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Letters............................ 3 Opinion/Streetalk............ 5 Sheila.Leslie.................... 6 Brendan.Trainor.............. 7 News.............................. 8 Green........................... 10 Feature......................... 13 Arts&Culture................ 16 Art.of.the.State............. 18

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Me again. I just wanted to add one more thing to the 21st birthday celebration. I can’t remember exactly when Bruce Van Dyke started writing a column for the Nevada Weekly—it was like December 1993, and the column was called Future Coot or something—but he certainly deserves a mention whenever we talk about the history of this newspaper. I can’t tell you how many times people have told me, “Bruce Van Dyke is the first thing I read in that paper, and it’s not all that uncommon that it’s also the last.” Anyway, Bruce, I’m going to write a paragraph to add to the 21st anniversary story, and in 30 years, we’ll just pretend it was there the whole time.

Bob Grimm is the same way. My memory of his first review is even foggier. I think he sent a review to R.V. Scheide, and R.V. ran it without telling him, and then offered him the gig. So that would make it, probably June or July of 1995. Despite recent missteps regarding the new Star Wars movie and a completely erroneous review of The Witch , which read like it was written by one of the movie’s producers on Rotten Tomatoes, I’ve enjoyed Bob Grimm’s antics over the years, and while I don’t often agree with him, I always enjoy reading him. We would not have been the RN&R you know and love without his efforts.

I took a giant step back from the development of that birthday story. I picked the writer, Mark Maynard—who as always did an admirable job—and I sent him a bunch of sources (even people who’ve hated us over the years), but I didn’t want to much influence the story. I just couldn’t be my normal editor self without coming off as sort of autofellating. I was a little bit disappointed that some of the people who accused us of all manner of unethical behavior over the years didn’t take the opportunity chime in, but you know, fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.

Open letter to Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the rest of the right-wing noise machine: Dear [fill in the blank], Let me get this straight—proposing policies that treat people differently is not divisive, but stating that such policies are divisive is divisive? I’m confused.

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Yard work Re “Soiled soil” (Green, Feb. 11): The problem of dog waste isn’t limited to our parks. My neighborhood is full of the stuff. A 20-minute walk around my block reveals countless dozens of their smelly piles. Some dog owners pick up their dog’s mess, then leave the little bags on the curb. What’s that about?

I’m astounded by the many owners who walk their dogs on leashes that extend into my yard and driveway.

They must think my yard is their yard. When your dog walks through my yard, defecates or urinates on my curb, bushes or trees, that is marking behavior. It attracts more dogs, and they will do the same.

If you can’t keep your dogs in your own yard, at least keep them out of mine.

Tracy Figler Reno

Dan Hicks moves on I remember well when Brother Ray Charles had the misfortune to die the same week as Ronald Reagan.

The nation was so full of flags and bunting mourning the “Greatest Leader Who Ever Lived,” it barely knew or cared that we lost the most soulful singer of the century.

On Feb. 6, Dan Hicks was taken away by the Big C and the country had football on it’s mind for the weekend, so there was nary a peep about it in the nation’s media. Not a

big surprise, Dan never gained any mainstream radio airplay anyway, but what a serious loss to Dan’s fans and the countless musicians he influenced.

Dan spoke with a totally unique voice in his songs, each crafted like a Fabergé Egg. Most don’t know what a meticulous vocalist and crooner he could be. His sense of wry humor and caustic wit made Dan one of my folk heroes, and I will miss him dearly. Dan leaves behind his wife Clare, one of the great women of the world. We wish her strength and peace in this difficult time.

Jeff Cotton Surprise Valley, California Editor’s note: Promoter Cotton brought Hicks to a Reno summer concert series at the Bartley Ranch in 2003.

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There’s a song by Devo called Space Junk. It seems that RN&R readers must more often keep alert to avoid the fate of Sally. What I refer to is the “Ignorant Ad” in the Jan. 21 issue that others wrote about. When I first saw the ad, I only gave it like two seconds and dodged it before it could smash my head (emotionally).

RN&R owners/editors: please stop printing such junk! Some of my friends won’t bother themselves with looking at your paper, and I see their point as none of us want to be a Sally.

Scott Bechard Reno

A guy, husband of who knows how many years, father of nine, books himself into a private, remote ranch to take on little birdies with his big gun. He ditches his security detail.

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He has a bad heart. He dies of a heart attack, or so they pronounce over the telephone, which judge signs off on. His wife of who knows how many years declines to have an autopsy performed, apparently content with the answers.

Don’t they have heart warnings in those Viagra advertisements?

Renate Fong Virginia City

In-line reading When I read the latest issue of your paper, the two columns I look for first are those by Shelia Leslie and Bruce Van Dyke. I really like Bruce’s jazzy humor and suprising honesty and insight. As I was waiting and waiting at the caucus today I thought of his remarks, and wish I’d taken his advice and stayed home, too. It was incredibly frustrating and felt like a total waste of time. That’s it for me. I’ll never go to another.

I also loved what he said about A. Scalia: “He won’t be missed.

Not for a second.”

Polly Peacock Reno

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Re “New math” (Letter to the editor, Feb. 18): The reasoning about the inability to be 10 percent of any given ethnicity, would only apply if you were talking about a single generation removed, and it also assumes that each ancestor was 100 percent a single ethnicity themselves. 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/8 - 1/16 + 1/64 = 1/3 So if we went back as far as your Great-great-great-great grandparents, and were able to discern exact amounts of any given ethnicity, we could even be as odd numbered of a percentage as 1/3 or 33 percent of a given genealogical trait. The rule of 1/2s couldn’t apply as far back as our ancestries are long, at least not to the purity level of which was eluded to.

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Would you move out of the U.S. over an election?

Asked at Wingfield Park, Arlington and Island Avenues Christian Ford Aspiring student

No, because I was born here, and I’ll stay here, and play ball here at Nevada—at UNR—after TMCC, two years over there. I want Hillary Clinton to win, not Donald Trump.

Paula McDonough Retiree

Funny you should ask that. My daughter lives in London, and I’ve already told her that if Trump wins, I’m moving there for the duration. She says, “Mom, you can’t do that. There are these immigration laws and all that kind of thing.”

I’ll find a way. I would not want to live in a country that could elect a [disgusted guttural sound]-hole like Trump.

Kylie Ross Business owner

Duty calls When Justice Antonin Scalia died on Feb. 12 or 13, congressional Republicans and some conservatives immediately started spreading the notion that the next president should choose his replacement.

Nevada columnist Thomas Mitchell referred to the president as a lame duck, which he is not—MerriamWebster: “an elected official or group continuing to hold political office during the period between the election and the inauguration of a successor.”

Most Democrats, but also many everyday citizens, objected to the idea that this president should not perform all of his functions like any other president. Unfortunately, as concerned citizens subsequently learned, Democrats like Joe Biden and Patrick Leahy once opposed letting the second George Bush appoint in his last months. It so often happens this way—citizens who want to oppose Republican policies find themselves undercut by the Democrats. The Democratic Party has become such a me-too party that the country ends up held hostage to Washington, D.C., games played by both parties.

With Democrats tainted by their own hypocrisy, what should people who oppose the Republican opposition to an Obama appointment think?

The fact remains that Republicans have long treated this president differently, something that has not been done to Republican presidents. The Scalia matter is one more instance of Republicans who seem to consider Obama less than a full president. It was just last April that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee urged that people considering military service wait until after Obama left office before joining up. We are always reluctant to raise race as an issue, but it is difficult to understand what it is about this president that bothers Republican leaders to OPINION

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I would not because I am an American, and I hope to help this country in any way possible, not avoid any problems that arise. I am here for the long run.

I’m in it for the long haul. I just have hopes that we can have a bright future. I actually don’t have a hope for who wins.

I have a hope for who doesn’t win, and that would be Hillary Clinton.

such an extent that they would consider his time in office as less than valid.

Scalia died in mid-February. Presidents take office on Jan. 20. There’s no good reason that any president should fail to perform his duties for 11 months of the term.

Fortunately, there are conservatives whose fidelity to principle is greater than their loyalty to party. One of them is Nevada’s U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, with whom we seldom agree on much of anything. But on this matter, he has stood by the Constitution over the Republican Party, winning him a denunciation from a talk show host named Hugh Hewitt—“This is, to put it mildly, an ‘exercise in maximum discretion.’ Blunt people might call it ‘cowardly.’”—who apparently believes in that article of the Constitution that says Barack Obama does not enjoy the full powers of the presidency.

In the race for Nevada’s other U.S. Senate seat— senators must confirm any Obama nominee—likely Democratic nominee Catherine Cortez Masto opposes any interference with the president’s functions.

Republican Joe Heck said in a prepared statement, “The president has the right and prerogative to nominate a successor to Justice Scalia, just as the Senate has the right and prerogative to confirm or not confirm the President’s nominee. Each entity should exercise its prerogative.”

Those are nice thoughts, but they commit Heck to nothing, least of all to shedding partisanship. Moreover, the phrasing is incomplete. Here’s our version: The president should do his duty and appoint a qualified nominee. Senators should do their duty, scrutinize the nominee with fairness and then vote.

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No, because I’m going to live my life the way I want to. It really doesn’t matter, I guess.

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No. It makes no sense. It’s like saying if—let me put it like this—basketball is supposed to be an all-white sport. That’s like saying, only white people can play.

And then if they let a black person play, all the white people say, “No, we’re not going to play anymore.” It’s not going to make no sense. It makes no sense over an election.

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A needed voice falls silent It’s such a cliche to say only the good die young. And yet, consider some of Nevada’s stellar legislators, all women, who most certainly have died far too young while serving in legislative office—Jan Evans, Peggy Pierce, and now, Sen. Debbie Smith. by Assemblymember Evans was a Sheila Leslie mentor to Smith when she was an up-and-coming community leader and PTA president. They lived on the same street in Sparks and shared the same values of creating a better community, especially for children. When Evans died in 2000, Smith took over the representation of District 30 in the Assembly. Two formidable, hard-working, no-nonsense women, whose lives were cut short by a disease that doesn’t recognize greatness.

Smith was just 60 when she died on Feb. 20. She leaves a large, loving family who supported her many endeavors, husband Greg and children Olivia, Ian, and Erin and their families. She was more proud

of her extended family than all the legislative success and honors she received. That’s the kind of person she was.

Smith worked as a fringe benefits representative for the Operating Engineers and always kept the concerns of the working person front and center. She could explain the intricacies of prevailing wage law so clearly and concisely that anyone could see why it mattered.

The education of Nevada’s children was her greatest concern. She was just 22 when she was elected to a rural Nevada school board, using that experience to jumpstart her service as president of the Nevada Parent Teacher Association, a member of the National PTA Board, and chair of Nevada’s Council to Establish Academic Standards.

Like Evans, Smith understood intuitively that making an impact in education would take a commitment of financial resources and she worked hard to rise through the ranks of the Legislature, completing every assignment

without complaint, logging long hours behind the scenes to secure what was needed. Term limits were kind to her, opening up leadership positions that seniority had closely guarded, propelling her to become the first woman in Nevada history to chair the Ways and Means Committee in 2011.

She managed the committee with skill, studying dozens of budget briefings each night to prepare for the next day. She was in her element, juggling competing interests and using her power to ensure the needs of children and families were addressed.

Smith was gregarious, a natural extrovert, happiest when surrounded by friends, old and new. She enjoyed attending the endless dinners and public activities demanded of a citizen legislator.

She didn’t go out of a sense of duty; she actually liked them. After she retired, she had more time to devote to national leadership roles, becoming the president of the National Council of State Legislators in 2015.

Even with the terrible diagnosis of brain cancer, she led the organization with grace.

During my legislative service with Smith, I remember one moment in particular, not easily viewed from the outside. I saw her stand up to a state senator who pursued her into the Assembly chambers, towering above her as he unleashed his frustration and fury over a position she wouldn’t back away from. He was escorted from the chamber and she emerged from the confrontation trembling with emotion but determined not to give in to intimidation or threats. We were all so proud of her that night, applauding her tenacity, her courage, and her commitment to doing what was right for Nevada’s children.

The day after her death, I went to the legislative website to check on a detail and found her Senate seat listed as vacant. I was filled with a tremendous sadness for her constituents and for our state, having lost a champion in a time when her voice is desperately needed. Ω

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The war on trafficking is the new war on drugs The 2013 Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 67 and made “sex trafficking” a part of the legal language in Nevada. The legislature stated AB67 was not about consensual prostitution, which is legal in parts of Nevada but is not in Clark and Washoe counties. The American by Brendan Trainor Civil Liberties Union pointed out that judges don’t normally look at legislative intent but at the language of the law. Nevada signed on to what the bill’s backer, then-attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto, said was reliance on the good judgment of prosecutors.

In other words, if an overzealous district attorney has less than stellar judgment, what happens in Vegas could get you a five-year mandatory minimum sentence.

For those who understand that the world’s oldest profession is never going out of business, the rights of sex workers to earn a living is recognized as a legitimate form of work, and actual sex trafficking is a labor abuse that harms their right to work in a safe

environment. But the sex trafficking hysteria is proving worse than the disease.

Not only the women, or members of other genders, engaged in sex work, but their customers (“Johns”) should have the right to engage in consensual commercial sexual transactions without interference from the state. The Nevada trafficking laws remove certain defenses, like the defense that the woman drinking at the casino bar who solicited you was using fake identification. Targeting johns puts the sex worker in danger of increased violence by customers who fear public exposure and punishment. AG Cortez Masto’s only comment was that all solicitation, after all, is illegal.

Reno’s history includes the heavyweight boxing match between the black fighter Jack Johnson and the “Great White Hope,” James J. Jeffries, in 1910. In 1912, Johnson was prosecuted for violations of the Mann Act. Human trafficking began as a term for illegal

transportation of undocumented immigrants. Recently, the term has evolved to primarily (almost luridly) mean slavery for commercial sex, but often refers to all prostitution. The human trafficking crusade claims trafficking is pandemic. In fact, there is no real evidence, except for arrest statistics (again, reliance on the good judgment of prosecutors and police) to substantiate the extent of the problem.

For neofeminists, a woman engaged in sex work is not a complex individual who chooses the occupation because it is the best work available, or because she likes the work, or simply, as in all jobs, likes the money. Instead, the sex worker is always the victim, always abused, always male-dominated and weak.

In order to perpetrate this view, the myth of the pimp was created— sex workers are seduced by violent, predatory pimps who exploit and terrorize them. Once in the life, they are hopelessly entrapped.

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Their salvation now lies in state approved group therapy, while in the 19th century it was community coerced prayer meetings. Only by government intervention to separate them from exploitative pimping males can they be redeemed from a life of degradation.

In fact, numerous studies and accounts by sex workers tell a far different tale. Only a small percentage of sex workers have pimps.

And pimps are rarely the violent predators that the trafficking industry portrays them to be. Human trafficking laws puts the husbands, boyfriends and platonic friends of sex workers at risk of arrest, which hurts the sex worker by removing a vital source of emotional support.

Sex workers know their greatest threat is not from pimps, but from police and prosecutors. Ω

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French workers receive paychecks with dozens of line items explaining how their taxes are spent.

Tip policy ordered halted The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has ordered an end to casino executive Steve Wynn’s policy of forcing casino workers to share their tips with management employees.

In a case that combined disputes from Nevada and Oregon, the court effectively reversed itself in a 2010 case that prompted lower courts to allow the tip policy.

The policy at Wynn Las Vegas led casino workers at that house to successfully unionize, affiliating with Transport Workers over Wynn’s personal objection.

The Ninth Circuit ruling quoted a 1937 Franklin Roosevelt message to Congress: “A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification ... no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.”

Dems accuse Heck of working One of the peculiar run-ups to the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses was that Nevada Democrats tried to make an issue of U.S. Rep. Joe Heck failing to attend them.

The Nevada Democratic Party put out a news release headed, “NV Dems Statement on Congressman Heck Skipping the Caucuses to Return to Adoptive Hometown of Washington.”

Heck’s likely opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Catherine Cortez Masto, issued her own statement: “Nevadans fought hard for our early state status on the presidential nominating calendar, and it’s a shame Congressman Heck will not help protect that by participating in the Republican caucuses tomorrow evening. I was proud to participate in the Democratic caucuses this last Saturday because I believe Nevadans deserve a say in selecting the nominees to be our next president.”

Republican Heck was in D.C. when caucuses were held. The Democrats seemed to find this unseemly, if not an indictable offense.

D.C. is where the U.S. House of Representatives is. Heck is a member of the House, which met from 2:01 in the afternoon until 9:20 in the evening of caucus day, Feb. 23. There were at least five votes in the House on that date. Two of them were roll call votes, and Heck was recorded as voting on both those measures.

KNPB president chastised The ombudsman for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting filed a Feb. 18 report saying that Reno’s KNPB made a mistake in failing to broadcast the last Democratic presidential debate.

The Feb. 11 debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was held a week before the Nevada caucuses, but station president Kurt Mische said he did not carry it because, “There was and is no Republican debate scheduled” on PBS. PBS ombudsman Michael Getler, after examining the dispute, wrote, “I applaud Mische’s forthrightness in explaining his position and his dedication to fair and balanced coverage. … But personally, I find the decision not to put it on television, although perhaps made with the best of intentions, to be incomprehensible in this case. To me, it turns journalistic principle on its head, producing instead a form of censorship that is disrespectful to local viewers—Republicans, Democrats and Independents. How can you refuse to allow viewers, especially those without cable, to see a nationally-televised Democratic primary debate … because a debate among Republicans, which PBS had also asked to do, has not yet been granted?”

Trial balloon short lived On Feb. 24, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post sent up a flare about President Obama naming the tax-raising, Affordable Care Act-embracing, abortion-supporting Republican governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, to the U.S. Supreme Court.

It came to nothing, but was aloft for a few hours, long enough for conservative websites to start sharpening the knives, such as National Review calling the possibility “horrific.”

—-Dennis Myers

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Lessons for the U.S. Documentary offers programs that work Give workers lots of time off and they still produce—but live longer.

Get rid of homework and student by achievement goes up.

Dennis Myers Repeal drug prohibition and drug problems go down.

These are some of the results of a filmmaker’s search for corporate and government policies and practices on the other side of the world that the United States might emulate—innovations in the U.S., SOP elsewhere.

Michael Moore’s documentary, Where to Invade Next—the title is deceptive—is in current release and playing at one Reno theatre. It’s an intriguing movie, full of information that rarely appears in news coverage, and we asked some folks to watch it and comment.

“If Finland can do what it’s doing, why are we back in the dark ages?”

Howard Rosenberg Washoe County School Board State governments have long swapped techniques through associations like the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Council of State Governments, and corporations have traditionally learned from each other. But U.S. parochialism and xenophobia have limited how much was learned from other countries. One exception to this was the Reagan years, when a sort of

let’s-be-like-Japan corporate ethos brought pressure for workaholism and greater productivity to U.S. corporations—and schools.

Moore traveled to Eastern Hemisphere nations to check out reports of successful policies, such as Germany’s practice of requiring that workers hold half the seats on corporate boards, making it more difficult to cover up corporate misconduct.

“The film is definitely right in showing more participation by workers in management,” said former Nevada casino executive Phil Bryan.

“The German model is discussed a lot and used a lot, whether knowingly or not. Their overall educational systems aims at early placement on a track, but doesn’t inhibit growth within work to higher management either. It has been very effective there, and I personally see signs of that understanding growing here now, but also some resistance here from some educationalcredentials-required quarters.”

Frequently, what Moore found was simple common sense—civility or a lack of punitive policies, for instance.

In France, Moore learned that workers receive paychecks with long line-item statements of where their deducted taxes go, making accountability of government much easier.

Italian workers are also treated well, receiving—by law—eight weeks of paid vacation a year, paid 14-day honeymoons following marriage, five months of paid family leave following a birth. Yet with all that time off, the productivity of Italian workers is comparable to that of U.S. workers, Moore reported, and in the top 15

among nations. Ducati Motorcycles CEO Claudio Domenicali told Moore, “There is no clash between the profit of the company and the well being of the people.”

And Italians live four years longer than people in the United States, which some figures in the film relate to the lack of workplace tension in Italy.

If workers are given a life outside work, why not do the same for their children?

Children in Finland have been regarded as among the best educated in the world for several years.

“Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year-olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world,” Smithsonian magazine reports.

“Three years later, they led in math.

By 2006, Finland was first out of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science.

In the 2009 PISA scores released last year, the nation came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide.”

Paradoxically, one thing Finnish educators recommend against is standardized tests. Multiple choice questions are rare. Finland has also done away with most homework and shortened school hours.

“We’ve heard this,” Washoe School Board member Howard Rosenberg said. In fact, there have been plenty of home field warnings about U.S. homework.

“As I watch my daughter struggle through school days on too little sleep and feel almost guilty if she wants to watch an hour of television instead of advancing a few yards in the trench warfare of her weekly homework routine, I have my doubts,” author Karl Taro Greenfeld wrote in the Atlantic Monthly two years ago after he tried doing his daughter’s homework for a week. “When would she ever have time to, say, read a book for pleasure? Or write a story or paint a picture or play the guitar?”

No homework. Would the U.S. public stand still for this kind of thing?

Rosenberg said the public is already convinced of one thing about existing education—“It doesn’t work,” he said.

“Reading, writing, arithmetic— what you’re talking about when you’re doing reading, writing and arithmetic is mechanics. It has nothing whatever to do with content. What we’ve got to do is start teaching our children using content that will make them think.

Instead of doing some of the things that we do in the middle schools, why not Planet of the Apes? It poses some marvelous questions about who actually has the most intelligence—and how do they use it. If Finland can do what it’s doing, why the hell are

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Nevada sociologist James Richardson said children are indoctrinated with the superiority and entitlement of our country.

“It’s something I grew up with in Texas,” he said. “If you’ve got the perfect society, you don’t see others as offering much. … Part of it is the Protestant ethic that fueled Manifest Destiny and what we did to Native Americans. I don’t want want to say it’s genetic, because I think it’s cultural and historical, and in a sense accidental.”

This vending machine is at Sparks High School.

The snacks, many of which are labeled “natural,” still have plenty of fat, carbs and salt.

were shown what U.S. children eat at school, they tended to wrinkle their noses, if they recognized the food at all. One of their chefs said, “Frankly, that’s not food.” One of the students said, “That’s not healthy.”

Rosenberg said, “Why aren’t we using lunch hour as a time to learn?”

Though Moore did not touch on the long-term consequences, it was difficult not to think of the lifelong lack of obesity, illness and lost work hours in children who learn good eating habits.

Moore’s travels often turned up policies or practices that went against the grain of U.S. preconceptions.

In Norway, non-punitive prisons brought the repeat offender rate well below that of the U.S. A neo-Nazi terrorist’s bombing of the government quarter in Oslo and murder of children at an island camp prompted Norway to expand civil liberties, compared to the U.S. enactment of the PATRIOT Act following September 11.

In Tunisia, women helped overthrow a dictator and an Islamic parliamentary majority enacted equal rights for women in the national constitution.

The head of the Islamist party told Moore homosexuality is a matter for families, not for government.

The only bank in Iceland that did not collapse in the 2008 meltdown was run by women. Before the meltdown, said an Icelandic chamber of commerce official, “I thought we had created a world that was on an empty pursuit for more.” A bank official said they would not invest in something they didn’t understand. (An Enron executive was unable to explain to Fortune magazine how Enron made its money.)

Bryan: “My own experience tells me that such women do demand deeper understanding before consenting to such complex decisions. I cannot tell you how many times brilliant women, in my experience, saved the day by asking the right questions—and providing the right answers in cooperative teamwork, including banking executives.”

In Portugal, where anti-drug laws were repealed 15 years ago, drug use has not dropped off as rapidly as a

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viewer of the movie might come away believing, but it is in a slow decline.

Just as important, accompanying problems such as sexually transmitted diseases have been reduced and, according to the Washington Post, it is rare that anyone dies from drug abuse or overdose anymore. (Three Portugal police officers asked Moore to take a message back to U.S. police officers—end the death penalty.)

All these policies do come with costs, but they are not as expensive as might be thought. Moore said the French school lunches cost less than school lunches in the U.S. He also noted that while French taxes are slightly higher than U.S. taxes, the French do not pay for things U.S. families pay for out of pocket without government’s bargaining power—nursing care, prescriptions, day care, health care, college, and all those vacations.

“Brilliant women, in my experience, saved the day by asking the right questions.”

Phil Bryan Former casino executive

He said people here tend not to do a lot of traveling outside the country.

“We grow up with a lack of appreciation for other cultures and other points of view.”

Moore pointed out how many of the policies he found had originated in the United States: “We just needed to go to the American lost and found.” Ω

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we back in the Dark Ages? … The teacher knows what she’s doing. Let her do her job.”

“If you just constantly work, work, work, you stop learning,” one teacher told Moore.

While the U.S. chases fads like data-driven instruction, vouchers, incentive pay, Broad Academy superintendents, one-to-one initiatives and charter schools, Finland has leaped ahead with what it does not do.

For those who do succeed as schoolchildren, there is still paying for college—unless they live in one of the at least 22 countries where college is free. Moore went to Slovenia, which is educating its college students for free—and some of ours, too.

“I couldn’t even afford to finish community college,” said one U.S. student who is getting a free college education in Slovenia, a Zenda-like Alpine nation.

In many cases, Moore reports that the U.S. is an exception, as when he points out that family leave is standard worldwide—“except for the two countries too poor to afford it, Papua New Guinea and the United States of America.”

But in other ways as the movie progresses, the viewer realizes that many of the practices—and their results—were once common in the United States. More than once some European points this out, suggesting they are more familiar with our history than we are. The scenes of happy workers recall that in the 1950s, the nation enjoyed a decade of nearly unbroken prosperity, unions were strong, U.S. worker satisfaction surveys found workers largely content, households could thrive on a single breadwinner’s paycheck—and the top tax rate was 90-plus percent, making the burden on those at the bottom and in the middle light.

“Here’s a marginal example— remember the uproar about air controllers taking naps?” Reno’s Bryan asks. “Some high official said it would never happen on his watch.

Well, Edison took naps. The best CPA I ever knew took naps. I took naps—very short, but so refreshing.

Science has proved naps improve work and attention. But that old puritanical notion of work is still alive and well. In every company I managed, I compelled people to take their vacations because of that. But some companies—really their management—don’t see that necessity.”

In France, Moore found that children are treated like royalty in public school lunch rooms, served nutritious, well-prepared fine foods and shielded from soft drinks and vending machines, with the result that they prefer water over cola—Moore tried tempting some of the children. The lunch hour is treated as a class, when the children learn to eat. When they

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Coffee and Conservation series begins Agriculture and environmental conservation don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand, but developing a sustainable food system in Northern Nevada has long been a priority for Jeff Bryant, executive director of the Reno teaching farm Urban Roots. On a snowy morning in late February, Bryant stood before a group of coffee-drinking conservation enthusiasts at Whole Foods Market in Reno, sharing the story of his career and of upcoming projects, as the first speaker in a new series of discussions called Coffee and Conservation.

Growing up on a military base in Hawthorne, Bryant saw firsthand the negative effects of upstream agriculture on Walker Lake, as fisheries and water levels declined over time.

“One of the things that I learned with Urban Roots was that despite the agriculture that was my baseline of frustration with the Walker Basin, recognizing, well, we just can’t make it go away,” he said.

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Coffee and Conservation, co-sponsored by the Nevada Land Trust and Whole Foods, will be an ongoing series of discussions on conservation issues in our region, featuring monthly talks by different local figures. Although the topics on the table are new, the idea for such a forum is rooted in Reno’s past, according to event organizer Lynda Nelson of the NLT. “This is sort of a reenactment of a program that was in the community over 10 years ago,” said Nelson. “That was called the Conservation Forum, and it was a really successful gathering of conservation-minded people. It served as a great exchange for folks to find out what was going on—not only in the community, but the legislature, politically, all kinds of things affecting conservation issues.”

The original Conservation Forum was a monthly lunchtime gathering held at the Liberty Belle Restaurant, which closed in 2006—near the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Though many of the environmental issues, challenges and faces of Reno’s conservation community have changed in the years since the original program’s demise, Nelson now hopes to revive something similar through Coffee and Conservation.

The Conservation Forum “was hosted by some great environmental stalwarts in our community,” said Nelson. “And I sort of felt like that was missing. I hope that if we reenact that same, similar model, that the idea will still be viable today.”

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must have slept through the roadside exchange because by the time I managed to lift my eyelids enough to re-register reality, all that remained of the suffocating heat from the coastal jungle had been preserved on the windshield.

Now we were descending steep curves in variegated moon-shadows cast down on us from an outcrop of conifers delineating the boundary of an agave plantation.

Without headlights, it was like we were stationary and our surroundings were floating backwards past us through the chilly pre-dawn.

More immediately, Lalo, the unemployed Audi tech from Puebla who we had picked up in Pochutla was no longer riding in the truck with us. Lalo was a lovely, extremely polite man in his 40s or 50s who seemed as sweetly dedicated to the welfare and happiness of his family as he was to his own mindblowing obesity.

At some point while I had been asleep, we had swapped Lalo for a sunburned and dreadlocked 30-ish white woman from Austin who said her name was Azucena. I had my doubts.

She sat to my right, gripping the handle on the roof with both hands.

Adan gathered momentum, expertly angling the truck through consecutive hairpin turns, freely using both sides of the road. The incredible momentum caused the woman to crash alternately against my side and against the door.

Falling asleep had only made me want to sleep the clock around, but as I fought my way out of the fog, I saw, up ahead, a curving pattern of flickering orange traffic cone barrel lights. They were forcing us off the road for an impromptu roadblock of some sort. There were more lights ahead and I could make out light reflecting off several trucks straight ahead on the soft shoulder of the road.

We were told to stop.

All the men were wearing black ski masks and dressed in different iterations of camouflage, their uniforms made trimmer by tight blue kevlar vests, some bearing the initials of an agency I didn’t recognize.

While these types of roadblocks were common in Mexico, you really never could tell exactly who was behind them until they told you what they wanted.

A scooter with a taillight out, carrying a family of three—a schoolaged kid up front clinging to the handlebars—was waved on past us.

The bike emitted a chirp as it passed to our left. Azucena seemed very concerned about the kid on the bike, wondering what he was doing awake at 2:30 a.m. and how his parents could risk his safety on a motorscooter. She obviously wanted to say something to them. Chide them a little. Luckily, her Spanish was shit.

“They’re probably dropping the kid off at work,” said Adan, hiding a smile. “I think there’s a sweatshoop that manufactures pesticides in an open pit near here.”

Azucena smiled and nodded, obviously not understanding. “Oh,” she said and then smiled. “I understand. Si.” I guess Adan was used to people coming to his country and telling him how it should be run.

Federali checkpoints are usually busier and well-lit. Army checkpoints usually have a little shack for the C.O. These guys seemed to be hiding themselves. You couldn’t say how many of them there were. A handful or a brigade. No telling. We were out of Zapitista country and Normalistas (teachers involved in a sometimes-armed revolt) usually occurred closer to the city and involved jackknifing or overturning a PeMex truck if possible. This wasn’t territory of Los Zetas. Cartel-wise, it is a kind of a no-man’s land run by Oaxaquenos.

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Not a heavily traveled smuggling route, either.

For what it’s worth, it’s not the guys dressed like commandos who scare me. It’s the guys in cowboy hats wearing plaid shirts tucked into jeans with big belt buckles who scare me. Even more so if they’re sporting thick El Chapo-style mustaches. There was a narco they called El Gringo who used to film some of his more gruesome killings, some of which found their way onto YouTube before being taken down, including one which shows what happens when he detonates a decent quantity of dynamite ducttaped to a victim’s body.

Azucena was very concerned. “After what Donald Trump said about Mexicans yesterday, we’ll be lucky if he doesn’t shoot us all,” she said.

“I saw the Celebrity Apprentice once,” I said.

“One of the celebrities was just one of the people who had been on the regular Apprentice. Now, how does that work?”

“I saw it on CNN,” she said. “About Mexicans. He said that they’re all rapists and criminals and that if he were president he would deport every single one of them and then seal the border with a giant wall that he’s going to make them pay for.”

“Which show is the one where the people live in the same house for weeks at a time?” asked Adan.

“Is it a singing show?” I said.

“Fuck,” said Azucena, ruefully. “I’m sure that’s probably it. We’re going to be killed because of Donald Trump.”

“Why should they kill me?” said Adan.

Azucena handed me her cell phone and told me to play a certain video file.

I couldn’t believe he had said such a thing.

Well, I could believe it, but it was still shocking.

“Not even Donald Trump would be stupid enough to say something like that,” I said. “At least now there’s no way in hell he could ever win the election. Not in a million years.”

I watched the video again. Donald Trump’s face appeared on the screen, filling up every pixel as though he had paid for the space and didn’t want to let any of it go to waste. It was a shocking picture only because I hadn’t seen a picture or even thought of the guy in a couple of years and I didn’t remember his hair being such an alarming shade of blond-orange but at the same time neither blond nor orange. To paraphrase the title of a Cintra Wilson novel, it was a color “insulting to nature.” Since when did his “hairline” start with his eyelids? His face appeared unnaturally bronzed.

He was defending what he had apparently said about Mexicans. Classic Trump. No apology. Straight out of the Esquire or GQ “rules of real manhood.”

“We’re going to be killed,” frowned Azucena.

The guy seems to think like a 1940s Hollywood studio head. Like Louis B. Mayer.

He thinks with a New Yorker’s myopia—that the world extends only as far as he can see. I imagined him at a tense summit with Russia and Turkey over the war in Syria. Somebody says something he disagrees with and then Trump flashes that superior smirk-sucker’s grin where every facial orifice seems to fold neatly into itself and he takes on the patchy look of a radiation-poisoned rodent from behind. Trump stares at Putin. “Vladmir Putin,” he says. “You’re fired.” Then looks for a camera that isn’t there.

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Not in a million years. I could see Trump dancing around the oval office, his most recent mail-order bride at his side while doing some kind of Les Grossman schtick. “Literally fuck your face!” he shouts into a phone, hangs up and then does a touchdown dance.

Maybe a billion years.

The soldier who had our passports was walking back to our truck. The butt of his weapon hit the side of the door and Azucena jumped. He reached inside and handed the passports back through the window and told us to have a good day and enjoy our stay, then waved us on.

We never did figure out what any of that was about.

Highway 175 is basically one long, diabolical two-lane video game S-curve that just keeps going on and on for hours. The build up of centrifugal force shoves you hard from one side of a vehicle to the other as it leads you up and down dark mountain passes like a goat path, which it might as well be because it’s not unusual to come around a blind curve and have to stomp the breaks because there are two or three goats just standing there blocking the middle of the road and staring at you, not yet at all committed to their next move.

I don’t generally hitchhike here in Mexico, but it was late July, and I had blistering burns on the soles of my feet from walking on the sand, and they were already starting to blister over and weep through my socks so it felt like I was walking on broken bags of gel. I was really just wanted to get home. The thought of going from that state of sweat-induced tropical dehydration and getting on a bus with the inevitability of waking up shivering as a duct shot air-conditioning through every pore of my skin until reaching my very bones and I was wearing every shirt I owned to keep warm wasn’t very appealing. Besides, the ride from Puerto Escondido to Oaxaca City, while only about 260 kilometers on a map (161 miles) takes more than 10 hours because the road goes up and down steep mountain switchbacks and when you finally do get going, there are topes—like speedbumps built on tables—to slow you down.

Also, if I had to watch or listen to one more Spanish-dubbed Tyler Perry movie I was going to start self-harming.

So, when a guy wandered in to the bus station and asked if anybody was headed to the city of Oaxaca, I decided it was worth the risk.

Driving alone at night isn’t the safest proposition in this part of the country for various reasons, some of those reasons are highlighted in every single U.S. newscasts that has anything to do with life in Mexico, i.e. murder. Every story about Mexico in the U.S. news always comes back to murder. If it’s not about murder, it’s about mass murder.

About 50 km outside of Oaxaca, we stopped to pick up another hitchiker. We had no choice but to stop. This guy was gesturing wildly in the middle of the road, apparently drunk or mentally unwell. He was wearing a baseball hat high on a pile of messy hair and there was a half-empty

gas can at his feet. There was enough room when we pushed the seat back and Azucena complained about having to sit next to a drunk.

“At least he’s got his own gasoline,” she said, then watched in horror as the man unscrewed the cap, tilted his head back and took a long swig of the high-octane mixture until his hat fell off the back of his head.

Adan laughed.

Obviously, it was mezcal.

Azucenna said: “Dear God, I hope that man doesn’t have any children.”

The man’s name was Tony. He was a funny guy. He described the level of English he spoke as similar to the amount of English one might speak after spending a certain period of time in a supervised detention facility in California.

“Folsom or San Quentin?” I asked.

In Spanish, he asked if Azucena and I were siblings and what we were doing in Mexico.

I told him we were working for Donald Trump. “When he becomes president, not only is he going to deport all the Mexicans from America, but then he’s going to deport all the Mexicans in Mexico to Guatemala.”

Azucena punched me.

“Donald Trump is a pendejo,” laughed Tony.

“But we have our own problems here.”

He offered a slug of mezcal to Azucena, who surprisingly took a drink.

She whispered to me. “It’s rude if they offer it to you and you don’t drink,” she said pedantically.

I had been almost 500 days clean at that point.

Tony unwrapped a piece of notebook paper from his pocket and began picking the seeds and stems from his mota before rolling a joint. He told us what he knew about Donald Trump.

He said Donald Trump didn’t enter the world upon parturition from his mother’s womb like most children, but that he arrived in the same manner that all clowns come into this world, intimating that he wasn’t delivered, but rather hatched from a clown egg after the standard period of incubation.

Which might explain why his hair looks like a pile of feathers, said Adan.

I was starting to fall back asleep when I remember Azucena discussing to what ends of the earth she was willing to go to if Donald Trump could somehow become president one day. I think she had taken another couple of shots of mezcal.

“If Donald Trump wins, I’m moving here,” she said.

I thought about it. It’s a pretty common sentiment, especially around election time. In 2004, when George W. Bush defeated John Kerry for a second term I remember hearing that vow quite often among some of my friends. I remember several celebrities promising to do the same thing. I don’t think any of them actually moved.

“I enjoy clowns at the circus,” said Tony.

“How many can they fit into such a small car and so forth.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “Jeb Bush is the next president. It’ll be Jeb against Hillary, and Jeb will win. They decide these things years in advance.”

We were getting close to Oaxaca. There were suddenly buildings and stores along the road.

“You’ll see,” she said. “I’ll be on the first flight here.”

Just a few days after the dust settled from the February 23 GOP caucus in Nevada, which Trump won handily, taking 46.9 percent of the Republican vote and 14 of the Silver State’s delegates, the once-crowded field of conservatives is down to three serious candidates—Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz—and two guys waiting for a miracle. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to realize that Dr. Ben Carson, who actually is a brain surgeon and doesn’t seem to realize this, doesn’t stand a chance. Nor does John Kasich, who has already been lapped twice.

Ted Cruz has the face of a criminally insane man who escaped from a sanitarium and decided that the best place to hide was in plain sight.

In every photo of the man I’ve ever seen, he appears to have just emptied his tank of the day’s charisma by belting out a showtune, and, if he’s sweating, perhaps a little dance number for accompaniment.

What a difference seven months can make.

Despite Donald Trump crossing more lines of decency than traditional state lines during the primary season, nothing seems to blow up in his face. Announcing that he’ll halt Muslim immigration and track the ones who already live here.

His repertoire of sexist and racist jabs. Bragging several times that he could kill a guy and not lose a single vote.

If politics was a celebrity roast, Jeff Ross would be Secretary of State.

In the original 1989 edition of Trump, the board game, every player starts off the game with a modest $500 million. And then: “You need to do whatever it takes to turn $500 million into billions.” Bankruptcy is not an option. You roll the dice and go in circles attempting to outbid the other players on high-end real estate, yet the bank seems to subsidize everything.

Trump the candidate is getting close to becoming Too Big to Fail. Even those with coulrophobia (fear of clowns).

And then there was the time I was kidnapped down here. It happened in the first couple of weeks I was living here in Mexico. I spoke zero Spanish.

But it actually turned out to be a huge misunderstanding.

I was in the nearby park talking to a guy from Mexico City named Aramis, trying to figure out of there was a grocery store open late anywhere withing walking distance. He was here in Oaxaca visiting family before he was to begin his training as a Federali. The park was crowded like it is every warm Sunday night. There was a giant two-story inflatable SpongeBob Squarepants slide that the city puts up for the local kids.

People were everywhere.

Suddenly, I felt a strange sensation on my back. I didn’t need to ask what it was because I could see there was another guy holding the same thing up to Aramis’ back. It was a pistol.

The guys demanded that we get in the back of a waiting moving truck. We had to step up

and then jump to get up inside it. As soon as we were in, the back was shut and locked. It was absolutely completely dark in there. I could not see a thing. The only bit of light was coming from the part of the trailer closest to the front, and that was very minimal. Aramis and I walked to that side of the trailer and sat down against the wall. His English was lousy and so was my Spanish, but I didn’t need it. I could tell he was nervous and scared, and I could hear him crying.

The reality shot through my body and came out the other side, leaving a huge gaping exit wound around my heart. What had I gotten myself into by moving to Mexico? Even worse, I thought, suppose these guys decide to kill Aramis and then they want to keep me because they think they can get a bunch of ransom money out of my family? I could imagine my father sitting on the phone with a yellow legal pad in front of him making an offer. How does $250 sound, he would say? And then I’d get nothing for the next two birthdays. Shit. These guys are really going to kill me.

I could feel the truck moving up an incline, meaning we were leaving the valley floor and heading into the wild hills around Oaxaca. This was dangerous ground. They had just shut down several “superlabs” around here and seized thousands of pounds of meth.

My father opened a beer. Did some calculations in his head and then with the calculator.

“I suppose I could go as high as $300,” he said.

“But I’m going to need you to send him back with some of that Oaxacan cheese and some

gourmet coffee if we’re talking this kind of money.”

I grabbed Aramis’ hand. He told me he was sorry. I tried to make a plan with him about what to do when they opened the doors. How we had to try to jump them if we even wanted a chance at surviving. He explained to me that they probably wouldn’t even bother. They’d probably stop the truck near a cliff and push the whole damn thing over. Certainly the truck had been stolen, he explained. Our bodies would be burned beyond recognition.

Again, I could see my father. “You say he’s alive but he’s suffered 40 percent second-degree burns all over his body from the gasoline fire?

Well, I’m thinking that should entitle me to a 40 percent discount. Yes, he’s my only son. What’s your point?”

The truck kept moving up higher in the surrounding mountains. Occasionally, we would stop, there’d be some words exchanged between the driver and somebody on the street.

It seemed to me that we were going further and further behind cartel lines. The truck was coming to checkpoints and being waved through. I wondered how I would react in the final moments. All you ever heard about Mexico was murders and violence. Why the hell did I decide to come here? Because I was a full-time freelance writer, and I could no longer afford to live and prosper in the First World?

Eventually I started to accept my fate. There was no way in hell my Spanish was good enough to even try to talk my way out of this. I

couldn’t even order a meal.

Finally, about 40 minutes later, just as I was beginning to believe that the trailer was filling with carbon monoxide or that we were running out of air, we stopped. I heard a bunch of shouting coming from the front of the truck and then heard the doors open and then slam shut.

Someone was screaming. Someone was angry.

There were three gunshots. So loud. I remember I put my head in my hands, and then I heard the back of the truck being opened. Maybe the police had rescued us and killed the kidnappers?

As the door opened, I heard Aramis say how sorry he was again.

As the door opened, I could see we were up in a small town. A village was probably more correct. There were only a handful of buildings

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around. No street lights. Aramis walked toward the opened door. He sat down on the ledge and pushed himself out. I waited. I was not in a hurry to die.

Suddenly, I heard laughter. Aramis was on the ground throwing punches at another guy. I still had no idea what was going on and when another guy came and told me I didn’t understand a word.

After several minutes, Aramis jumped back in the truck and apologized again. We rode for another 40 minutes, this time mostly down hill. When the truck stopped again, we were right back in the park near my hotel. The doors opened, and we jumped out. What the fuck had just happened? I didn’t find out exactly what had happened until I got a message from Aramis on Facebook and managed to get it translated. He had recently decided to become a Federal police officer. The whole thing had been like a hazing ritual, put on by other Federal police.

“I have never been so sure that I was going to die,” he wrote me. “But you might have been OK if you could’ve gotten your family to pay them ransom since they took you by mistake,” he said. “You were never in any real danger.”

I thought about my father. He was arguing with the kidnapper over which money transfer service to use to send the money. He had one that he preferred over the others but they didn’t want to use that particular one. “If I’m going to spend $1000, I sure as hell want to get the miles,” he said. Then he cussed at them and hung up.

Yep. I was never in any real danger. Ω

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ucked away on the bottom level of the Amtrak station on Commercial Row is a little known piece of Reno’s history. It’s a fountain, commissioned and dedicated more than 100 years ago by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Red Cross Society.

Restoring a historic Reno fountain took four years and a lot of tenacity

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, local chapters of the WCTU—a national women’s organization—paid for the construction of water fountains in cities across the country. Their motivation was two-fold. The first was to create a place where all creatures could get a drink.

The second was to give men an alternative to saloons when they were thirsty.

Reno’s fountain was equipped with a basin for horses and one for dogs, as well as two fountains for humans. It was dedicated in October 1908 and also served as a memorial to the men of First Nevada Volunteer Cavalry who served in the Spanish American War. For several decades, Reno’s WCTU fountain sat in the heart of downtown on the southwest corner of Virginia and Plaza Streets. Later, it was moved to Idlewild Park, where it was allowed to fall into disrepair. Eventually, its light stanchions and horse trough were torn away and carted off by vandals.

By the 1990s, the WCTU fountain was barely recognizable—its place in Reno’s history seemingly lost to time.

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In the early 2000s, two local historians and longtime friends, Neal Cobb and David Hollecker, sat on the City of Reno’s Historical Resources Commission. Their job was to advise city officials on matters related to historic preservation.

Often, the pair needed a reminder that their role in city historic preservation efforts was limited to “advising.”

“That fell on deaf ears for Dave and I,” Cobb recalled.

This was especially true when Hollecker and Cobb decided it

was high time that the WCTU fountain be removed from Idlewild Park—where people had long since begun using it as a trash can and urinal. The pair wanted the fountain restored and placed somewhere the public could enjoy it and learn about its history.

According to Cobb and Hollecker, they received several warnings from city officials who felt they were overstepping their advisory bounds. But they pressed ahead, seeking support and potential funding sources for a restoration project. Sometimes, Hollecker said, it’s necessary to “just do it. Otherwise, it’s not going to be done.”

During the early stages of their bid for restoration, Hollecker and Cobb turned to local artist Loren Jahn, whose artistic interpretations of historical Reno landmarks grace the pages of many books and even the walls of the Washoe County Courthouse.

Jahn studied grainy photos of the fountain from Cobb’s extensive historical photo collection and scoured the West Coast looking for examples of other WCTU fountains, which he used as inspiration in creating an artist rendering of what Reno’s WCTU fountain would have looked like in its original condition.

The rendering was presented to the mayor, city council and potential donors to the project.

“Sometimes it just takes a picture to show people how something could look, the possibilities,” Jahn said.

In 2005, Cobb and Hollecker got approval from the city of Reno to move forward with the restoration project. The friends had managed to raise $5,800 and secured additional public arts funding tied to the Reno train trench project (ReTRAC).

The funding was enough to get the project underway, but, going forward, its success continued to rely on the generosity of locals who donated funds, time and skilled labor to the project.

The build Among the volunteers was Chris Dewitt, a 35-year veteran of the restoration department at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. He recalled first seeing the WCTU fountain at Idlewild Park in the early ’90s.

“It was painted primer red,” Dewitt said. “It did not have the

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It’s been nine years now since the fountain was placed in the Amtrak station. Back in June, the Virginia Street Bridge finally came down. These days, Cobb and Hollecker often meet at Harrah’s for lunch. On a Wednesday afternoon in January, they walked over to the Amtrak station afterward.

There they recounted a little known tidbit about the restoration project—the historic photos and accompanying texts that line the walls were placed in the Amtrak station without permission from the City of Reno or Amtrak administrators.

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by chance when a member of the Historic Reno Preservation Society called him to see if he might have use for two light fixtures she’d kept in her backyard for years. They were a great match for the fountain.

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lamp arms on it, and it didn’t have the top globe on it. It didn’t have the dog bowl, and it didn’t have the horse trough. It was sort of neglected, sitting off to the side and obviously not of any great significance to anybody. And I wanted that thing so bad. I loved it. I wanted that piece of iron in my yard.”

Dewitt was thrilled when Jahn got him involved in the restoration.

The work took place over the course of three months and included building entirely new parts for the fountain to match the ones that had disappeared over the years.

The fountain is comprised of several sections, which, according to Dewitt, stack together like the layers of a cake. Originally, these layers relied on gravity to hold them together. While the layers are hollow, the fountain still weighs several tons. Before it could be moved to a busy public space, Dewitt had to devise a way to keep it from toppling over in the event of an earthquake. He used an original trap door to get inside the fountain and install a reinforcement system.

He also fabricated a new horse trough, dog bowl and decorative emblem for the fountain. But the work wasn’t done yet.

The layers upon layers of red paint that were added to the fountain over the years had been stripped away, and it needed to be repainted.

For this, Dewitt turned to Jahn, who recommended a color scheme and painting technique that mimics the patina of aged bronze.

Jahn also solved the last piece of the restoration puzzle—replacement light stanchions for the fountain.

He came into possession of them

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The Nightingale Sky Room, a $6.2 million, glassenclosed space atop the Nevada by Museum of Art, has had a few test Kris Vagner runs and is set to open officially during a members premiere March 5. Nisha Hallert, the museum’s director of special event and sales, gave the RN&R a behind-thescenes tour.

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on,” said Hallert. “This floor has the swankiest kitchen.”

One of the Sky Room’s most prominent features is the view of the western sky. It’s similar to the rooftop view that’s been a pride of the museum since it opened in 2003, only now you can see it from either the indoor comfort of the penthouse or the outdoor roof patio, and the onceobstructed mountains are in clear sight.

“So this is called a parapet,” said Hallert, pointing to a perforated steel barrier wall on the western edge of the roof, the side from which the mountain view is grandest. She points to another one that’s solid black and explains that architect Will Bruder, who originally designed the museum and also designed this renovation, took advantage of having a second chance at those parapets. He lowered them by two feet so that their top edges trace the mountains and replaced some of the view-obstructing black ones with perforated ones you can see through.

The Sky Room is not slated to have art permanently hung on the walls, but for the time being, one wall holds a row of black and white photos by Don Dondero.

He was Reno’s main Associated Press photographer in the mid20th century, and later an RN&R photographer, and he photographed just about everything going on in Reno. Some of his best remembered pictures are of celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, who performed at another Reno Sky Room. That Sky Room was a glass-enclosed venue in the penthouse of the Mapes Hotel, which was closed in 1982 and demolished in 2000.

According to Hallert, when Bruder was in town during initial bidding on the NMA contract, he caught a glimpse of the Sky Room shortly before its demolition, and that’s how the idea for the NMA’s new addition’s name was hatched.

The “Nightingale” part comes from Steven Nightingale and the Nightingale Family Foundation, a major donor to the project. Ω

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the nightingale sky room at the nevada Museum of art opens March 5 with a members preview of the museum’s new exhibit, the horse, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring a performance by steep Canyon rangers. the event, which is free and open to members, required a reservation and is sold out. the performance will be simulcast in the museum’s theater and Founders room as part of a members-only overflow event. to register, visit www. nevadaart.org. after March 5, the sky room will be accessible to museum visitors any time there’s not an event scheduled there.

As workers hauled out tables and chairs from the previous day’s event, she explained how the wide-open, 4,800-square-foot penthouse can be modified for different types of gatherings. A modular stage can be set up for a business presentation, a musical performance, or removed altogether. The sound system works nicely for speeches and seminars and can be augmented with amps for a concert. The lighting can be adjusted for morning business meetings or soirees such as the 10 weddings and three proms Hallert has on the books so far.

From her point of view, the new addition is an event planner’s dream come true. She can book events during the museum’s opening hours, whereas she used to be limited to after hours and Tuesdays, when the galleries are closed. She estimates the number of events she books annually at the museum will double from about 150 to about 300.

The kitchen, designed with input from Mark Estee and team, who run the restaurant on the ground floor and the museum’s catering kitchens, is a model of shiny, modular efficiency. Everything from the prep counters to the refrigerators is on wheels, so the entire kitchen can be customized to meet each event’s specific work-flow requirements.

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In contrast with the cheesy goodness, escargot with cognac and garlic ($10) was definitely our least favorite plate of the evening. The gastropods arrived bubbling in a traditional sixpocket crock, cooked to the proper mushroom-like texture without being chewy. Sadly, the main flavor was of bitter, almost-burnt garlic, and if cognac had been part of the process it was doing its best to stay hidden.

A pair of braised bison short rib sliders with gorgonzola and slaw on pretzel buns brought things back into focus ($13). The shredded, lean meat was tender and plentiful, with the veg and cheese doing their part to bring it all together. Even the roll was aboveaverage, and receiving them pre-cut into halves made it easy for our party of four to make them disappear.

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Chew the scenery Triple 9 God damn it, when is somebody going to ban gum chewing in movies? I’m a card-carrying, unabashed Keanu Reeves fan, but he started the whole “Gum-Chewing Action Star” thing with Speed, and it’s become such a visually distracting, cheap acting trick.

Knock it off, Hollywood actors! You will never surpass the gum-chewing prowess by immortalized by Reeves in Speed. He is, Bob Grimm always has been, and shall remain the gumchewing action guy king! bg r i mm@ newsr evie w.c om The culprit this time out is Casey Affleck in Triple 9, the latest from super reliable director John Hillcoat. Affleck plays Chris, a new cop in a fleet of bad cops who distinguishes himself by, you guessed it, chewing gum a lot.

He doesn’t just chew that shit, either. Oh, no. He cracks it, he pops it, he moves it all over his mouth and lets the white wad stick out of the corners, and he makes sure it gets in the way of nearly every line delivery and nearly every shot in the movie.

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If I should ever get to helm an action cop movie, what with my budding film career and all, I’m going for the gum-chewing title.

I will make sure to have my action cop guy constantly unwrapping pieces of gum and shoving them into his pie hole. I won’t stop at Wrigley’s either. Nope, I’ll get some Big Red in there, adding to the color palette.

We’ll get some Bubble Yum and Bazooka for bigger, longer lasting bubbles. It’s going to make my action star so freaking tough looking.

OK, so the actual movie is pretty good.

Like the usual Hillcoat movies (The Road, The Proposition, Lawless), it’s a dark film with a bleak outlook on humanity. Nobody is happy in this flick, and they are going to let you know that for sure. Only this time, there’s a whole lot of gum chewing and some fast moving, impressive action scenes to go with all of the brooding.

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All right, back on point. Affleck’s Chris finds himself rolling with Marcus (Anthony Mackie, a.k.a. the Falcon!), a bad cop running with a crew doing heists for a crime kingpin (Kate Winslet, a.k.a. Rose, sporting yet another weird accent). That crew includes Russell (Norman Reedus, a.k.a. Daryl!), his brother Gabe (Aaron Paul, a.k.a. Jesse Pinkman!), explosives expert Michael (Chiwetel Ejiofor, a.k.a. the guy from 12 Years a Slave!), and dirty cop Franco (Clifton Collins Jr., a.k.a. the guy who played the murderer in Capote and one of the Vegan Police in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World!).

The heists themselves are nicely staged, reminiscent of the epic Michael Mann heists in Heat. They make up for the fact that the plot isn’t much. In fact, it’s almost non-existent. Still, that’s a pretty impressive acting crew running around shooting at each other, and Hillcoat makes it all look good.

Affleck isn’t the only one resorting to gimmickry in this film.

Woody Harrelson (a.k.a.

Woody!) wears some pretty wacky teeth and smokes a lot of dope as Jeffrey, Chris’s detective brother.

Or, at least, I think they are fake teeth. Woody, if those are your actual teeth, I’m totally sorry, bro. As for the weed, that stuff was probably authentic.

I guess my harping on the gimmickry of gum chewing is to point out that Affleck doesn’t need that kind of bullshit. He’s a commanding actor, and his characterization of Chris is impressive and memorable enough without all the popping and cracking. It doesn’t make his character any tougher or hard-nosed. It just makes him sloppy. And it also left me concerned that he might get lockjaw.

The cast does well for the most part, although Paul is saddled with a dopey haircut (another gimmick), and Reedus is sorely lacking a crossbow (a gimmick avoided).

There’s a bit involving a Ejiofor and a giftwrapped package that you will see coming a mile away, but Ejiofor sells it fine.

Triple 9 is a decent enough action thriller, and it should’ve been sponsored by Refresh Triple Mint Chiclets bubble gum! I do see the irony of constantly leaning on the gimmickry of gum chewing in a movie as a writing gimmick in and of itself. I’ll stop now. Ω

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Deadpool

After a false start with the character of Wade Wilson in 2009’s uneven yet unjustly maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds gets another chance at superhero—albeit unorthodox superhero—stardom. This time he scores big in this twisted film from first time director Tim Miller. The movie establishes its weirdness with scathing opening credits that poke fun at Reynolds’s stint as Green Lantern.

It then becomes a consistently funny tragicomedy involving Wade, a mercenary who comes down with terminal cancer, dimming the lights on his future with girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). He submits himself to an experiment that leaves him disfigured yet superhuman, bent on revenge against the criminal who made him this way. Reynolds finally gets a really good movie to match his charms, and Deadpool gets the nasty film the character beckons for. The film gets an R-rating for many reasons, and there really was no other way to make a Deadpool film. It needed to be depraved, and it is. T.J. Miller provides nice comic support as a weary bar owner, and a couple of X-Men show up in a hilarious way. A sequel is already in the works, and this is a very good thing.

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Hail, Caesar!

The latest from the Coen brothers follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a studio enforcer at Capitol Pictures in the 1950s 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 Clooney) is kidnapped by Hollywood communists, who demand 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 marblemouthed 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 whole thing is a blast but, admittedly, will probably go over best with diehard Coen fans.

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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 Last Man on the Moon

You hear a lot about the first landing on the moon with Neil Armstrong, but surprisingly little about Apollo 17, the last manned flight to the moon and Gene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the lunar surface. This is the documentary the man deserves, replete with his total cooperation. Cernan sits down for extensive interviews, taking you through his entire experience from the NASA training program, until that legendary walk. There’s plenty of amazing footage and photos, including Cernan’s failed spacewalk before Apollo 17, and his driving the lunar lander on the moonscape.

It’s incredible stuff. Before we had our smart phones and internet, there was a guy up there scratching his daughter’s initials into the moon’s surface. This film touches upon plenty, including Cernan’s marital woes and personal struggles as a product of the space program. What this man overcame to eventually take that moonwalk is mind-boggling, and the troubles he experienced afterward totally make sense. There’s an incredible moment near the film’s end when Cernan stands by the actual capsule where it rests today and ponders the mannequin now sitting in his seat. He wonders about the notion of whether or not anybody will ever visit the moon

again and actually gets a little frustrated. Then the movie simply cuts to Cernan fishing with his dog, trying to relax. He has most certainly earned many a fishing trip. This guy was, is, and shall be a total badass. (Available for rent on iTunes, Amazon.com and On Demand during a limited theatrical run.)

5

The Revenant

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. 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.

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Where to Invade Next

What starts as a fairly interesting film about how foreign countries feed and teach their children goes off the rails and loses any sense of focus in this, the latest junk food documentary from goofball Michael Moore.

The premise for this one has a flag-toting Moore representing America “invading” other countries and threatening to steal ideas like great school cafeterias and free tuition. Moore has a way of presenting scintillating factoids only to cloud their presentation with dopey and gimmicky showboating. The bit where he plants American flags and says he’s claiming shit for America is lame the first time, and incredibly mundane the tenth. There’s just something about this guy when he gets all sad and somber and scary with his narrations that makes me want to throw a small car at the movie screen.

As usual, Moore presents some facts about other great countries while demonizing the one we live in. Sure, we have room for improvement, but so do the countries Moore visits in the movie. Oddly enough, we only see the really good stuff other countries have to offer with only mere small mentions of any problems they might be having. Moore has a history of twisting and playing with the facts to match up with his agenda, and this movie is no exception. Plus, it just isn’t very well made. It’s sloppy and lazy documentary filmmaking.

5

The Witch

Unlike The Blair Witch Project, this Sundance award-winning directorial debut— and total masterpiece—from Robert Eggers, who also wrote the script, actually has a witch in it. She makes her first appearance very early on in the film, and she’s doing a bad thing. A really, really, horribly disturbing, oh-that’s-how-thismovie-is-really-going-to-start bad thing. Set in 1630s New England with an exceptional attention to detail, there are plenty of ways to interpret the events and themes of The Witch—the mark of a good, heady horror film. Eggers has made a horror movie with some major meat on the bone that stands in league with such classics as The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby. And, oh lordy, is this film creepy. The sense of dread kicks in immediately after William (Ralph Ineson) is banished from his New England settlement for getting a little too over-the-top with his religious beliefs. He, his wife Katherine (Kate Dickie), their little baby, their oldest daughter, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), son Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), and creepy twins Mercy and Jonas (Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson) must head out into the gray forests and fields to make a life away from government and society. What follows are hellish encounters with different incarnations of the witch, talking goats, possessed kids, and a bunch of other stuff that will unsettle you. Eggers has made a great movie that can be interpreted many different ways. If it doesn’t scare you, you are far braver than me.

Scene change Current Joys Prior to a stint working in the television production industry, University of Nevada, Reno graduate Nick by Kent Irwin Rattigan’s solo music project was called Televisions. These days, it goes by the name Current Joys. Yet, in spite of the name change, the influence of narrative filmmaking still shines through the songs.

“With my music, I try to make it very cinematic, a lot of ups and downs, especially with a full album” said Rattigan. “I want to make it a story. I get a lot more ideas and inspiration from movies than music.”

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Rattigan. “That’s when I wrote most of the album, after I saw that movie, while I went through this really emotional move, feeling my relationship with my family change.”

On “Home,” the album’s first track, Rattigan sings, “The world is so big now/It’s hard not to feel alone/Without no direction/I don’t know where I’ll go/ Don’t worry about tomorrow/We’ll find our way home.”

In New York, Rattigan was able to land a good job, working production for such successful indie programs as HBO’s Girls and Elle Fanning-starred About Ray. He remembers that period as a blur of 14-hour shifts, five times a week, leaving him with only two days to get everything he needed done.

After flying back to Los Angeles for a weekend to play a set as Current Joys, he’d find himself back in New York, working, doing everything from driving around the city to pick people up, to taking lunch orders, to cleaning up around the office.

“It feels like a trap,” said Rattigan.

Reality differed from the elegant future painted by his superiors, as he struggled to draw crowds to performances in the city, and found himself with less time to devote to music.

One day, he found himself in a theater watching the 1946 version of Beauty & The Beast. This French version of the classic tale was notable for having been filmed during the Nazi occupation.

“The director was spending a lot of money to get his vision across, for set design and all that,” explained Rattigan. “People kept telling him, ‘We need this money for the war, for rations.’ He said, ‘No, this is art!’”

Rattigan made a difficult decision to stop rationing such small amounts of time for his music.

He quit his job, and moved back West. Since then, Current Joys has played to large crowds in Reno and Los Angeles, and has been widely supported both financially and emotionally. Still, he admits it’s hard to tell if he made the right choice.

“I dunno,” Rattigan said with a laugh. “You can’t really know which alternative future would’ve been the best.” Ω

If Televisions was a romantic movie, Current Joys would be a foreign film. Current Joys’ most recent album, Me Oh My Mirror, follows in a tradition followed by Televisions and Rattigan’s band Surf Curse, where the title of an inspirational film is incorporated in the title of the music. In this case, Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror.

The film struck Rattigan with its depiction of the surreal and nostalgic comforts of home, family and heritage. These themes resonated with him during a difficult period of adjusting to life in New York City, where he often found himself missing his friends and parents.

Unlike Tarkovsky, Rattigan didn’t grow up in an aesthetically minded family. Both his parents work in the medical industry and live in Henderson. Rattigan recalls them as supportive, but uncertain of whether to be optimistic of their son’s artistic ambitions.

“I moved to New York and was really missing home, but I was also trying to embrace a new life,” said

Nick Rattigan never just hangs around.

For more information, visit www.currentjoys. bandcamp.com.

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THURSDAY 3/3

FRIDAY 3/4

1UP

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

3RD STREET

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

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

5 STAR SALOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

DJ Izer, 10pm, $5 after 10pm

BAR OF AMERICA

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

Groove Foundry, 9pm, no cover

Groove Foundry, 9pm, no cover

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

The Cave Singers

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

March 5, 8 p.m.

PB&J’s 555 E. Fourth St. 322-4348

SATURDAY 3/5

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

CARGO AT WHITNEY PEAK HOTEL

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover Free-Spin Sundays w/DJ Zoiree, 5pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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

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

Mike Stud, OCD Moosh & Twist, Futuristic, 8pm, $16

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/7-3/9

Black Market III, 9pm, no cover

BRASSERIE ST. JAMES

CEOL IRISH PUB

SUNDAY 3/6

Prince Fox, StéLouse, Richard Xavier, Robot Barbie, 10pm, $10

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Cloudship, 9pm, no cover

Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

Kaleo, Firekid, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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

Comedy

COMMA COFFEE

Songwriters in the Round, 6pm, no cover

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

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Carson Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, 882-1626: Todd Paul, F, 7:30pm, $13-$15 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Graham Elwood, Carrie Snow, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; John Caponera, Nick Youssef, W, 8pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401: John Caponera, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $21.95; F-Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Harry Basil, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Craig Shoemaker, Th, 8pm, $12-$15; F, 9pm, $17-$22; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $17-$22

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

Calling Ophelia, 7pm, no cover

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

ELBOW ROOM BAR

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

Jack Di Carlo, 7pm, no cover

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

Matthew Szlachetka, 7pm, no cover Determined, 9pm, no cover

9 Below Zero, 9:30pm, no cover

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

Adrenaline, 9pm, no cover

Hollywood Trashed, 9pm, no cover

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

HANGAR BAR

Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover

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

Canyon White Open Mic Night, 8pm, no cover

HIMMEL HAUS

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

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

THE HOLLAND PROJECT

Josh Alexander, Lil Traffic, Yung Milkcrate, Ceelarz, JC, 8pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652 1) Showroom 2) Bar Room

2) Big in Japan, True Rivals, Old Glory, Fozzys Hero, 8pm, $6

THE JUNGLE

ZHOD, Applied Ethics, The Get Well Soon Band, 8pm, Tu, $5 1) Dead Kennedys, No Brainer, Elephant Rifle, Vampirates, 7pm, $20-$25

1) Pouya, 8pm, Tu, $20-$25 2) Koffin Kats, 9pm, Tu, $10, Adlib, 9:30pm, W, $10 Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

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FRIDAY 3/4

THE LOFT THEATRE-LOUNGE-DINING

Magic Fusion w/Tony Clark, 1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024 7:30pm, $35

THE LOVING CUP

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

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

Live jazz, 8pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

Everyone Is Dirty, 8:30pm, no cover

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

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

Everyone Is Dirty, 8:30pm, no cover

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

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

POLO LOUNGE

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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

PSYCHEDELIC BALLROOM AND JUKE JOINT (PB&J’S)

Thursday Night Out w/Wabuska Yachting Club, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/7-3/9

SUNDAY 3/6

SATURDAY 3/5

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

Tandymonium, 7pm, W, no cover

Dead Kennedys March 6, 7 p.m.

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

Johnny Lipka’s Gemini, 9pm, no cover Anuhea, Through the Roots, 9pm, Tu, $15-$20

The Cave Singers, 8pm, $12

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Western Wednesday, 9pm, W, no cover

Reggae Night, 10pm, no cover

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

SHEA’S TAVERN

Tavern Trivia, 9pm, no cover

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

SHELTER

DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

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

SINGER SOCIAL CLUB

Punk Rock Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, no cover

Step Back Saturday, 10pm, no cover

Kaleo

DJ Trivia, 8pm, no cover

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

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

March 8, 8 p.m.

Chapel Tavern 1099 S. Virginia St. 324-2244

Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STUDIO ON 4TH

Bryan McPherson, Josiah Knight, Randall Wolf, 8pm, $8-$10

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

Ritual (industrial, EBM, ’80s) w/DJs Darkness, Rusty, Skarkrow, 9pm, $3-$5

WEST STREET WINE BAR

Ed Corey Trio, 7:30pm, W, no cover

148 West St., (775) 336-3560

WHISKEY DICK’S SALOON

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

Cash Only Band, 9pm, no cover

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

WILDFLOWER VILLAGE

2) Trivia Night, 8:30pm, $3-$5 4275-4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 787-3769 1) Golden Rose Cafe 2) Green Fairy Pub 3) Cabaret

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

1) Open mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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$3 wells 3-7pm live music & dancing 7-10pm

This is our fourth incantation of a brew that began as a tribute to the end of the Mayan Calendar. We continue to honor their rich ancient culture, using ingredients they cultivated - cocoa, chile peppers, vanilla bean, honey, and maize. The result is a chocolatey, bittersweet, spicy, and smoky sip.

Available on tap and in 22 oz. bottles at both our brewpubs and at select stores in Nevada.

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Thurday

$4 wells 3-close karaoke 8-11

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Friday

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MARcH 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, @ 8pM

$3 well martinis 3-7pm live music and dancing 9pm

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$3 Bloody Marys

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

THURSDAY 3/3

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SATURDAY 3/5

SUNDAY 3/6

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/7-3/9

2) The Palmore Remix, 8pm, no cover

2) The Palmore Remix, 4pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover

2) The Palmore Remix, 4pm, no cover Atomika, 10pm, no cover

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

2) Cook Book, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Three Blind Mice, 8pm, no cover

2) Three Blind Mice, 8pm, no cover

2) Jonathan Barton, 6pm, no cover

2) Jonathan Barton, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Poor Man’s Whiskey, 9pm, $15-$18

2) Lucky & DjjD, 11pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Footloose, 7pm , 9:30pm, $24.95-$26.95 1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover 2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover 3) DJ Roni Romance, 9pm, no cover

1) Shinedown, 8:30pm, $37.50-$40 2) Sir Mix-A-Lot, Romeo Reyes, 10pm, $15 3) Country Nights, 10pm, no cover

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

1) Strange Weather, 9:30pm, no cover

1) This Charming Band (tribute to The Smiths), 9:30pm, $15

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

Sir Mix-A-Lot

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO

March 4, 10 p.m.

Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

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

1) Footloose, 7pm, $24.95-$26.95 2) The Wiz Kid, 10:30pm, no cover

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2) Lex Nightclub Thursdays

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

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Karaoke

50 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

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

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1) Penn & Teller, 7:30pm, $70.64 2) DJ Mikey Tan, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

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

NUGGET CASINO RESORT

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

1) Footloose, 7pm Tu, W, $24.95-$26.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, no cover Left of Centre, 10:30pm, W, no cover

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

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

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

3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, no cover

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

2) Lost Dog Found, 8pm, no cover

2) Lost Dog Found, 8pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover

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

1) Max Minardi, 8pm, no cover

1) Max Minardi, 8pm, no cover 2) The Utility Players, 8pm, $15

3) Fashion Friday, 9pm, no cover

1) Joel McHale, 8pm, $42.50-$59.50 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

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

2) Lost Dog Found, 7pm, no cover

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

SILVER LEGACY RESORT CASINO

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

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

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

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

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

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Events ART WALK RENO: The monthly art walk features works of local and regional artists on display in venues within the Arts District, between Liberty Street and Second Street and Virginia Street and Arlington Avenue. The walk officially begins at Liberty Fine Art Gallery where you can purchase a ticket for $10, which includes a glass, raffle ticket and program for the evening. There are 18 stops in the art walk, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Noble Pie Parlor, Singer Social Club and Neapolitan Gallery, inside the Monolith Bar. There will also be food and drink specials from participating businesses along the way. A portion of all proceeds from Art Walk Reno will be donated to non-profit groups focused on art, education and community. First Th of every month, 5-9pm. $10. Liberty Fine Art, 100 W. Liberty St., http://artspotreno.com/artwalk-reno.

CHURCHILL COUNTY MUSEUM HIDDEN CAVE TOUR: The Churchill County Museum, Carson City District and the Bureau of Land Management welcome guests to a tour of Hidden Cave twice each month. Head to the Churchill County Museum at 9am to view the Hidden Cave display before meeting up with the BLM guide at 9:30am and watch a short video on the cave’s history. The group heads out to the cave location at 10am for a complete tour of Hidden Cave. Sa, 3/5, 9am.

Free. Churchill County Museum, 1050 S. Maine St.,Fallon, (775) 423-3677.

DOWNTON ABBEY: A CELEBRATION BRUNCH: Get an advance preview of the final episode of the acclaimed British television show Downton Abbey. The event includes gourmet British cuisine, prizes and themed fun. Su, 3/6, 11:30am. $60 for KNPB members, $75 for non-members. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 3339300, www.automuseum.org.

AN EVENING WITH THE ARTS: Churchill Arts Council’s 30th annual fundraising dinner and silent auction features a variety of artwork, vacation getaways and other eclectic items donated by local and artists and businesses. Sa, 3/5, 8pm. $17 Churchill Arts Council members, $20 nonmembers. Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

FIRST THURSDAY: Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly event includes wine and beer, viewing of its galleries and music by Jelly Bread. Th, 3/3, 5-7pm. $10 general admission; free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

HEALTH FAIR: Northern Nevada Medical Center hosts its community health fair in the main lobby of the hospital. This is an opportunity for the public to receive free or low-cost preventative health screenings and education. Screenings include blood pressure, complete blood count, lipid profile, thyroid function, among other tests. First Th of every month, 7-10am. $0-$40. Northern Nevada Medical Center, 2375 E. Prater Way, Sparks, (775) 331-7000

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: THE POWER OF WOMANHOOD: Celebrate of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women in a fun and relaxed atmosphere while enjoying drinks, appetizers and games with prizes. Tu, 3/8, 5:30-8pm. $35 per person. midTown Wine Bar, 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 525-1511, www.midtownwine.bar.

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observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. Guests are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and use the observation deck to view the evening sky. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240.

SURVIVING BURNING MAN: DUSTY DOCTOR: Dr. Gary Johnson, a.k.a. Dusty Doctor G-Man, will share tidbits about the unique characteristics and evolution of this festival in addition to how these facets impact the delivery of medical care. Th, 3/3, 7-8pm. Free.

Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 682-5669.

All Ages DOWNTOWN LIBRARY STORYTIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 10:30am. Free.

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

DOWNTOWN LIBRARY SUNDAY MOVIE MATINEE: Watch a variety of popular movies for free in the library auditorium on selected Sundays. Su, 3/6, 2pm; Su, 3/13, 2pm. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8301.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Come into the library, find a table, grab a game and have some fun. Second and fourth W, 4:30-6:30pm. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

INCLINE VILLAGE STORYTIME: Stories and

crafts for all children. W, 4pm. Free.

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

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

MONSTER FISH: IN SEARCH OF THE LAST RIVER GIANTS: The exhibit features life-size sculptures, hands-on interactive exhibits and video installations that puts you face to face with more than 20 species of giant freshwater fish. Tu-Su through 4/24. $10 general admission, $9 veterans and active duty military. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St, (775) 786-1000.

SOUTH VALLEYS STORYTIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. Tu, 11:15am. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

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

SPARKS STORYTIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child.

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

SSSNAKES ALIVE!: This interactive exhibition encourages visitors to embrace their fear as they discover the secrets of North America’s four indigenous venomous snakes: the copperhead, cottonmouth, coral and rattlesnake. The exhibit features more than 20 live venomous snakes along with dozens of interactive stations and imaginative displays. W-Su

through 4/10. $9 adults, $8 children and seniors. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.facebook.com/WilburMayCenter.

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

Th, 10am-noon. Free.

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

Art ART INDEED! SIERRA MEMORIAL ART SPACE: Urban Landscapes. The abstract art gallery is open for the First Thursday Art and Wine Walk on March 3, 4-9pm, Riverwalk Wine Walk on March 20, 2-5pm, and the Artist Open House on Sunday, March 27, 2-5pm. Gallery hours are Monday from 1:30-6pm, TuesdayThursday from 3:30-7pm or by appointment any day/evening of the week.

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Lace up your ru nning shoes and wear a bit o’ the gree n this weekend during the fourth annual 5K race through do wntown Sparks event includes liv . The e bands, a gree n-themed aid st silly course mark ation, ers and folks in wa cky St. Patrick’s themed attire. Af Dayter the run, parti cipants can grab beer at the afte a free r-party and samp le drink and food sp at several local ecials restaurants an d bars where th costume compet ere will be itions, a photo bo oth and freebies all finishers. Prize for s will be awarde d to the fastest runners and th e best costumes . The fun begins p.m. on Saturday at 4 , March 5, at Vic torian Square in downtown Spar ks. Entry fees ar e $25-$30. Visit http://crawlreno .com.

—Kelley Lang

Th, 3/3, 4-8:30pm; Su, 3/20, 2-5pm; Su, 3/27, 2-5pm. Free.

142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE GALLERY: For Detail View. Capital City Arts Initiative presents work by artist Jeff Hantman. Hantman creates his wood sculptures using found wood objects and printmaking techniques. Rather than removing paint and sanding for smooth surfaces, he keeps the old paint, shelf paper and scratches as a history in each piece of wood he finds. He alters it with additional wood pieces, images and color to enhance the story as he builds a new sculpture. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/25.

Free. 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

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

drawings by Michelle Lassaline. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440. E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: I Wonder If I Care As Much. Mixed-media installation featuring art by Timothy Conder, Nick Larsen and Omar Pierce. M-Su through 3/12. 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

FRONT DOOR GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Brett Flanigan. The first show in University Galleries’ new mural series features mural art by the Oakland-based artist. M-F through 11/11. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Quiet Things.

Emerging artist and photographer Abigail Swanson presents her first multi-media solo exhibition. With this installation, Abigail examines individual truth and the illusions of womanhood through a feminist perspective.

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 3/4. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

JOT TRAVIS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: BFA Midway Exhibition

Reception. Bachelor of fine arts candidates at the University of Nevada, Reno show their work at the midway point of their degree coursework in a wide range of disciplines. The BFA Midway Exhibition Reception is in the Jot Travis Building, Student Galleries South. Th, 3/3, 5pm; through 3/10, 11am-4pm. Free. 900 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6837.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Media Technology: Past & Present. Visitors will enjoy a visual display of media technological leaps through this exhibit on display in the Whittemore Gallery of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. M-Su through 6/30.

Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: Order and Chaos: A Marriage in Reno.

The Reno Arts & Culture Commission presents artwork from visual artist Avery Falkner. M-F, 9am-5pm through 4/15. Opens 3/7. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: Leeway. Reno artist Nate Clark examines order and structure through mark making. The paintings highlight the subtle contrast between the imperfections of hand-made marks and a methodical formula or scientific method. M-F, 8am-5pm through 3/11.

Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Beautiful Soil: Ceramics from Ancient China. The exhibit features Chinese ceramics from various dynasties, demonstrating the rich and diverse tradition of object-making in ancient

China. M-F through 4/8; Brendan Tang: Souvenirs from Earth. Described by the artist as an “hedonistic engagement with visual culture,” Brendan Tang’s sculptures integrate references to Ming dynasty ceramic forms, Japanese anime and manga, art-pop, Asian import goods for the aristocratic French high-society and robotic prosthetics. Tu-Sa, 10am-8pm through 4/8. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

STREMMEL GALLERY: Tom Judd: Home on the Range. Stremmel Gallery presents Home on the Range, an exhibition of recent work by Philadelphia based artist Tom Judd. His current body of work focuses on the American notion of Manifest Destiny, the obsession with the myth surrounding America’s history and his love of the epic American landscape. The work challenges the way that the history of the West, “the invented myth,” is perceived as a result of advertising, film and television, while also embracing the aesthetic of those mediums. Tu-Sa

through 4/16. Opens 3/10; Th, 3/17, 5-7pm. Free. 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558.

Museums NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): SpaceMobiles: From Rockets and Rovers to Cars on Mars. This exhibit takes a look at America’s fascination with exploring new frontiers and the machines that

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I’m in a new relationship with the sweetest, most generous girl, but I’m hesitant to let her do nice stuff for me.

In my previous relationship, every single nice thing my ex did was held against me later. I can hear her now: “Remember that time I brought you food at work? All the way across town?” Eventually, I’d wince anytime she did anything for me. However, my new girlfriend seems so happy to make me food or run an errand for me. Still, I feel uneasy. I keep waiting for her to turn into my ex and present me with a list of what I owe her.

Aww, a relationship with an accounts receivable department.

Your ex’s human abacus approach—running a relationship on the “Hey, what’s in it for me?” model—doesn’t bode well for happily ever after, and not just because it makes it hard to tell your girlfriend apart from one of those aggressive strangers who call at dinnertime, threatening to repo your car.

Social psychologist Margaret S. Clark explains that partners are more loving and generous toward each other when a relationship runs on the “communal” model (which describes love or friendship) rather than the “exchange” model (the merchant-customer relationship). The main difference between these relationship types is in the motivations for giving and the expectations in the wake of it. You give to somebody you love—like by giving your honey a massage—to make her feel good. You don’t wipe the lotion off your hands and then hand her a bill for $80.

Love relationships are often not entirely 50/50. The payback from a romantic partner often comes in different ways and at a later date, and that’s OK. In an exchange relationship, however, people give to get. There’s careful accounting and speedy invoicing. When the mechanic fixes your bum tire, immediately after doing the work, he expects equivalent compensation—in cold, hard cash (or plastic). You can’t just kiss him on the cheek, chirp, “Thanks, cookieface!” and be on your way.

Looking back at your relationship with your ex, ask yourself something: Why did she view popping over with a cooler at lunchtime—probably containing sandwiches and a Snapple—like she’d brought you her left kidney? Maybe she’s bean countery in all of her relationships. Or, maybe this reflects Clark’s finding that people in relationships switch to an “exchange norm” when they notice that their partner is all take and take.

In your current relationship, remind yourself to credit your girlfriend for who she is—which you do by observing her actions and attitude—instead of fearing who she might

North Lake Tahoe will throw its annual end-of-winter party beginning on Thursday, March 3, with an opening celebration and coronation of the SnowFest Queen at Gar Woods Pier & Grill, 5000 N. Lake Blvd. Carnelian Bay. The festivities continue through March 13 with on-and off-mountain events like parades, races, competitions and fireworks shows at venues across North Lake Tahoe. Prices vary by event. Visit www.tahoesnowfest. com for a complete schedule.

—Kelley Lang

make it possible. M-Su through 4/11. $4-$10, free for members and children age 5 and younger. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: The E.L. Wiegand Collection: Representing the Work Ethic in American Art, W-Su through 4/17; Cedra Wood: A Residency on Earth, W-Su through 5/15; Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31; 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; Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson: Beautification Machine, W-Su through 7/24; The Horse, W-Su through 7/3. Opens 3/5. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

THE BAREFOOT FLUTE TRIO: Enjoy a program of

flute music. Tu, 3/8, 4:45-5:45pm. Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Building A, Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

COME IN FROM THE COLD FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES: The 2016 series continues with a performance by Richard Elloyan and Steve Wade. Sa, 7pm through 3/12. $3 suggested donation per person.

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

LAST SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN TOUR: MARSALIS: Grammy-winning producer, composer and trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis present an evening of jazz.

Called by the National Endowment for the Arts “New Orleans’ venerable first family of jazz,” the Marsalis family of four brothers is led by patriarch and pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr., all of whom were granted the NEA’s venerable Jazz Masters Award. Th, 3/3, 7:30pm. $30 for adults; $24 for seniors, UNR faculty and staff; $12 for students and youths, $5 for UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/pas.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques. The exhibit tells of the unique origins, language and history of the Basque people, along with their contributions throughout history. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques is a traveling exhibit from the Basque Museum & Cultural Center in Boise, Idaho. Sa, 1-4pm through 5/14; Tu-F, 11am-4pm through 5/13. $5, free for museum members. 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

MONSTERBUG PROJECT: Monsterbug Productions presents this showcase of local music with genres ranging from rock to hip hop. Bands scheduled to perform include Streetwise Religion, Evan Heart, Coka Grams, F.A.M.S. Ent. and Two Guns West. F, 3/4, 7pm. $10. Morris Burner Hotel, 400 E. Fourth St., (775) 327-1171.

Film FAMILY FILM: THE BLACK STALLION: Celebrate the opening of Nevada Museum of Art’s new exhibit The Horse with a special screening of the 1979 childhood classic, The Black Stallion, starring Kelly Reno and Mickey Rooney. Free for members or with paid museum admission. Sa, 3/5, 3-5pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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be. You should also make sure you’re holding up your part of the giving. But give for the right reason: to make her happy—and not because you can’t bear to hear another woman yelling, “Owe, owe, owe!” during sex.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the calm I used to have a terrible temper. My girlfriend never experienced it because I did major therapy before meeting her. Now when I get upset, I step back, consider whether my beef is legit and then think about how I can present it calmly. My girlfriend, who gets frustrated that I can’t always discuss things immediately, says I “bottle up” my feelings.

Rarely do you hear someone say, “So, I ran the issue by my therapist, made a list of pros and cons, meditated on it … and then went out and put a bat through the guy’s windshield.”

Admirably, instead of continuing to lose your temper, you got it a little red leather collar and now you just walk it out of the room on a matching red leash. This doesn’t mean you “bottle up” your feelings. You’re simply giving reason first crack at your problems—which doesn’t exactly come naturally. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explain that we have two thinking systems: a fastresponding emotional system and a slower rational system.

Your rational system does come around eventually—typically, just in time to grab a broom and dustpan to sweep up the pieces of the job or relationship that your trigger-happy emotional system just exploded.

Because relationships are happier when those in them feel understood and appreciated, it seems you need to give your girlfriend the details on where you were and how far you’ve come. (Whaddya know, you didn’t spend those court-mandated anger management sessions with headphones on listening to Metallica.) Explaining this to her should help her understand that when you’re mulling things over, she isn’t waiting—she’s benefiting. Maybe you’ll get speedier at the reasoning process in time, but rushing you out of your cool-out corner is a bit like saying, “Hey, let’s make conflict resolution more like drunk dialing!” Ω

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This is excellent advice for you to keep in mind, Taurus. Even more than usual, it’s crucial that you imbue every important thing you do with pure, strong emotions.

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From an astrological perspective, now is a good time to expand and refine your personal approach to recycling. Brainstorm about how you could convert waste and refuse into useful, beautiful resources— not just literally, but also metaphorically.

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Now and then you may even experience the strange sensation of being completely satisfied with the quality and amount of sweetness that arrives. To ensure optimal results, be as free from greed as you can possibly be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out,” says author Yasmin Mogahed. “Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings.

The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence.

And so much patience.” According to my analysis, Libra, you should be attending to this tough but glorious task. Although the work might be hard, it won’t be anywhere near as hard as it usually is. And you are likely to make more progress than you

would be able to at other times.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The other

day, lying in bed,” writes poet Rodger Kamenetz, “I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.” He speaks for the majority of us. We spend much of our lives entranced by the relentless jabber that unfolds between our ears. But I want to let you know, Scorpio, that the moment is ripe to rebel against this tendency in yourself. In the coming weeks, you will have a natural talent for celebrating your body. You’ll be able to commune deeply with its sensations, to learn more abut how it works and to exult in the pleasure it gives you and the wisdom it provides.

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

his “Dream Song 67,” poet John Berryman confesses, “I am obliged to perform in complete darkness / operations of great delicacy / on my self.” I hope you will consider embarking on similar heroics, Sagittarius. It’s not an especially favorable time to overhaul your environment or try to get people to change in accordance with your wishes. But it’s a perfect moment to spruce up your inner world—to tinker with and refine it so that everything in there works with more grace. And unlike Berryman, you won’t have to proceed in darkness. The light might not be bright, but there’ll be enough of a glow to see what you’re doing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s

the dictionary’s definition of the word “indelible”: “having the quality of being difficult to remove, wash away, blot out or efface; incapable of being canceled, lost or forgotten.” The word is often used in reference to unpleasant matters: stains on clothes, biases that distort the truth, superstitions held with unshakable conviction or painful memories of romantic breakups.

I am happy to let you know that you now have more power than usual to dissolve seemingly indelible stuff like that. Here’s a trick that might help you: Find a new teacher or teaching that uplifts you with indelible epiphanies.

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

cording to poet Tony Hoagland, most of us rarely “manage to finish a thought or a feeling; we usually get lazy or distracted and quit halfway through.” Why? Hoagland theorizes that we “don’t have the time to complete the process, and we dislike the difficulty and discomfort of the task.”

There’s a cost for this negligence: “We walk around full of half-finished experiences.”

That’s why Hoagland became a poet. He says that “poems model the possibility of feeling all the way through an emotional process” and “thinking all the way through a thought.” The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get more in the habit of finishing your own feelings and thoughts, Aquarius. It will also be more important than usual that you do so! (Hoagland’s comments appeared in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Unless you

work at night and sleep by day, you experience the morning on a regular basis. You may have a love-hate relationship with it, because on the one hand you don’t like to leave your comfortable bed so early, and on the other hand you enjoy anticipating the interesting events ahead of you. But aside from your personal associations with the morning, this time of day has always been a potent symbol of awakenings and beginnings. Throughout history, poets have invoked it to signify purity and promise. In myth and legend, it often represents the chance to see things afresh, to be free of the past’s burdens, to love life unconditionally. Dream interpreters might suggest that a dream of morning indicates a renewed capacity to trust oneself. All of these meanings are especially apropos for you right now, Pisces.

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Wolf man Brigdon Markward Brigdon Markward, 20, is the new music director at the Holland Project, Reno’s youth-oriented nonprofit arts organization. He’s responsible for all the booking for the organization’s music venue. He also plays guitar and sings in the band City Wolves. For more information, visit www.hollandreno.org.

I haven’t seen City Wolves yet, but everybody says good things. Tell me a little bit about the band.

We’ve been around since we all moved up here to Reno from Nevada City. All of us, except for our drummer, are from Nevada City. We all went to high school there, and we moved up here and started playing music together. We kept showing each other new stuff and started listening to a lot of different stuff. When we were in high school, we used to all be really into ska. We were all in a ska band together, but when we moved up here, we tried to start anew, music-wise. So we got really into post-punk, post-hardcore, shoegaze, and tried mashing all of those together. I feel like we’re all over the place.

Why did you move here from Nevada City?

For college. I was full-time for my first year, and then I took a year off—there was some weird stuff with the financial situation. … Now, I’m going back as much as I can.

Right now, about 300 miles to the southeast, in that wonder of a national park called, delightfully enough, Death Valley (a consultant/ focus group nightmare!), there is a natural phenomenon taking place that is truly worthy of the adjective “phenomenal.” Also worthy of “spectacular,” for it is indeed a rare spectacle, the extraordinarily special spectacle of the hills of DV on fire with the sex organs of millions of various entities.

In other words, there’s one of those notorious Super Blooms of wildflowers going on. They don’t happen often. The two previous Supers were in ’05 and ’98. I saw the one in ’05. I grokked it. I participated in it, with it, and I got out of it, and it was fantastic, in the literal sense in that it seemed to spring from a fantasy, from a desert version of Fantasia, and I started looking for fairies flitting about, and goddamn if just then a beautiful little Costa’s hummingbird with its iridescent purple throat didn’t show up as if on cue, darting about the low lying

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Going to Holland shows and trying to find a good place to play music up here. And we got invited to play Holland for some benefit thing, and then afterward, Clark [Demeritt, former music director] hit us up for a few other shows, and then we just started coming all the time, and we got a real appreciation for the role that Holland has in the community.

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∫y Bruce Van Dye whiz on down here and channel your inner Julie Andrews (the hills are alive, mofo!), don’t procrastinate. The sun down here is merciless, even in early March.

For latest intel, check two internet sources—the park’s web site, and Desert USA, which has quite good wildflower pics and updates.

If at all possible, visit DV during the week. Leave the weekend alone, because the place becomes a bit of a madhouse, understandable since this eye-boggling event has received all kinds of national coverage, including stories in every Times from New York to Los Angeles.

Google Death Valley super bloom and you’ll see.

Bottom line—DV is out of its mind right now. The beauty here in the park is literally breathtaking.

You’ve never seen anything like it. In modern lingo, it’s sick. Redonkulous.

Off the hook. Or, more simply and timelessly—wow. Ω

blossoms and pollinating his fool head off and yes, OK, the fairies are here, and it’s all good.

The Super Bloom of ’16 is just as fabulous.

Standing in these acres and acres of orange and yellow sunflowers called Desert Gold, one easily feels pleased. It’s pleasant out here.

There is pleasure upon the eye, ear and nose. Pleasure in discovering that, after walking around for a while in these amazing fields of gold (cue the Sting song), your jeans become splotched with puffs of yellow pollen from these thousands upon thousands of beguiling flowers, their brilliant heads dancing and bouncing in the mild afternoon breezes of this perfect, warm, gorgeous desert.

The earliest you will see this column is Thursday, March 3. Will this marvel still be marvelous? I think it’s safe to say yes. The Show should be on until the middle of March, although there’s a real and urgent need for a rain shower or two if this floral freakout is to last till the end of the month. If you’re inclined to

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Breaking through to the university is the big thing right now. When I was up there, I had heard about Holland maybe once or twice, before I started making a point to check the calender and go to shows regularly. A lot of people up there play music and would like to be in bands, would like to get to know people who are interested in the same music as them, but they just don’t know there’s an outlet for that. Ω

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Giving the high schoolers and college kids a place to express themselves artistically—that I really didn’t see anywhere else. You have small galleries and places here and there, and other small venues, but you don’t have anywhere else that’s bringing through all of the bands that the kids listen to and all the artists the kids are interested in. But it’s not just that.

It’s fostering that creativity. … Keeping a place where people can play music, and people can have creative freedom over their music I think is really good—whether or not there’s a huge following for what they’re doing. And you’ll see that sometimes—smaller shows, bands that are a little out there, trying stuff that doesn’t really have a following here.

What do you want to accomplish as music director?

When did you take over the music director position?

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