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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Man, I’ve got jet lag. I’ve been trying to work all day, but I can’t concentrate. I just got back Tuesday afternoon from a vacation/class in Istanbul, Turkey, that can only be described as epic. I love traveling abroad. It certainly broadens the mind and gives a real perspective of these United States. The biggest problem is no matter where I go, I have incorrect ideas about the place I’m going to visit. The class had a pretty large amount of advance reading, so I had a lot of accurate historical information, but it’s the modern cultural stuff that made me worse than ignorant, since I thought I actually knew something from watching the news. Plus that whole Gezi Park, Taksim Square thing blew up basically as I was getting on the plane. At any rate, I’m going to write a longer piece about it in the near future, but in a nutshell, these were some of the best weeks of my life. I had a blast. I met an amazing number of cool people, met a couple of crazy ones, saw more mosques and churches than I can remember, had some beers, saw some protesters, had some beers with some protesters. The only times I ever felt threatened in this 99 percent Muslim country was when I heard false reports of antiAmerican sentiment or deadly force being used against protesters. To the contrary, people went out of their way to help me, even when I was acting stupidly. I did get to see how it feels to be under constant surveillance by the government. We were warned about saying too much on our cell phones, in emails or on social media. In fact, a whole big news story about government spying came out while I was there. I also saw real examples of government using the media to tell its lies to the public. And if you think that sounds horrible, the Turkish government is just as bad. Finally, don’t forget to vote in our Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada popularity contest. Time grows short.

Nevada’s motto should be “Mississippi of the West.” We employ Greyhound therapy for the mentally ill, our schools rank 49th. There are only 13 states that incarcerate more people per capita than Nevada, and we have a legislature that continues to demonstrate that the continued receipt of gifts and donations from lobbyists trumps doing the work of the people of this state. The governor? Sunny is just acting in his own self-interest. He clearly has political ambitions beyond governing Nevada, so pandering to the right is what he must do. Expand early voting? Can’t do that! Sign a law closing loopholes in gun background checks? OMG, the NRA might blacklist him. Tax increases are bad unless they are only imposed locally, in which case they aren’t really tax increases. The Nevada Legislature is packed with ALEC zombies and to make it worse, taxpayers foot the bill for their ALEC membership dues. I’m not going to give Democratic legislators a free pass here either. Look at Debbie Smith’s stunt, which will pretty much kill the Legend’s project with her lastminute amendment requiring they build a 300- rather than 200-room hotel. Not to mention that legislators of both parties who were complicit in turning the campaign finance bill into a mockery of its original intent. The Legislature handed NV Energy decades of guaranteed rate hikes without batting an eyelash. I’m pretty sure that stunt will finally make us number one in “something.” But sadly, that something will be us having the highest utility rates in the West, since we are currently number two. I guess the only good thing about this is that the clown car also known as the Nevada Legislature meets only every two years. Just think about the damage that they and Gov. Sunny could do if they were in Carson City full time. Lynne Black Reno

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Why don’t you news people report about the fact that the city of Reno has cut water off to the homeless in a time of high temps? This is a high desert. What is the City Council trying to do? Are they trying to get your tax dollars and mine lost in lawsuits? The homeless may be poor, but they can still sue the city for committing the crime of cutting off access to water in a desert, or could it be that they don’t care since it won’t cost them anything but our taxes? Shawn Bruce England Reno

This week is Small Business Week so I would like to throw it out there that Reno/Sparks has an amazing business that isn’t well known because it is brand new. It is called Auto Cycle. It is a car and a motorcycle in one and it is pretty awesome. You can go to their website at autocyclenv.com to find out about these cool tri-mobiles. They even have a Facebook page now, too. You’ll see them at Hot August Nights this year as well as Street Vibrations. Anyway, just check them out and spread the word to this new, local business in the Reno/Sparks area. Jennifer Sullivan Reno

Re “Trash talk” (Feature story, June 20): There is much more to this story. Too bad Jason Geddes is the point man. Too bad as well that it’s another Reno rubber stamp. Waste Management and Reno just use recycling as a feel-good ploy. There isn’t any meaningful signage nor education on this topic. Thus, there is widespread co-mingling and pilferage. Many folks are conscientious about recycling; I see them at Commercial Row all the time. They and many others (who just want to be garbage-fee free) just dump any/ everything they consider “paper” or “plastic” into both green and yellow bins and at the Greg Street, Commercial Row and satellite locations. Even these “voluntary” drop-offs are grossly co-mingled and contaminated. All sorts of Styrofoam, plastic film, and hard stuff like buckets and chairs gets dumped in. Earth Day “bottle” lessons, my foot! It is simply ingrained Nevada culture to dump and waste stuff. So we have to pay extra for a commercial “sort” (after-the-fact)? I already know how to recycle, and I make the effort. What about thousands of detergent bottles from laundromats? Why not pay delegated homeless to pre-sort after special events? At Commercial Row, pilferers help themselves all weekend and have for years, while WM complains recycling “doesn’t pay.” An old guy with a shopping cart wanders all over northeast Sparks on recycle days. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to get a working recycling program going—I have done this for years after school, at work and in communities. I can tell you, most Reno WM customers aren’t “smarter than a fifth-grader” when it comes to sorting or even visualizing re-use. Bah, humbug. Steve Klutter Sun Valley

Brad’s invalid opinion Re “Larry Cooper” (In the mix, Jan. 17): This is a terrible review. If you’ve actually listened to this kid’s album, you’d know that Mr. Bynum obviously did not. The album is a bit lo-fi, but the fact that this kid could achieve a sound like that in mono is nothing short of impressive. The entire thing is a well thought out concept album about love, heartbreak and healing, and flows quite well from the first track to the end. I thoroughly enjoyed every song. This review does it no justice, and I can see that Mr. Bynum did not do his homework but obviously thumbed through the tracks without much thought. This is a very talented songwriter, and this album should be reviewed by someone who’ll actually listen to it. Go listen for yourself, and don’t let this jackwad give you his evidently invalid opinion. Alice Cromper Reno

Can’t see the trees Re “Seeking lessons from parallel experiences” (The Liberty Belle, June 20): Just wondering: Is “forest cover becomes less abundant” Libertarianspeak for clear cutting? Ronald Schoenherr Reno

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Distracted driving required Re “Traffic offenses” (Editorial, June 6): A few weeks back there was a story discussing methods being used for road safety, and their opposite effect. I have recently had an alcohol detection device put on my vehicle. Let me stop here and say this is not an email complaining of unfair punishment. In fact, my DUI saved my life. That being said, I would invite you to research these devices a bit in relationship to that article. The device must be used to start the vehicle, a very great and productive way to prevent drinking and driving. However, you must also reblow into the device randomly throughout your drive. A distraction and stressful situation while driving. If you blow too hard, too soft, not long enough etc., the car will shut down. Also at random times it will “ask” you to pull over and stop the car immediately. In traffic or on the freeway, this situation becomes very dangerous. I could explain more, but I think the idea is there. I thought that a closer and unbiased look at the device by journalists could be interesting to read. Kathrynn Bloodworth Reno

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Maureen Williams Mother

To go camping and paddleboarding, fishing. Vacation at Lake Powell, and later on at Disneyland.

Steve Fittinghoff Accountant

We are going to move from Reno to Sante Fe, New Mexico. Business carries us there. I’m excited about it. I haven’t had a good job experience here this year, and I’ve lived in Sante Fe before. I’m looking forward to going back.

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Where’s Edward? Anybody getting Cold War deja vu from this catand-mouse chase of Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who let the cat out of the bag about our government’s deeply Orwellian domestic spying? He’s likely to get caught eventually. In fact, if half of what he said is true, the government can neither afford not to catch him nor to let him go to a speedy trial, which was the case with another American patriot/spy, Bradley Manning, who is being tried for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. Let’s not get into the debate of whether these men are American heroes. We’re a newspaper, so our belief that information that improves the American democracy should be available to the public is set in stone. Both these men threw away their comfortable lives for something. And there is no question as to whether their lives were the first things sacrificed. But can we at least get one thing out of the way? It’s too stupid to be part of the discussion, and the Obama administration’s use of this argument is so intellectually dishonest, it’s got to be pointed out lest they say it enough that people start to believe it. Edward Snowden’s running to China or Russia or Ecuador is not proof he is a traitor. Snowden is by all measures a smart guy. But he, like the rest of us, has had four years of examples of how this administration treats whistleblowers, and this administration’s penchants for spying on truth disseminators, like journalists. Bradley Manning, for instance, was at least subjected to extreme solitary confinement, which a

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I’m working here in the States. I have arrived a week ago. I’ll work until September, and I want to see America. I want to go to Vegas and California, and back home. I’m working here in a restaurant as a dishwasher. I’m from Georgia [the nation, not the U.S. state].

pre-trial judge found should take time off his final sentence. It’s torture, by a euphemistic name. This is America, and such treatment used to be called cruel and unusual punishment. There is not a judge in the United States who would say a human being does not have the right to defend him- or herself against physical harm or death. So running to logical places to avoid harm at the hands of the United States government isn’t proof of anything except that the person is neither an idiot nor suffering from a messianic complex that would require him to seek crucifixion. On the other hand, news outlets have reported that he has said that he specifically took the job in order to get proof of the government’s surveillance programs. It’s pretty hard to use that fact, and the fact that he swore an oath to protect the government’s secrets, to call him anything but a spy. That the accusation is being made by a government that is spying on its own citizens somewhat undercuts its moral power. Recent disclosures, like Snowden’s, and including those that showed the government monitored Associated Press phone records, clearly show that our government is taking irredeemable steps toward a fascist, authoritarian view of its citizens. A Benjamin Franklin paraphrase, “Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither,” gets bandied about quite a bit in these post 9-11 years. These days we have to ask what people who gave up liberty but didn’t get security deserve. Ω

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Work. Maybe a brief vacation. That’s about it. I’m too busy at work for a vacation. Self-employed.

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Work. Just do things around town because Reno and Sparks have a lot of interesting things to do in the summer. I don’t plan a vacation because I go to Mexico in the winter.

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Kids tweet the darndest things When I heard about Joey Heck’s racist, sexist and homophobic tweets, my first reaction was to feel sorry for Nevada Rep. Joe Heck and his family. After all, adolescent brains don’t reach maturity until 22 or so, and Joey is just 16. Many teenagers do stupid stuff they grow up to regret. by But that was before I read them. Sheila Leslie Twitter is like an illicit drug for notoriously impulsive teenagers and the perfect vehicle to display juvenile rants and offensive commentary to a wider audience—in this case, the entire nation. Joey had only 296 followers but was fairly prolific with 3,196 tweets until he abruptly stopped in midMay, just as he laments his lack of a driver’s license when he has a beautiful truck (Chevy Silverado) waiting to be driven. The truck in the picture he posted looks new, over-sized, and a bit much for an impulsive new driver, leaving the impression of a teenager accustomed to privilege and wealth. Buzzfeed broke the story, reviewing Twitter accounts of Congressional children after a story

emerged about Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s 15-year-old son’s racist and anti-Semitic tweets. Inexplicably, Joey’s unsanitized Twitter account was still in place several days later. Reading through his tweets (@joeyj424) one can imagine the sort of adult he might become: a Fox News-loving bigot, increasingly resentful that his privileged status as a House member’s son might be threatened by minorities, gays, women, or anyone that doesn’t look or think like him. It’s sad, really, to read his uncompassionate tweets about the Boston bombing suspect, although it’s no worse than what you hear from talk radio or right-wing political commentators: “Why the hell would you treat somebody with shrapnel wounds that’s suspected of the bombing. Let that bitch bleed.” His comments, which appear here uncorrected, about gays and minorities are appalling: “There are gays everywhere. Maybe that’s gods way of thinning

out the population because faggots can’t have babies,” (re-tweeted message) “This Indian Muslim whatever she is in my class is gonna get slapped #stfu #youreannoying” “You can’t be white and act ghetto ... You’re white. If God wanted you to be black he’d make you black stop acting like you’re black #idiot” The worst of the deplorable tweets highlight Joey’s disrespect for President Obama, saying all the president is good at is “spear chucking and rock skipping. The sports they do in his home country.” According to news reports, Rep. Heck quickly apologized for the tweets: “I am extremely disappointed in my son’s use of the offensive and inappropriate language on Twitter. That type of language has never been permitted in our home … I apologize to everyone he may have offended. My son also apologizes for his insensitive behavior. My wife and I have addressed this family matter directly with him, and he has learned from it.”

One certainly wants to take his apology in its best light, although another one of Joey’s tweets seems to hint of at least some familial familiarity with a slur: “Fanny pack = fag bag. That’s what my mom calls them.” Surely there are many teenage boys who are equally offensive and immature on Twitter, whose parents would be horrified if they knew what they were saying. While parents are a child’s best and most influential teachers, we cannot discount the effect of ugly political discourse on television, talk radio and from prominent elected officials day after day. Children mimic what they hear at home, at school, on TV, and from their friends and trusted adults. We all have a responsibility to influence the young Joey Hecks in our orbit and lower the confrontational dialogue if for no other reason than to avoid creating intolerant adult Joeys, full of vitriol and dehumanizing insults. In the end, Joey Heck may have taught us all an important lesson. Ω

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What happens when different is good? Gay and transgender rights are a hot button topic in America right now, and it’s easy to see why. With so many states amending their constitutions to legalize gay marriage, and with discrimination against transgender individuals still going strong, we are definitely in a period of flux for how by Chanelle Bessette sexual orientation and gender selfidentification operate under the eyes of the law and in society as a whole. Readers might remember my column from a few months ago where I spoke out in favor of LGBT rights and encouraged everyone to show the Legislature that they wanted a repeal of the ban on gay marriage in Nevada. Currently in Nevada, members of the LGBT community are protected under the state’s anti-discrimination laws and hate crime statutes, but while there is growing acceptance of their community, there is still a sense of “Otherness” about the way LGBT people are treated under by the government and by popular culture. Traveling to Thailand this month has revolutionized my perspective

on social and legal attitudes toward members of the LGBT community. A somewhat famous buzzword for the Thai people is the term “ladyboy.” The culture around this word is a fascinating one, and it is not easily explained. Essentially, it’s a cultural phenomenon that has existed in Thailand—and some other parts of southeast Asia—for some time in which many biologically male children have been raised female. This phenomenon has resulted in a large number of the biologically male population crossdressing and/ or undergoing elective surgery to become at least partially female, which is accomplished by receiving breast implants but not necessarily changing their genitalia. In addition to “ladyboy,” there is a word of similar meaning called “kathoey” which can be used to refer to either a man-to-woman transgender or an effeminate gay man. Some Thais even refer to kathoeys as being members of a third gender, as they don’t fit into the

traditional dichotomies of masculine biological man and feminine biological woman. According to some Thai people I’ve spoken with, members of the LGBT community in Thailand are generally treated well in common society, although the law does not provide protection based on sexual orientation or identification nor is same sex marriage legal. There is generally very little desire, however, for the LGBT community to hold pride events because most members of the community don’t feel ostracized enough to highlight their differences as a group. It is understood that certain gender and sexual orientation expectations come with the territory of being male, female or the third gender, but overall, differences are neither celebrated nor demonized. For me, it is strange to spend time in a country where sexual orientation and gender identification aren’t considered a big deal. Sexuality appears to be a relatively fluid concept in Thailand—and

more realistic, if you ask me—where people explore their preferences without judgment. In high school and university, girls will ask each other out as a way to gain experience in dating, and tomboys seem to be just as abundant as ladyboys. There doesn’t seem to be any stigma to having your sexuality out in the open either. I’ve had ladyboy tour guides and beauticians, gay student helpers at the university, and I’ve seen older white men going on dates with passing but suspiciously husky-voiced women. The whole experience has led me to wonder what it would be like if the U.S. was as open to LGBT lifestyles as the Thai community. Strictly defined gender roles seem to be hardwired into the American mind, but if we weren’t so set on labels, would equality be reinforced, or would we just find other ways to alienate groups of people? As America makes its next move in terms of LGBT rights, only time will tell. Ω

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Sen. Tick Segerblom, who led the charge on two major legislative issues this year, chats with a reporter outside the Senate hall.

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SJR 15 is the amendment repealing favored tax treatment of mining. Segerblom said the public doesn’t know Sandoval’s “view of the world and Nevada,” but could be informed “if we could compete financially.” Why can’t they? “Because in a gubernatorial election, turnout is just so far down the powers-that-be realize he has a lock.” That prevents big donors from investing in what they assume is a losing Democrat, Segerblom suggested.

There will be a free health fair in downtown Reno on July 13. Basic medical screening and general checkups will be available free in City Plaza, the concrete slab located where the Mapes Hotel used to be. The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is being conducted by Duwell Medical, a health care network.

Hospitals price power probed The Obama administration, which has focused its attention on waste as a way of holding down costs in the new national health care program—called the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—is under growing criticism from analysts for ignoring hospital mergers and consolidations, which drive up costs, and hospital purchases of medical practices, both of which have been factors in the Reno/ Sparks market. In a February Time magazine cover story, Steven Brill described the consolidation and acquisition problems. Last week Eduardo Porter wrote about them in the New York Times. Columbia Journalism Review health care reporter Trudy Lieberman wrote last week, “And the ACA indeed did not tackle a hard one—the growing concentration and power of hospital systems and the physician practices they increasingly own, which gives them the leverage to control the price of care.” Renown Hospital in Reno was formerly a publicly owned freestanding hospital. It is now part of an out-of-state chain. St. Mary’s Hospital, once a local Catholic hospital, is now owned by Prime Healthcare, another out-of-state chain. “If there is one thing that economists know, it is that market concentration drives prices up—and quality and innovation down,” Porter wrote. “Research by Leemore S. Dafny of Northwestern University, for instance, found that hospitals raise prices by about 40 percent after the merger of nearby rivals. Other studies have found that hospital mergers increase the number of uninsured in the vicinity. Still others even suggest that market concentration may hurt the quality of care. Indeed, for all the emphasis on curbing waste, recent evidence suggests that health care costs are not being driven by intensive use of high-tech procedures as much as by rising prices for even the most humdrum treatments, which are today among the most expensive in the world.” In Reno after Renown bought out two cardiac practices and put their surgeons on hospital staff in 2010 and 2011, the hospital controlled nearly all the cardiac surgeons in the valley. The Federal Trade Commission found that “competition for adult cardiology services was effectively eliminated” in this market and last year ordered Renown to release some of its staff cardiologists from “non-compete” contracts and allow them to join outside practices. Before acquiring the practices, Renown had no cardiologists on staff. But there is not likely to be a remedy like that for most private practice acquisitions because most acquisitions are of family care practices. One prominent Reno physician said, “It’s very common. Yes, yes, it’s happening all over the place. The most of them are primary care practices and Renown has picked up a bunch, and Saints [St. Mary’s] has done some. Carson Tahoe’s done a bunch.”

Innovative mortgage plan launched The city of North Las Vegas has launched a novel experiment to try to help hard-pressed homeowners. It is employing the city’s power to condemn property to seize home loans for underwater homes. The city will then pay mortgage investors less than the full value of bad home loans. The program was launched in partnership with Mortgage Resolution Partners (MRP), a California program that refinances home loans seized through eminent domain. It will charge the city a fee for each loan and each side will accept a cut on the margin between the original mortgage and a new Federal Housing Administrationguaranteed loan. The North Las Vegas City Council approved the plan June 19 on a 4-1 vote.

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The water’s edge

Money talks Democrats are in ascendancy, but are leaving their party behind Ten years ago, it was unlikely that anyone would have imagined that within a decade, the Nevada Legislature would by give fair and respectful hearings to Dennis Myers gun control, marriage equality, marijuana, treating mining equally in tax law, and a number of other issues— much less actually enact them. But that’s what happened this year. “I thought it was fantastic, because we didn’t raise taxes but we did amazing, progressive legislation, things that I’ve been looking for all my career,” said Clark County Sen. Richard “Tick” Segerblom. Segerblom himself was one of the 2013 legislative session’s prime movers, succeeding in advancing

“It was unbelievable.” Sen. Tick Segerblom Clark County Democrat two constitutional amendments—one to repeal the tax cap enjoyed by the mining industry, the other to repeal the ban on marriage equality. The mining tax amendment will appear on the ballot in 2014, marriage amendment in 2016 if it is approved by a second legislature. An expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue this week could be a factor, but would not necessarily stop repeal from going forward. In earlier legislatures, Segerblom said, “We could not even get a hearing on medical marijuana. We could not get a hearing on marriage equality.

We were told by [legislative leaders] that they were too controversial. That happened on gun control. This time we have the hearings, we passed them, the governor vetoed in some cases, but it was unbelievable.” Segerblom argues that the demographic changes that have given Democrats greater strength in the legislature show no sign of abating. “If you look at the demographics, Hispanics and Asians, those are very young populations. By the end of this decade, we’re going to have majorities in both houses. I do think we will have a Democratic governor.” He said, “We’re going to be like California,” in the sense that the party will have supermajorities in both houses of the legislature. He said the only thing that keeps the Democrats from being competitive in the next governor’s race against incumbent Republican Brian Sandoval is money. Sandoval has already piled up a huge campaign treasury. If the Democrats had the money to draw a contrast on issues, Segerblom said, a Democratic candidate for governor could show the public that Sandoval is out of step with the populace. That would make the Republican vulnerable, Segerblom believes. “I do, because I don’t think he’s going to be able to support SJR [Senate Joint Resolution] 15, which is a big issue in Nevada. He’s wrong on gun control. He’s sat on his hands on education.”

But if this legislature was progressive on social and cultural issues, there was a threshold beyond which the lawmakers would not go—an economic threshold. And that did not show much progressive. The lawmakers did little that might upset the business community—particularly big business—and a great deal to please it. Regulation of NV Energy was reduced. Hollywood got a tax break. Big casinos got help against little casinos. It was startling that it was Democrats who proposed these changes for big special interests. It put Republicans in the unusual position of taking normally Democratic stances— as when right wing Washoe legislator Ira Hansen offered an amendment to stop Democratic efforts to lighten regulation of NV Energy. There was a time when rigorous scrutiny of utilities was a Democratic article of faith. It defined the Democrats for generations. Las Vegas reporter Steve Sebelius wrote that Hansen’s “often-incendiary comments occasionally contained nuggets of sensibility. But it was his late-session advocacy against an establishment-backed fuelswitch bill sought by NV Energy that, while unsuccessful, once again contributed to the 2013 session’s incongruous image of Republicans advocating for the little guy while Democrats sided with big corporations.” How progressive can Democrats be on economic issues when Ira Hansen finds himself to the left of them? Even when the lawmakers voted against the mining industry, the political risk was minor because all mining corporations are based out of state and all but one out of the country—plus those who work in mining are concentrated in areas that are already heavily Republican and thus non-competitive. Republicans had no fear of losing those areas, and Democrats had no expectation of winning them. Can the Democrats be buddies with the big boys and still retain their appeal?

“It’s a difficult journey for them,” said political analyst Fred Lokken. “They’re assuming that the Republican party is going nowhere.” As a result, Lokken said, Democrats are giving voters not their historic stances on issues, but a choice of Republicans or unRepublicans. “You have a Republican Party dominated by their most conservative members—or the Democrats. It’s a choice that is fueling a growing level of disillusionment in Nevada.” Lokken said that people registering non-partisan in the state is growing. When people leave a political party they are not necessarily looking to the other major party or to small parties. He said what is happening in Nevada is similar to what the Clinton years did to the Democratic Party nationally, when it became more corporate-oriented and found it “highly lucrative.” Corporate money, he said, became the “hallmark of the Democratic Party.” And those kinds of tactics and strategies are being urged on state Democratic parties by national officials. “I think there’s been an effort by the national party organization to have a conversation with the state parties, urging them to get into this kind of money,” he said.

Corporate money has become “the hallmark of the Democratic Party.” Fred Lokken Political analyst With big money comes changes in party policies, and it shows up in legislative voting records. The Democrats are trying to see “how far they can push it” without alienating their base, Lokken said. That disconnect is at the heart of low voter turnout, Lokken said. When voters are questioned about why they are disillusioned, they give many reasons, but the number one reason, he said, is that “this party system doesn’t represent anyone in the country anymore.” Both political parties, he said, are in the grip of a “huge uncontrollable addiction, and they’re unwilling to enter a 12-step program.” Money has become everything. Both Republicans and Democrats opposed legislation proposed by Secretary of State Ross Miller to require late campaign financial disclosures, he pointed out. “Even lowly local races have become insanely expensive,” Lokken said. Ω

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An American flag hangs from a wall in the Washoe County Cafeteria. Daily at 11 a.m., hundreds of older men and women line up below that flag for free food. Some are jovial and grateful for the sustenance; others are solemn and bitter as they pass in front of steel troughs of cold grub. OPINION

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They gather the food on their trays, file onto benches and hunch over the meals. On a recent day, that meal was a single slice of sandwich meat on a single slice of bread, a scoop of potato salad, a scoop of blood-red beets, and a chocolate chip cookie. Between sips of milk and coffee, their feeble voices were barely louder than the scrape of utensils on their plastic plates in the cavernous room. Here is what they have been talking about: The decline of the agency that is keeping them alive. “Death by a thousand cuts,” as Washoe County Senior Services Director Grady Tarbutton told TV stations during a recent media blitz. The 15-employee cut has been on the books since April, but wasn’t widely reported until less than a week before they were set to take effect; the very day the Reno News & Review began investigating. Tarbutton directed the media focus to a nurse who travels to hundreds of senior’s homes and helps keep at least 15 critical patients alive. Her job is one of the positions being cut, and some of her patients will likely die without her daily visits, she said. But among the ranks of the elderly, death is pretty “The DeATh OF common. The news is that while the senior population SeNIOR SeRVICeS” expands, Washoe County has cut a critical program once used by 20 percent of its clients and by June 30, the county continued on page 14

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and state will outsource the program entirely. “We have had to cut the number of recipients in the range of 1,500 down to 700 a year,” Tarbutton said of the Senior Law Project. For a suggested donation of $50 or less, the office helps with wills, affidavits of death, power of attorney, consumer disputes, social security issues, government benefits and landlordtenant issues. “This is not where we want to be,” Tarbutton said, adding that budget cuts have whittled the entire senior services department down from 43 employees in 2007 to just 25 now. By the end of July, elimination of five more positions in the Senior Law Project will bring the county Senior Services Department staff to less than half of what it once was, even as the senior population has nearly doubled from 40,000 to 76,000 over the same period. Outsourcing to non-profits is where the county jobs and services are going. “Their salary and benefits packages are less than the county,” Tarbutton says. To find out how much less, just walk down the hall to where the county employees work in the Senior Law Project. “We have been advised by the union not to talk to media,” said one of the employees, declining to say her name. But without further prompting, she continued

to talk, saying that they had just received letters offering work at the non profit Nevada Legal Services which will be assuming the county’s Senior Law Project clients. “I pull in $52,000 a year,” said the County Senior Law Project legal secretary, adding that the new non-profit is offering her the same job for $27,000. “The salary difference is just too ...” she frowned and shrugged, holding up each of her palms like unbalanced scales of justice.

“ We have had to cut the number of recipients in the range of 1,500 down to 700 a year … This is not where we want to be.” Grady Tarbutton Washoe County Senior Services Director “It is sad that they don’t want to continue with us because of the knowledge base,” said Rhea Gertken, directing attorney with Nevada Legal Services in Reno. “We do pay people less,” she said. “That is not representative of the quality of advocates that we have. The staff we have remain despite the fact that it is less than half the pay.” She said they will be hiring more people and even offering new services to the county clients like foreclosure mediation.

She said her offices have been doing the county’s work for nine months already. Not only has Nevada Legal Services been doing the county work, they will be moving into the county offices. A non-profit moving into government offices is a challenge. “It is causing some headaches,” Gertken said. “You can’t just move in. There are logistical things. You have another layer of them saying you have to talk to facilities management. You have to talk to tech services. You have to get everything approved and the county commission has to weigh in.” It’s a learning process for everyone. While Nevada Legal Services has been an institution in rural areas for years, “This is the first time in Nevada that one of the established legal service agencies has assumed senior services in a major county,” Gertken said, adding, “It is sort of new in terms of Nevada as a whole.” She also worked in Las Vegas where she said the city turned its senior law program over to a new non-profit that was formed by the actual city law employees themselves. When asked if more outsourcing is on the way, Tarbutton said, “It is all going to depend on if there is someone in the community who can do the work or not.” Not everything is on the table. There are some state and federal minimum requirements. “The social work program is something we have to keep. Aging and disability resource and adult day care are all services that we have to keep.” Ω

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Know your rights: Renters are also under the gun due to cuts at the Tenants’ Rights Center Washoe County’s seniors are not the only ones who have it rough in these days of declining money and services. Renters, too, are having a difficult time exercising their rights, and their advocates are also hard hit. According to the Nevada Supreme Court, Access to Justice Commission report, March 11, 2013, review of Nevada Legal Services: “There was a precipitous drop in cases without litigation. The loss was entirely from the Tenants’ Rights Center, due to the layoffs of half the TRC’s staff.” Declines in grants from Congress cut the budget by more than a half-million dollars last year, and NLS’s total number of contacts with clients was down by half from 2007 to 2011. Meanwhile, 66 percent of the 88,000 client contacts in the state were for housing according to the report. “And we know that there are people who [need help who] are not contacting us,” says NLS directing attorney in Reno Rhea Gertken. When NLS moves into the Washoe County Senior Services building off Ninth and Sutro streets, potential new clients will be right down the hall every day at lunch. Many have never asked for legal help. “Sandy,” 64, is anticipating problems with her landlord. She did not wish to give her name for fear her landlord would single her out for further mistreatment. “They are going to give me a big stink about the security deposit when I move out. The rug was dirty when I moved in. The walls were dirty. They didn’t want to fix the garbage disposal which was leaking. My brother was with me, and he said it was substandard. I called him [the landlord] an asshole!” “A lot of people take these things very personally,” said Rhea Gertken, directing attorney of the Reno Office of Nevada Legal Services. “You don’t want it to become confrontational. A lot of times it is based on a misunderstanding, miscommunication, or the tenants and landlords don’t like each other.” “Sandy” touched on one of the most common problems, according to Gertken: Security deposits. Even experts in the system can become victims. For instance, Pat Barnes who once worked for the County’s Senior Law Project wrote to the Reno News &

Review to tell her story of having a $500 security deposit taken with no accounting of how the money had been used by the landlord. “That right there is a violation,” Gertken said. “And we see that all the time where landlords are not even communicating with the tenants.” She said she has clients every week with security deposit issues. Having once worked for the county agency that deals with security deposits, Barnes decided to take on the issue. She had researched Nevada’s tenant law N.R.S. 118A, which says a security deposit can only be used for three things: • Remedying any default of the tenant in the payments of rent. • Repairing damages to the premises other than normal wear. • Cleaning the dwelling unit. Armed with the law, Barnes went to small claims court. At the hearing she said the attorney for the management company claimed $150 of the deposit was used for “vacuuming new carpet and dumping the old carpet.” Vacuuming new carpet is clearly not part of a former tenant’s responsibility under the law. Barnes says that Judge Pierre Hascheff caught that mistake but knocked off only $50 from the cleaning bill. “It’s only for extraordinary damages,” said Gertken. “A lot of times they are talking about painting when it is only a couple of nail holes in the wall. If there are kids and someone wrote on the walls with a sharpie, then that is something that the tenant has to pay for.” But knowing the law doesn’t guarantee justice. “What are my options?” Barnes wrote, feeling that an appeal was in order. “The court clerk’s office said it would cost more than $500 just to file an appeal,” Barnes wrote. Hascheff was at a conference and could not be reached for comment. And the nightmare wasn’t over, she said the landlord then filed a counter claim for hundreds of dollars to clean oil spots off the driveway. That claim was thrown out of court, but the whole mess was an aggravation and

the injustice really hit home for Barnes, who had dedicated herself to defending tenants’ rights. “Security deposit theft is no different from any other kind of theft,” she wrote. “It’s the tenant’s money, not the landlord’s. Security deposit theft is the same as a pickpocket lifting your wallet or a robber stealing the money you just withdrew from the ATM. It’s theft.” Using an attorney who specializes in tenant rights like Nevada Legal Services doesn’t guarantee justice either, because like Barnes’ case, many judges can be as dull as a gavel on tenants’ rights. “Yes, we have some disagreements in court with some of the judges of what is appropriate under the law,” Gertken said. “And we are pretty sure we were right under the law.” Gertken is not alone in encountering judges who need a little schooling on tenants rights. “It is a real education process,” said Michael Cirac, a former Reno legal columnist and attorney who represents tenants and landlords. “The laws have become more complex,” Cirac says. “I would like to see landlords educated in the basic Landlord Tenant Act in Nevada and state and federal requirements,” he said. “That would go a long way to solving these problems.”

He points out that mobile home managers are already required to take classes. “I do think it is a good idea,” he said. “They are required to attend every year. Expanding that to residential landlords would be beneficial.” Misunderstanding eviction law is another common pitfall. “Tenants can effectively defend themselves against it, but the time frames can be daunting,” Gertken says, adding that tenants only have five to seven days to respond to a summary eviction notice, and if they don’t respond, “The tenant isn’t entitled to a notice before the sheriff comes out to take them out.” Within 24 hours, the tenant has a sheriff with a gun at their door telling them its time to leave immediately. “Then the issue is, what is going to happen to their stuff? They (the landlord) can keep it for 30 days but can charge for storage and moving.” Factor into the equation that the forms, notices, laws and documents include legalese that is a foreign language to many people, especially some native Spanish speakers. It doesn’t take long to find individuals with issues with landlords at Washoe County Senior Services. Like the others, an elderly woman

declined to give her name for fear of retaliation. She said she got a letter from the landlord saying her rent would be reduced $40, but her electricity bill would be going up.

be good.” Nevada Legal Services has conducted classes in Spanish and has staff that can translate. So part of the battle is just letting the public

“Security deposit theft is no different from any other kind of theft. It’s the tenant’s money, not the landlord’s. ” -Patricia Barnes battled a landlord for her deposit

“Right now my electricity bill is $50,” the Hispanic woman said in Spanish. “I don’t understand any of this. The majority of us [in this apartment complex] are Hispanic, and we can’t read the papers. We don’t understand any of it. A class would

“None of these notices are required in Spanish,” Gertken said. “There is a drive to get some of them translated to Spanish. It is a direction that I believe everyone is moving toward right now.” For Cirac, a start is a little understanding that this is a highly emotional and complicated issue that involves almost everyone. “I don’t think tenants go into this with the mind set of being difficult or egregious. They are going into it with how can I make my life better, the difficulty is getting the two parties to come together in what is reasonable. And there is one last possible partial solution. “I would hope that the private legal community does institute more of a sliding-scale fee basis,” she said. “I think that there is an epidemic right now of a lack of an ability to afford legal services. The fees being charged by private attorneys are only growing.” —Kyril Plaskon Ω

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My family faithfully attended the Reno

park playing. I can give better descriptions

Silver Sox games in the late 1950s and early

today of the trappings of the park, including

’60s (my brother Tom was one of the two

the chatter of the announcer, than of the

batboys), both at the old Moana Stadium

games. At each game, he announced the

which crazily faced west, into the sun in

winner of a drawing of admission ticket

afternoon, and at the new stadium, which

stubs, the prize being an Awful Awful

faced east and recently was demolished.

sandwich at Jim Kelley’s Nugget in downtown

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Reno. People were still calling burgers sandwiches then. I was certainly aware of the Awful Awful at an early age.

One travel website reads, “Big. Scrumptious. Delicious. Hot. Tasty! These are only a few of the words that describe the one and only Awful Awful hamburger!” The problem is, there is no one and only Awful Awful. There are at least four of them, and they don’t necessarily resemble each other. So we set out to find out what is an Awful Awful. Considering how identified they now are with Nevada, it may surprise some silver staters that the Awful Awful was created in Idaho. Dick Graves owned clubs that featured slot machines and restaurants in Idaho until 1954, when slots were outlawed. He transferred his operations to Nevada. Historian Dwayne Kling has written, “Graves’s practice was to open a casino, sell it, then move to another town.” He began with the Yerington Nugget, and then he operated in Carson City, Reno and Sparks. In Reno he had a partner, Jim Kelley. When Graves was ready to move on from Reno to Sparks, Kelley didn’t want to go, so they split up the business. Among the assets they neglected to distribute was the Awful Awful. As a result, it is available in the Carson, Reno and Sparks Nuggets and at a Reno restaurant called the Wolf Den, owned by Rick Heaney, who also owns the Reno Nugget. And what constitutes an Awful Awful has become fuzzy over the years. For a definition of the Awful Awful, we turn to one of its inventors. After his retirement, Graves described the creation of the Awful Awful for the University of Nevada Oral History Program: “This sandwich was a hamburger sandwich which was actually, shall we say, invented by Bill Webster and myself and the cooks in the Twin Falls [club]. We started it there. It was very successful. ... This was a two-patty hamburger, much the same as a Big Mac today, with onions and tomato, mayonnaise and seasoning and all in it. ... I think it sold for about thirty-five, forty cents in those days. Now I don’t know what they get for it. They’re still selling it in the Sparks Nugget.” Though double burgers are now sold in every fast food restaurant,

they weren’t that common when the Awful Awful was created. An old Sparks Nugget matchbook cover lists the ingredients: “A fresh bun, two patties of our ground round, crisp lettuce, slice of garden fresh tomato, slice of nippy cheese, slice of mild Bermuda onion, spicy relish, dill pickle, mayonnaise, salt and pepper, served in a basket and covered with Idaho giant French fries.” Nippy is defined as biting or tangy. Thus, we have it from two sources that the Awful Awful is, by definition, a double burger—which

“ It’s called the Awful Awful, and you’ll find it only at the downtown Nugget. Mind you, you’ll have to walk through the kind of place your mother warned you about.” The State newspaper Columbia, S.C. agrees with my Silver Sox recollection. And the Awful Awful is the full dish, not just the burger. It refers to double burger-and-fries. What all this means is something a bit shocking—the Reno Nugget and the Wolf Den do not serve the Awful Awful. They sell a one-patty burger. Granted, the Wolf Den patty is substantial—half an inch thick, after cooking. But it’s not an Awful Awful. This means that in a 2010 competition conducted by the Food Network—whose operatives failed to do their homework—between the Reno and Sparks Awful Awfuls, the Reno Nugget won with an ordinary burger, not with an Awful Awful. I suspect, based on sales figures from numerous fast food chains, that a single-patty burger will always beat a double. Thus, the Reno Nugget actually forfeited the contest by not serving an Awful Awful. Add that to the fact that the Wolf Den and Carson Nugget (which does serve a real Awful Awful)—were excluded from the competition and the Food Network staged a dubious contest.

A case can also be made that the Sparks Nugget no longer sells an Awful Awful, either. It no longer accompanies the burger with a basket of fries, just a normal order of fries. But that evolution in the Awful Awful makes sense, which reminds me: Parents, in this age of childhood obesity, keep your children away from the Awful Awful at the Reno Nugget or the Wolf Den. Each is served with nearly a pound of fries—15.2 ounces was the batch we weighed. Beyond that, here’s what I found about the various Awful Awfuls: Carson: Awful Awful served in a basket with fries in a sane amount, excellent fries of a type I’ve never encountered before. The poor quality cheese on the burger undercut its appeal. $7.75. Wolf Den: A good burger, though the taste is not particularly burger-like. I’m not dissing it, just warning that it may not taste like what you expect. Contrary to the menus at both places, it is not like the Reno version a few blocks away (and it costs a dollar more). The seasoned bun adds to the taste. Very good fries. $8.

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The Art of Gaming + “Gaming and the casinos are part of everyone’s life who lives here or has lived here,” says by Donnelyn Curtis, head of special collection Brad Bynum for the University of Nevada, Reno libraries. “For some people it’s a bigger part. They bradb@ news re view.c om had jobs or they engaged in the things that happened in the casinos—gambling or going to the shows. For other people, it’s kind of in the peripheral vision, but you can’t not notice it. It’s part of our lives.” For the third year in a row, Curtis has helped organize a large summer art exhibithe art of Gaming tion sprawling through all five floors for + is on display at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, the mathewson-IGt the university’s primary library. In 2011, Knowledge Center the exhibition was Postwar Bohemians in at the university of Northern Nevada. Last year, it was Far nevada, reno from July 1 through Sept. Out: The University Art Scene, 1960-1975. 15. the opening Those two exhibitions focused on Northern reception will be Nevada art from specific time periods. For Sunday, July 7, from this summer’s exhibition, Curtis wanted to 3 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit refocus. Moving strictly chronologically knowledgecenter. into the ’80s and ’90s would enter into a unr.edu period perhaps too recent to be approached

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Stremmel Gallery back in the mid 1990s called The Art of Gaming. (The current exhibition amends a “+” to the title to designate that it’s a greatly expanded edition of the earlier show.) The Harrah’s exhibition had been throughout the hotelcasino’s then new tower, then called the Hampton Inn. It featured sculptures by local and regional artists like Arrizabalaga, Larry Williamson, Paul DiPasqua and Dwight Davidson. Williamson’s wood sculptures are probably familiar to local art aficionados. Davidson’s works are comical ceramic depictions of casino scenes featuring gambling farm animals. DiPasqua’s funky assemblage “Hobby Horse,” which appears to depict three-dimensional playing card

characters made of household junk, is prominently exhibited in the Knowledge Center’s atrium. The new exhibition adds casino-themed work by painters Bob Adams and Mick Sheldon, as well slot machines from the collection of Marshall and Franklin Fey, the former owners of the Liberty Belle restaurant, showgirl costumes from the collection of Karen Burns, a former showgirl at the MGM Grand Hotel, and neon signs from the collection of Will Durham, which were recently exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art. There’s also slot machine conceptual drawings from IGT, sketches by showgirl costume designer Mistinguett, historical photos, and more. “There were so many things in the casinos that just had that feeling of excitement,” says Arrizabalaga. “And there were so many different artists involved in doing all that. It’s amazing when you really realize. For instance, the costumes. Somebody had to design all that stuff. Somebody has to choreograph that huge show.” Ω

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sort of rabies, and they aren’t interested in dinner. They just want to bite and move on in as rapid a pace as possible in order to spread their contagion. Lane, a retired United Nations employee, finds himself in a race to find a solution for the zombie plague, partly to protect his family. Pitt, a well renowned family man, is good for the part, and he gives it a good go. Honestly, the sight of zombies forming an anthill to scale a wall in Israel, and a nerve-rattling sequence above a jumbo jet, qualify as two of the coolest sequences to show up in a movie this year. It’s a shame that they’re in a movie that runs out of gas. I won’t give up the major details of Lindelof’s screenplay tinkering. I will tell you that when you try to apply any kind of logic to his solutions, it just doesn’t play. It seems as if the budget on this thing was skyrocketing, and they had to come up with something less expensive than a huge set piece at the end. This results in a movie that not only fails to deliver on its promise, but also does so in a bland, somewhat moronic way. Zombies cling to a flying helicopter and bring it down in another memorable sequence. Their quick “turning” process results in some good, spasmodic physical acting. As for reliance on the original novel by Max Brooks—son of Mel—this is pretty much an adaptation by title only. So, fans of the novel and fans of bloody zombies are going to be let down. Fans of Pitt will see their hero, who also co-produced the film, laboring to save millions of dollars from the scrap heap. World War Z ultimately feels derivative in its zombie portrayal (echoes of 28 Days Later), wimpy in its lack of bloodletting, and played out by film’s end. I was all set for this film’s big finale, disappointed to see the movie didn’t have one final big trick up its sleeve. Pitt’s voiceover proclaims “this isn’t the end,” but unfortunately that same voiceover is, in fact, signaling the end of a movie that was setup for knockout blow, and delivers an ineffective kick to the shin. Ω

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The egos of M. Night Shyamalan and Will Smith collide in this stupid, useless movie about a father and son (Will and son Jaden) crash landing on Earth many years after it has become uninhabitable to humans. We can’t breathe on the planet anymore, but baboons, buffalo and birds are fine and dandy. Will Smith’s character is injured, so he directs his son from a tattered ship as Jaden must battle the elements, avoid the big monster their ship was carrying, and find the rescue beacon. Nothing in this movie works, from the ridiculous made-up accents the characters use, to the terrible CGI animals trying to eat Jaden. Will Smith’s performance is the dullest thing he has ever put to film, with Jaden being the overacting opposite. It’s remarkable to me that people keep giving Shyamalan money to make movies. Will the producers with the green learn their lesson after this one? I doubt it. Will this become a franchise like Will Smith had intended? I doubt that, too.

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When I heard Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson would be reuniting for a film after their blessed Wedding Crashers, I got justifiably excited. I like when Vaughn is in profane mode, and he made Wilson tolerable in their first go round. However, what we get here is just a terrible two-hour commercial for Google that dumbs down and sanitizes the duo. They play a couple of salesmen who lose their gigs when watches become obsolete. For reasons that are never really explained, the Vaughn character hones in on Google during his job search and convinces the Wilson character to compete with him in an intern contest, with the winners getting jobs with the hallowed Google. Vaughn, who co-wrote the screenplay, allegedly worked closely with Google when creating the film so, needless to say, there aren’t a lot of profanities and nude shots in this flick. Instead we get family-friendly Vaughn and Wilson, with the results being boring, unfunny and embarrassing.

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Based on a true series of robberies where some Southern California teens robbed the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, Sofia Coppola’s fifth directorial effort is a biting satire featuring fun work from Emma Watson in a performance reminiscent of Nicole Kidman in To Die For. The ensemble, including Katie Chang, Israel Broussard and Taissa Farmiga, do a good job of portraying vacuous teens obsessed with celebrities and what those celebrities are wearing. When they find out a star is out of town, they go to their house and basically go shopping. At one point, they go to Paris Hilton’s, shot on location at Hilton’s real house. In typical Coppola style, the film looks great and boasts a terrific soundtrack. It’s a return to form for the director after the sleepy misfire Somewhere.

scientific types. Downey Jr. is as fun as ever here, and Black knows just what to do with him. Black is also pretty snappy with the action scenes, which don’t disappoint. If this is the last of Downey Jr.’s solo Iron Man films, he’s going out on a good note.

It’s official: Jeff Nichols, who gave us the brilliant Take Shelter, is a writer/director who stands among the best of them. Matthew McConaughey plays the title character, a chipped-tooth, wild-haired drifter living in a boat in a tree along the Mississippi. Two kids, Ellis and Neckbone (Tye Sheridan of The Tree of Life, and Jacob Lofland) stumble upon him, and find themselves part of his strange and dangerous world. McConaughey is just catching wave after wave lately, and this is his best one yet. He makes Mud a little scary, yet charming and cunning. Sheridan and Lofland are terrific as the young friends who should probably stay away from guys living in boats in trees. The cast also boasts Reese Witherspoon, Michael Shannon and Sam Shepard—all of them equally great. Ladies and gentleman, we have the year’s first “excellent” movie. Jesus, it took long enough.

Now You See Me

For those of you hankering for another magician movie after The Incredible Burt Wonderstone … here it is! A Vegas magician act called the Four Horseman (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco) concludes their show by seemingly robbing a bank in France through teleportation. An FBI agent (Mark Ruffalo) and an Interpol detective (Melanie Laurent) investigate, and we snore. Morgan Freeman is on hand as a man who makes a living debunking magic, as is Michael Caine as a millionaire bankrolling the Horseman. It all amounts to nonsense, with a lot of swirling cameras and stupid fights involving playing cards and paper cuts. The big reveals are silly, and much of what happens on the magic side is never explained. Eisenberg delivers one of the year’s more annoying performances.

This Is the End

Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg make a strong directorial debut with this crazed stoner comedy in which Rogen and a bunch of his pals play themselves as the world faces the biblical apocalypse. When Jay Baruchel comes to LA to hang with Rogen, he finds himself reluctantly attending a party at James Franco’s new house. The Rapture happens, the ground opens up, and a bunch of celebrities go to Hell, leaving Rogen, Franco, Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride to fight for the leftover Milky Way candy bar. All of the participants are in top form, with the laughs never slowing down. The movie is also a pretty good horror film in its own right, with lots of gore for those of you who like that sort of thing. Among the oddities are Michael Cera as a coke-snorting pervert, Hill getting possessed after a romantic evening with Satan, and Danny McBride eating people. The film is as crazy as anything to come out of mainstream Hollywood in a long time, and a welcomed return to form for Rogen and Franco.

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On the road Jeff Jones You know the story of the traveling soul singer—who packs up his guitar and hits the clubs, sometimes even by Laura Davis the street corners, night after night, with no agenda but to simply sing a tune with some legitimate funk and a little heartbreak? He doesn’t ask for much in return, maybe just some spare change to buy a couple rounds. It’s the nomadic lifestyle that he loves—along with the music—that tugs him along, encouraging his groove to not stay grounded in any one spot. Photo/Allison Young

me if I went to someone’s house, and it didn’t have music. That would have been weird.” After his service, Jones initially decided to go back to school for photography, moving to the sweltering heat of Arizona State University. He bailed out 18 credits short of a diploma, admitting that the high temperatures finally broke him down—and sent him running for a quick cure: the cold weather of Colorado. The change ended up being a milestone in Jones’ music career, for it was here that he first started to really take music and songwriting seriously, viewing it as a career as opposed to a hobby. “I wrote a lot of music then, but I wasn’t very good at it, and I started out playing only a handful of cover songs,” Jones says. But one can only take so many requests for “Free Bird,” and Jones took to the pen and paper as well as he had to guitar, soon filling up his own song catalogues. Songwriting is currently an art the musician prides himself on—choosing only to do covers for the private events he books on occasion. “If you don’t have any originals, it’s tough,” Jones says of the competition. “You just gotta write a bunch of songs, and if you love them, other people will love them, too … and nothing feels better than when someone calls one out.” Jones bid Colorado farewell once the traveling bug blew in. But his next move took him by surprise, bringing about not only new scenery—but also the most permanent residence he’s had to date. He met his wife, had a son and planted some roots in Incline—going on 13 years now. That’s not to say the world traveler doesn’t still get bitten. Jones scratches that itch by traveling with his band, Jeff Jones and the Bank—a group comprised of three Italian musicians he met on one of his travels—twice a year, for a month straight. His shows span Europe and the States. “I’ll never stop traveling,” Jones promises. “It’s everything. Some of my best songs were written because of those life experiences.” Ω

“I’ll never stop traveling,” says troubadour Jeff Jones.

This was the story of Incline, Calif., based singer/songwriter Jeff Jones. Originally from New Mexico, Jones got his traveling shoes fitted early in life, moving 17 times by the time he was in high school. The tendency not to stay rooted stuck around after graduation, encouraging Jones to enlist in the army’s artillery force, where he was based in Germany. It was this first experience overseas that allowed he and a few army buddies to do some soul searching. “We would just spend all our money traveling,” Jones admits. “We’d get to wherever we wanted to go and then just busk for beer money. We called ourselves the ‘Modern Day Hobos.’” It also got him to take up guitar, an instrument fairly new to the singer, who grew-up in a Baptist household full of music, primarily keys. “Someone was always on piano,” Jones recalls. “And there was a lot of singing. It would have surprised

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Beer, Brats & Ballet Leave the black tie at home, and kick back with a brew and bratwurst in hand as Sierra Nevada Ballet and Brewery Arts Center present this dance showcase at the BAC. The event is modeled after Sacramento Ballet’s annual tradition of Beer and Ballet, which features work by area choreographers. Sierra Nevada Ballet’s program will feature dance creations by dancer/choreographer Alexander Biber of the Sacramento Ballet, Barbara Land, former director of the University of Nevada, Reno’s dance program, and SNB Artistic Director Rosine Bena. Audience members can sample some local brews and sausages while listening to the choreographers talk about their work and watch the dancers of Sierra Nevada Ballet perform each dance piece. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., June 29, at the BAC Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City. Tickets are $15-$25. Call 8831976 or visit www.accesscarsoncity.org.

An Evening of Dance Cinema Dance films from around the world will screen along with the final projects from Holland Project’s first Dance Film Workshop taught by Marion Walker, an artist team/ musical collaboration comprised of locals Jessie Marion Smith and Kyle Walker Akins. The team led this week-long workshop in which students explored choreography, cinematography and video editing and created threeto-five-minute videos. The screening begins at 6 p.m., Thursday, June 27, at Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. Admission is $5. Call Holland Project at 742-1858 or visit www.hollandreno.org.

Campfire Friday: Chautauqua If you missed the Nevada Humanities Chautauqua earlier this week, you’ll get a chance to see some of the area’s youngest Chautauquans portray historical characters around the campfire this Friday, June 28, as part of Galena Creek’s Campfire Fridays summertime series. Performers from the Silver State Young Chautauqua will portray a historical figure, recite a monologue and answer audience questions all while in character. Some of the notable people they’ll represent include Rosa Parks, Louis Pasteur and John Wayne. Marshmallow roasting will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by the Chautauqua at 8 p.m. Bring flashlights, blankets or lowbacked chairs and dress warmly. The event takes place at Eagle Meadows in Galena Creek Regional Park, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway. Enter through the North Galena Creek Recreation Area entrance. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvistorcenter.org.

Reno Rodeo The “Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West” continues its final week of events at the Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave. Highlights of the 94th annual rodeo include bull riding, mutton bustin’, steer wrestling, bronc riding, barrel racing and team roping competition. Those looking for a little more festival atmosphere can check out the food vendors and carnival rides outside the arena or shop for cowboy gear or unique Westernthemed items at the Double R Marketplace. The rodeo concludes on Saturday, June 29. Tickets are $12-$27 with senior and military discounts. Carnival ride tickets range from $2.50 per ride to $20-$28 for armbands. For details, call 329-3877 or visit www.renorodeo.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To know when

to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin,” said the painter Paul Klee. Take that to heart, Aries! You are pretty adept at getting things launched, but you’ve got more to learn about the art of stopping. Sometimes you finish prematurely. Other times you sort of disappear without officially bringing things to a close. Now would be an excellent time to refine your skills.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The prob-

lem with quotes on the Internet is that it’s hard to determine whether or not they are genuine,” so said Joan of Arc back in 1429, right before she helped lead French troops in the battle of Patay. Just kidding! Joan of Arc never had the pleasure of surfing the web, of course, since it didn’t exist until long after she died. But I was trying to make a point that will be useful for you to keep in mind, Taurus, which is: Be skeptical of both wild claims and mild claims. Stay alert for seemingly interesting leads that are really time-wasting half-truths. Be wary for unreliable gossip that would cause an unnecessary ruckus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): French

impressionist painter Claude Monet loved to paint water lilies, and he did so over and over again for many years. Eventually, he created about 250 canvases that portrayed these floating flowers. Should we conclude that he repeated himself too much? Should we declare that he was boringly repetitive? Or might we wonder if he kept finding new delights in his comfortable subject? Would we have enough patience to notice that each of the 250 paintings shows the water lilies in a different kind of light, depending on the weather and the season and the time of day? I vote for the latter view, and suggest that you adopt a similar approach to the familiar things in your life during the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “In order to

swim one takes off all one’s clothes,” said 19th-century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. “In order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness, etc., before one is sufficiently naked.” Your assignment in the coming week, Cancerian, is to get au naturel like that. It’s time for you to make yourself available for as much of the raw, pure, wild truth as you can stand.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Gertrude Stein

was an innovative writer. Many illustrious artists were her friends. But she had an overly elevated conception of her own worth. “Think of the Bible, think of Homer, think of Shakespeare, and think of me,” she said. On another occasion, she proclaimed, “Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century.” Do you know anyone like Stein, Leo? Here’s the truth, in my opinion: To some degree, we are all like Stein. Every one of us has at least one inflated idea about ourselves—a conceited self-conception that doesn’t match reality. It was my turn to confront my egotistical delusions a few weeks ago. Now would be an excellent time for you to deal with yours. Don’t be too hard on yourself, though. Just recognize the inflation, laugh about it and move on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When I close

my eyes, I get a psychic vision of you as a kid playing outside on a warm summer day. You’re with friends, immersed in a game that commands your full attention. Suddenly, you hear a jingling tune wafting your way from a distance. It’s the ice-cream truck. You stop what you’re doing and run inside your home to beg your mom for some money. A few minutes later, you’re in a state of bliss, communing with your Fudgsicle or ice-cream cone or strawberry-lime fruit bar. I have a feeling that you will soon experience an adult version of this scene, Virgo. Metaphorically speaking, either the ice-cream man or the ice-cream woman will be coming to your neighborhood.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): During the past

10 months, you have been unusually adventurous. The last time you summoned so much courage and expansiveness may have been 2001. I’m impressed! Please accept my respect and appreciation. You’ve had a sixth sense about knowing when it’s wise to push beyond your limitations and boundaries. You have also had a seventh sense about intuiting when to be crafty and cautious as you wander through the frontiers. Now here’s one of your assignments for the next 12 months: Distill all you’ve learned out there in the borderlands and decide how you will use your wisdom to build an unshakable power spot back here in the heart of the action.

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

Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the most influential scientists in history. He produced major breakthroughs in both chemistry and physics. Have you ever used devices that run on electricity? You can thank him for playing a major role in developing that wonderful convenience. And yet, unlike most scientists, he had only the most elementary grasp of mathematics. In fact, his formal education was negligible. I propose that we name him your role model of the week. He’s a striking example of the fact that you can arrive at your chosen goal by many different paths. Keep that in mind if you’re ever tempted to believe that there’s just one right way to fulfill your dreams.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“The only thing that we learn from history,” said the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “is that we never learn anything from history.” I’m urging you to refute that statement in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. I’m pleading with you to search your memory for every possible clue that might help you be brilliant in dealing with your immediate future. What have you done in the past that you shouldn’t do now? What haven’t you done in the past that you should do now?

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

cording to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be a pretty good time to talk about things that are hard to talk about. I don’t necessarily mean that you’ll find it easy to do. But I suspect it would be relatively free of pain and karmic repercussions. There may even be a touch of pleasure once the catharsis kicks in. So, try it if you dare, Capricorn. Summon the courage to express truths that have previously been hard to pin down. Articulate feelings that have been murky or hidden. For best results, encourage those you trust to do the same.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are you

familiar with Quidditch? It’s a rough sport played by wizards in the fictional world of Harry Potter. All seven books in the series mention it, so it’s an important element. Author J.K. Rowling says she dreamed up the sport after having a quarrel with her boyfriend. “In my deepest, darkest soul,” she reports, “I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.” (In Quidditch, a bludger is a big black ball made of iron.) I bring this up, Aquarius, because I suspect that you, too, are in position to use anger in a creative and constructive way. Take advantage of your raw emotion to make a lasting improvement in your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his erotic

poem “Your Sex,” Joe Bolton exults: “My heart simplified ... I touch the bud / Of happiness—it’s in season. / And whatever grief I might have felt before / Simply dies inside me.” You might want to write that down on a slip of paper and carry it around with you this week, Pisces. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the bud of happiness is now in season for you. You have good reason to shed the undertones of sadness and fear you carry around with you. I’ll tell you the last lines of Bolton’s poem, because they also apply: “Sometimes I think it’s best just to take pleasure / Wherever we want and can. / Look: the twilight is alive with wild honey.” (The full poem is at http://tinyurl.com/JoeBolton.)

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If I build it John Martinson is technical adviser for a company called Biohome. They’ve made innovative homes that people have been living in for nearly a decade, but right now, they’re exploring other applications for the technology. He’s a congenial guy, excited with the challenges, and he’s looking for someone with a little property to set up an experiment. And the best part? The collaborator gets to keep the results.

What’s this thing you’re involved in building? We call it a growhouse. There are greenhouses, but we call ours a growhouse because we don’t have anything to do with those glass buildings called greenhouses. This is a well-insulated, controlled-environment structure in which we expect to grow things 12 months out of the year. ... We have a thing called a water window. I’m going to give you an abbreviation. The five letters of the abbreviation spell the word SWIFT. So keep in mind the letters to the word swift: Spherical Water Instrument For Transmission.

Transmission, that means light transmission? Absolutely. Now, imagine a clear plastic basketball. Ours is a little bigger, but visualize a clear plastic basketball filled with water. That is a lens. And when sunlight hits that plastic basketball—you’ve seen it on the website. And when the plastic basketball is mounted in the wall of the foam building,

Recently, I was in a little gas/ burger/coffee pit/piss stop of a town called Kettleman City. It’s on Interstate 5 in California, on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, at the intersection of 46 and 5. It’s a place that gets scorching hot in the summer. Hell, that burg gets roasted in the spring. I was driving around the various burger joints, looking for a tree under which to park and do some phone calling/ texting. The pickings were very slim. Saplings and stop signs weren’t gonna get it done. Finally, I found a little tree at the Taco Bell that was adequate and unoccupied, so I hung there for the next 20 minutes, being a good citizen and not doing all my texting on the road by bellowing at Siri. Anyway, my point—in the future, a future that’s looking more and more like it’s going to be warmer and warmer and sunnier and sunnier—there might well be a lot of money in—shade.

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What we’re saying is, “Free to a good home.” What we want to do is build this on a suitable public place. So people going by can see this and become curious about it, but if someone will in effect give us free rent on a space for 12 months, we will put up the dome, and we will begin growing things in it. At the end of the 12 months, we give it to them. It becomes their dome. If they gave us the space to do it, they get to keep the dome. And if they don’t want it, we’ll take the dome down. But if they’re in any way interested in gardening and agriculture, they’ll want the dome themselves, and it’s theirs.

They are strong. They have a steel-rebar framework. And the steel-rebar framework will be buried in 6-to-8 inches of foam, and steel-rebar framework is sitting on a concrete foundation, so you have this hemispherical building, which is very resistant to strong winds because there’s no flat place on the building for the hurricane or the tornado to get a hold. So the air moves smoothly over the outside of the hemispheric surface, but the hemispheric surface is tied to the ground and its concrete foundation with the steel rebar.

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So these structures started as living places, and they’re highly insulated being made out of this foam, but they’re not up to building codes?

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Just because of code, humans can’t live in it, but it would be OK to build because it’s for plants? Ultimately, that’s the plan [for humans to live within]. That’s the future. In the past, we have built these, and people certainly are living in these domes. We build what we call Foam Dome Homes. But now the proposal is to build a Foam Dome Home for tomatoes to live in. We want to build a dome, illuminated by these SWIFT lights, environmentally controlled, because that foam insulation is just a wonderful material to control the temperature inside the domes.

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and it still does that every July when people from near and far pack into Wingfield Park each day. But now it’s all over the Reno and Sparks community, and, as their website suggests, Reno truly is Artown in July. Nothing says summer more than Artown. As someone who was raised in the dreaded heat of Southern Nevada, I was surprised that Reno—you know, the place from that show, Reno 911?—had a month of arts and culture-centered events. After living here for a few years, I’m still impressed by the undertaking that is Artown. There are hundreds of events going on throughout the day and night, and I admit that it’s a little daunting. So to help you navigate through all the awesome events that make up Artown, we compiled our annual Artown guide. There’s a day-by-day guide to help you start planning out where you want to be throughout the month that covers everything from dance performances to art classes and projects. We’ve also included stories about each of the Rollin’ on the River performers and some information about their opening acts. This guide includes information about an event for pets, too, the epic opening night performance planned for Artown, an art show from those afflicted with dementia and an event that fashionistas will love. Artown is for everyone, so dig on in and map out where you’re going to be all month. Cheers, Sage Leehey

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“I think Artown is a really integral part of summer, and I think arts and culture get overlooked a lot of times in the mass media of Reno,” Myer said. “So I think it’s important that it continues, and I love being a part of it.” After being on The Voice, with Adam Levine of Maroon 5 as her coach, Myer felt lucky that Reno rallied behind her and is happy to give back to Reno with the help of the Rollin’ on the River series during Artown. “I love helping change the outside opinion of Reno on a national scale,” Myer said. “And I think Artown is part of that because there’s a lot of tourists here during the summer. I

think it’s a really great way to give back to the community and just support the arts because there’s a diminishing of that in school and in state funding.” Myer released her new solo, five-track album, Articles of Luminous Nature, in April at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, with about 1,500 people in attendance. This is her first project as a solo artist, and her sound has changed and matured. “I’ve recently delved into a new genre. I used to play like soul rock, and I wanted to experiment with electronic music,” Myer said. “So I’ve been doing that, and I have a new band that’s together, and they’re really awesome. It’s some of the area’s best musicians.” Myer titles her new genre as “electronic soul or future soul.” “It’s kind of a mix between Erykah Badu and Florence and the Machine and Björk,” she said. Because Myer wrote all her own lyrics and music for this album, it feels very real and personal. In her album note, Myer writes, “Here is a small sliver of my heart in the form of pressed plastic and other random materials. I hope it pleases you. I feel that what drives us in life is connection, and I hope this album makes you feel more connected to the people you interact with, and to yourself.” Myer toured her new album in May and after her Rollin’ on the River performance on July 5 at Wingfield Park, she will continue touring during the month of August. The tour will be primarily in the West Coast with some “jetting over to Montana and Idaho a little bit.” The tour is not finalized yet, but she plans to cover a great deal of the West Coast. “We’re planning as far north as Vancouver and as far south as L.A., if everything goes as planned,” Myer said. Whitney Myer will perform at Wingfield Park Amphitheater on opening night of Rollin’ on the River, July 5, at 5:30 p.m. with Grace Gatsby opening for her. Ω

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over the world in New York. So, watching Sircely solo in Hot Club Sandwich will be like witnessing the master of “weird.” “It’s kind of a weird instrument,” he said. “There is not a whole lot of mandolin doctrine out there.” Another unusual element of Hot Club Sandwich’s jazz is singing, augmented by the drummer who stands up and plays a snare and high hat. “People really relate to the singing, it makes it a lot of fun,” Sircely says. “We have a drummer who is really a stellar vocalist.” They’ve brought this version of folk jazz around the world for the past decade, and people usually catch on to the hoot right away. It wasn’t until recently that they arrived in a land-locked, unemployment-stricken land, and the message was lost. “We played In Yerington, Nevada, for a program that buses kids from schools that are pretty hard-up from way out in the country,” Sircely said, recalling the kids’ blank stares. “And they were all just sitting there, watching us play, and I said to the kids: ‘You know, jazz has roots in the black church where the audience is really supportive, and it is appropriate to call out a response to the preacher.”

He says he was encouraging the kids “to respond, be vocal, feel free, be a part of it.” When Hot Club Sandwich broke back into song, so did the kids. “They took to that cue,” he recalls. “They started making a lot of racket and clapping out of time. That is really the point of it all. The audience is as engaged as the musicians are.” Later on in the day, he said community members came up to him and said it really lifted their spirits. For the Reno show he is looking forward to playing tunes from past generations and faster beats for younger audiences, too. With such broad cultural and historical appeal, based on freedom, infused with unusual jazz elements, Sircely is hoping to engage an audience, “that will provide the energetic exchange that keeps it all going ... to prompt the soloist as they are starting to get into it.” “Engage!” he says, “Clap for solos! Respond to something that inspires you! It is not stodgy music.” Hot Club Sandwich will play Friday, July 12 at 5:30 p.m. in Wingfield park. The band will include Mark Rubin, bass; Matt Sircely, mandolin; Joseph Mascorella, drums and Kevin Connor on gypsy guitar. Ω

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to the realm of music—not picking-up a guitar until he was 18. But once he had his music legs under him, the natural performer, who doubles as a sportscaster and actor back home in Chicago, took to his early crowds at the open mics where he’d perform. And they in turn, encouraged him to take it one step further. “People would tell me to be in a tribute band,” McGuinness admits. “I got approached about it a lot. When I came out to Chicago, I decided to put a foot in the water and test it out, do a couple shows— then people started calling, and it just kept building … tribute bands are really popular right now.” Part of the automatic appeal could be attributed to McGuinness’ physical similarities to CCR’s legendary singer, John Fogerty. It’s easy to transport yourself back in time—visualizing being front row at one of the original CCR concerts during its hay day in the late ’60s-early ’70s—when McGuinness prances onstage, donning a plaid shirt and bandana—shaggy hair flowing. He’s a prime candidate for being the missing Fogerty brother (the one John and original guitarist Tom Fogerty forgot). “I’ve heard that I look like him after shows,” McGuinness admits. And when it comes to the performance aspect, he really channels the Fogerty within. “I’m a working actor when I’m on stage, and people respond very well to that. You gotta respect the audience.” Included in that respect is giving the people what they want—which is, in regard to a tribute band, the hits. “If you go out there and don’t play ‘Proud Mary,’ you might get a shoe thrown at you,” McGuinness says with a laugh. “There’s a reason [the songs] have been around this long—and we acknowledge that. We’re good listeners—even though we’re the ones providing stuff to listen to.”

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Soulful and moody, it encompasses pain, struggle and triumphs over obstacles. For award-winning blues singer Janiva Magness, coming to terms with her own struggles has been an important part of her musical career. And in return, creating music has been a healing process. After experiencing personal tragedy as a teenager—losing both of her parents—Magness was placed in several foster homes before becoming pregnant at 17 and giving her daughter up for adoption. She has since reconnected with her daughter, and now serves as an advocate for children in the foster care system. She’s also an ambassador for Foster Care Alumni of America. Magness believes that musicians should be involved in a cause. “It is important to be of service,” she says. “I believe this to my soul. Sometimes to do it and take no credit, it’s freeing in a way and good for the soul. And I believe we have a soul that must be cared for. [We need to] care for our own souls and for the souls of others. If we all can do just a little bit more of that, the world will be better and our experience of each other will be, too.” Advocacy for others also helped Magness find a way to channel stress into something positive.

“It takes the focus off of me and puts it on helping someone else, someone else’s troubles instead of my own,” says Magness. “And it helps me gain better perspective just about 100 percent of the time. … What happened to me makes a lot more sense if I can use the experiences to help others still in a struggle along the way. Those events of my youth no longer define me, just part of the landscape now most days, and that is huge, especially if you are a person still in those kind of personal battles. We need to hear that message and see the living witness.” This belief is apparent in her music—her most recent album, released last year, is called Stronger For It. She tours around the world, including a notable trip in 2008 to Iraq and Kuwait, where she performed for American soldiers. Magness discovered blues at a young age, inspired by the albums in her father’s record collection and by catching a performance of Otis Rush in a nightclub. After studying engineering and working in a record studio, Magness found a talent in singing and went on to form a band and later going solo. Her albums feature a mix of original songs and covers. “I am fairly new at the practice of songwriting and consequently pretty nervous about it, which I think is fine,” she says. “I think it keeps me

honest, which is very important to me. But the big challenge seems to be getting out of the way and letting the creative process unfold.” Magness refers to Dave Darling, her collaborator and producer, to help her find her voice. “I trust him, and he gets me and respects me. Those two things are paramount, especially being so new at the craft of it.” Putting together an album is a “superstitious” process for Magness. “I don’t like to plan too much,” she says. “I think it impedes the muse, and I believe in her. In that same way, I believe songs come to me, the right ones come through several channels over the course of time. I am always looking and squirreling away material and new song ideas, or stories that I need to tell.” And when looking for a song to cover, Magness looks for “a connection, a storyline and melody that moves me. One I can bring myself to, so I can tell the truth. Otherwise I find no point to singing it. Capiche?” Capiche.

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for the rest of the night and get everyone excited about what’s coming. Each night of Rollin’ on the River features local musicians to get the night started off right. The Mark Sexton Band

J u ly 5 : Grace Gatsby sings in a powerful voice and also plays piano and guitar. She grew up singing in a three-piece folk band with her father and performing in this band throughout the Midwest. She spent five years in Los Angeles before moving her commanding vocal chords to Reno. Now, Gatsby is a powerhouse, husky-voiced rock singer/songwriter who brings passion to her music. She has a voice that haunts and commands the attention of the room. Friend and fellow musician Whitney Myer described Gatsby’s voice as “gorgeous” and “killer” and went on to say, “She has one of those voices where you’re immediately drawn into whatever world she’s creating.” Paired together, Gatsby and Myer should make for an awesome show in the park. Gatsby will perform on July 5, 5:30 p.m. at Wingfield Park. Visit myspace.com/ gracesings for music samples and more information. M A i N A c t : Whitney Myer (see page 5)

J u ly 1 2 : the Mark Sexton Band is a trio whose music is a unique combination of reggae, soul and funk that has come to be well-known in the Reno area. the trio consists of singer/ songwriter/guitarist Mark Sexton, bassist Alex Korostinsky and drummer Dan Weiss. catching them perform before the eclectic Hot club Sandwich should be a treat. the group released a six-track EP titled Young and Naïve on April 9. the band is currently touring this album with shows mainly in california for the summer with a show in North Lake tahoe at crystal Bay on June 28. Rollin’ on the River will catch them in between strings of shows in california, and they will also be back in Nevada to perform in Gardnerville on July 27. Watch the Mark Sexton Band on July 12, 5:30 p.m. in Wingfield Park. Visit marksextonband.com for an EP download, tour dates and merchandise. M A i N A c t : Hot club Sandwich (see page 7)

J u ly 1 9 : the Smokin’ Bulldogs plays favorites from the Beatles, classic rock, country rock and also some of their own original songs. the group is a four-man band with John Elkins on lead guitar, Geoff White on rhythm guitar, Bill O’Neal on bass guitar and Kevin Pavlu on drums. All four members of the band sing at different points. Each of the band members have diverse backgrounds, but they all have one thing in common: extensive histories as musicians. Elkins and White are childhood friends who have been playing together on and off since they were young, and both have written original songs for the group. Pavlu also started as a musician young—at the age of 7—and has played in various bands throughout his life. And O’Neal, now an entertainment lawyer, started playing piano at 4 and picked up clarinet, saxophone and bass as he grew and eventually went on to get his Bachelor’s at Berklee college of Music. the Smokin’ Bulldogs play local events and a listing of these events, as well as music samples and other information, can be found at smokinbulldogs.wordpress. com. catch them at Rollin’ on the River July 19, 5:30 p.m. at Wingfield Park. M A i N A c t : Blue Moon Swamp (see page 8)

J u ly 2 6 : Guitar Woody and the Boilers is a six-man group that plays blues-based R&B and funk music. the band has been playing around Reno for more than 20 years. Woody Soules— Guitar Woody—brought the band together several years after moving to Reno where he met a bunch of local musicians. the group now consists of Guitar Woody and the Boilers—Leroy Palinsky on keyboards, Mike Bush on drums, Bob McNamara on bass, Jon Anderson on saxophone and Joey Walker on trumpet. come out and see Guitar Woody and the Boilers on July 26, 5:30 p.m. at Wingfield Park. M A i N A c t : Janiva Magness (see page 9)

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Wh en did yo u co me i n t o Ar town? A nd how l o n g h a s it been go i ng o n? Artown started in 1996, and it started because there was nothing happening downtown. Casinos were closing. There was no retail, not many restaurants. People were not coming downtown, so a group of business and city leaders decided to use arts and culture as a tool to bring people back downtown. And the first year, 30,000 people showed up, so they knew they had something. I joined Artown in 2001 as the festival manager and then in 2003, I was named the executive director. Why d id yo u get invo lved wi t h Ar t ow n ?

I’ve been involved with the arts since I was 3 years old, so it seemed like a natural part of my evolution. I had my own business teaching children’s dance classes and then I ran the ballet company here in town. That was how I got my feet wet in the nonprofit industry. And after I

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left there, Karen Craig from Artown called me and asked if I would like to join this organization. It just seemed like a really good fit. W h at ’s d i f f e r e n t a bou t t h i s ye a r ’s A r town ?

Every Artown is totally different from the one before, the one before that, and the one that’s going to come next. And Artown is huge. I mean, we’re all over the Truckee Meadows. It used to be basically downtown, but now it has spread out all over. The footprint has grown tremendously. The number of people coming down to our event is tremendous. It can’t really grow bigger, but it becomes more important to our community every year. It becomes more significant on a deeper level as opposed to just getting bigger. I think that I’m starting to notice that change. I also know that we are really trying to focus on who we are as a community right now and staying relevant to who we are as

a community. We’re not the same community we were 20 years ago. The makeup of the community is different. People’s behaviors are different now. You’ve got a lot of grandparents coming down to the park with their grandchildren, and you’ve got a lot of people who are from different cultural backgrounds coming into this community. And we want to make sure that all those cultures are celebrated. We want to make sure that new cultures are introduced to our community. We really try to focus on that when we create our festival, and this year, we have what I think is the best opening nights we’ve ever had. This year is Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon’s 40th anniversary. This amazing group of musicians—Corey Glover, Melvin Gibbs, Karl Denson and a bunch of others—are coming together, and they’re going to play the album in its entirety. And opening for them is Jelly Bread, so it’s really nice. We always try to have our local and national or international

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juxtaposition of talent. So I think that is going to be huge this year. Is t h at w hat you’ r e m os t exci ted ab out?

You know what I’m always so excited for are the ah-ha moments that happen that you just don’t know are going to happen. I’m very excited for the World Music Series. I’m very excited for our Monday Night Music Series—on the 15th we have the Glenn Miller Orchestra coming, and we’re doing that as a tribute to Roy Powers who was one of the trustees of the Robert Z. Hawkins Foudnation. He passed away last year, so that’s going to be a very important night to our community because he was a great artist and just a really great person in the community. And our closing night, we’re bringing in the legendary Shuggie Otis. I’m really excited about that. We’re bringing in Pete Escovedo, who’s a Latin jazz percussionist. He’s coming here with his daughter, Sheila E.

Sheila E. was the percussionist for Prince. The father and daughter are coming together, and they’ve never come together in Northern Nevada. I’m excited for our Family Series. One of the really great things we’re bringing is Story Pirates, which is a group of improvisation artists from Los Angeles, and we’ve reached out into the school district here and children have written stories. They’re going to review those stories and act them out on stage at the Family Series. So really, two of our students in the Family Series are going to become playwrights overnight. I’m really excited about that. Discover the Arts is every single weekday for 6 to 12 year olds. We have them discovering all kinds of art, and they get to do projects with recyclable materials. … What makes me excited is that I really believe we have put on this festival offering something for everyone. It’s not just one thing. It’s the fact that anybody in this community can get excited about something at this festival, and that’s really the goal.

What’ s your favor i te par t of your job her e?

My favorite job is being able to make a difference to the community that I live in. Without Artown, July would be July, right? And I get to help make a whole month in this town, this city be ignited. Even if people don’t come down to Artown, everybody knows that it’s happening. Everybody’s encouraged and enthusiastic about it. Everybody loves July because it’s Artown, whether you’re down here every day or you’re down here once in the month, whatever it is—everybody knows that Reno is Artown in July. And that’s the part that makes me most proud and makes me so grateful to be able to have this job. What’ s the most d i ffi cul t par t of i t al l ?

S o h ow do yo u go a b o u t plan ning al l of t hi s a n d ch oos ing who t o p e r fo r m ?

It’s a lengthy process. I start typically in September. We try to get a little bit of a rest in August. I go to a conference in the end of August, actually. I really network with a lot of people who do what we do, other festivals around the country, other people on the west coast that do presenting. And we start working with local artists in November … if you look at the board behind you, that’s how we put it together. I mean, it’s all with stickies. It’s very old fashioned really because it’s all done in patterns and rhythms. And I network with different people I know and find out which artists are relevant, which artists have new projects, which artists are touring, which artists are around but haven’t been around for a while, which projects are exciting, which artists are hot right now, and can we bring them in? I mean, what is so great

is that some of these really great, really interesting artists—Red Baraat is one of them this year, amazing fusion with bhangra and all kinds of stuff—we get to do them as a free event. Our community can come down at no cost to them and experience a new artist. Whereas, in other communities, you have to buy tickets to Red Baraat. How many people are going to buy tickets to something they don’t even know? We have the opportunity just to put it out there and have all these people get to know a new artist. It’s really great.

exposed to a lot of different things. It’s really probably the funnest job in the whole wide world, but right now, in June, the pressure is huge.

stories that we hear—there was an estranged father and son a couple of years ago, and they decided to meet in Wingfield Park on opening night.

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It just feels like my responsibility to this community is so enormous because the expectation is huge. I think it’s great that the expectation is huge, but I feel so indebted, such a responsibility, to this community, and that’s a big responsibility when you think of the size of this community and an entire month? It’s not just a weekend gig. It’s a whole month where you have to keep chugging along, and you have to keep making sure that it’s correct for this community. … And the

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On closing night, they came to me and told me the story. They gathered together in Wingfield Park about three times a week during the month of July and bonded again because of Artown, and they hadn’t spoken in years. So is that not worth the whole job right there? You know? You hear these magical stories of how a park like Wingfield Park in downtown really connects our community, whether it’s friends, families, meeting new people, whatever it is. It’s magical.

I would say the most difficult part actually is to make sure that I program the festival—even though it’s the best part, it’s also the most difficult part—is making sure I program the festival for this community to be the dream festival for this community. And that’s difficult because I think Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is going to be fantastic. We’ll see on the first of July, right? So the most difficult part is programming it and making sure you’ve done it right. And that always sort of falls out when it’s happening. Any thi ng el se that p eop l e shoul d know b efor e comi ng to Ar tow n?

If you have not come to Artown, come on down—parking is a perceived problem. It’s not a real problem for the most part because it’s in the evening. There’s something for everyone, and you definitely will have a tremendous experience if you come down to Artown. The other thing I would like to say is that there’s the stage, and there’s the dance floor. And then the first area has always been low-back seating and blanket seating. We’re changing it up this year, and this [first] little area here is for blankets only. Then the next area is for low-back chairs, lowto-the-ground seating, and then all the rest is any kind of seating you want. It can be blankets, high chairs, anything. We’re just doing three tiers instead of two. Ω

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She started out with a social club where patients would come and have fun with people in the same situation they were in—giving the caregivers three hours a week to themselves. Now, she does art classes for Alzheimer’s and other dementia patients—and teaches caregivers how to do art with their loved one—through her nonprofit organization. The gallery of residents’ art at Arbors Memory Care Community (AMCC) will be open throughout the month of July for Artown daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Greeting cards with reproductions of resident’s art and framed prints will be available for a donation to benefit the program. And on July 13 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., AMCC and Moments of Memory will host Memories in the Garden Art,

where anyone can come out and make their own garden art to take home. Schweigert has done weekly classes at AMCC for five years now, which I got to visit and help with. “I don’t really teach them, they teach me. Seriously,” Schweigert said. “And, as you could see today, there’s singing, there’s laughing, there’s joking, and literally, this is the only time they do that because they’re all focused on the same thing. And I think this helps distract them from the sadness of forgetting.” During Schweigert’s class, the residents of AMCC talked with Schweigert about what they saw in the abstract paintings they made in the previous class, if the paintings should be vertical or horizontal and then cut the paintings into mats to frame self-portraits to be made the next class. All the while the residents were happy—with one resident’s favorite band, the Beach Boys, playing in the background. For those with Alzheimer’s Disease or other forms of dementia, a sense of self worth and independence and staying active, physically and mentally, becomes difficult. Stephanie Hanna, AMCC community relations director, explained that doing these art pieces really helps the residents develop these things while she showed me the residents’ artwork framed on the walls throughout the facility and their patio where four pieces of art were blown up on the walls, and the walls were repainted to match the color schemes of the art. “It creates a really strong sense of independence because this is something they’re doing themselves,” Hanna said. “While Lynette might be providing guidance or inspiration, the artist is doing it themselves, which there’s not much they’re able to do themselves anymore. Art is no fail. They can’t make a bad flower because it’s art, which is great because a lot of times they get really frustrated because they can’t tie their shoe right or they can’t put on their shirt right anymore. But they can make the piece of art right.” Ω

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Discover Storytime with Kathleen Durham is a children’s event as part of the Discover the Arts series going on weekdays throughout the duration of Artown. At this event, the Underfolk and Undermice sagas by Durham continue, and you’ll get to make a miniature book before leaving. McKinley Arts and Culture Center. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

Take the Bike Tour Through Old Reno to visit the most historic parts of Reno with Glee Willis as your tour guide. This tour is presented by the Historic Reno Preservation Society. Reservations and helmets are required. My Favorite Muffin. 9-10:30 a.m. $10 or free for HRPS members. Call 747-4478 or visit historicreno.org for more information.

J u ly 2 : Tuesday night Dancing in the Park performances start out with the Reno Dance Company with “Icons and Idols.” This will be a tribute to entertainers, celebrities and pop cultures that affect the world of dance and music. Some of these entertainers and celebrities will include Gene Kelly, Elvis, John Travolta, MC Hammer, Madonna and Michael Jackson. Wingfield Park. 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 829-7878 for more information.

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Create your own art on a 4-inch tile Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the month of July. The Clay Canvas. July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. 2-5 p.m. July 3, 10, 17, 24. 2-8 p.m. $1. Call 828-4118 for more information.

J u ly 4 : Patriotic Music in the Park will be performed by the Reno Municipal Band to celebrate Independence Day. Prior to the event, the Wingfield Park Amphitheater will be renamed to the Wingfield Park Glenn Little Amphitheater and dedicated in memory of Glenn Little, a man who dedicated 55 years of his life to the Reno Municipal Band. Wingfield Park Amphitheater. 6-6:30 p.m. and 7:30-10 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

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Reno Rock Camp will have Real Kids Rock Concerts every Friday of Artown. Performers will be selected campers from weekly camps going on throughout July. Galena High School. July 5, 12, 19, 26. 4-7 p.m. $5 admission to concerts. Visit renorockcamp.com for more information.

J u ly 8 : Family Festival will take place every Monday of Artown, excluding opening night. The event will have face painting, crafts, games, entertainment and more for Artown-goers of all ages. You must register for face painting prior to the event because of its popularity by visiting renoisartown.ticketleap.com/artownface-painting-registration. Wingfield Park. 5-7 p.m. July 8, 15, 22, 29. Free.

J u ly 9 : Spoken Word will be an event from the Spoken Views Collective, Reno’s spoken word poetry collective, and put on by the Sierra Arts Foundation. This event will profile local spoken word poets. It will take place every Tuesday of Artown. Sierra Arts Gallery. 6-8 p.m. Free. Call 329-2787 for more information.

J u ly 1 0 : The World Music Series is every Wednesday night, and this Wednesday, it features Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano. This group is Grammy Awardwinning and has more than 50 years of musical history behind them. Wingfield Park. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

J u ly 1 1 : Dementia The Musical written by Dr. Steve Rubin is rated PG, so it’s good for the whole family. It features the ups and downs of aging. Steinway Piano Gallery. 7-9 p.m. Free. Call 829-0600 or visit spgreno.com for more information.

J u ly 1 2 : Grab a blanket and watch the classic film, Field of Dreams, with family and friends this Friday night. Wingfield Park. 9-11:15 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

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The Biggest Little Music Festival will have local bands, food, brews and more throughout the park. Wingfield Park. 2-10 p.m. Free. Call 324-5521 for more information.

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J u ly 1 9 : “Open Spaces and Special Places-The Art of Conservation for Kids” is two paint-in sessions for kids this morning/afternoon as the art show by the same name will also be going on. Children will learn about plein-air painting and paint scenes from around the Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. Wilbur D. May Museum. 10-11:30 a.m. and 12-1:30 p.m. Free. Call 785-5961 or visit nevadalandtrust. org for more information.

J u ly 2 0 : The Basque Festival at Artown will feature Basque dancing, music, food and games with local and regional dancers and a band in the evening. Wingfield Park. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Call 762-3577 for more information.

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J u ly 1 3 : Pops On the River presents its Broadway Bash this evening, which will feature a mix of Broadway favorites and food, wine and costumes. Wingfield Park. 5-11 p.m. $10$5,000. Call 323-6393 or visit renophil.com/ popsontheriver for more information.

J u ly 1 4 : Come out to the Nevada Opera Renaissance Fair for all your favorite renaissance fair festivities with an opera theme. There will also be “Opera Shorts” on the stage throughout the day. Wingfield Park. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Call 786-4046 or visit nevadaopera.org for more information.

J u ly 1 5 : The Cat in the Hat will be performed by TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada and will be fun for the whole family. It will also be performed as part of the Family Series at Wingfield Park on July 8 from 7-8 p.m. Renown Regional Medical Center. 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Call 284-0789 or visit twnn.org for more information.

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As part of the Dancing in the Park series, Sierra Nevada Ballet will perform Dancing by the River, directed by Rosine Bena. It will feature Cami Thompson and her trio (vocals), Sam Weber (fastest feet in tap), former Joffrey Ballet principal Domingo Rubio and others. Wingfield Park. 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 7379101 or visit sierranevadaballet.org for more information.

J u ly 1 7 : The Reno Municipal Band, with Ross Mitchell from KOH Radio, will present various popular music from Disney movies. This will happen again on July 19 from 12-1 p.m. University of Nevada, Reno quadrangle. 6-8 p.m. Call 3342414 for more information.

J u ly 1 8 : Rumors by Neil Simon is about four couples at an anniversary celebration that doesn’t begin because of gossiping. Ageless Repertory Theatre will present it in a reader’s theater version for mature audiences. Circles Edge for Spiritual Living. $1 suggested donation.

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J u ly 2 2 : The Story Pirates come to the Family Series this evening to help promote creativity in children by performing selected stories written by students in the area. Wingfield Park. 7-8 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

J u ly 2 3 : The Dancing in the Park series returns with a performance from InnerRhythms Dance Theatre and RhythMatriX presenting new choreography in various genres. Wingfield Park. 8-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 530-8464 or visit innerrhythms.org for more information.

J u ly 2 4 : Red Baraat will be on the World Music Series stage this evening. This band consists of an eight-piece brass and drum combination and is known for being a great party band. Its sound is a mix of jazz, brass funk, go-go and hip hop along with bhangra rhythms. Wingfield Park. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

J u ly 2 5 : Latin musician Pete Escovedo will perform with his daughter, Sheila E., and an orchestra. He is a well-known musician

and percussionist and has toured with Santana, Tito Puente and more. His style is a mix of Latin jazz, salsa, smooth jazz and contemporary music. Sheila E. was the percussionist for Prince and is a talented Latin musician. This will be the first time they have performed together in Northern Nevada. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $25-$35. For tickets, visit renoisartown.ticketleap.com.

J u ly 2 6 : Discover the Art of Magic with magician Merlinski as part of the Discover the Arts series. Children will see a magic show, learn a trick and make a Harry Potter wand. Neil Road Recreation Center Gymnasium. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

J u ly 2 7 : Compression! Art and Fire Festival will be hosted by Controlled Burn. This festival will feature fire arts, flame effects, culture and performances you would expect from Black Rock City. Reno City Plaza. 3-11 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Call 686-9608 or visit compression.controlledburnreno.com for more information.

J u ly 2 8 : Come see the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live band. Participation is encouraged. Rated R. It will also play July 28 from 12-2 a.m. for $13. Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel. 8-10 p.m. $10. Call 398-5400 for more information.

J u ly 2 9 : Hansel and Gretel: A Cautionary Tale of Healthy Eating and Exercise will be performed by giant puppets. This classic was adapted at the hands of “The Quasimodo” Milwaukee Physical Theater. Wingfield Park. 7-8 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information.

J u ly 3 0 : The final performance of the Dancing in the park series will be Latin Dance and Showcase. Gózalo Dance Company of Reno’s 60 to 80 dancers and dancers from other companies will join together to put on a night with Latin dancing and shows. Wingfield Park. 8-10 p.m. Free. Call 813-1143 or visit salsareno.com/ classes/GozaloDanceCompany.htm for more information.

J u ly 3 1 : Shuggie Otis will be the closing performance of Artown this year. Come check out his performance for blues rock and R&B by a musician who plays guitar, piano, organ and bass. He recorded with Frank Zappa, Mos Def and more. Wingfield Park. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Call 322-1538 for more information. Ω

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said musician, composer, producer and former Rollins Band bassist Melvin Gibbs. “I’ve kind of done that to a certain extent, but I wanted to present this set of people doing something that none of them normally would do. And they’re all very excited to do it.” Gibbs is bringing together a diverse group of musicians to play the opening night performance for Artown on July 1, 7-10 p.m. This year happens to be the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s iconic album, Dark Side of the Moon, and Gibbs has brought them all together to play the album in its entirety. Changing perceptions seems to be Gibbs’ overarching theme for this performance as he compiled the group of musicians together and tweaks the music, too. “I think it’s a good match between expanding everybody’s idea of what this set of people would be doing and expanding everybody’s idea of what this music can sound like,” Gibbs said. The group will be presenting their own interpretation of the Pink Floyd album. Gibbs explained that the original album was meant to be an

“anti-jam record,” being “very short, very concise, very to the point.” Gibbs wants to change that by “put[ting] the jamming back into the record.” “The ironic thing is that Pink Floyd was kind of known as a jam band before that, and the whole thing of Dark Side is that it’s kind of like their pop record,” Gibbs said. “So I’ve extended out some of the song, and we’re going to be playing the instrumentals a little more. We’re just going to kind of expand out the basic idea of what they were doing.” On lead vocals, the performance will have Nona Hendryx, solo artist and former member of Labelle—the group that topped the charts with “Lady Marmalade”—and Tre Williams of The Revelations. Sim Cain, also a former member of the Rollins Band, will be on drums. Two former members of ParliamentFunkadelic, keyboardist George Bernard “Bernie” Worrell, Jr.—who was also in Taking Heads—and guitarist DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight, will also be playing. Karl Denson, saxophone player and former member of Lenny Kravitz’s band, will also be performing in this group. “Well, it’s an all-star band. It’s a lot of really great people,” Gibbs said. “We’re going to have that kind of crossover vibe—kind of an expansion on the rock style—where we’re more kind of like rock guys, and they’re [Worrell and McKnight] kind of more like— they’re known as funk guys, but they go all over the place. We’re going to expand out the palette of what the

guys did on the original record to reflect more of our personalities.” Gibbs, never having heard of Artown before, stumbled upon it out after discovering the Nevada Museum of Art while looking up art events in the area. In the course of events after that, he decided to bring this mixed bag of heavy-hitting musicians to open the month of events. Gibbs said he’s very excited for the performance and come to Reno. Coincidentally, he—with the rest of the Rollins Band—recorded their album, Weight with the well-known track “Liar,” in South Lake Tahoe, and Gibbs hasn’t been back to the area since. “We used to go down to Reno on the weekends to hang out, and I haven’t been there really since then,” Gibbs said. “I’m looking forward to checking all that out, and I’m hoping I can create a situation where I can get to the museum because you guys actually have a very interesting museum as well. I’m definitely looking forward to being there in Reno.” Artown executive director Beth MacMillan expressed her personal excitement for Gibbs and his fellow musicians’ performance on opening night and stated that she thinks it’s going to be the best opening night Artown has ever had. She also said that she’s happy to have Jelly Bread opening for the performance to showcase the local talent here in Reno as well as the national or international talent of this group of performers. This event is hosted by Artown and sponsored by City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission and the Reno Ace’s Ballpark. Ω

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Part of the funds donated to these organizations comes from the wine and beer tasting that starts at noon. $25 gets you a wine glass with unlimited tastings for the day, and $5 gets you three beer tastings or one large beer. And from 2 to 5 p.m. The Smokin’ Bulldogs will be performing in the park for all Art Paws-goers to enjoy during their wine and beer tasting and pursuing with their pups. Funds are also raised through raffles that take place every half hour and a large silent auction with prizes such as 500 square feet of sod or a dinner and night stay at the Eldorado. Many of the nonprofit organizations will be at the event, campaigning for votes or giving out freebies. The first 500 people into Art Paws will receive “doggie bags” donated by Whole Foods and filled with different toys and treats for humans and dogs alike. These bags will also serve as bags to hold any freebies received throughout the event, so if you’re not in the first 500 people Witmer suggests you bring your own bag to gather all the goodies. In addition to the freebies given out by the 80 to 100 vendors at the event, there will be a demonstration by the Washoe County K9 Unit and Hollywood animal trainer, Joel Silverman will be in attendance to talk to people about training their pets.

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are,” Witmer said. “Because if they don’t, they can think they can cut back on their vet and the food and the pet waste. No. That’s an intricate part of your family, and here’s a day to celebrate that.” The festival will include free paw painting art projects for owners to complete with their pets. The Girl Scouts will help paint pets’ paws to walk on paper so that owners can take home a masterpiece created by their pooch. The contest categories this year will include biggest/ smallest pet head, parent/owner and pet lookalike, most unique trick, best superhero costume and twins/triplets/quads—for identical pets of two or more. The festival in its entirety is a fundraiser for local pet-related nonprofit organizations. All the proceeds go in a pot that is divided equally between the three top pet-related nonprofit organizations as decided by a vote from attendees of Art Paws. “In past years, we’ve funded the Animal Ark, we’ve funded the SPCA, Boxers and Buddies, which is the third most active rescue, only third to the SPCA and the Humane Society,” Witmer said. “U.S. Wolf Refuge is here located in Nevada, which is really cool because they are known throughout the United States, and they’ve garnered our top votes three years in a row. And Feline Rescue of Northern Nevada won the past two years.”

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and presenting their creations at the Reno Fashion Show on July 26. Janice Dickinson, the self-proclaimed world’s first supermodel, will be hosting the Reno Fashion Show at the Grand Theatre at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino. Doors will open at 8 p.m., and the show will begin at 9 p.m. This is the second fashion show produced by the Reno production and promotion company, Vanity Entertainment. The first show was last year during Artown with standing room only and about 600 people in attendance. This show is expected to be larger and to sell out the 1,800-seat theater. It will feature local designers and models.

Brian Aranda, executive producer of Vanity Entertainment, said he was pleased with the way last year’s show went and has high hopes for this year. He said he’s happy to be showing people what they can do here in Reno, and refers to a 12-yearold girl, dressed in her own creation, and her mother, who approached him at last year’s show. “She hoped to one day be in the Reno Fashion Show, and I think that’s what it’s doing—and we’re hoping it continues to do—inspire people to realize that there is a market for them, there is a platform for them to show their designs. Rather than moving out of Reno, they can do it right here.” Aranda described the show as “a New York quality type of event” and “the fashion show of fashion shows” and said the show aims to help stimulate the

economy of Reno by promoting the local fashion scene. “There are a lot of untapped resources that don’t have a platform,” Aranda said. “We’re hoping to generate our economic rebirth by presenting a platform to people that are interested in the art of fashion.” The show is for all ages and will feature all types of clothing, ranging from business attire to swimwear. Some of the designers will include swimwear from Ali Strange Designs, chainmaille from Nightkind Productions and bowties from DaNorman Bobino and Angela Gale. And the models were recruited at Pixella Production Studio on June 15. After the show, there will be a meet and greet with Dickinson for all in attendance. Aranda said that he is particularly excited to work with Dickinson for this event and said she will

be looking for talent at the event for her next season of Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. “Janice will be back on the screen with her new series, so this is an opportunity for her to go out and scout models and see what the West Coast has to offer,” Aranda said. “We want to show Janice that all the talent isn’t just based in LA. There’s local talent to be seen, so we encourage Reno to come out and be seen.” Dickinson will also be hosting the official after party for the show at Tronix Video Music Club along with the models from the show for ages 18 and up. The primary sponsor of the event is Legends at Sparks Marina. Tickets are $25 at the door or presale tickets can be purchased for $20 at brownpaperticket.com.

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Visit GNCU.org or call 775-882-2060 *Up to $116 in iTunes® or Amazon.com® purchase reimbursements based on up to $8 in reimbursements each qualifying month and a onetime $20 sign-up bonus reimbursement. Monthly qualifications are 15 debit card purchases must post and clear, one direct deposit received, and account statements delivered via eStatements. $20 bonus is additional reimbursement within first month account is open if qualifications are met. Other rewards received when monthly qualifications are met include ATM fee rebates and waiver of the $10 monthly service fee. iTunes® and Amazon.com® are not affiliated with this account. Available to personal accounts only. All Northern Nevada residents are eligible for membership. Federally insured by NCUA.