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Eat thE poor See News, page 8.
You can’t beat this meat See Green, page 11.
THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT LAUNCHES IN NEVADA. WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
the swan Also rises See Arts&Culture, page 16.
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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. Turns out people are interested in my electric car. I don’t blame them, as it’s pretty cool. I thought I’d throw out some additions to my cover story. First, Nissan threw in Sirius/ XM, which was cool. But what’s really cool about it is when I stop in the shadow of one of Reno’s taller buildings, it blocks the satellite reception. So get this, since the car makes no noise, and there’s no background hum from the car engine, it’s like the car has died. Weird. With no engine noise, the stereo sounds awesome. It’s like driving headphones to work. People ask me how many miles I get to a charge. I don’t know. It’s about a hundred, but since the brakes charge the batteries, certain conditions add miles to the charge. If I use the regular, old plugit-in-the-wall plug, the 120 volts, it takes about 12 or 13 hours to go from 0 percent to 100 percent. Again, just an estimation, since I’ve only let it get down to 12 percent or so. But I installed a 240 volt power station, and that cuts the time in half, which is about what you’d expect. The car is very powerful, the kind of power that gets you off at the light more than the kind that tows boats. It’s got two settings, powersaving (ECO) and regular drive. The fact that the speed is on a governor convinces me that if I weren’t on a lease I could hack that governor and increase the speed and the top end. Also, the Bluetooth works on the cell phone calls, but not on the cell phone MP3 player. I have a feeling that’s another hack I could do if I wanted to risk my warranty, which I don’t. Still, I am interested in the concept of car security and hacking, since all I have to do is walk up to it, and the “smart key” allows me to open the door and start the car. *** It’s 95-word short fiction time. Send your entries to renofiction@newsreview.com. Deadline is 9 a.m. on Oct. 23. That’s exactly 95 words including headline. For inspiration, check out last year’s contest, www. newsreview.com/reno/strangerthan-truth/content?oid=8291872 .
It appears that some city employees are working with a company based in Incline Village to ram a noxious project down the throats of the good people of our city! Earlier this year, C4 Equity LLC (a.k.a. FW Carson Company) proposed to build a truck terminal and a concrete/asphalt crushing and composting facility at 700 Gaslight Lane, adjacent to University Ridge homes. Our community was caught off guard, as the public notice did not reveal the full extent of the planned operation. Surprisingly, the Planning Commission approved the application on Feb. 6. Many citizens and the University Ridge Homeowners Association appealed. The City Council unanimously voted to revoke the permit on March 13. In addition to creating noise, dust and stench for neighbors, the project would have been a hazard to public health because of truck traffic at the intersection of Socrates Drive and Gaslight Lane. This intersection is on a downhill curve and adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad grade crossing. UP sent the City a letter opposing the project for this reason. Prior to the hearing before the City Council, C4 Equity threatened that if the appellants would not compromise, it would subdivide the property so it could do anything it wanted to do on parcels not adjacent to homes. The principals of C4 Equity followed through with their threat and their application for subdivision was considered at a public hearing before the Planning Commission on July 9. As at the City Council meeting, at least 100 concerned citizens appeared at the hearing and many voiced their objections. Thankfully, the Planning Commission turned down C4 Equity’s application this time around. We were shocked to learn, a few days later, that city employees in the Community Development department decided to rule the Planning Commission’s decision
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null and void! They claimed that the city’s requirement for a Special Use Permit Application for subdivision of land with residential adjacency conflicted with state law, but they did not explain why. If you read the state law they cited, you will be as baffled as I am at this apparently arbitrary decision. Moreover, we do not believe that city officials have the legal authority for this action. Changing city code requires proposing a text amendment, which is reviewed by the Planning Commission with a public hearing. By de facto changing city code, these officials have violated due process and stripped Reno citizens of their rights! It appears that to some city employees “Community Development” means company development, and let the community be damned! We deplore this outrageous action and we will fight to protect citizens’ rights. Thomas W. Bell University Ridge Homeowners Association
Livable community? I just do not understand how the city is planning our community. We live in the northwest area. We lived here before the houses became shabby with dirt yards, junk cars and tagging everywhere, but I digress. Most people are happy when stores, restaurants and other amenities move closer to their homes. This [usually] means less driving and more time with our families, but not so much in the northwest area. Let me explain: For years, there was only Safeway and Albertsons. Then, of course, here comes Walmart. When the Hollywood Video store closed near what is now Save Mart, we hoped for a new place to eat or shop for clothes, but instead [we got]another auto parts store. Why? There is already an auto parts store right across the street. Well, we saw another small building was being built in the parking lot area of Walmart, a
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phone store. We already have a Verizon, but no [we got] another phone store along with a doughnut shop because we cannot get doughnuts at Safeway, Save Mart or Walmart. We can, but those are not $10 a dozen. OK, so nothing comes along for a while, then we see new ground being broken—please how about an Olive Garden or maybe an Outback, Applebees, anything. We finally learn it is tire shop. Why? We have Big O tires just across the street, and yes, even frigging Walmart has a tire department. I guess from now on when we see some thing being built in our neighborhood, we will just look across the street to see what we don’t already have two or more of. Thanks, city planners. Cecelia Soper Reno
Sometimes it’s not Re “Is hunting moral?” (Editorial, Sept. 26): I grew up hunting, not as a trophy hobby, but meat for the table. My father hunted with bow and with rifle. Today, hunters are cruel amateurs. They wound animals; they kill each other; they start fires. (Rim Fire to name one of three recent serious, hunterstarted fires in California.) People who don’t depend on wild animals for their food should not subject wild animals to being hunted down and killed. In states where game animals are overcrowding their territory and need thinning because they have no predators like wolves, they should be thinned by “professional hunters” who know what they are doing. The meat used to feed inmates. What grieves me most is hunting camps in the East and South. Hunters buy corn and set up a feeder station to draw the deer to their blind. Then they get to hunting season, they wait and slaughter them. Some half drunken “hunter” misses or wounds animals even then. “It’s a sport!” Hah,
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some sport. Trapping with leg irons should be against the law. Like Indians, we should be respectful and protective of wildlife for the benefit and balance of this clod of soil called Earth. Mary Matzek Henderson
Caramel apples, yum Re “Applecart tipping?” (News, Sept. 19): I have a tendency to fall victim to skillful advertising and public relations campaigns. When I see “Apple,” I think innovation, green and good (with the possible exception of using laborers who are slightly underage in China). I forget that they are a money grubbing, tax avoiding, socially irresponsible corporation as are most others. Nice job of casting a little sunshine on Apple’s corporate policies and for jerking me back to a healthy state of cynicism. Apple and other corporations care nothing about you unless you happen to be a stockholder. Larry L. Wissbeck Paonia, Colo.
No enforcement I was crossing a crosswalk at Virginia and Thoma streets today and was nearly hit by a car that blew right by me. I was already in the middle of the crosswalk. Normally, this wouldn’t be very shocking, as this crosswalk as well as all the Virginia street crosswalks seem to constantly have problems with people yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks (unless they’re the mayor). This time though, there was a Reno police officer directly behind the vehicle. Did she hit her lights? Hell no, she just kept on cruising. Jesus, how can we expect people to stop getting run over in crosswalks when the police are too lazy to pull people over when they’re directly behind them? Justin Dunaway Reno
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National health insurance: Good or bad? Asked at Michael’s Deli, 628 S. Virginia St. Trevor Southwick Dry cleaning worker
Bad. It’s not something that I’m looking forward to. A lot of businesses, including my own, aren’t buying health care any more for the employees, and we have to find our own. And it seems like through the government, it’s just not the same quality.
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You know, actually, I don’t know. I just haven’t had enough experience with it to know one way or another, and I haven’t used enough of the health care system to really provide an educated answer on it.
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False equivalence It’s pretty hard to imagine that this asinine government shutdown won’t be finished by the time this newspaper hits the newsstands. Of course, the same thing could have been said last week. So, just be aware that while the asinine government shutdown is the jumping off point for this expression of opinion, it’s only the jumping off point. Much has been made of the idea of false equivalence with the shutdown. False equivalence, in journalism terms, is when a news source adds an opposing viewpoint on a level equal to another viewpoint expressed by a source in a story. Here’s an example that doesn’t necessarily include a bunch of traitorous assholes on Capitol Hill—although if you scratch it more than paint deep, it does emit a familiar odor. Say 10,000 climate scientists say the Earth is warming, and it appears it is caused by humans. Then, say 50 scientists in fields other than climate say the world is warming, and it appears to be because of undersea volcanoes. Then, say a reporter at the New York Times quotes a scientist from each group. This gives the appearance of objectivity and balance to a reader who knows nothing of climate change. It gives the reader the impression that the two sides are roughly equivalent. Even if the reporter gives the 10,000 to 50 statistics, the words are what matters in the readers’ mind. It’s a Gordian knot. If the reporter cuts the minority voice out of the story, readers and
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I guess that remains to be seen. First reaction, though, is it’s bad. Our rates are just going up and if seems if we’re going to be doing something like that, it should come down. Besides that, all I know so far is I’m paying more for it.
advertisers complain that the report is unbalanced, the reporter biased. Even other journalists would complain—despite the fact that other journalists have read many reports that show that often those minority opinions have corporate backers. In our climate change example, it’s petroleum companies. If the reporter points out the scientists’ conflicts of interest, those same corporate backers squeal that the reporter should have found an unbiased source to represent the minority view. It’s public relations, folks. It’s spin. It’s a lie that’s been foisted upon the American people that a single piece of journalism can ever represent the whole truth. It’s up to you, readers. Our democracy is based on the idea that you will read many articles about the things that matter to you. It used to be called “the marketplace of ideas,” and much First Amendment law is based on this concept. Walter Cronkite didn’t know the truth, he was just one of the voices that offered a point of view. The government of those days offered another. Time magazine offered another. The New York Times offered another. The American people took all those different ideas and came up with our own idea of truth about Vietnam. The Republican Party on Capitol Hill is being manipulated by a minority of paid-off lackeys. That is the reason for the shutdown. That will be the reason for another debt ceiling crisis. Please forgive our lack of a misleading opposition viewpoint. Ω
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To tell the truth It slipped out in an unguarded moment, as the truth often does. Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, was in the midst of a routine interview on KOH, right-wing talk radio. He knows the format well, having by reported the news for the station in Sheila Leslie a previous life. It’s easy to understand how it happened, in the relaxed broadcast booth where you don’t have to worry that people will be more focused on your hair than your words. What’s incomprehensible is the aftermath. The conversation was barely controversial by KOH standards. This is what Hickey said: “We have some real opportunities in 2014. It is a great year in a nonpresidential election. Seemingly no Democrats at the top of the ticket against Sandoval. No Harry Reid. Probably where we had a million voters out there in 2012, we have 700,000. A lot of minorities, a lot of younger people will not turn out in a non-presidential. It is a great year for Republicans.” In his glee, he didn’t realize anyone would find fault with the link between the last two sentences since this is a given in Republican circles, where little attention is paid to addressing the concerns of youth, minorities, or the poor. Instead of sincerely apologizing Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free: for the offensive statements that http://tinyurl.com/ seemed to celebrate the idea that pwkecnq. young people and minorities are less likely to vote next year, thus ensuring Republican victories, Hickey made the situation much worse by trying to explain it away. As national media outlets started picking up the story, he went on Jon Ralston’s television show and pretended Democrats were inferring he was a racist. In an attempt to showcase his family’s inter-racial composition, he made a crass and insensitive statement regarding his Sun Myung Moon-sanctioned marriage to a Korean woman: “I’m a white guy married to a yellow woman.” It makes me cringe to repeat it.
Within days, condemnation of his remarks were issued in official press releases by U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, Gov. Brian Sandoval, and his counterpart in the Nevada Senate, Minority Leader Michael Roberson. Rarely has the truth sparked such outrage between colleagues. But Hickey and his former friends continued to miss the point, perhaps deliberately. There are very good reasons why minorities and young people are rejecting their party. One need look no further than last session when Republicans fought bitterly against a bill to extend the registration period (AB 440) and another making it easier to vote in person (AB 441). Both bills would have helped minorities and youth participate in the democratic process. When they passed on mostly partyline votes, the governor vetoed the bills. In committee remarks on a related bill, Hickey suggested the Legislature consider instituting an extra fee for those wishing to register to vote on Election Day, saying, “In the case of a passport request, when you come in past a deadline and you want it expedited, you pay an extra fee. I am wondering if we might consider having people pay for the privilege when they somehow managed to miss a deadline.” When reminded of the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that paying to vote is unconstitutional, he insisted he was just kidding. Instead of running away from Hickey’s ill-considered remarks as fast as their carefully vetted news releases allowed, Republican leaders should have been spending more time considering why they’ve lost the support of young people and minorities. After all, the platitudes expressed in the scripted statements don’t fool a soul as virtually no one believes the Republican Party prioritizes the needs of youth, minorities, or lowincome people over creating more wealth for the already rich. While actions do speak louder than words, in this case Hickey’s words matched up nicely with the Republican Party’s deeds. Ω
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In the summer of 2001, a young white girl named Jody Olsen spent several days at a Christian conference on the Pyramid Lake tribal reservation. When her parents came to take her home, they stopped at the home of one of the tribal leaders. When he came to the door, she greeted him in Paiute. Pleased, the elder commented that even young members of the tribe were unlikely to know the language. The preservation of tribal languages is an ongoing battle fought every day by a few dedicated Native Americans. On Sept. 27, one warrior in that battle, Wesley Jim, died at South Lyon Medical Center in Yerington. He was known as a Paiute language keeper. Born in Nixon, he was educated at Stewart Indian School and eventually settled in Schurz. He served in the Navy in World War II, receiving the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with 3 stars, the Philippine liberation ribbon with 2 stars, a Victory ribbon and the Purple Heart. He worked at the Walker River Indian Hospital for three decades. In an email message to friends, Patrick Wilkes of Sutcliffe wrote, “He was an amazing man who worked tirelessly to preserve Paiute language, stories and songs with help from his wife Bea.” One admirer, Marlin Thompson, said, “Wesley was a fluent speaker of the Northern Paiute language, the Pyramid Lake dialect. He sang in the Paiute language and spoke the language excellently. He spoke whenever asked and prayed. He had an excellent knowledge of the old ways he learned from his grandfather. He also recorded songs in the Paiute language.” There are YouTube videos in which Wesley Jim performs.
Nevada seeks Israeli answers Israel experts in getting more out of little water are ready for a Nevada mission to their territory. Gov. Brian Sandoval is leading a group of Nevadans to Israel’s Negev, a desert and semidesert region in the south, to learn more about indoor farming. “One of the prominent areas of mutual interest is water management,” Uri Resnick, deputy consul general of Israel to the Southwest United States, told Jspace.com. Nevada imports billions of dollars of food every year to feed tourists and has been in touch with the Israeli national water company, Mekorot, seeking assistance.
Poll makes questions easy In an opinion survey by Moore Information of Portland, commissioned by the Retail Association of Nevada, the following questions were asked: • “Do you think that the Nevada school system needs significant reforms in order to improve results?” • “Do you think that the Nevada school system can be improved through increased spending?” By gosh, respondents voted 70 percent for “reforms” to 18 percent for “increased spending.” “Reforms” were never defined in pollster questions. It may have meant a return of corporal punishment or switching from 20th to 21st century textbooks—who knows? Respondents had no idea what it meant. Nor was the purpose of “increased spending” ever explained. Maybe it was for repairing leaking ceilings or for free cola in the cafeteria. That information was never given to respondents. They were just responding to buzzwords. The poll also tilted questions on the new national health care program by using the loaded and colloquial term “Obamacare” in its language instead of “Affordable Care Act” or some generic term like “new federal health care program.” The questions began, “Do you believe that the Obamacare law will …” Obamacare has been used as a pejorative term by Republicans. Some Democrats, including Obama, have also used the term, not always comfortably.
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Low-income penalty Nevada socks it to the working poor There is a 6.6 percent difference in the amount paid in state and local taxes by families at the top of Nevada’s by economy when compared to those Dennis Myers at the bottom, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a Washington, D.C., research organization. The 20 percent lowest income Nevada families pay 9 percent of their income in local taxes. The top 1 percent pay 2.4 percent.
“The ones who do vote make sure the system stays the same.” Fred Lokken Political analyst The study is the latest to characterize Nevada’s tax structure as regressive—that is, as hitting lower income Nevadans the hardest. Or to put it another way, the richer you are, the less you pay. But no matter how often it is described that way, the issue never seems to get traction in the state’s politics. “Well, because those who suffer the most from regressiveness don’t vote,” said political analyst Fred Lokken. “They have the lowest turnout in the country.” Jeri, a working mother in Sparks, stops at the Rainbow Market on Rock Boulevard on the Friday her paycheck comes out to fill her tank.
“I always hope that one tank lasts for the two weeks of my pay period,” she said. She shops at the cheapest places she can find for retail goods, uses no air conditioning in summer and keeps the heat shut off as often as her children’s health allows it in winter, and actually uses something that is increasingly rare—a clothesline. “I know about that [sales tax regressiveness]. I heard about it in government class in high school. I always figured it would get fixed when people realized it. I gave up on that a long time ago.” “Yes, I vote,” she said. “But I would expect them to represent my needs even if I didn’t.” She may be expecting too much. “We’ve embraced the notion of dropping property taxes and making them as low as possible,” Lokken said. That puts more and more pressure on sales taxes. “We know the sales tax is regressive, and it’s highly sensitive to recession,” he said. “Pragmatism creeps in. If you’re going to put a bond issue on the ballot, good luck. For whatever reason, sales tax seems to be the tax that they can get away with. And some legislators are proud—‘We protected the wealthy people.’” It’s not always the lobbyists for the rich and powerful who saddle low-income people with higher sales taxes. When the first sales tax was created in Nevada in the 1950s, it was done under pressure from teachers’
lobbyists, whose own constituency would be hit hard by the tax. The same thing happened in 1997 when labor union leaders joined businesspeople to support a sales tax hike to pay for a Colorado River pipeline in southern Nevada and floor control and a railroad trench in northern Nevada. And Democrats were part of the support for a Republican neardoubling of the sales tax in 1981, the largest sales tax hike in state history. “In essence you’ve got a small group of people turning out,” Lokken said. “The ones who do vote make sure the system stays the same.” In some narrow situations, that’s particularly true. “Sparks, especially,” one activist said. That’s surprising because at one time Sparks, as a union stronghold, was very suspicious of sales taxes. These days, it is known as the Mecca of STAR bonds, which allow some businesses to, in effect, keep most of the sales taxes they generate, thus putting greater pressure on the taxes paid by residents who pay their full share. Columnist and editor of NevadaLabor.com Andrew Barbano said Nevada is like a big company town. “Nevadans have a bad case of political co-dependency,” he said. “We seem to enjoy being hurt by the ones who say they love us ... the casino owner who gladly cashes miners’ paychecks, then buys them a few drinks on Friday night. ... Nevadans have seen their governments pass out corporate welfare like candy and condoms. Why clutter your mind considering a tax increase, or a shift toward tax equity, or any tax-tinkering if you have hard evidence that the money will just be handed to some billionaire or corporate predator that doesn’t need it?”
Other people’s money The state also has a tradition of trying to fund government with tourism dollars. “Our philosophy here in Nevada is always to have our taxes paid by tourists,” Lokken said, pointing out that this makes the state highly vulnerable when hard times come. In recessions, which have occurred approximately every 10 years for the past four decades, the state has endured four major budget crises. When the revenue from sales taxes take a dive, services that working people have paid for in good times are not always available because of shortfalls. And it’s not the wealthy
who get slammed with the financial impact when services are rebuilt as good times return. Barbano said the sales tax also has trouble getting into the mainstream media because it’s not telegenic. “Wild horses, gun control, potholes and abortion are easy, either/ or issues, suitable for television,” he said. “Taxes mean talking heads often speaking unintelligibly. Flip over to Wheel of Fortune.” Democrats in other states have often pushed sales taxes as an issue of economic populism. But in Nevada, if they are interested in it at all, they want the press to go first. “I never see stories about the high sales tax anymore,” one member of the Washoe County Democratic Central Committee said. Democrats are not likely to champion low-income voters in part because of their incessant “middle class” mantra and in part because the party is now so heavily corporate-funded. “I once thought that an independently wealthy and liberal white knight could take on the system as an advocate of the weak and the small,” Barbano said. “I have been disappointed for more than 40 years because, to paraphrase Jefferson Airplane, the White Knight somehow always ends up talking backwards.”
“ Nevadans have a bad case of political co-dependency.” Andrew Barbano Columnist For many years in the Nevada Legislature, no sales tax increase could get through because North Las Vegas Assemblymember Robert Price chaired the Assembly Taxation Committee and would stop any such hike. Price was one of the few Democrats who took an anti-sales tax stance. But then Assembly Speaker Joe Dini dumped Price as chair in favor of David Goldwater in order to clear the way for the train trench/water pipeline sales tax hike. The ITEP survey excluded elderly taxpayers. ITEP spokesperson Matt Gardner said that was “because many states treat seniors very differently from non-seniors for tax purposes. For example, Illinois taxes most income at a 5 percent rate, but completely excludes retirement income such as pensions and Social Security, which, of course, are enjoyed primarily by seniors. So if we included seniors in our analysis, that would make the overall effective income tax rate in Illinois appear lower than it really is for most families. In situations like this, we think including seniors would muddy the waters more than anything else.” Ω
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WOMEN’S DEFENSIVE TACTICS Designed to build confidence through the knowledge gained by training in such techniques as Jeet Kune Do and Judo. Tu, 7-8:30PM through 12/31, $25 a month. Osk Training, 636 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 343-2526 CONVERSATION CORNER Washoe County Library presents a series of English language learning sessions. The group will practice speaking English around various scenarios that the average person encounters. W, 4:30-6PM. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St. (775) 352-3200 THINK PINK! Girl Power!: Ladies Night at Scheels! Take a break from your hectic life, and come enjoy Ladies Night at Scheels. Th, 10/10, 6-8PM. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700 FALL PLANTING Presented by Roxanne Martin. Fall is a great time to plant. Cooler temperatures mean less watering and less stress on plants. Sa, 10/12, 11AM. Free - donation of a can of food for the food bank is appreciated. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way (775) 355-1551
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ROSENDO In the Orozko Lounge. Th, 10/10, 5:30PM, F, 10/11, 6PM and Sa, 10/12, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 GROOVE CITY Th, 10/10, 7PM, F, 10/11, 8PM, Sa, 10/12, 8PM and Su, 10/13, 7PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 ELAN TROTMAN W, 10/16, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 PAUL COVARELLI At the Orozko Lounge. Th, 10/17, 5:30PM, F, 10/18, 6PM and Sa, 10/19, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
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happening now! JUST US Th, 10/17, 7PM, F, 10/18, 8PM and Sa, 10/19, 8PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 MAGIC TO DIE FOR Magic, comedy, talking dogs and showgirls will all grace the stage of the Celebrity Showroom during this classic magic show with a modern twist. Th, 10/17, 8PM and F, 10/18, 8PM, $17. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 PHILLIP DENNY W, 10/23, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 TYLER STAFFORD In the Orozko Lounge, no cover. Free parking. Th, 10/24, 5:30PM, F, 10/25, 6PM and Sa, 10/26, 6PM. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 FAST LANE Th, 10/24, 7PM, F, 10/25, 8PM and Sa, 10/26, 8PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300 LEBRON W, 10/30, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
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STATE HEALTH NatioNal health care comes up agaiNst a very sick state. What’s iN it For us? BY DENNIS MYERS
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Dr. mary guiNaN Was laughiNg.
“Did you see the—I recommend you looking at Jimmy Kimmel Live, this YouTube on ‘Obamacare’ vs. the Affordable Care Act. It’s so funny! They interview all these people and they say, ‘Which one do you support? And they say, ‘Oh, Affordable Care, not Obamacare.’ ‘No, I don’t like anything about Obamacare, I want the Affordable Care Act.’ I mean, it’s sad, but it was very funny.” It’s a quality that so many politicians lack these days, the ability to joke about things that, as issues, they consider serious. Guinan has seen some deadly serious things in her career, but her sense of humor remains intact. She’s a typical Nevadan—a transplant. Born in Brooklyn and educated at Hunter College, the University of Texas Medical Branch, and Johns Hopkins University Medical School, she worked early in her career in smallpox eradication in India. Then after a fellowship at the University of Utah, she became a prominent herpes expert. She was a member of the early Centers for Disease Control team working on what would become known as AIDS. Somehow, in 1998, Nevada bagged her as its first woman state health officer. She said then that though other states had elaborate and planned health systems, Nevada did not, and it was a place where she felt she could help. “I thought I could make a bigger impact in Nevada,” she said. She brought fresh eyes to a Nevada whose health care community was often discouraged by the state’s miserly ways and poor reputation. She didn’t realize then that Nevada’s health care system was not primitive by happenstance. It was by design. For decades, the Nevada Legislature had starved all human resource spending. There has long been a faction in the state that opposes social programs, tried to prevent their establishment, and contain their sizes when they could not be stopped. The legislature would create certain levels of service, and stop there. Conservatives complain that Nevada receives far less from the federal government than it sends to Washington, D.C. The reason, though, reflects back on the state’s conservative policies—Nevada declines to participate in many federal programs, kissing off its residents’ share of federal benefits. “Other states are cutting things we don’t even have,” Sen. Sheila Leslie said in 2011. When the state did participate in federal programs, it was often after years of ignoring problems they addressed instead of dealing with them on a state level. For at least 60 years, Nevadans have found remedies to problems ranging from civil rights to pollution only after the federal government entered the picture. Nevada is one of the most unhealthy states—one of the biggest challenges for the new national health insurance program. If that program works in Nevada, it can likely work anywhere. But there are plenty of people who are so jaded to Nevada’s lousy quality of life that they are not expecting another program to change anything fundamental. Mary Guinan is not one of them. Her arrival in Nevada in 1998 was exactly what the state needed. Endlessly optimistic, she never doubted that the state’s poor quality of life and health could be improved.
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are less likely than many jobs to provide health benefits.” That assumes those at the economic bottom will avail themselves of the Act. After all the sound and fury of the congressional battle followed by the Supreme Court battle, only about half of the uninsured are covered by the Act. In Nevada, there are an estimated 577,000 uninsured residents. The national program can handle perhaps 311,000 of them. That’s 54 percent, if they all enroll. Early on, Dr. Guinan liked to point out that what Congress was constructing was not a health care program, but a health insurance program (“Nevada health leader believes reform will pass,” RN&R, Sept. 24, 2009). That means the insurance must be purchased, which is not easy for the working poor. Democrats in Congress, who always have faith in government process, saw subsidies as a way to make that happen, akin to the Earned Income Tax Credit, which requires already burdened low-income taxpayers to apply for tax fairness. Low-income workers will now have one more thing to do with nEvada hEalTh CaRE lEadER all their spare time. How many of the MaRy guinan working poor who really need health As time went on, though, another factor insurance will take time out from home, children, overtook the state’s elderly growth. Latinos came and jobs for that kind of paperwork? on strong in the 1990s and the new century. They Esteban and Maria and their children did their now make up about a fifth of the state’s voters, laundry last weekend at a Sparks laundromat and they tend to be upwardly mobile (many work took time to chat. more than one job), stable, less hostile to governIn spite of the heavy news coverage of how ment programs. Their numbers are now well the federal program will work, neither of them ahead of the 13 percent of Nevadans 65 years of knew a lot about it. Estaban works two jobs age and older. and Maria works one—plus being a mother, so Adding to the state’s health difficulties is the it works out to each of them having two jobs. problem of poverty, which affects how much Maria had read some things about the federal health care the working poor can afford. This is program and knew a deadline of some kind was one place where rankings can mislead. National approaching. But she knew little more and the surveys released last month showed almost 16 two of them were trying to decide whether it percent of Nevadans below the poverty line, would be easier to pony up money for insurance 18th in the nation. They used 2012 data and put or just let the money be taken out of their income Nevada a little lower than the middle among tax at the end of the year. states. The child poverty rate is 24 percent, up “A simpler program is what I needed,” said 57 percent since the start of the recession. This Estaban, who works jobs in a restaurant and a was seen by most observers to mean Nevada beauty shop, neither of which provide health is around the national average. Actually, the insurance. Democrats were supposed to have poverty rate in Nevada is almost certainly underlearned something from the unpopular complexestimated in national rankings. ity of the Clinton health plan, but one group of These rankings are not weighted for local four Reno/Sparks seniors sat down in a sort of factors. Nevada is a tax haven. Wealthy people support group to put all their heads together and who actually live elsewhere maintain residences see if they could figure out the new program. here for tax purposes, and that throws off data. “Complications I can get from Blue Cross,” one That’s why the New York Times could report of them said. in 2001, “Pick almost any index of social well It’s surprising how little changes under the being, and Nevada ranks at or near the bottom federal program. Going to the doctor will be of the 50 states, although it ranks near the top in much the same. When Congress accepted the personal wealth.” notion of a private insurance program instead of Moreover, poverty in Nevada is a moving a public option, it accepted a lot of the template target. The state’s population frequently fluctuunder which health care has been operating since ates so rapidly that any reading is a snapshot. managed care was introduced. There will still It can change quickly after it is taken. Nevada be mini-bureaucracies in doctors’ offices for remains bogged in recession, continues to lead patients to cope with, and there is no reason to the nation in foreclosures, and is usually first or believe that the same corporate behavior that has second in joblessness. driven consumers nuts for years will change just because the care is being purchased through the Silver State Exchange. than a few Nevadans when I ask the obvious question: If you dislike our state so much and think it is so terrible, why don’t you move?” This assumption that one must embrace the policies in order to love the state is unacceptable but often used. For a long time, the state’s changing demographics aided those who opposed social programs. Senior citizens poured into Nevada in the postwar years, seeking low taxes. In the 1980s, the Nevada Department of Education did polling that confirmed expectations—these elderly new residents tended to vote against school bond issues, suggesting a more general opposition to taxes. These residents were also heavy users of what social programs there were, putting two trends in conflict.
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PasT is PROlOguE Nevada is a medical mess. It has become a local cliché to say that the Silver State is at the top of every bad list and the bottom of every good list. That problem has just been dropped on the federal doorstep. For years, national rankings showed Nevada at the wrong end—teen pregnancy, prenatal care, suicide by senior citizens, suicide generally, tobacco use, tobacco-related death, alcohol- and drug-related death, firearms deaths, health insurance coverage (second worst in the nation, after Texas), homicide against women, toxic releases, child immunizations, infectious disease. This year, whooping cough—a deadly disease that’s preventable—is rising in Nevada. Last year, every nursing home in the state was cited by inspectors. Whole swaths of the population—notably women and children—are deemed at greater risk in Nevada. Nevada minors are the most uninsured in the nation. There is a shortage of doctors and nurses. Some of these problems have been with the state for decades, even generations. That is certainly true of mental health. In any other state, the Nevada mental health system would be a scandal. In Nevada, it’s the normal, decades-old way of doing business (“Tradition,” RN&R, April 25, 2013). The recent disclosure by the Sacramento Bee of patient dumping by Nevada is continuity. Non-health rankings also indicate a state not likely to improve any time soon: rate of working people in poverty, voter turnout, reading skills, 14 | RN&R |
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crimes of all types, dropout rate. According to 24/7 Wall Street, “In general, the likelihood of not having health insurance is much higher for those without a high school diploma. In Nevada, due to a poor graduation rate, the chances of this happening are significantly worse.” The health problems are susceptible to change. Teen pregnancy, immunizations and obesity have recently seen improvements in the state after education programs were launched. But Nevada has rarely invested in such education programs. And the Affordable Care Act isn’t in the business of changing infrastructure, of creating programs or building facilities or training healthcare providers. Can it, merely by providing insurance, upgrade a state that could easily be named Downgrade?
ThE wORking POOR In 2003, Gov. Kenny Guinn wanted to make a dent in those national rankings. He won passage of significant tax increases and he and the legislature plowed more money into health programs. Earlier, most of the state’s tobacco settlement was poured into health. But since 2007, the old Nevada has reasserted itself. Under Gov. Jim Gibbons, spending of all kinds was slashed. The onset of the recession exacerbated the problem. Budget after budget was cut to cope with revenue shortfalls over a period of years. Higher education, which has a health role, was chopped by more than a third. There are, of course, those who take criticism of the state’s government policies as criticism of the state itself. David Palmer last month wrote to this newspaper, “I suspect I may speak for more
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A more realistic view of the impact of poverty on Nevada health than recent commentary comes from 24/7 Wall Street, which predicts, “Under the Affordable Care Act in Nevada, those earning under 400 percent of the national poverty rate will be eligible for tax credits. Nevada will likely be one state relying on this provision the most. The state also has the highest proportion of residents employed in service jobs, which
JusT ahEad “I think I didn’t know what to expect when I came here,” Mary Guinan said. “And it’s been, yes, a difficult time, but anything worth doing is difficult. … Public health changes in small steps.” She did two stints as Nevada state health officer, in 1998-2002 and 2008-2009, during
which she participated in the state response to a cancer/leukemia cluster in Churchill County, an anthrax scare in a Reno Microsoft office a month after 9/11, a 2007 hepatitis outbreak at a Las Vegas endoscopy center and the early stages of the H1N1 flu scare. She learned some of the facts of life early. “Nevada has not traditionally invested in prevention,” she told Associated Press in 2001. But she had been at the CDC during the years when the Reagan administration held down efforts to deal with AIDS and still saw things accomplished. During, between and after her turns as health officer, she pushed for efforts to bring Nevada up to date. She can count a number of advances in public health in the state. • The casino industry always clamped hard on the Nevada Legislature when anti-smoking legislation came up. So health advocates went around them and took the issue to the ballot, cautiously exempting casinos from its impact (and thus subjecting casino workers to their toxins). The public approved a ban on smoking in most public places. Guinan still gets excited when describing the victory. “That was the most incredible thing that happened,” she said. “The number of heart attacks have decreased. The asthma attacks have decreased.” • “In southern Nevada, we had the worst oral health in the nation of children,” Guinan said. “Of the top 10 reasons for visiting the pediatric emergency room at [University Medical Center in Las Vegas] was dental problems, dental abscesses.” It took legislative action, Gov. Guinn’s signature, plus a public vote in Clark County, but finally
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retailers national convention convened in Las Vegas, lobbyists slipped a bill through in the closing hours relaxing the voter-mandated restrictions. It left most of them in place, but no • “When I came here, nobody knew what was one believes lobbyists have given up. happening in cancer in Nevada. Nobody Such setbacks notwithstanding, she said, “I analyzed the data. We’d collect data. There feel that Nevada has really come out of the dark [weren’t] enough people to analyze it. Now ages. And it’s hard for the general public to see we have people analyzing the data from the those advances. But we’re trying.” Nevada Cancer Registry.” With all this experience dealing with Nevada’s deep-seated and seemingly unsolvable • Since passage of a new state law—the first health care problems, does Guinan believe that of its kind—providing for AIDS testing of the new national health program is a remedy for pregnant mothers which can result in quick what ails the state, or can at least contribute to treatment, there has not been another HIV easing it? -positive newborn. It was the only moment when the everoptimistic Guinan sounded at all discouraged. • The supply of health care workers is slowly She sighed, then said, “I don’t know. I’m hoping growing. “We have sophisticated public that it will, because the access to health care has health workers now who can analyze been a terrible problem for Nevada.” data—bio-statisticians, epidemiologists, Some of the coverage provided by the ACA, environmental health specialists.” she said, seems almost designed for Nevada. The problem of Nevada’s poor record on women’s “We have actually improved our immunizahealth, for instance: “For women, mammograms tion rates over the past few years,” Guinan said. and pap smears, there’s no co-pay on any “We have also improved—we’ve decreased our insurance for smoking rates. that. So that So things are prevention going down. is—I hope It’s just not there’ll be ever going to much more be very fast. screening.” But in maybe She said FINANCIAL NEWS WEBSITE 27/7 WALL STREET the next ten under the years I think ACA, prevention would likely become more we’re going to see dramatic changes here.” important than it has been in Nevada’s past, But Guinan also learned how the old when the state preferred paying for consequences Nevada could reassert itself. At the 2011 Nevada than for putting money up front on prevention Legislature, a few days before a cigar and pipe (“Spending dollars to save dimes,” RN&R,
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Dancer L. Martina Young explores the image of a swan.
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her upcoming performance, Swan: A Poetical Inquiry in Dance, Text and Memoir, L. Martina Young will explore the depth of the image of swan. It’s her first full-length performance since her double hip replacement surgery three years ago. Swans have enraptured human imaginations throughout history and have been examined by artists of all disciplines. For Young, the image of a swan called to her, and through deep artistic exploration, she’s responding with her performance on Oct. 18 and 19 at the Lighthouse Studio in the Riverside Artists Lofts. It’s the first of a threepart performance series. “Swan is a mythopoetic image that appears in many cultures over history,” said Young. “As an image, it came to me, and as an artist, I responded. I was able to see in my mind’s eye the breadth and depth of entering into engagement with the image and how it happens to resonate with this time of life for me as I approach my 59th birthday. I began investigating the image from many different points of view—from mythological sources, poets, painters, dancers and artists.” Young’s lifetime of artistic exploration in movement started in Los Angeles as a young dancer. From there, her career took her across the globe to share her gift from New York to Paris. She’s equally at home as a scholar and has served on the faculties of the College of William and Mary, California State University, Dominguez Hills, California Institute of the Arts and served as the director of dance for the University of Nevada, Reno from 1988-1994. This year, Young celebrates 25 years in Nevada with Swan.
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the work. It is that discovery, and in the dance, things are felt not only from the performer’s side, but also from the audience. It is a communal experience that we will discover together— what it is about this image that possibly has some importance to our life and times right now as a quality of being?” Young will perform with music played by Los Angelesbased electric violinist David Strother. The relationship adds yet another layer to the experience because they have been working together in art collaborations for the past 20 years. In this performance, Young is addressing an attitude of slowing things down to deeply appreciate and feel a life experience in the moment. This contemplative approach to body movement is different specifically because it is not a current trend in dance nor in our fast-paced culture at large. “It is a distinctly different approach into investigating movement and its possibilities in terms of experience for both of us—the audience and the performer,” said Young. “The resonance shouldn’t end with the end of the performance, something should carry on.” Young is offering an open forum after the performance has ended so the audience can engage with the artist and articulate their thoughts and emotions in a free exchange between both parties. “There will be a post-performance talk so that the audience and I can deepen into what just happen,” said Young. “A forum of exchange where we can mutually articulate what we have experienced. Particularly because … we need a way in and a way out. We take for granted too much. People love the opportunity to ask questions, and they want to delve into the experience through expressing what they have just felt. This offers us both an additional mode of engagement; multiple modes of engagement to help deepen into ‘something.’ It’s gives us the opportunity to explore what we have just witnessed with our eyes and hearts and articulate it with our words.” Ω
Her inquiry into the image of the swan is not about literally dancing like a long-necked water fowl. For her, the grace, beauty and sensuality of the swan connotes a quality of life. As Young says these qualities are further fleshed out in the mythologies, danced, written and sung about swans over time. For example, The Dying Swan, choreographed in 1905 by Mikhail Fokine for the ballerina Anna Pavlova is a touchstone piece in the ballet world for its emotional expression of a swan in her last moments of life. Pavlova performed the piece over 4,000 times in her career. It has inspired many modern interpretations of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet Swan Lake, including Natalie Portman’s visceral performance of Odette’s demise in the 2010 film Black Swan. Young is keen to acknowledge the lineage of her art, as she is moved by the work of past artists to help build on and inform her own work. Evolution, beauty, maturity, sensuality, grace—these are a few of the qualities Young hopes to explore in her performance. When speaking with her about the research she dived into for this work, one is struck by the magnitude of study she conducted over the years to flesh out and understand her creative response to the image. “Swan reveals the further deepening and renewed creative imagining of a mature, bona fide artist who is reveling in her ongoing work,” said dance educator Diane Rugg in a quote posted on Young’s website. “Her subtle, deep and deceptively simple movement material gently suggests rebirth, renewal and the continuing exploration essential to a fully lived human life. Martina’s performance of the work, grounded in her own deep knowing is profound in its ability to engage and fully translate to the viewer, such that I was moved to tears.” Audience members at the performances will also receive a book of text including Young’s writing and research about swans. “Clearly the image resonates deeply with the human imagination and therefore calls to certain qualities,” said Young. “As an artist, it is my job to be responsive and investigate—what does swan want me to know and what is it in the culture that is asking to learn from this quality of life swan represents? That’s
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Second Annual Craft Brewers Festival American craft-brewed beer nearly went extinct during the dry days of prohibition. But by after decades of cultivating yeast and Clint Demeritt malting barley, American beer is as diverse and rich as the country itself. To that end, the good health of Nevada’s craft brewing ecology was on display during the Second Annual Craft Brewers Festival, which took place Oct. 5. “It’s really exciting to see all these other breweries come into the state and start up,” said event organizer Doug Booth, sales manager for Great Basin Brewing Company. “We’re really excited to work with them, collaborate with them and put Nevada on the map as far as great beer.” Booth said the event was held to highlight and support Nevada breweries, and only Silver State institutions were featured. Hundred of attendees visited the 17 brewery tents from all over the state. As beer flowed into tasting glasses, around 66 varieties were poured, from golden lagers to pitch-black porters.
Two specialty beers were created for the event, a collaboration between Northern and Southern Nevada breweries. Southern hop-heads brought up “Rebel Rye Sin,” a spicy India Pale Ale. Northern brewers concocted the “Northern Ryeghts,” consisting of four different types of rye malts and wood essence gathered from local mahogany trees. Crowd pleasers included Great Basin’s Hop-a-saur Double IPA, as well as Peace, Love and Hoppyness Pale Ale from Vegas brewer Big Dog Brewing Co. Other notable beers included the Raspberry Red from High Sierra Brewing Co. and Old Jackalope Barleywine from Tenaya Creek Brewery. With so many different types of craft beer on tap, the question of what defines a craft brew comes up. Though the beverage genus can be a bit hard to pin down, many brewers and beer drinkers related craft beer to smaller production runs, quality ingredients and complex flavors. Technically, a craft brewery produces less than 6 million barrels of beer per year. But Josh Watterson, the head brewer at
Reno’s Brasserie Saint James, sees the cut-off at 100,000 or less barrels, along with some other key traits. “I think a craft brewery is someone who takes the best ingredients on a small scale so they can really dive into the beer,” Watterson said. Those types of breweries have been popping up all over the state, from Joseph James Brewing in Henderson, to High Sierra Brewing Co. in Carson City, along with 6-month-old Stoneyhead Brewing Co. here in Reno. With so much beer flowing from new outlets in the state, Nevada has been experiencing a real brew revolution. “Craft brewing is becoming huge,” said Paul Michelini, a brewer with Stoneyhead. Michelini said though his brewery is less than a year old, it has already started to see some revenue returns. Other signs of craft beer’s rising popularity can be seen all
over the state. Bottled beer sales are strong, according to Tenaya Creek and Great Basin, which both started bottling their own beers a few years ago. Michelini said the brew fest was a great way to get lesser known breweries in front of the public. He said the festival is hopefully only the beginning. The proceeds of the event will go into the coffers of the Nevada Craft Brewers Association. With its new charter, the association aims to proliferate craft beer in the state with more events and community engagement. The association was also set up to eliminate many of the legal obstacles that stand in brewers’ ways. Many brewers in the association were excited about putting together a beer map for the state of Nevada. The map would point out local breweries and pubs for thirsty tourists and locals. Perhaps with enough hops, malted barley and sweat, California won’t be the only golden state in the West. Ω For more information, visit www.facebook.com/NevadaCraftBrewersAssociation.
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Breakfast and lunch are the mainstays, but the Café offers dinners on Friday and Saturday. Walk in to a cozy, art deco revival throwback décor with seating for 34 people and a butcher-block eat-at counter with room for eight. The staff is all energy and, no question, they love where they are and what they do. Schuster, who creates everything on the menu, emphasizes that she takes great care to buy as much organic, local product as possible, and even her meats and poultry are organic certified humane (standards require nutritious diets without antibiotics or hormones, animals raised with shelter, resting areas, sufficient space and the ability to engage in natural behaviors). The menu is really pretty simple but took a lot of thought, and just about everything on it can be swapped for gluten-free and vegan at no additional cost. Schuster created the menu to make everyone feel good about ordering anything without worrying about special diet considerations—truly a “one-sizefeeds-all” menu.
At breakfast, naturals like cinnamon swirl French toast ($6), DeLuxe Scramble ($8) with home fries and fresh veggies, muesli ($4) organic oats ($4), a basic breakfast ($7), or my choice, an egg taco ($4 each). It came on an organic corn tortilla with melted cheddar cheese, fried egg, black bean salsa, sour cream and avocado. From the maize base to the sour cream atop, the layers of flavor were tasted with every bite. From corn to the savory bean salsa to the rich, buttery flavor of the avocado finished with the slightly tart, sour cream, a very satisfying nosh and just the right size for breakfast. That brings me to another refreshing nuance about this place, Schuster designed all the servings to have “reasonable portions,” not wasting huge amounts of food that people don’t finish. For lunch, they offer homemade soups daily ($3.50/cup-$4.50/bowl), salads, like kale with lemon, salt and olive oil ($4.50), topped with avocado and chopped almonds and a scoop of quinoa for a couple bucks more. My pick was the goddess ($6.50), generous with organic greens, cucumber, shredded carrots, shredded beets, garbanzo beans, sunflower sprouts and seeds, and avocado with lemon tahini dressing. It was Mother Nature’s bounty at its best—fresh. The dressing with the sesame seeds paste, a bit of garlic, lemon and spice made a great savory-tart complement. There’s a simple, but creative selection of hot and cold sandwiches ($5-$6.50) and specialties ($6.50$7.50) plus a kid’s menu ($3-$4). Apple cheddar melt ($5.50) caught my eye with Granny Smith apples, Tillamook sharp cheddar, bacon (extra $2) toasted open face on sourdough with a homemade Dijon mustard. This rekindled an old tradition of marrying cheddar cheese with apple pie; throw in bacon and accessorize with tart, slightly bold mustard, and you have easily tasted flavors that are delicious memories for anyone over 50. Just a few wines and a few beers, and organic juices. I tried the housemade chai tea ($3.50) and found the cardamom and ginger and perhaps a little local honey most pleasing. Schuster believes an individual’s neighborhood should serve a vital role in terms of offering camaraderie and acting as a support system, and have one common place people could gather and be … neighborly. Ω
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Space is the place Gravity Finally, with Gravity, we get a big event movie that delivers the sort of thrills absent from too many large-scale movies promising big things this year. If you put this movie in your face, you are going to have a cinematic trip like no other. This is what going to the movies is supposed to be about. I sound like a movie critic quote machine, and I don’t care. I want to make this perfectly by clear: YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE! Bob Grimm And shell out the extra few bucks for 3-D, because the whole idea of this film is to physibgrimm@ newsre view.c om cally make you feel like you are lost in space. This is an example of a 3-D movie where those glasses really add to the experience. The way this film is shot often puts you inside a spacesuit looking down at the Earth or, if the movie character happens to be drifting and tumbling in space, looking out of a space helmet as the Earth rhythmically passes by your view as you are flipping over and over.
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If you are one of those people currently getting nauseated by your iPhone IOS 7 update and all of those crazy moving graphics, you might want to go see Don Jon instead, because this sucker has a lot of movement. In her first true blue science fiction role since Demolition Man, Sandra Bullock puts herself through the wringer as Ryan Stone, an astronaut on her first space shuttle flight. Her mission commander, played by a charismatic and calming George Clooney, ribs her about her upset tummy as he flies around space in a jet pack while she works tirelessly on the Hubble. They receive an ominous message from Earth. The Russians have purposely destroyed one of their satellites, and this has set off a chain reaction destroying multiple satellites and creating loads of fast moving space debris. At first, they’re told it shouldn’t be a problem. Moments later, they revise that theory and let the astronauts know that they appear to be totally screwed.
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The space debris collides with their shuttle, and the movie is off and running. Director Alfonso Cuaron delivers the action seamlessly, often as if it were all one shot, and the effect is unrelenting. When Ryan reaches out to grab something to prevent herself from spinning out into space, you will be straining right along with her. Cuaron isn’t all about the thrills, either. He and son Jonas have written a screenplay that packs plenty of emotional wallop along with the thrills. Bullock, who has gone public with how difficult the shoot was, is both physically and emotionally taxed, and her haunting performance will surely put her in Oscar contention. Actually, just about every aspect of this film should find itself in an Oscar race, from the astronomical cinematography, to the gripping writing, and the amazing feats achieved through sound. Gravity would actually be a trippy experience if you took it in with your eyes closed. What Cuaron and his crew do with sound will astound you. Clooney, in a part that originally went to Robert Downey, Jr., looks like a guy who should be floating around in space, doesn’t he? The man’s mug just screams “Astronaut!” The actor appears to relish every second he spends on screen. His Matt Kowalski is on his last mission, sharing stories, trying to break spacewalk records, proving his iron resolve and pervading good nature even when space debris has just whizzed by his head and pulverized his spacecraft. In honor of this momentous cinematic achievement, I don’t wish to draw comparisons to any other films. Gravity is its own beautiful beast, a singularly unique experience that will leave you beyond satisfied, and very happy you didn’t wait to watch it in your living room. See Gravity on the biggest, boldest screen available to you, and prepare to have your mind blown. Ω
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and stars in this frank sex comedy about a sex addict who thinks porn is better than true romance. Gordon-Levitt is excellent and consistently funny as the title character, a Jersey boy who’s quite the stud, yet finds himself jerking off to internet porn within mere minutes of finishing with a live woman. His little problem comes to the forefront when he meets Barbara (Scarlett Johansson), the first real love of his life, a woman with high standards who doesn’t approve of the porn thing. The movie is full of porno clips, so don’t see it with kids or a first date, unless you and that first date already have some sort of naughty understanding. Gordon-Levitt has given us something akin to a funnier Saturday Night Fever, with porn replacing disco. Julianne Moore is her usual excellent self in a supporting role, and the shock casting of Tony Danza as Don’s dad proves smart. Danza gets to show some cinematic comedy chops that he hasn’t been able to show off before. This is an overall triumph for Gordon-Levitt.
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This is animation done with all the style and grace of a spastic colon saturated with hot sauce. While the first film in this series had a reasonable amount of charm, this one goes haywire from its start right until the finish line. Bill Hader returns as the voice of Flint, the overly excited inventor who, in the first movie, managed to use a crazy invention to inundate his hometown with giant food. Now, the machine has gone nuts, creating a race of living food including cheeseburger spiders and dolphin bananas. The film boasts an intolerably frantic pace, with a plotline that’s scattered beyond reasonability. It’s hard to follow, but it does have the occasional fart and poop joke to make the kids laugh. The only character I managed to enjoy was a jittery monkey trying to put out a sparkler, and that accounts for about 30 seconds of the film. Don’t waste your time and, trust me, your kids won’t like it either.
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Director James Wan was on a bit of a roll with the first film in this series and his recent The Conjuring. That roll doesn’t simply come to a halt with this film. That roll crashes into a concrete, steel enforced wall that Jesus himself built while reminiscing about his carpentry days. This latest attempt to make a haunted house movie with next to no money is a hilarious catastrophe. Wan basically uses the same tricks, including smoke machines, green lights, practical makeup and crappy music, to try and get scares out of a formula that clearly had a short shelf life. This one involves Josh (Patrick Wilson), the father from the first film acting a little strange after his trip into another dimension to retrieve his son. His wife (Rose Byrne) suspects that, gosh darn it, something must be wrong because there are still funny things happening with her baby monitor. The movie wants to be a poor man’s The Shining, with Wilson going all Nicholson wacky and Byrne doing her best Shelley Duvall impersonation. It’s terrible, but it’s a big moneymaker, so, as with the Paranormal Activity films, this isn’t going to stop anytime soon.
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Director Lee Daniels, prominently mentioned in the film’s title after a much publicized lawsuit, delivers a fine emotional wallop with this historical epic very loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a butler at the White House for 34 years. Those going to this film for its true historical significance take note: the film contains much fiction. Allen is renamed Cecil (played by Forest Whitaker), and is given a fictional son in order to depict a family conflict regarding the Civil Rights movement. So, this film, which shows the butler interacting with presidents from Eisenhower (Robin Williams) thru Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman), is mostly made up. That doesn’t hurt the film’s dramatic significance. It’s an ultimately moving experience. What does damage the film a bit is horrible makeup, especially a goofy fake nose for John Cusack as Richard Nixon. The makeup is sometimes so bad that the film turns into unintentional comedy when some characters are on screen. Whitaker holds the whole thing together, and Oprah Winfrey, in her first starring role since her excellent turn in Beloved, does strong work as
Cecil’s wife. Other stars playing presidents include a relatively makeup-free James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, and an absolutely covered Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson.
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For a good part of its running time, this one seems as if it could wind up being one of 2013’s best pictures. Alas, it frays at the end, with a finale as stupid as the rest of the film is gripping. Hugh Jackman delivers a fierce performance as Keller Dover, a survivalist who goes into vigilante mode after his daughter and her friend are kidnapped. When a semi-irritable detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) apprehends a mentally challenged suspect (Paul Dano), Dover and the detective go head-to-head on how to deal with matters. When the suspect is set free, Dover captures and tortures him. This part of the film is solid, dealing with the lengths a parent would go to find a child. As for the film’s mystery element, that’s where things fall apart. Gyllenhaal is quite good here, even when the screenplay lets him down. The movie was shot by Roger Deakins, so it always looks good. It’s worth seeing, but it’s a bit of a disappointment.
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Was the world aching for a movie about online gambling? If so, was it aching for a movie about online gambling where Justin Timberlake gets beaten up a lot while looking really scared most of the time as Ben Affleck feeds poultry to his pet crocodiles? Timberlake plays a college student making his tuition through online gambling. After possibly getting hustled, he travels to Costa Rica to get in the face of the guy in charge of the gambling site (Affleck). He winds up getting a job and thrusting himself into a seedy online gambling underworld that involves running around a lot and acting real confused. Timberlake is an actor who can look really good, or really, really lost. This time he’s in lost mode. As for Affleck, I kind of like him in this movie, and enjoy when he plays bad guys. The movie lets him down in a big way with its silly subplots and failed attempts at being clever.
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Hollywood has a real hard time making car-racing movies even remotely compelling. The latest genre misfire comes from director Ron Howard, who brings the true story of James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) to the big screen in surprisingly ho-hum fashion. The surprise comes in that the story itself is so amazing, it wouldn’t’ seem possible to render it dull, yet Howard manages just that. For a racing movie, surprisingly little of the film actually takes place on the racetrack. Instead, too much of the film is devoted to routine love stories that seem to be a means of saving budget. Bruhl is decent as Lauda, a determined man who returned to racing mere weeks after being severely burned in a near fatal crash. Hemsworth is charming as Hunt, but little more. Their rivalry was one of the greatest in sports history, yet this movie turns it into a soap opera.
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We’re the Millers
Jason Sudeikis plays a small-time drug dealer who gets in over his head and is forced by his boss (Ed Helms) to smuggle drugs from Mexico. Realizing that border agents seem to go easy on families, he hires a fake family to make the trip in an RV. The family includes a wife (a stripper played by Jennifer Aniston), a daughter (a homeless girl played by Emma Roberts) and a son (a hapless neighbor played by Will Poulter). The film has a Vacation movie vibe, especially because Sudeikis is charming in a way that Chevy Chase was for a brief time in his career. Aniston plays a mighty good stripper, for sure. She has another calling in case the whole acting thing doesn’t work out. Roberts gets perhaps her best role yet as Casey, delivering some great eye-rolling moments. As for Poulter, he steals scenes nearly every time he speaks, and his encounter with a tarantula is priceless. Sure, the movie gets a little gooey and sentimental by the time it plays out, but we’ve come to like the characters by then so it’s OK. It’s not a grand cinematic effort by any means, but it does provide some good laughs, with a fair share of them being quite shocking.
Hear new evil Countress “We started this band to celebrate everything evil,” says guitarist Ryan Young of the Reno band Countress. “We try to by Brad Bynum do Slayer and Sabbath every song.” Countress incorporates references bradb@ and styles from throughout the 45 newsre view.c om years of heavy metal history that began when Black Sabbath formed in 1968. The band members of Countress are Young, guitarist Alex Garcia, drummer Jesse Johnson, Photo/Brad Bynum
vocalist Miles Lundahl, and bassist Joseph Stanislaus Küster VI, who swears that’s his real name and not just the results of some internet heavy metal name generator. These musicians move from slow, heavy doom metal into fast, upbeat thrash, and then into a midtempo metal groove, with a noisy blast beat thrown in there somewhere for good measure. But the music is not hyperactive genre-cutting. The songs are cohesive and what’s more, catchy. “We try to make metal that’s written like pop songs,” says Young. “We’ve always said that we want to write Motown hits, but in a metal way,” says Garcia. The songs have pop song structures and recognizable hooks, with guitar riffs that stay humming in a listener’s head long after the songs are over. But it’s all delivered at high volume, with dense chunks of sound and aggressive energy. “Transition from the machine gun to the shotgun—rapidfire to slow fire,” says Lundahl, adding that he plays a lot of video games. His vocals are more of a hardcore punk shout than a Cookie Monster growl, but his lyrics are very metal, many of them inspired
The members of Countress after finishing a typically nutritious meal.
Countress plays with Walk away alpha, and the harvest and the hunt at Jub Jub’s thirst Parlour, 71 S. Wells ave. on Friday, oct. 11, at 9 p.m. $3. For more information, visit count ress.bandcamp.com.
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by horrors from movies or real life. “Origin” is about conspiracy of reptilian shapeshifters, “Black Glove” is about the Heaven’s Gate cult, and “High Moon” is a Wild West tale. The band’s name was partly inspired by the 1971 Hammer Horror movie Countess Dracula. The band added the “r” to differentiate from the dozens of other bands using the name Countess. But the band members say the neologism has raised a few eyebrows since it looks like a typo. (Apple technology autocorrects the name to “Countless.”) “We get a lot of slack for that,” says Garcia. “People say, [sarcastically] ‘What is a countress?’ Whatever.” “Torche isn’t a real word,” says Lundahl. “Metallica isn’t a real word.” “Originally, we were going to be called Metallica Also,” says Garcia. The band members are apparently charismatic. While standing outside their practice place during their interview with the RN&R, a bevy of good-looking women walked up to the band members just to give them free bottles of beer and wine. It was pretty baller. They’ve been a band for more than a year, and have already recorded fairly extensively. They’ve recorded a full-length album, Ov Sin, which the plan to release before the end of the year. Last year, for Halloween, they released a twosong EP called Crawling from the Grave, which they recorded with well-known local producer and recording engineer Tom Gordon. They hope to add new songs to the EP every year on Halloween. The songs on Crawling from the Grave are inspired by famous crimes in Nevada history. One of the songs in the first batch was called “Mesmerizer,” about the two young men from Sparks who shot themselves in 1985, which their parents famously alleged was inspired by subliminal messages in Judas Priest’s music. One of this year’s Crawling from the Grave songs was inspired by the Mizpah Hotel burning down on Halloween, 2006. At press time, the band members still hadn’t agreed on a title for the song, though “Destruction Miz Population” is a strong contender. Ω
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FRIDAY 10/11
ABBY’S HIGHWAY 40 424 E. Fourth St., (775) 322-9422
THE ALLEY
The Blind Shake Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m. The Holland Project 140 Vesta St. 742-1858
906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891
BAR-M-BAR CEOL IRISH PUB
3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Morgan Preston, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; JJ Ramirez, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Jeff Dye, Brandt Tobler, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; The Stagebenders, Joel Lindley, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: The Utility Players, Th, 7:30pm, $12, $16; Sean Peabody, F, 7pm, $13, $16; Hypnot!c with Dan Kimm, F, 9:30pm, $13, $16
Alias Smith, 9:30pm, no cover
Drinking with Clowns, 10pm, no cover
DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover
Live music, 9:30pm, no cover
Live music, 9:30pm, no cover
Curtis Young, Keyringz, Christine Storm, Spectrum IN Motion, 8pm, $10-$15
Drag Queen Boxing, 9pm, $5-$15
Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover
Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover
1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244
Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover
Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover
COMMA COFFEE
Mark Diorio, 11:30am, no cover
538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558
312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662
COTTONWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711
Lisa Marie Johnston, 7pm, no cover
DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917
EL CORTEZ LOUNGE
Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover
235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255
FUEGO
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/14-10/16
Select Saturday, 10pm, no cover
Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover
816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206
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Six Mile Station, Weapons of Mass Creation, Feather Merchants, 8:30pm, no cover
SUNDAY 10/13
Open Deck Wednesday, 8pm, W, no cover
Collective Thursdays, 8pm, no cover Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover
125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005
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Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover
James Wilsey Jr., 9pm, no cover
Traditional Irish Tune Session, 7pm, Tu, no cover
Grant Davis, 7pm, no cover
CW and Mr. Spoons, noon, M, no cover Mark Diorio, 5:30pm, W, no cover Dinner Theater Show w/Richard Blair and Friends, 7pm, $TBA
Jimmy Ashley, 7pm, no cover Rick Hammond, 9:30pm, no cover
Hellbilly Bandits, 9:30pm, no cover
Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, no cover
Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover
Open Mic Jam, 9:30pm, M, karaoke, 9:30pm, Tu, open mic, 9:30pm, W, no cover Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover
Karaoke w/Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, Tu, no cover Karaoke w/Miss Amber, 9pm, W, no cover
Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover
Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA
Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover
170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800
THE GRID BAR & GRILL 8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300
HANGAR BAR
Karaoke Kat, 9pm, no cover
10603 Stead Blvd., Stead; (775) 677-7088
HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL
Open mic, 7pm, no cover
1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665
THE HOLLAND PROJECT
Dream Salon, The Blind Shake, Cat Jelly, Delta Terradactyl, 7:30pm, $5
140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858
Canyon Jam, 8pm, no cover
Anthony Garcia, CJ Gibson, Greg Rae II, 7:30pm, $TBA
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JAVA JUNGLE
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/14-10/16
Java Jungle Sunday Music Showcase, 7pm, no cover
246 W. First St., (775) 329-4484
JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN
Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover
1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659
JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652
KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648
Pepper, RDGLDGRN, 8pm, $20-$45
First Take featuring Rick (SAX) Metz, 6pm, no cover
Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover
Countress, Walk Away Alpha, The Harvest and the Hunt, 9pm, $3
Diamond Head, Raven, Volture, Pain Clinic, Weight of the Tide, 7pm, $23
Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover
33.Black Apparel Launch Party w/Royal Bliss, John Gray, 7pm, $15, $18
Disclosure, T. Williams, 9pm, $22.50-$50
Hellbound Glory, Supersuckers, 7:30pm, Tu, $13-$20 Junip, Barbarossa, 8pm, W, $15-$30
Colorless Blue, 1pm, no cover
KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL
Tracorum
Open Mic/College Night, 8pm, Tu, no cover
405 Vine St., (775) 323-6500
THE POINT
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover
3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001
POLO LOUNGE 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover
Gemini w/Johnny Lipka & Andrea, 9pm, no cover
Gemini w/Johnny Lipka & Andrea, 9pm, no cover
RED DOG SALOON
Lady and the Tramps, 8pm, no cover
76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474
RISE NIGHTCLUB
Oct. 12, 10 p.m. Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333
Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover
Maximum Volume Thursdays w/DJs Max, Noches de Sabor: Latin Night w/DJ Rise Culture Saturday, Fierce, 11pm, $5-$10; no cover ages 21+ Freddo, 11pm, $5-$10; no cover for locals 10pm, $5-$10
210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833
RUBEN’S CANTINA
Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover
1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424
RYAN’S SALOON
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover
924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142
SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB
Wicked Hicks, 9pm, no cover
1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030
ST. JAMES INFIRMARY 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484
STUDIO ON 4TH
Country in Lights w/Lizzie Cates and Friends, 8pm, $5
432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993
Everything Hard EDM event w/Chi-gu kom, Sravana108, Twitch, 8pm, $5
WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE
Hellbound Glory
Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover Strangeworld, 9pm, no cover
Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover
Dance party, 9pm, no cover
Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover
The Adventures of Good & Proud, 8pm, $5, $10
Karaoke Night, 7pm Tu, Open Mic Wednesdays, 7pm, W, no cover
Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m. Knitting Factory 211 N. Virginia St. 323-5648
All Night Heat, Friday @ 1, 7pm, no cover
3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307
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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-4700 1) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret
THURSDAY 10/10
FRIDAY 10/11
SATURDAY 10/12
SUNDAY 10/13
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/14-10/16
2) American Made Band, 8pm, no cover
2) American Made Band, 4pm, Kick, 10pm, no cover
2) American Made Band, 4pm, Kick, 10pm, no cover
2) Kick, 8pm, no cover
2) Escalade, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Midnight Express, 7pm, no cover
2) Midnight Express, 8pm, no cover
2) Midnight Express, 8pm, no cover
2) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Keyser Soze, 10pm, no cover
2) Tracorum, 10pm, no cover
1) Will Durst, 8:30pm, W, $16, $19
1) Grease, 8pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Grease, 7pm, 9:30pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
CARSON VALLEY INN
1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) Valley Sky Theatre
CRYSTAL BAY CLUB
14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room
DJ Spryte
ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO
Oct. 12, 10 p.m. Peppermill 2707 S. Virginia St. 826-2121
Karaoke Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, 829-8886: J.P. and Super Fun Entertainment, Th, 8pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 847-4467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover
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345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge 5) Stadium Bar
1) Grease, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Grease, 7pm, $24.95+ 2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Grease, 7pm Tu, W, $24.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Alias, 10:30pm, W, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, W, no cover
GRAND SIERRA RESORT
2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) The Beach 4) Summit Pavilion
1) Idan Raichel Project, 7:30pm, $25, $35
HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE
1) Blue Oyster Cult, 7:30pm, $47.30 3) DJ SN1, 10pm, $20
15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) Peek Nightclub
HARRAH’S RENO
1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 8pm, $25, $35 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center
JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET
1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko 4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s
2) Groove City, 7pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Karaoke Night, 7pm, no cover
1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 8pm, $25, $35 1) The Biggest Little Sideshow, 2) Night Moves, 9pm, no cover 2) Night Moves, 9pm, no cover 8pm, $25, $35 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover
2) Groove City, 7pm, no cover
2) Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 7pm, W, no cover 3) Elan Trotman, 6pm, W, no cover
2) Audioboxx, 8pm, no cover 2) Audioboxx, 8pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 3) DJ Chris English’s birthday 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, celebration w/DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20 DJ ((Fredie)), 10pm, $20
2) Kyle Williams, 6pm, no cover
2) Kyle Williams, 6pm M, Tu, W, no cover
2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Friday, 7pm, no cover 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover
2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover
2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Step This Way (dubstep, house), 8pm, W, no cover
2) Groove City, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover
MONTBLEU RESORT
3) Boogie Nights, 8pm, no cover w/’70s or ’80s attire
55 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 648-3353 1) Theatre 2) Opal 3) Blu
PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge 4) Capri Ballroom
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2) Groove City, 8pm, Country at the Cabaret w/DJ Jamie G, 9pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover
3) 3-D Thursdays w/DJs Max, Chris English, Kronyak, 10pm, $20
407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 3) Social Network Night, 9pm, no cover 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 4) Live music, 6:30pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge 5) Drinx Lounge
2) Live music/DJ, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Live music, 8:30pm, no cover
For a complete listing of this week’s events, visit newsreview.com/reno
WORLD PARTY Idan Raichel Project
Artown’s 2013-2014 Encore Series kicks off with a performance by the Israeli singersongwriter and his collective of musicians from a variety of cultural origins. The members of the Idan Raichel Project have become global ambassadors representing a hopeful world in which artistic collaboration breaks down barriers between people of different backgrounds and beliefs. A household name in Israel, Raichel is a composer, keyboardist and producer and has performed with Alicia Keys, collaborated with India.Arie on several musical projects and has performed for President Barack Obama. Idan Raichel Project’s latest album, Quarter to Six, features guest appearances by Portuguese fado star Ana Moura, Palestinian-Israeli singer Mira Awad, German counter-tenor Andreas Scholl, Colombia’s Marta Gómez, Vieux Farka Touré and a selection of some of Israel’s up-andcoming singers and musicians. The group will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Grand Theater inside Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St. Tickets are $25 and $35. Call 789-2285 or visit www.renoisartown.com.
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Great May Center Pumpkin Walk
Reno Fright Fest Presents Slaughter House
The second annual event features hundreds of hand-carved pumpkins, which will be lit and put on display. Costumed volunteers will pass out candy and treats to kids as they walk along the trail at the Wilbur D. May Museum and Arboretum. Hot chocolate and cider will be served after the walk. The trail is stroller and wheelchair accessible. Participants are encouraged to wear costumes to get in the spirit of the season. The all-ages event begins at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, at the Rancho San Rafael Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Admission is $3 per person. Call 785-5961 or visit www.maycenter.com.
The annual Halloween attraction returns for another year of terror at its new location under the Rise Nightclub, 210 N. Sierra St., in downtown Reno. Boasting more than 18,000 square feet, the venue will feature plenty of frights to keep visitors on edge. The horror house will open for business on Thursday, Oct. 10, and continue its ghastly operations on Oct. 11-13, 17-20, 24-27, 31 and Nov. 1-3. Hours are 7-11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5-9 p.m. on Sunday. The Slaughter House will stay open late on Halloween night. Admission is $13 per person. Call (887) 767-2279 or visit www.renofrightfest.com.
Sounds Music Walk Participating venues in Reno’s bustling Midtown will open their doors to the public for this event presented by the Creative Coalition of Midtown. There will be music-themed art, activities, food and live entertainment beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12. Admission is free. Maps can be downloaded from the coalition’s website or picked up on the evening of the event at Melting Pot Emporium, 1049 S. Virginia St. Later that night, the Biggest Little City Club at 188 California Ave., and Reno Public House at 33 St. Lawrence Ave. will take part in the Sounds Music Walk Late Night event. For a $25 wristband, attendees will get a special edition show print, enjoy drink specials and see performances by Failure Machine, Knowledge Lives Forever, Pretty Unknown and Formerly Known As (a Prince tribute band). The fun begins at 9 p.m. at BLCC and moves to the Reno Public House at 11 p.m. Call 846-1029 or visit http://creativecoalitionreno.com. OPINION
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The Theta Omicron chapter of Pi Kappa Phi presents this community street art festival. Original works of art will be exhibited as part of the two-day festival, which will also feature art vendors, live music, entertainment, performance art, workshops, an interactive kid’s zone, food and refreshments. The event benefits Push America, which raises funds and awareness for people with disabilities. The festival takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12-13, at the Joe Crowley Student Union at the University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St. Admission is free. Visit www.chalkontheblock.org.
The Eldorado Hotel Casino’s 32nd annual festival, held every year over Columbus Day weekend, celebrates Italian culture and traditions by transforming downtown Reno into Little Italy. The event includes a grape stomp, sauce cookers’ competition, an Italian farmers’ market, bocce ball, kids’ gelato-eating contest, Ferrari car display, Italian buffet and live entertainment by Ray Massa’s Eurorhythms, Moreno Fruzzetti, Tre Bella, Bella Ciao, Capuano n’ T Rock and Primo Basso, among others. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12-13, on Third, Fourth and Virginia streets in downtown Reno outside the Eldorado, 345 N. Virginia St. Admission is free. Call 786-7500 or visit www.eldoradoreno.com.
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Social notworking My 40-something younger brother has been “friending” my hot female friends on Facebook, women I have befriended in real life who he’s never even met! I said nothing at first. Then, one of these women posted a photo of herself, and I commented on it in a flirtatious way. Up pops my brother, commenting on my comment in a way that killed her ability to respond to me and adding a personal message to me, “Hey, bro, call me when you’re up.” I was upset that he’d butted into my conversation with her, and I don’t think her page is a place for him to leave messages to me. I asked him to remove his comment, and he was upset and insulted. Shouldn’t etiquette standards apply online, too? If I’m having a face-to-face conversation with someone, it’s considered rude to just walk up and butt in. And, isn’t it a little creepy that my brother trolls my Facebook page and “friends” women he’s never met? Facebook brings a lot of people closer, like the hot women you’ve gone to the trouble of developing friendships with in real life and your brother, who’s gone to the trouble of paying his electric bill and turning on his computer. Hot women on the internet—those who don’t take credit cards for their friendship—can be pretty guarded. Luckily, your brother shares your last name, so instead of your hot friends seeing his friend request and thinking “Eek, who’s this perv?” they probably think something like, “Oh, how adorable. Joe Blow has a little brother, Bo Blow.” As unfair as it seems that your brother logged in to Facebook and sat there in his underwear helping himself to a salad bar of your female friends, you seem to have misunderstood something about the nature of Facebook conversations. “Facebook” is not the name of a romantic restaurant where you’ve booked a table for two. You’re having these flirtatious exchanges at a “table” for, oh, 547 of a woman’s closest friends—along with any “friends” she might’ve made through those friends. This might explain why they call it “social networking” and not “social isolation.” No, your brother shouldn’t turn some woman’s Facebook page into the digital version of the write-on/ wipe-off board your mom used to have by the kitchen phone. Because he got to this woman through you, this makes you look bad by association. So, you aren’t wrong to want him to change his message-leaving behavior, and you can call dibs if there’s one particular woman you’re putting the moves on. But telling someone what to do, even when a demand is phrased as a
request (to remove the comment, in this case), generally doesn’t inspire him to say, “Right, I was a jerk. I’ll change, pronto!” It makes him angry, hurt and defensive. A more effective approach is telling him you feel bad about something he’s doing, evoking his sympathy. That’s probably your best bet for getting him to back off a bit from your Facebook harem, considering it’s a little late to put your privacy settings on lockdown and way late to take the age-old approach to brotherly conflict resolution: “Maaaaa! Bro’s stealing all my hotties—just like he stole my firetruck 45 years ago!”
Battle of the divulge My boyfriend won’t “friend” my friends or relatives on Facebook. He says he doesn’t want to worry about censoring his posts or friends’ comments. Well, I have a handful of friends, and now a brother and a cousin, who’ve told me that he never responded to their friend request, and I worry that they’ll think he is rude or doesn’t like them. Your boyfriend probably prefers your brother remember him for the wonderful way he helped your granny and not for how he looks in that photo his friend likes to post—the one where he’s passed out on someone’s bathroom floor with a bra draped across his chest and “Princess” written across his face with a Sharpie. Although privacy is reportedly dead, it’s his right to be one of those holdouts who refuses to be a 24-hour gas station of personal information. The problem comes in his ignoring your friends and family—tossing their friend requests in the internet landfill with all the personal messages from African warlords with $19 million in diamonds to share with a trustworthy total stranger. Tell your boyfriend you’re afraid feelings are getting hurt, and suggest he message people back with something like, “Thanks, but I mainly use Facebook to stay in touch with a few old friends. Hope to see more of you in real life.” It’s gracious but boundary-maintaining, and if you break up, his lack of connectedness should provide a healthy barrier between him and explosive revelations about your new boyfriend, such as what he had for lunch. Ω
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don’t think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the ongoing process. You’re not going to bolt. That’s a good thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You’ve got to be clear that there’s something about it you don’t like and want to change. If you fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away somewhere down the line. Be proactive now, and you won’t be rash later.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Jugaad is
a Hindi-Urdu word that can be translated as “frugal innovation.” People in India and Pakistan use it a lot. It’s the art of coming up with a creative workaround to a problem despite having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see this as your specialty right now, Taurus. Although you may not have abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you’ve nevertheless got the resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you produce may even turn out better than if you’d had more assets to draw on.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In accordance
with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week—specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: “To be a bird is to be alive more intensely than any other living creature. … Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions … they live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.” Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things and do everything.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired,” wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco. I’m hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I’m hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “It is truly strange
how long it takes to get to know oneself,” wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “I am now [62] years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I love lightly toasted bread. … I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein’s. It’s time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’d rather be
in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains,” said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind’s eye when you’re lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that’s meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The advice
I’m about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations. Ready? The message comes from Do the Work, a book by Steven Pressfield: “Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Two years
ago, a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy’s lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I’m sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There’s a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harboring. For now, at least, it’s realistic to be optimistic.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cap-
ricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built Amazon. com from the ground up. He now owns The Washington Post, one of America’s leading newspapers. It’s safe to say he might have something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical realities. “We are stubborn on vision,” he says about his team. “We are flexible in details.” In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That’s excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s
the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: “Congratulations, Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you. Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life—as opposed to the life that other people think you should live.”
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It’s an
unbearable thought that roses were not invented by me,” wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You’re not as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar “unbearable thought.” And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and mist and moss; almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing. Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new marvel into the world.
Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.
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Story of the year Jessi LeMay, among many other things, is a person who has had a great idea. She wants to crowdsource Reno’s stories as a way to reflect and preserve Reno’s personality through people’s individual experience—sort of performance art for the common person. She’s planning to do this through a series of public storytelling events. The first is “Truly Scary Reno Stories” at the Potentialist Workshop, 2275 Dickerson Road, on Oct. 29 at 7-9 p.m. Tickets are $5 and may be purchased through www.thefolkandthelore.com.
Tell me about yourself. I am by trade a photographer. That’s the bread and butter of what I do for my forprofit businesses, like wedding photography. My background is in photography, I got my degree in it. While I’m like some photographers, and I kind of poo-poo the idea of being a wedding photographer, it is the art of storytelling. There is nothing like shooting 20-30 weddings a year that has helped me hone my craft.
Twenty to thirty weddings a year? That sound horrible! And now that I have a child, I really would like to handpick the stories that I tell. And that’s really the inspiration behind this nonprofit. It’s me wanting to do the kind of work I want to do. Last year in March, I started The Folk and the Lore Incorporated. The purpose of it is to document, archive and retell people’s stories in our community. We do it through photographic essays, short films and live storytelling events. For this month’s event, which is October 29, the theme will be “scary stories.” Every month we’ll be hoping to have themes that kind of pertain to what’s going on. In November, that theme will be Farm, Fork, Family, kind of all about bringing food from the farmers.
Let’s go back to the beginning when you started. How did you come up with this idea? The genesis of the idea basically was inspired by the hours of editing that I spend in front of my computer listening to podcasts. There’s a real trend in storytelling events across the country. I thought, “You know, I think I can do this.” Most of those podcasts are audio in nature, most of them don’t bring in a visual element, and I thought, “I can do this,” and it would be really beneficial to our community, too. For me, I believe that everyone’s collective stories become part of our own lore, become a product of who our community is. And so that was the genesis. OPINION
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For the nonprofit? There will be up to four storytellers on stage. And I say “up to” because people have committed, but until they get onstage, I’m a little worried.
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And what kind of stories do those people have? Because they’re based on the theme for the month—Scary stories out of Reno. They’re all sort of paranormal or terrifying stories. It’s a scary process. You know, you get interest from people who are really super excited about participating, but again, the success of the event is sort of left up to serendipity. Will it be a success when everything comes together, and people come on stage, and you have to just trust that people will not freak out when they’re onstage, and that people are excited about telling their own story, and it’s sort of a conversational moment with the audience. I have to trust that, but I also have to sort of vet their stories, and the stories need to be between 10-15 minutes, and they have to follow a format. They have to have a beginning, a middle and an end, and have a bit of an arc in the story so that people are invested in it.
I certainly see how you would not want your passion to prevent you from feeding that child, for example. I’m interested in how the nonprofit formation came about. Was this guy who was able to help you a lawyer or were you able to do this on your own? He is a lawyer. I don’t want to divulge too much because I don’t know how much he would want anyone to know. how much he helped me. And the other part of this is, in my for-profit business, I’ve started doing short films. So I do birth announcement films, I also do short documentaries for people who want to get their legacy and their own, like, life story on film. But there are so many people out there who have really interesting history and even their short stories, would never be able to afford service, or would even consider paying for that. So that’s my goal with the nonprofit, to be able to reach everyone.
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The Virginia City Cemetery comes alive with the 19th century Comstock residents. They share their stories, lives, and deaths. The performance will last 90 minutes as you walk through the cemetery with the widow of Silver Terrace as your guide.
So how many stories have you collected so far?
The reason I went with a nonprofit was because I have a friend who, when he worked in D.C., he helped a lot of people form nonprofits and get tax-exempt status. He’s the one who said to me, “You know, instead of this just being a project that you work on and spend your own money on, this is something that corporations and different businesses in the community might want to donate to. It’s a benefit for the community, it has an educational purpose. Why not try it as a nonprofit?” We’re still in the process of getting our 501(c)3 status, but we are technically a nonprofit in the state of Nevada. I love that idea, that it’s sort of a contribution that everybody—you know—companies and individuals can say, “I support this.” And out of that, they get to hear and participate in these stories. I see it as a bigger project than something as a for-profit will be able to do.
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