverland, Michael Jackson, 9pm, $15 tribute to Michael Jackson, 9pm, $15

Zooly, J Stalin, 7pm, $20-$25 Zooly, J Stalin, 7pm, $20-$25

RUBEN’S CANTINA RUBEN’S CANTINA 1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424 SHEA’S TAVERN SHEA’S TAVERN 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

Keys NN Krates Krates Keys

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

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

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

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

Red Fang Fang Red

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

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

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

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

Bands For Bernie: Weapons of Mass Bands For8pm, Bernie: Weapons of Mass Creation, donations accepted Creation, 8pm, donations accepted

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-9776

Mr. Rooney vs. Subdocta, Mr. Rooney vs. Subdocta, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover

Saturday Night Dance Party, Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover 9pm, no cover

Zen Leprechaun, 9pm, no cover Zen Leprechaun, 9pm, no cover

Heart Of Gold Benefit, 7pm, $15-$20 Heart Of Gold Benefit, 7pm, $15-$20

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

Mojo Green, 9pm, no cover Mojo Green, 9pm, no cover

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

Feb. 17, 8 p.m.

Feb. 17, 8 p.m.

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

Pato Banton & The Now Generation Pato & TheMassive, Now Generation Band,Banton Squarefield 9pm, $15 Band, Squarefield Massive, 9pm, $15

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

Industry Night w/DJ Keenan, Industry w/DJ Keenan, 9pm, Tu, Night no cover 9pm, Tu, no cover 1) Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8pm 1)Tu,Comedy no coverPower Hour Open Mic, 8pm Tu, no cover

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

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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA ATLANTIS 3800 S. VirginiaCASINO St., (775) RESORT 825-4700 SPA 3800 S. Virginia St.,Stage (775)2)825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Cabaret 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret

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

Far East Movement Far East Movement Feb. 13, 10 p.m.

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2) Kid and Nic Show, 8pm, no cover 2) Kid and Nic Show, 8pm, no cover

2) Kid and Nic Show, 4pm, no cover 2) and Nic All Kid In, 10pm, noShow, cover4pm, no cover All In, 10pm, no cover

2) Kid and Nic Show, 4pm, no cover 2) and Nic All Kid In, 10pm, noShow, cover4pm, no cover All In, 10pm, no cover

2) All In, 8pm, no cover 2) All In, 8pm, no cover

2) Hindsight, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover 2) Hindsight, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Lettuce, Probcause, 9pm, $27-$47 1) Lettuce, Probcause, 9pm, $27-$47

2) People’s Blues of Richmond, 2) People’s Blues of Richmond, 10pm, no cover 10pm, no cover

1) MC Yogi, Black Rock City Allstars, 1) Con Brio, The Sextones, 9pm, $12-$32 1) MC Yogi, Black Rock City Allstars, 1) Con Brio, The Sextones, 9pm, $12-$32 9pm, $22-$42 9pm, $22-$42

1) Justin Rupple, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17 1) Justin Rupple, 8:30pm, W, $14-$17

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

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 , 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 2) 10:30pm, 3) Garage DJ Roni Boys, Romance, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose , 7pm, 9:30pm,no$24.95-$26.95 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, cover 2) 10:30pm, 3) Garage DJ Roni Boys, Romance, 9pm,no nocover cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

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

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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 Country Nights w/DJ Colt Ainsworth, 1) Grand TheaterSt., 2) Lex 3) Sports Book 3) 10pm, no cover 1) Nightclub Sports Book 10pm, no cover 4) Grand SummitTheater Pavilion2) 5)LexSilver State3)Pavilion 4) Summit Pavilion 5) Silver State Pavilion

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1) Jonny Lang, 8pm, $50-$80 1) Lang, 8pm, $50-$80 2) Jonny Big Chocolate, 10pm, $10-$25 2) Big Chocolate, 10pm, $10-$25

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

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

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

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2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 2) Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, 7pm, no cover 7pm, no cover

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

2) Jimmy Grant Ensemble, 2) Jimmy Grant Ensemble, 6pm, no cover 6pm, no cover

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1) Roem Baur, 8pm, no cover 1) Baur,Players, 8pm, no8pm, cover 2) Roem The Utility $15 2) The Utility Players, 8pm, $15

1) Roem Baur, 8pm, no cover 1) 3) Roem Jason Baur, King, 8pm, 6pm, no cover 3) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

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

2) Flock of 80z, 9pm, no cover 2) of 80z, 9pm, no 9pm, cover$5 3) Flock Seduction Saturdays, 3) Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Seduction Atomika, 9pm, no cover 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

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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

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

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

1) Decadence, 9:30pm, $32.75 , 9:30pm, $32.75 1) Decadence 3) DJ Trexx, 8pm, no cover 3) DJ Trexx, 8pm, no cover

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

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1) Cheech & Chong, 8pm, $59.50-$69.50 1) Chong, $59.50-$69.50 2) Cheech Flock of&80z, 9pm,8pm, no cover 2) of Friday, 80z, 9pm, 3) Flock Fashion 9pm,nonocover cover 3) 9pm, no cover 4) Fashion Atomika,Friday, 9pm, no cover 4) Atomika, 9pm, no cover

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G. Discussion begins at 7pm. Th, 2/11, 6-9:30pm. $10. Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400.

ANIMAL ARK WILD WINTER WEEKENDS: Watch Animal Ark’s lynx, bobcats, wolves, cougars, foxes and other wild residents enjoying the cold weather in their warm winter coats. Call prior to heading out in case of changes due to weather or facility conditions. Sa, 2/13, 11am-3pm; Su, 2/14, 11am-3pm. $10-$12, free for kids age 2 and younger. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, (775) 970-3111, www.animalark.org.

PAINTING CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS: Capital City Arts Initiative presents an art talk by artist Zoe Bray. There will be an informal reception preceding the talk. W, 2/17, 6:15-8pm. Free.

Business Resource Innovation Center (The BRIC), 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, (775) 450-3842.

Huffaker School will be open for viewing of live demonstrations by the Spinners and Weavers and for selfguided tours. Park rangers will offer guided tours of the historic school house at 1pm. Sa, 2/13, 9am-3pm. Free.

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

Lion Dance performances in honor of the Chinese New Year at Circus Circus Reno. The performance times are 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm and 11pm on Saturday and 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:30pm and and 10pm on Sunday.

Performances will happen on the Mezzanine connecting Circus Circus to Silver Legacy and Eldorado Reno.

Sa, Su through 2/14. Opens 2/13. Free.

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

HISTORY IN THE BUFF: Bring your sweetheart to the Wilbur D. May Museum for an after-hours grown-up twist on the scavenger hunt. Armed with wine, couples will follow clues and search for risqué artifacts and tasteful nudes hidden in plain sight in the museum’s eclectic collection. Due to popular demand, this event has been extended to three nights this year.

Each evening is limited to 20 couples, age 21 and older. Admission includes one wine token and one long-stem red rose per person. F, 2/12, 5-9pm; Sa, 2/13, 5-9pm; Su, 2/14, 5-9pm. $40 per couple. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

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Youth Jazz Orchestra performs. Sa, 7pm through 3/12. $3 suggested dona-

murder-mystery, dinner-theater show where you are the detective and just might become a part of the action. F, Sa, 5:45-9:30pm through

tion per person. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

2/28. Opens 2/12; Su, 2/14, 5:45-9:30pm; Su, 2/21, 12:45-4pm. $38.95; $44.95 on Valentine’s Day. Gold Dust West Casino, 2171 U.S. Highway 50 East, Carson City, (775) 781-0664.

POWPOW!: A winter celebration featuring DJs Flosstradamus, Flux Pavilion, Meaux Green, Gent & Jawns and R3hab. Sa, 2/13, 7pm. $35-$50. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

THE NETHER: GLM Theatre presents Jennifer Haley’s award-winning play which explores the darker side of the Internet. F, Sa, 7:30-9pm through 2/27;

Th, 7:30-9pm through 2/25. Opens 2/18.

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$15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre

THE BOOK OF MORMON: Broadway Comes to Reno presents the Tony Awardwinning Best Musical from the creators of South Park. Contains explicit

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Trailer Park Love: Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: 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.” M-Su, 11am-4pm through 2/29. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

Singer, songwriter, humorist and small town philosopher Antsy McClain and his band return to the area for an evening of downhome music. Staging his live shows from a small, fictitious trailer park called Pine View Heights, McClain preaches the good life—a life free from an overabundance of material things but rich with family and friends. His live shows touch upon country, rockabilly, jazz, swing and a number of pop culture references. His poetry, heartfelt ballads and humorous tales have garnered praise from such artists as Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Lindsay Buckingham and David Wilcox, among others. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, at Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia St. Tickets are $30. Proceeds from the show will benefit the ongoing restoration of the opera house. Call 847-0433 or visit http://pipersoperahouse.net.

ARTSY FARTSY ART GALLERY: 5th Annual Champagne and Jewelry Show. The show features pieces by jewelry designers Denise Jenkins, Mauzey Jewelry, Angie Fluitt and Kathleen Hallamore, among others. Sa, 2/13, 10:30am-5pm. Free. 220-A W. Telegraph St., Carson City, (775) 885-2787.

ONE BILLION RISING WOMEN’S RALLY: The Crisis Call Center’s Sexual Assault Support Services Program will join with community leadership and activists around the world for this rally which will highlight the issues of gender disparity. Su, 2/14, noon. ReTRAC East, 236 N. Virginia St., next to the Reno Arch, (775) 784-8085 ext. 233.

CHARLIE B GALLERY: John Rotheram: Pots On Earth, Featuring work by Carson City potter John Rotheram (1941-2013). 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.

ONE NATION: HEALTHCARE: A panel discussion on healthcare with panelists Adam Bierman, Katherine Hempstead, Ken Berland, Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell and Anthony Slonim. Complimentary beer from Great Basin Brewing Company while supplies last. Doors open at 6pm with music by DJ Roonie

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Native Artists Exhibit and Reception.

winter season, University Galleries’ biannual Valentine Auction will be held in the Jot Travis Building at the University of Nevada, Reno. Art is available for preview on Instagram before a silent auction the night of the event. Become a member and get into this VIP member-only preview before the main event. Visit https:// universitygalleries.wildapricot.org/ to become a member. F, 2/12, 5:306:30pm. Free. Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 900 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

Gideon Caplovitz of the University of Nevada, Reno’s psychology department will present a lecture on why optical illusions work and how artists associated with the Op Art movement of the 1960s used principles of neuroscience to fool the eye. W, 2/17, 5:30pm. Free. Wells Fargo Auditorium, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N. Virginia St. University of Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278.

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Harris Black Box Theatre, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

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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, 2/11, 8pm; F, 2/12, 8pm; Sa, 2/13, 8pm. $18-$25.

Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

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surrounding world fisheries from Nick Webb, translator and editor with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Sa, 2/13, 10am. $5 suggested donation. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

monthly wine walk will take place on Valentine’s Day with music by the String Beings. Check in at the Marketplace Wine Bar to receive your Wine Walk map and glass. Su, 2/14, 1-3pm. Free. The Great Western Marketplace, 4855 Summit Ridge Drive, (775) 624-1800.

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TUNA AND THE STATE OF OCEAN FISHERIES: Learn about the conditions

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A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15; Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; Altered Landscape:Photographs of a Changing Environment, W-Su through 4/17; Daniel Douke: Extraordinary, W-Su through 4/24; Monuments & DeLIMITations: Projects by David Taylor and Marcos Ramírez ERRE, W-Su through 4/17; Don Dondero: A Photographic Legacy, W-Su through 7/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

pilot Richard Brong to learn how to fly spacecraft—from the Apollo 11 Capsule to space planes like the shuttle and the Dream Chaser. Get exclusive admission to the dome show Flight Adventures, participate in a hands-on workshop testing spacecraft wings in a virtual air tunnel, take a simulated spaceflight aboard the Starship Horizon and practice landing on the Earth and Moon. Sa, 2/13, 9:30am-12:30pm. $13.65.

National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

FREE LION DANCE PERFORMANCES: Enjoy

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SCIENCE SATURDAY: PILOTING SPACECRAFT: Join educator and

$75 and up. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600.

Sa, 2/13, 7-9pm. $10-$20. Maizie Jesse

Technology: Past & Present. A visual display of media technological leaps.

M-Su through 6/30. Free. Whittemore Gallery, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

age 50 and older compete within age groups to win gold, silver and bronze medals. The closing ceremonies take place on Feb. 14, at the Eldorado Resort Casino. M-Su through 2/14. Call or visit website for details, (775) 657-4602.

language. Th, 2/11, 7:30pm; F, 2/12, 8pm; Sa, 2/13, 2 & 8pm; Su, 2/14, 2 & 7pm.

The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents a group exhibition by the Great Basin Native 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.

3-17: The Celtic music group performs.

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

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gallery showcasing the work by artists under age 21. F, 2/12, 6-8pm. $1; Quiet Things. Emerging artist and photographer Abigail Swanson presents her first multi-media solo exhibition. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, from 6-8pm. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 3/4. Opens 2/16; Th, 2/18, 6-8pm. Free.

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

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Inaction Figure My girlfriend got laid off four months ago, along with many of her co-workers. She is not making a serious attempt to find a job and is just living off unemployment benefits. She stays up until morning watching TV and sleeps until the late afternoon. I figured that she may be depressed, so I encouraged her to go to counseling and to volunteer or take a course so she would feel productive, but she refused. She has a great work ethic when she’s employed, so I’m very puzzled by this. Worse yet, I’m quickly losing respect for her.

Unfortunately, drooling while napping is not considered a form of multitasking.

It’s understandable that you’re losing respect for your girlfriend, given her newfound leadership in the Occupy The Couch movement. Now, maybe she is just lazy, or maybe, like dieters who decide to eat like walruses over the holidays, she’s decided to take some lazytime.

However, because you describe her as pretty industrious when she’s working, it’s possible that her descent into human slipcoverhood comes out of how frustratingly scarce jobs are in certain professions. When you’re hardworking and good at your job, the answer to “Where do you see yourself a year from now?” isn’t supposed to be “On a corner with a cardboard sign, begging for change.”

The sense that productivity has become unproductive can trigger an emotional response called “low mood,” marked by fatigue, deep pessimism, feelings of worthlessness, changes in appetite and sleep, and a slowing of motivation (symptoms also seen in depression). Psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse believes that low mood evolved to stop us from wasting our energy by persisting in fruitless endeavors, like waiting around for our bison dinner to grab a drink at a watering hole that’s run dry. (Pointless persistence was especially likely to be fatal a million or so years before the creation of 7-Elevens and fast-food drive-thrus.)

To understand why our psychology would be set up like this—to stick its foot out and trip us—it helps to recognize that our emotions are basically traffic directors for our behavior, designed to maximize our survival and reproductive success, not our happiness. Accordingly, Nesse explains that the “disengagement” from motivation that accompanies low mood serves a number of purposes: to immediately prevent further losses, to make us rethink what we’re doing and to signal to others that we need care.

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The psychiatric bible of mental disorders, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, doesn’t bother to differentiate between the “adaptive” low mood Nesse is talking about and depression caused by malfunctioning brain chemistry. The DSM’s diagnosis of depression just involves taking count: Five or more almost daily symptoms (fatigue, pessimism, etc.) lasting for more than two weeks?

Congratulations! You’re depressed. But what’s important to note from Nesse’s work is that depression isn’t necessarily a sign of brain dysfunction. And there’s a lot of hope in this, because if your symptoms have an environmental reason, maybe you can see your way to an environmental remedy.

If your girlfriend is experiencing low mood, the last thing she needs is the sense that her job loss will soon have the loss of her boo to keep it company. Let her know that you love her and are there for her, and then tell her about Nesse’s thinking on low mood, which might help her scavenge enough hope to start thinking outside the, uh, bed.

Physical action is another emotion-changer—even if you have to force it. For example, research by psychologist James Laird finds that busting out smiles actually makes people happier. Research by biopsychologist Timothy Puetz finds that acting energized—like by regularly doing 20 moderately paced minutes on an exercise bike—actually energizes, with the ensuing raised heart rate and various surging biochemicals basically standing in for force-feeding a 5-Hour Energy drink to that ugly low mood.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which uses reason to help people dig out of their emotional problems, could also be helpful. However, because your girlfriend’s idea of productivity now seems to involve simply sitting in the dark rather than lying in the dark, you might take on the therapeutic preliminaries: Find the therapist, make the appointment and be there to drive her at the appointed time. However, you should also be prepared for her to refuse to get in the car when that time comes. That said, your being something of a pushy jerk for the woman you love will probably mean a lot. It just might be the pushy she needs to start living through FOMO—fear of missing out—instead of fear of missing out on an afternoon of making paisley patterns on her face with the couch. Ω

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

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people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you,’” said author Maya Angelou. She concludes: “There is an African saying: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Only love in-

terests me,” declared painter Marc Chagall, “and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It’s hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it’s a worthy goal to strive toward Chagall’s ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favorable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love,” said Mahatma Gandhi. “It is the prerogative of the brave.”

That’s my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It’s not enough to be wilder, and it’s not enough to be freer. To fulfill love’s potential in the next chapter of your story, you’ve got to be wilder, freer and bolder.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “It

is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another’s, you should ask yourself whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years—because that’s what you’ll be doing much of the time you’re together.

How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius? What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures? If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course. How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love?

What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Love

isn’t something you find,” says singer Loretta Lynn. “Love is something that finds you.” Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: “You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life. Love is like a lottery.” I think these perspectives are at best misleading, and at worst debilitating.

They imply we have no power to shape our relationship with love. My view is different.

I say there’s a lot we can do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us, and fulfill us. Like what? (1) We clarify what qualities we want in a partner, and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. (2) We get free of unconscious conditioning that’s at odds with our conscious values.

(3) We work to transform ourselves into lovable collaborators who communicate well. Anything else? What can you do to make sure love isn’t a lottery?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all

have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime,” writes Chuck Klosterman. “It’s easy. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.” He concludes, “A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people.” I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That’s why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Sixteenth-

century Italian poet Torquato Tasso described one of love’s best blessings. He said your lover can reunite you with “a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing.” You Pisceans are in a phase when this act of grace is more possible than usual.

The revelatory boon may emerge because of the chemistry stirred up by a sparkly new affiliation. Or it may arise thanks to a familiar relationship that is entering unfamiliar territory.

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Vodka guy Chris DeMay is co-owner and vice president of Tahoe Blue Vodka.

How long has Tahoe Blue been on the market?

We sold our first bottle in March of 2012.

How widely are you stocked.

We are distributed from Tahoe to Reno, Sacramento to the East Bay.

Other than the name, what relates this vodka to Lake Tahoe?

We were founded and headquartered in Tahoe. We donate a portion of our proceeds to organizations that help preserve Tahoe’s beauty. We just recently reached the $10,000 mark for the Tahoe Fund. We do donate to the League to Save Lake Tahoe. ...

How is this vodka different from any other vodka?

The main difference is that we’re a blended vodka, a unique blend of grape vodka, corn vodka, and sugar cane vodka. They’re distilled separately and then blended and then distilled two more times in an old alembic-style copper still. And our distiller’s in Mountain View, California. It’s a family-style operation.

What kind of reaction have you gotten in the beverage industry?

It has been beyond positive. We have overcome a lot of obstacles in a brutally competitive vodka market, and we’ve seen sales double in Northern Nevada year after year.

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Tahoe has really grabbed ahold of the brand, not just because it’s Tahoe and we donate but because it is a great product. In Northern California and Nevada, we’re starting to see a lot of reorders and a lot of support from the bars, bartenders. It’s a great option for those who drink Ketel One or Tito’s or Grey Goose. It’s just a great local option with the same quality. In the Sacramento and East Bay areas, we’ve received similar traction, but those markets are still in their infancy. Ω

Tell me about how the vodka interacts with other ingredients.

We took the approach to blended vodka similar to old French wines, Bordeaux, which are the king of red wines. They’re actually blends. And so what we did is we chose to do a blend with the grape vodka, which gives it a distinctive flavor; corn vodka gives it structure, which means it mixes well with a lot of ingredients; and then the sugar cane is what gives it a very smooth, round mouthfeel.

So when people taste Tahoe Blue Vodka, and you just put a lemon twist in it, it’s

Duck my caucus I love these jaybirds who announce, after months of polling at 1 percent, that they’re “suspending” their campaigns. Oh, really? Should we expect you to re-enter the race in March, after you have your car wash and bake sale to re-fund your obviously empty campaign piggy bank?

I wish one of these bottom feeders would just once say that he’s ending his bid for president. Because we all know. Dude, you gone!

• Allow me to take you back to the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1. MSNBC was showing an actual group of caucusers, in the middle of discussing various issues and candidates, and a woman in her early 20s opined that a certain situation involving the Veterans Administration was “fucked up.” This rocking F-bomb was plainly audible. Oops. OK, you know. Shit happens. A woman used one of our greatest and most utilitarian words in a very common way.

But, holy expletive, Batman, this blooper getting on the air launched a stream of apologies from Brian

delicious. No other, better term. … Our blend lends it self to ginger and lemon.

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Williams, Rachel Maddow and others that was just completely over the top and utterly unnecessary. They overapologized for this totally unshocking slip by a factor of about 79. Hey guys, it’s cool. Ninety percent of your viewers, I’m guessing, had used the term fucked up at least once that day, and there’s really no need to throw yourselves upon the mercy of the audience and beg for forgiveness.

It’s fine. Really. We can cope. Shit and fuck are absolutely dandy multipurpose words (noun, verb, adjective, and explosive interjection), and we now know that the airwaves will not—repeat, will not—explode into tentacles of fundamentalist flame if these choice little biscuits occasionally slip on to our precious puritan airwaves. It ain’t 1959 no mo’.

• Speaking of caucuses, we have our own folksy little shindig coming up on the 20th, and I’ll tell you right now, I won’t be there. I think caucuses are lame, outdated, cheap and a complete pain in the ass, an attitude that sets comfortably with

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And I bet I’m not the only one who feels this way.

Look, caucuses make sense if you’re living in a cabin in Genoa in 1893, and you need to get together with your neighbors in the Grange Hall and discuss the candidates and the issues so you can figure out who’s gonna do what. But what was a good call in the quaint days of yesteryear positively sucks eggs here in the modern times. I really don’t need to hear my neighbors blather and electioneer about the candidates. I am, thanks to my laptop, positively drowning in political information. I have as much info as I need to make an informed choice. In fact, too much! I don’t need to hang out for a four hour Hillary/Bernie blabfest. I much prefer primary elections—show up, sign in, vote, and then, after all of five minutes, buh bye! Done. See you in November. Ω

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