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Trolls Welcome to this week’s Reno News  & Review. Over here at the World Headquarters of the Reno News & Review,  we’ve always received a certain  number of angry letters delivered  by snail mail, email, Tweet, Facebook  posts, messenger pigeons, searing  telepathic visions,  what have you.  It comes with  the territory.  Journalism  is not for the  thin of skin. And  honestly, during  those halcyon days  when no such angry screeds arrive  on our doorstep, we start to feel  we’re doing something wrong. But we’ve noticed a definite  recent uptick in angry messages—  much of it more explicitly hateful  than what we’ve received in the  past. The comments are often blatantly racist, sexist or homophobic.  It’s almost as if the racists, sexists  and homophobes have, for some  reason, felt suddenly emboldened  since sometime last November. Not  sure why. For example, one recent morning I  arrived to work to hear a voicemail:  “Tell Bynum and van Dyke that the  Democrats lost. Get over it, you  fucking pussies!” Funny thing was  it sounded like the same dude who  called a week or two ago to complain  about the “foul, obscene, disgusting  language” in our paper. I thought  he meant “fuck,” but apparently he  meant “feminism.” That same morning, I noticed a  Facebook message which is reproduced here with its nontraditional  approach to spelling and grammar  fully intact: “Their is no such thing  as gay nevada 99 percent of lbgt  are not from here or their parents  and grand parents and great grand  parents and great so on i will never  again look at your homo trash.” I responded by asking the guy  if we could run that message as a  letter to the editor. I figured he’d  back away, but nope, he doubled  down, and said yes we could run his  comments, and he even appended a  long rant about drivers on Virginia  Street. I don’t want to normalize his  attitude or perspective by actually  printing his letter, or give the guy  the small thrill of seeing his name in  print. So there it is—no name but  internet troll.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017 | VOL. 23, ISSUE 2

Public history

Camaraderie

Re “Hidden history” (cover story, Feb. 16): Mr. Myers is to be congratulated on his extraordinary review of this book about gay Nevada [Out of the Neon Closet by Dennis McBride]. I can see myself in at least two places although he doesn’t mention my name. I was a gay Assemblymember in the 1970s who was in the closet publicly but outed in my first term by another legislator. A Mormon member of the lower house who sat next to me on the floor told me about the outing. And he didn’t care. Nor did anyone else since I was very serious about my work representing my district. But in that time, being out publicly was complicated politically. At least I assumed it was. It is heartening to see how much Nevada has changed and all the heroes and heroines. The story of Tom Ogg is distressing, and there are many such stories where ignorance and prejudice triumph. And today, I laugh when I see ads from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce about gay Las Vegas. I moved away with my lover because we wanted to be more open about our lives and San Francisco beckoned. I will be buying Mr. McBride’s book and congratulate him for writing it, and also Mr. Myers for a powerful review plus some injection of his own considerable knowledge of Nevada history. Steve Coulter San Francisco

Re “Buses taking ‘locals’ to Tesla” (Erik Holland cartoon, Feb. 16): Instead of usually working as a crew driver for wildland firefighters, last summer my employer gave me the assignment of driving one of the buses depicted in the political ’toon. My passengers were Panasonic engineers and technicians from Japan. I told them I was unlike those who negatively viewed their presence and thanked them for being here. Tesla has a contract with Panasonic Japan, which also has invested in the gigafactory. Panasonic has been producing lithium-ion batteries in Japan since 1994. Our community, state, country didn’t have the human capital to work on the start-up of the Gigafactory. That’s why these knowledgeable and highly skilled engineers and technicians are here. I’m sure they would rather be back home where their families, friends and loved ones are. But they, like many of us would, didn’t turn down an historic opportunity to work abroad and have a different cultural experience. I had the pleasure to work with these gentlemen for several weeks and enjoyed the growing camaraderie that came about through learning and speaking Japanese phrases. For me it was an honor to meet and transport these admirable and kind people. Jacqueline Weatherford Reno

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ERIK HOLLAND

South of the city, surrounded by sage covered hills, green valleys with streams running through, is home to wild horses, bobcats and coyotes. Hawks, eagles and migratory birds soar overhead. In the open space, you feel yourself relax. This is how we used to live before the city grew like a cancer, consuming farms and ranches, before life evolved into tract homes where neighbors stayed indoors, crime rates increased along with population, fast fooderies, gas stations and strip malls. You may have wished there was something you could’ve done to preserve the rural slice of heaven you used to know. Wednesday March 1, 5:45 pm, City of Reno is voting to annex the pristine pasture behind historic Steamboat Hotsprings to build 300 homes! Unabated, they will consume the next pasture and the next until Reno and Carson are one continuous stretch of city. Once gone, it’s gone forever. Make your voice heard! Say “No Annexation!” Kristin Field Reno

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How is Single Stream Recycling Sorted? BY KENDRA KOSTELECKY

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ingle-stream recycling is now available to residents throughout Washoe County. The program allows residents to place all recyclables in one large, wheeled cart. Waste Management handles the dirty work of sorting it all out. Users can put newspaper, magazines, clean cardboard, plastic water bottles, plastic jugs, and junk mail all in one recycling cart. (Cardboard should be flattened before placing it in your cart, and caps should be left on water bottles so they can be correctly processed at the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).) Once we take your recyclable materials from the curb, those materials pass through several stops before returning to you as new aluminum cans, park benches and even filling for jackets. The journey begins after our driver dumps your cart into his truck. After preliminary handling in Reno, single-stream recycling materials are sent to our MRF in Sacramento where employees compliment the work of

high-tech equipment to group like material into commodities that can be reused. Air jets, lasers, magnets, electrical currents and shaker screens work in an assembly line automatically sorting materials into groups that are bailed and sent to manufacturing plants throughout the world. While single-stream recycling is easier for residents, and allows for more materials to be recycled. It also requires awareness. When trash gets into a recycling cart, it can contaminate an entire truck load of recyclables. That may require sending all that material to the landfill instead of being recycled. In fact, about 30% of the material the Reno area sends to the sorting facility ends up back in the landfill because of contamination. You can help us reduce that number by recycling only items listed on the lid of your singlestream cart. Learn more about reducing contamination at WashoeCounty.WM.com or send your recycling questions to: RenoRecycling@WM.com

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Family Portrait plays upon scenes from everyday life to ask, how do we relate to each other? Performed for the first time in English.

By JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

how do you feel about the desert? asked at coffeeBar, 682 mt. rose st. Bryan anderson Realtor

Like the playa desert or just the general desert? Well, … I guess it’s unique. In summer, you know, it’s tough for hiking and biking. … It’s got it’s own little sort of beauty, I guess. I mountain bike a lot up on Peavine … so I guess you could call that the desert, too. … It’s great. Victor Le aL Graphic communications student

Growing up I thought that it was really boring. ... But then as my parents started to take me out to more places, I found it more life-changing. We went on a car trip to Vegas, and we visited these ghost towns. ... There was no one in plain sight for like a hundred miles. rhiannon WoLfe Budtender

Krasner’s fraud Our favorite case of voter fraud happened in Carson City. An elderly woman with Alzheimers voted twice. The “crime” was not uncovered until a couple of weeks after the election at the family Thanksgiving. Comparing notes, a daughter and granddaughter discovered they had both aided Grandma in voting—once at early voting, once on election day. What master criminals! The family informed county clerk treasurer Alan Glover, who arranged a change in procedures so it would not happen again. It was the only instance of voter fraud Glover encountered in his many years in office. The same is true of every election official we have ever interviewed—rare oddball circumstances, and that’s the sum total of fraudulent voting in a nation of 300 million voters. Every reporter, every scholar, every government investigator has found the same thing. For our 2012 look at the issue of voter fraud, go to http://tinyurl.com/gn3nutv. But Republicans always come up with isolated, freakish anecdotes to scare people into believing the notion of the ease of stealing elections—this quirky case in Kentucky, that odd incident in Montana. But they can never produce any evidence of any broad or sweeping problem of fraudulent voting. That’s because there isn’t any. Still they keep publicizing the “threat.” Why? Because they want laws requiring voters to present identification before they can vote. The groups that do not have driver licenses—elderly people who have stopped driving, low-income people who do not own cars—tend to vote Democratic. So Republicans want to win through bureaucratic machinations elections they can’t win on the issues.

Washoe Republican Assemblymember Lisa Krasner, one of the more partisan lawmakers, has introduced a bill requiring Nevadans to show identification before voting. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that Republicans were arguing against a vote for legal marijuana because it would create a need for more unnecessary bureaucracy? It’s good to know that Republicans like Krasner see government as the answer to our nonexistent problems. Now if they could only see it as an answer to actual problems. Krasner represents a Washoe district, so her action suggests a certain lack of confidence in the Washoe Voter Registrar’s office and its ability to keep elections clean, though it has an excellent record under both registrar Luanne Cutler and her predecessor Dan Burk. And every bill costs some money. Just drafting and introducing bills involves a few hundred dollars, in Krasner’s case for a bill that is a solution without a problem. Asking the legislative bill drafting division to write it up was a waste of tax dollars. Introducing it wasted more. With any kind of luck, her legislative colleagues will ignore it now and prevent any more wasted money on hearings. Every Nevadan must present identification when he or she registers to vote. After that, the problem is getting them to vote at all. And voter fraud happens more in the counting end than the voting end, where it is clean as a whistle. Krasner and her fellow Republicans spread misleading stories about voter fraud, then respond to the public concern they have generated about an imaginary problem by calling for government action that will reduce the number of Democratic votes. Now, that’s a fraud. Ω

I find it a very interesting place. Coming from … England for 20 years where it’s … very green, and it rains a lot—when I first came to Reno, it was quite a stark contrast. Although the weather’s been a little bit crazy recently, hasn’t it? … There’s a different kind of beauty here. steVen dente Counseling student

Well, I think I have a lot associations with it. It’s a place where nothing really can live. … I have a lot of biblical associations with it. … I think about kind of having to brave the really … long journey in order to get somewhere. … I think it has a positive and a negative thing, for me. tayLor diamond Writer and grad student

I grew up here in the high desert and didn’t have any appreciation for it until I left it and then came back to it and realized that there’s … desolate beauty to it. Mary Austen, she wrote the Land of Little Rain, [says] it’s not hospitable to many, but those who can live there, it’s really special to them.

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by Sheila leSlie

Just add women It’s certainly satisfying to see the Nevada Legislature in second place this year in number of female members. Nevada is at 39.7 percent, just behind Vermont. According to Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics the number of women serving in state legislatures has risen steadily since 1971 when just 4.5 percent of legislators were female, to an all-time high this year of 24.8 percent. Marking the increasing power of women in the statehouse, a bi-partisan Nevada Women’s Caucus met, joined by female lobbyists and speakers from the Nevada Commission on Women and the League of Women Voters. Leaders told the media they thought it was the first Women’s Caucus in the Nevada Legislaure, but that’s not entirely true. A bi-partisan Women’s Caucus operated for many years, traditionally convened amid little fanfare and media attention by the most senior female member in the legislative body. But there were no designer cupcakes or warm welcoming speeches

from legislative leaders at their meetings and certainly no lobbyists or media. Former assemblymember Chris Guinchigliani remembers the suspicious reaction the Women’s Caucus generated from male legislators who wanted to know what was discussed in Caucus meetings and their skeptical comments when she told them the women talked about baseball. The meetings were usually held in the evenings in empty committee rooms and it was a treat if someone remembered to bring some snacks. The discussion centered around pending bills of interest to women and their families. Caucus meetings were always congenial at the beginning of each session, but after the first month or so, it would become apparent that controversy from the committee room followed a bill into the caucus, and party ideology would interfere with unanimity. Bills that dealt with abortion were generally off limits, as was raising taxes, even to support subsidized child care or a small increase in welfare stipends.

By the first committee deadline day, the Women’s Caucus would usually splinter as members became overwhelmed with their schedules, finding less and less time to meet and little inclination to search for the increasingly smaller pieces of common ground once the easy bills had passed. One exception to the rule was Giunchigliani’s bill in 1999 to require insurance companies to cover contraceptives as part of their prescription drug package. Nearly every member of the Women’s Caucus supported the bill, which was aggressively opposed by the insurance industry. Ultimately it passed with just three women, all far-right Republicans, opposed—Sharron Angle, Kathy Von Tobel and Ann O’Connell. Sometimes defeating a bill is as important as passing one. The Women’s Caucus played a key role in defeating SB 75 in the 2005 session, a bill pushed by rural judges to allow rural domestic violence offenders to complete their counseling via video-conference instead of the face-to-face

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counseling required by statute. The bill passed the Senate with opposition from Democratic women but was defeated in the Assembly Judiciary Committee when the Women’s Caucus harnessed its considerable force behind the scenes to convince a majority of the male committee members of the peril of easing the requirements. On other issues during those decades, the Women’s Caucus was not successful, usually because of a fracture over raising taxes to support social programs or ideological differences such as whether pharmacists should be allowed to decline to fill birth control prescriptions for unmarried women. Time will tell whether the 2017 version of the Women’s Caucus becomes more of a social club than a force of substantive change. And once women achieve parity at 50 percent of the legislative body, perhaps a Women’s Caucus won’t be needed at all. Ω For more on women in legislatures, see http://bit.ly/2lQvA2y

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by Brendan Trainor

The government did it The Oroville Dam north of Sacramento is one of a series of enormous dams built by federal and state money. The Oroville flood of 2017 exposed the structure as poorly designed and maintained. A dirt carve-out in the side of a mountain served as the emergency spillway, but it eroded to the point of uselessness. The main spillway was also damaged. Records show environmental groups urged the federal government 12 years ago to reinforce the emergency spillway. A formal request for repairs was filed in 2005, but the paperwork was only completed last December! These public works structures were built with tax money because private investors wouldn’t touch them. Former California governor Pat Brown routinely lied about Oroville Dam’s cost. His son, Jerry, is repeating his father’s mistake now with his high speed rail fiasco. The dam was not even built for Northern California, but to send water

to dry Southern California. No wonder Northern Californians want to secede from Sacramento. During the Great Recession that started, more or less, in 2007, some talking heads urged President Obama to fund nationwide 1930s-style infrastructure projects like Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal did. Obama promised thousands of “shovel-ready jobs” but my neighbor’s dog created more shovelready jobs than he did. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) first noticed there was a problem with the dam’s ability to contain storms that dramatically ended California’s five-year drought. On February 8 came the first official announcement that there was “no imminent danger.” DWR released water down the damaged spillway while state fire/forestry officials frantically tried to clear debris from the eroded emergency spillway. Helicopters were dropping rocks to try to fill in the damaged spillway.

While citizens were being told a dam this size could never fail (remember the Titanic!), early on Feb. 12, California Fish and Wildlife evacuated the salmon from the Feather River Fish Hatchery. More than five hours after the fish were rescued, the citizens emergency evacuation order was finally issued. If the dam fails, a 30 foot high wall of water resulting in a hundred foot deep lake would wipe out close to a dozen towns. If the rains keep up, the waters could still overflow, especially if snow packs suddenly melt. The emergency evacuation disrupted the lives of almost 200,000 residents. Can you imagine the traffic jams, gas station and grocery store chaos? Lesson learned? Never wait for the official evacuation order to get out. The 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster story in New Orleans is eerily similar to Oroville. Katrina featured the same slow federal government response to repeated requests for help to the Bush Administration, as well as the failure of

federal help when it came. Bush’s lame “Heck of a Job, Brownie” comment to FEMA Director Michael Brown is a political classic. Thousands of mostly poor blacks were trapped in the flooded city as few residents had cars and local government flubbed the promised bus evacuations. In Oroville this year we see the same government denial, agonizingly slow response, and resulting human suffering. Months after Katrina, it was determined that most of the New Orleans flooding was due to poorly constructed and maintained levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers. The environmentalists are wrong to keep faith in the feds. The federal government is by far the greatest threat to the environment. You don’t have to quote Genesis to understand that private stewardship of the land is more beneficial to both humans and the planet than government’s iron web of subsidies, cronyism, ham-handed regulations, and outright destruction. Ω

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by Jeri Chadwell-Singley

ERA REtuRns, soRt of The Nevada Senate Legislative Operations and Elections Committee this week held a hearing on a measure that, if enacted, would have no legal effect. The resolution purports to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which was sent to the states by Congress in 1972 and was defeated after it failed to win the required 38 state ratifications by the 1982 deadline. In Nevada, it was voted on in the legislature three times, failing each time. It was approved in both the Assembly and Senate, but in different legislative sessions. In 1977, following the three legislative votes, the legislature placed the issue on the public ballot where, in 1978, it was defeated 67 to 33 percent. Nevadans cast 185,720 votes on the advisory question. However, the victory of opponents of the amendment was short-lived. The courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have effectively made the ERA law in the United States with a series of gender equality decisions that rely on the 14th and 5th Amendments. That message has not gotten to some officials, like U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who has introduced a new Equal Rights Amendment in Congress. Nor is it understood by some activists, who have pressured state legislators around the country to “ratify” the expired amendment. Besides Nevada, Utah and Virginia have such measures before them and legislators in other states are considering doing the same. The measure in Nevada, Senate Joint Resolution 2, refers to “the Equal Rights Amendment” although the measure sent to the states by Congress did not include that verbiage. It is the informal name by which the amendment was known. The ERA was written in 1923 by National Women’s Party head Alice Paul and journalist Crystal Eastman. —Dennis Myers

tRoublEd wAtERs Donald Trump issued a disaster declaration for Nevada on Feb. 17. Gov. Brian Sandoval made the request on Feb. 9 in response to damages caused by flooding in Northern Nevada in the first two weeks of January. In his letter to the president, Sandoval noted that storms between Jan. 5 and Jan. 14 left “the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe” with “358 inches of snow when the average January snowfall is 74 inches.” The official damage assessment from the governor’s office is $14.82 million. This accounts only for the Jan. 5 to Jan. 14 time frame and applies only to Carson City, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, and four Nevada counties—Washoe, Douglas, Lyon and Storey. In the interim between Sandoval’s Feb. 9 request and the president’s disaster declaration, Elko—on the east side of the state—was hit with serious flooding. The governor declared a state of emergency for Elko County on Feb. 10. And the wild weather continues across the state. Even as the paper was prepared for press on Feb. 21, new flood warnings were in effect for Elko and Eureka counties and isolated flooding led to school delays and trapped motorists in the Truckee Meadows. To give some perspective to the amount of precipitation this winter has brought to Northern Nevada, consider this: The National Weather Service reported that a record amount of rain—just over one inch—fell at the Reno Tahoe International Airport on Feb. 20. This amount broke the previous record of 0.67 inches, set in 1922. —Jeri ChaDwell-singley

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A wild mustang moved behind his band across the desert south of Chimney Reservoir in Humboldt County in September 2016. PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

No home on the range Future of the West’s mustangs remains unsettled there are an estimated 100,000 wild horses in the Western United States, but only a little more than half of them actually live in the wild of the vast range lands. The rest are kept in corrals and long-term pastures run by the Bureau of Land Management—whose job it has been to manage wild horses since 1971. These numbers represent a real and growing problem. In 2015, the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program spent nearly two-thirds of its roughly $72 million annual budget on housing the horses it has taken out of the wild. And, as of August 2016, the agency estimated its holding facilities were nearly 80 percent full. What’s more, according to its figures, the number of horses left on the range is fully two times what’s ideal. The BLM’s estimate of how many horses the range can sustain “in balance with other public land resources and uses” is 26,715. The number of horses in Nevada alone exceeds this total by nearly 20 percent. In fact, Nevada has the most wild horses of any state by far—almost

32,000. The next highest number is 6,500 in Wyoming. Last September, the Wild Horse and Burro Program’s nine-person advisory board recommended the BLM euthanize or sell to slaughter the more than 40,000 horses currently in captivity. The recommendation made headlines across the country, and the agency responded quickly—issuing an online statement avowing it “does not and will not euthanize healthy animals.” That was almost six months ago. In an email interview, BLM spokespersons Jenny Lesieutre and Jason Lutterman provided an update on what’s happened in the interim, noting that “the BLM has acquired more offrange pastures to reduce the number of horses in higher-cost corrals.” An October article in South Dakota’s Butte County Post about one of these pasture acquisitions, reported a Powerball jackpot winner had agreed to let the BLM pasture a herd of 917 horses on roughly 50 square mile of privately owned grassland 75 miles

north of Rapid City, South Dakota— for a price of $2 per horse, per day. The BLM also puts some wild horses up for adoption and sale. According to Lesieutre and Lutterman, until the BLM has “better tools to manage wild horses on the range,” the agency has capped the number of horses that can be removed each year at 3,500, “about the same number that leave the system through adoption, sales and natural mortality.” In 2015, the BLM reported the roundup of 3,093 horses—nearly half from Nevada. The same year, 2,331 were sold or adopted. Roundups have long been controversial—garnering both media attention and outcry from advocates, who allege mistreatment of the animals and a lack of transparency on the BLM’s part. Author and wild horse advocate Terri Farley has witnessed several roundups and is among those who believe the BLM misrepresents the facts of them. She’s particularly concerned by how the BLM classifies horse deaths. There are two categories under which a death might be filed—“acute” and “chronic.” Acute injuries are those directly related to a roundup—broken necks, trampling, etc. Chronic deaths include horses that are euthanized because of things like blindness and poor body condition. Farley believes the BLM downplays the overall number of deaths by dividing them into these categories and that the reasons for euthanasia are often trumped up. A look at reports from several individual roundups in the last two years shows the number of horses killed varied from less than one percent to closer to five. On its “Myths and Facts” web page, the BLM cites cumulative 2014 statistics, which show 17 out of a little more than 1,700 horses—or slightly less than one percent—died that year. But information from an advocacy group, Wild Horse Preservation, suggests additional horses died in 2014 after being rounded up. Records obtained by the group under the Freedom of Information Act indicate 75 horses captured during the Checkerboard roundup in Wyoming died in captivity in the months to follow. To be clear, roundups are not the preferred method of population control—for anyone. As the spokespeople mentioned, the BLM is exploring what it considers “better tools.” This includes “evaluating the safety, feasibility

and effectiveness of spaying and neutering on-range wild horses” and the development of “longer-lasting fertility control vaccines.” There are already a few vaccines available. Porcine zona pellucida (PZP) is made from a protein found in pig ovaries. It’s administered through a dart and, according to several scientific studies, can be up to 90 percent effective. The BLM’s search for alternatives is driven by the logistics of administering the vaccine, which—according to Lesieutre and Lutterman—a 2013 National Academy of Sciences study found was not “highly effective, easily delivered, and affordable.” An independent group near Gardnerville disagrees. Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates—a non-profit—began darting mares with PZP in 2012. In 2014, a pilot program to control the population of wild horses near the Pine Nut Mountains was officially established with the blessing of the Wild Horse and Burro Program’s Nevada office. The program was established at no cost to BLM. The Pine Nut group’s members use donated funds to pay for PZP training and certification from another nonprofit, the Science and Conservation Center in Billings, Montana. They also use fundraising to pay for the vaccines, which according to Deb Walker, the group’s president, cost about $25 per dose. A mare needs two doses in the first year, and one every year thereafter. But it has been almost a year since the group’s members have darted a mare. Their carbon dioxide powered dart guns—some on

loan from the BLM—have sat unused, save for target practice, since another advocacy group threatened the BLM with a lawsuit. Friends of Animals cited concerns over alleged side effects of the treatment and a belief that the program violated a judge’s court order forbidding the roundup of horses from the area east of Gardnerville. Now, members of the Pine Nut group worry the PZP they’ve administered to 36 different mares from four bands is wearing off. But they may soon get the green light to pick up where they left off. According to John Axtell, a wild horse and burro specialist with the BLM’s Nevada office, the agency is working on a new environmental assessment that could clear the way for darting to resume as early as this spring. In the meantime, some are wondering how a new secretary of the interior will factor into things. In 2009, as a Montana state legislator, Ryan Zinke co-sponsored a bill that ultimately cleared the way for construction of slaughterhouses for privately owned horses and made any person who unsuccessfully files an action against the operation of one liable for financial losses resulting from any injunction that halts its operations. The BLM’s spokespeople said until Zinke—now a U.S. House member—is confirmed as interior secretary, “it is too soon to foresee what changes may or may not be forthcoming.” Ω Visit https://on.doi.gov/2k4wLyQ to see details from recent and current roundups.

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here are a lot of reasons that people go to the desert. To reflect, to hide out, to be tempted for 40 days. My friend Roxanne and I are here to clear our heads. In the last year, we’ve been dealing with all kinds of old neuroses, our newly minted 30s, and something called ERSS—Election Related Stress Syndrome. It’s the thing that happens when you hold your breath from November to mid-January, and your soul goes numb. It’s a debilitating condition that can only be reversed by looking at something big and beautiful. That was the plan, anyway—to get a dose of beauty before inauguration, hitting four earthwork sculptures in five days, including the “Sun Tunnels,” “Spiral Jetty,” “Double Negative” and “Las Vegas Piece.” Right now, we’re lost. My GPS says we are circling 37°N -114°W, but there is no sign of the faint machine scratches that will tell us whether or not we’ve found Walter de Maria’s elusive “Las Vegas Piece.” Just cowtracks and mountains forever. About an hour ago, we lost sight of our truck, and 10 minutes back, we decided that if we have to, we will eat Machete, our schnauzer-Jack Russell terrier companion, to stay alive. “She would want us to live,” Roxanne says. I’m noticing things that delirious people notice. Wavy lines on the horizon. The strange way a branch has twisted into a rabbit face. How much Roxanne looks like an attractive, female version of Russell Brand. We are down to a quarter of a water bottle, and I’m losing brain cells almost as fast as the questions are coming in. How did we get here? Is land art a hoax? What does dog taste like? Will Donald Trump unleash a fiery Armageddon upon the world? Do I smell? Does it matter? Does anything matter? We were in a better place earlier this week.

a journey into the desert in search of the region’s earthwork sculptures

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOSIE LUCIANO

Big ideas Two days ago, we were standing in front of something big and beautiful. Four nine-foot tall concrete cylinders arranged in an “X” formation, pointing to a rail of frozen, pastel mountains in a nowhere desert in Utah. Placed in the landscape by Nancy Holt in 1976, “Sun Tunnels” is a piece best viewed over time. Over hours, days and especially months, the cylinders morph from culvert-like tubes into starships that let the light of constellations like Draco, Perseus, Columba and Capricorn shine through drilled holes in their sides. During the day, these patterns are projected by the sun—another star—onto the opposite side of the cylinders, or maybe onto your body if you’re standing inside.

Roxanne and I had a long time to prepare for the “Sun Tunnels” because Google Maps parked us a mile and a half away from the site. We woke at dawn to 14 degree weather and perfect visibility. When we began our snow-crunching walk out to the sculpture, the tunnels were the size of thumbnails, then thumbs, then middle fingers as we passed a road that would have cut our hike time in half. Whenever it felt like one of our body parts was about to fall off, the following mantra gave us comfort: This is how people are meant to view the tunnels. You can’t just drive up to them.

You could, of course, “just drive up to them” because when we got within 20 feet of the sculpture, we crossed another road. Immediately, we began to compare the tunnels to things we knew—Stonehenge, construction materials, the kind of drainpipes you’d run through on a childhood dare. The spectacle lasted several minutes, but the real force of the piece hit us when we let go of the references and we realized where we were—in the center of a mountain range, staring at a billion-year history of rock, observing the rotation of the Earth in real time. Big Ideas like this are the bedrock of land art—a movement that emerged in the late 1960s, thousands of years after native cultures made their respective mounds, geoglyphic lines, and configurations of boulders. Inspired as much by the tightening grip of the gallery as the ancient work itself, these men—and a few women—began leaving cities for open spaces like Nevada, Arizona and Utah—attracted to the West for reasons that drove people to the frontier in the first place—cheap land and freedom, perfect conditions to make art that isn’t so much made in the landscape as it is made a part of it. Ironically, the most famous earthworks from this period were also funded by the same gridlock of superrich patrons and galleries that these artists rejected in the first place. But in 2017, the money doesn’t matter anymore for the “Sun Tunnels.” It was raised and spent. Documentation photos were taken, and a short film was made. There is nothing left to commodify, and now every year in July, people visit the sculpture on summer solstice and have a massive party. Fewer people show up on winter solstice, and in between, visitors like Roxanne and I make the pilgrimage from faraway places like Reno to contemplate Big Ideas like dying in the desert in sub-freezing weather. Not everybody is taken with the piece, however. At the Cowboy Bar & Grill in Montello, Nevada—the closest town to “Sun Tunnels” by a good 50 miles—a man that could have been Santa’s older, drunker relative lectured us for 20 minutes: “Why the hell you would come all this way to see a bunch of stars that you can see from your living room window?!” It was a fair question that kept us company through the next leg of I-80 and the biggest disappointment of our trip: finding out that the roads leading to “Spiral Jetty”—the well-known earthwork made by Nancy Holt’s husband and leading land earthwork artist Robert Smithson—were not driveable this time of year with our type of vehicle and our limited schedule. We headed south sooner than expected.

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Into duSt continued FROM page 11 Southern expoSure Twelve hours later, we woke up at our campsite (parking spot) in the Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge and spent some time reading signage about the reason behind the refuge—an endangered fish called the Moapa dace. With its entire earthly habitat confined to the 106-acre stretch of nearby streams in the Muddy River headwaters, the small fish has been a bone of contention and legal battleground for developers—and government agencies looking to help developers—for years. Despite its high profile, the dace is unremarkablelooking. It is minnowy, semi-transparent, and sort of brown with a black spot at the base of its tail. In pictures, it often blends into the background and is outshined by anything else that happens to be in the frame, including blurred rocks and close-ups of hands for size comparisons. Across the street from the refuge is the Reid Gardner Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that chokes out a steady stream of smoke, both day and night, providing incongruous views and ashy air for nearby campers. The plant is closing March. Roxanne wondered aloud which came first, the factory or the refuge, and “how much one affects the other.” Per usual, I had no good answer, so I handed my friend her daily ration of dehydrated salmon bar and pulled out our map. We were headed to “Double Negative,” the most famous 1,500-foot gash in the world, made by the notoriously private and still-working land artist, Michael Heizer. But first we had an appointment with the contractor behind the piece, an 84-year-old man named Bryant Robison. Robison has been a local in Overton, Nevada, since he was born in the living room where we all sat for the interview—Roxanne and I on the couch, and Robison and his wife, Darlene, on the two lounge chairs facing us. The couple held hands as Robison answered our questions about what it was like to construct “Double Negative” almost 47 years ago. “I thought [Heizer] was crazy—I’d never heard of such a thing as an earth sculpture,” Robison recalled. “He told me they’d give me an outline of what they wanted to do and said they’d be back and put up stakes where they wanted me to go. Anyway, when I saw them walk out the door, I figured I’d never see or hear from him again. Then, about 10 days later, I got a cashier’s check from the Dwan Gallery in New York City for $10,000.” It took Robison two months of excavation work to complete the piece. To get in and out of the giant hole every day, he had to drive his bulldozer up the 50-foot, 50-degree ramp backwards in order to avoid tipping over. No hard hat, no canopy on his machine. “You couldn’t do it nowadays,” Robison said. “It would probably take about a million dollars to do what we did out there now.” “Double Negative” was not as hard to find as we thought it would be. We only had to overcome our doubts that “just go straight” was the only direction we needed until we arrived at the eastern edge of Mormon Mesa, took a left, and began driving parallel to a giant gash that seemed to appear out of nowhere. We parked at the north end of the piece, looked out over the skyscraper-sized void in the earth, and repeated the two words everyone who has stood on that rim has undoubtedly said: “Holy shit.” Even if you’ve seen gorges and canyons before, seeing another one doesn’t take away from the awe of what you’re witnessing—particularly if its walls are almost perfectly straight and pick up where they leave off on the other side of 12   |   RN&R   |   02.23.17

Josie Luciano stands next to the rock fall inside “Double Negative.” courtesy/josie luciano

the ravine, squashing all doubts that the thing could possibly be the work of nature alone. As we scrambled down the steep side into the sculpture, I thought about what it would be like to ascend into this pit every day on an eight-ton piece of equipment. Once inside, the whole space seemed to close in protectively, making a sandwich of the three of us—giving us room to explore, but not too much room. Like a slot canyon, it had its own climate, its own hours in the sun, and its own geological story printed on its walls. Sandstone for a millennium with a 10-thousand-year cap of limestone on top. Sometime in the last 50 years, a few large chunks of rock have succumbed to the groundwater flowing behind them and flaked off, leaving a blemish on the otherwise straight edge of the canyon, a whisper of a doubt about its manmade nature. Robison said that, once, when he was younger, he asked Heizer if he would like to keep the walls maintained and the canyon cleaned out periodically. At the time, Heizer said “no,” keeping with the tradition of artists like Smithson, who viewed natural processes as a part of the work. Recently, though, Heizer has reversed his feelings on the matter, voicing concerns about the integrity of his straight lines, suggesting that the backs of the walls be reinforced with steel rods. It’s a funny anecdote for an artist whose pro-entropy attitude has saved him from much of the “blight on the land” criticism that was characteristic of the early years of the land art movement. Sitting there inside “Double Negative,” these dusty accusations of land degradation felt almost comical to me, but at that moment I couldn’t figure out why. Maybe it was time to go. When we emerged from our hole, it was still fairly early in the day, and I was filled with enough misguided optimism to make the first big mistake of our trip.

“I think we can find ‘Las Vegas Piece’ today.” Roxanne knows me well enough to understand three important things about declarations like these: They are usually bad ideas. They are never optional. They always end with a “come to Jesus” moment that is highly orchestrated by not-me, but that I interpret as my own revelation.

LoSt and found So here we are, wandering around at 37°N -114°W, contemplating the sacrifice of the closest thing that Roxanne has to a child, giving our last drops of water to said dog-child. Every so often, we start following a faded cow track that resembles a bulldozer mark, only to find out a quarter of a mile later, in a damp spot, that there are distinct hoofprints in our path. It doesn’t help that we have no real image of what the work itself looks like. Created in 1969 roughly 90 miles north of its namesake, Walter de Maria’s “Las Vegas Piece” is—allegedly—a square-mile of barely-there bulldozer-cut lines with longer wings extending out on both sides. Like a diamond with a roof on top. It was never documented by de Maria, never repped in a gallery, and hardly visited since its establishment. And although it doesn’t show up on the latest satellite imagery, it is, according to the Center for Land Use Interpretation database, “faintly visible today, to some.” I am still hoping that we are “some,” but Roxanne knows we’re not and has started to plant the seeds of dissent. “Do you know which direction the truck is?” “Why didn’t you bring your own water bottle?” “You didn’t bring your hat either?” “How much charge do you have left on your GPS?” The sun is going down when I realize our quest is futile. We are thirsty, sunburned, and 80 percent of my battery is gone.

When Roxanne gives me an out, asking me if I think the point of the piece is that “we’re supposed to experience what it feels like to get lost in the desert,” I take it. “Yes, that’s it. That’s actually just what I was thinking. It’s brilliant, really.” “Yeah, it really is.” We head back toward the truck feeling proud of our artdeciphering abilities and partially cured of our ERSS.

Leaving L as vegas It’s a beautiful morning when we leave southern Nevada. We make a ceremony out of it—packing up the truck, hand-feeding Machete, and breaking down our bed to some Beyonce. Then we take a last look at the rust-colored mountains and head north on US-93. Roxanne has not let me drive once on this trip, but for the first time, I don’t care. I’m having a “if a tree falls in the forest” thought about the “Sun Tunnels” and earth rotation, and I am starting to see mirages along the highway. For example, right now I am looking at a grove of palm trees straight ahead. They seem to be getting bigger, and they look as if they are lit from behind. As we get closer, a sign that reads “Coyote Springs” comes into view beneath the canopy. “What’s Coyote Springs?” Roxanne asks. Apparently she can see it too. According to its website, Coyote Springs is “a Jack Nicklaus signature experience,” a sprawling golf course complete with target greens, sweeping views, and lots of imported palm trees. But according to every other news source on the internet, Coyote Springs is something of a monstrosity. Located in a remote valley between Apex Landfill and the Sheep Range mountains, the original tract of BLM

land was first privatized in 1988 to serve as a rocket fuel recycling plant. When plans fell through, the land was designed by Harvey Whittemore as a master-planned community to be populated with 159,000 homes, more than one school, and municipal facilities all flanking its celebrity-backed golf course. In the nine years since its initial development, the economic downturn has marooned the 43,000-acre property in the middle of Nevada, just beyond the suburban hope that would connect it to the cash and crowds of Las Vegas. Miles behind the fancy sign and out-of-place palms, a cascading waterfall, a dozen ponds, and 19 acres of golf greens suck water from the Warm Springs Aquifer that feeds the Muddy River headwaters where the Moapa dace live. After winning a lawsuit two years ago brought by the Center for Biological Diversity on the behalf of the endangered fish, Coyote Springs developers are currently building out the first of its master-planned homes, to be completed sometime next year. Suddenly, I realize why the “blight on the land” argument against land art seemed so silly to me back in the canyon. “Double Negative” is 1,500 feet long and 30 feet at its widest. It took one man with a bulldozer two months to excavate 244,000 tons of rock to create a trench that you can only see if you can find it. It is not on sacred ground, and has no water rights attached to it. In all likelihood, it will never be reinforced by steel beams, and in another 100 years, it might take several minutes to tell whether it was created by an artist or a floodplain. “Sun Tunnels” took three years to build and four semis to truck the cylinders out into the landscape. Worst case scenario, it is an abandoned load of construction materials miles from the nearest town.

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“Las Vegas Piece” required an afternoon and a bulldozer. It might not exist anymore. Even the biggest earthwork in the West, “Spiral Jetty,” has had less of a negative impact on its surroundings than the (poorly maintained) roads that lead up to it. In most cases, the creation of these pieces is often followed by a flurry of conservation efforts that comes with exposure. But a golf course in the middle of the desert? Sure. A few months ago, the Reno City Council—in a 6-1 vote—approved the rezoning of 427 acres of land outside the Toiyabe National Forest near Border Town for singlefamily use. Part of a larger 2000-acre project, the plan is to build 5,000 new homes in an area with no services and a pipe dream to pump water in from Lemmon Valley to the tune of millions of dollars. Since March of last year, Dakota Access LLC has been publicly pushing plans for its $3.8 billion, 1172-mile long pipeline through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation after facing NIMBY concerns elsewhere and despite the resistance of thousands of protesters concerned with water contamination. The day after inauguration, the White House scrubbed all traces of climate change language from its website— among other concerning modifications—in an effort to hide a literal rising tide that will put Mar-A-Lago at least two feet underwater in the next 50 years. We’re in a bad, non-optional kind of scenario that requires more than Roxanne’s well-placed questions to get out unharmed. I don’t know what to do but frown at the Coyote Springs sign and take comfort in the fact that, at the very least, a crumbling trench on Mormon Mesa will still exist a few hundred thousand years from now. Ω

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Robin Hood protests the prince’s removal of Girl Scout cookies in TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada’s The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, playing at the Laxalt Auditorium through Feb. 26.

’Tis the season for local theater to blossom

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s we climb out of this soggy winter and into a (hopefully) sunnier spring, the roster of local stage offerings is blooming profusely. We have more theater companies than ever before and a few Nevada premieres. Several companies are putting new spins on old stories. Many pieces are redolent of our confused and troubled times. But in spring, we shed heaviness like winter coats, so you’ll find plenty lighthearted stuff, too.

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GLM’s ninth season kicked off this month with Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers, running through Feb. 25. The show explores the dark side of ambition—and how the struggle to get what you want can sometimes turn you into someone you don’t want to be. Next comes the show Managing Director Christopher Daniels describes as “Avenue Q meets Satan.” Robert Askins’

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Hand to God is fresh off Broadway and making its Nevada premiere at GLM March 18-April 8. It’s the outrageous story of how a Texas church’s effort to teach kids bible lessons with puppets goes awry when little Jason’s puppet, Tyrone, might be possessed by Satan. Reno’s puppet pro, Bernie Beauchamp, is helping to bring this production to life. GLM goes back to the Bard April 28-May 20 with the playwright’s bloodiest tragedy: Titus Andronicus. Producing Artistic Director Joe Atack is taking the story from the last days of the Roman Empire to a women’s prison in 1920s rural Nevada, complete with an all-female cast. Tickets & information:   www.goodluckmacbeth.org

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UNR Department of Theatre & Dance The University of Nevada, Reno, has fresh material this spring. Family Portrait, March 3-11, is the first English production

of a Japanese play by Shu Matsui. UNR faculty member Jessica Nakamura did the translation and directs this comedy that pokes fun at our notions about family. Another old tale is made new April 14-23 with Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. It’s based on the ancient Greek myth about Orpheus, who travels to the Underworld to retrieve his recently deceased wife, Eurydice. Ruhl’s version tells the tale from the wife’s perspective. The department’s annual spring dance concert May 4-6 showcases faculty work and includes a guest appearance by hiphop b-girl Teena Custer. Tickets & information:   www.unr.edu/cla/theatredance

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Just in time for Women’s History Month, Brüka presents Mary Bennett in the one-woman show Words to Live By: An Evening with Dorothy Parker, March 9-25. A collage of Parker’s life and works, the

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show draws the audience into the world of the 1920s writer, whose voice seems particularly resonant today. Next comes Sam Shephard’s Tooth of Crime. Lewis Zaumeyer, who mounted the show at Jub Jub’s a couple of years ago, is taking advantage of Brüka’s space and the current resurgence of spokenword poetry to reinvent this unconventional rock ’n’ roll poem about the high price of fame, running April 7-22. Reinvention is the name of the game in May, too, when Aaron Posner’s Stupid F---ing Bird gives Chekhov’s The Seagull a new life. This new comedic retelling opening May 19 still deals with a circle of unrequited loves, but Posner’s does so from the doomed bird’s point of view. Brüka also presents its ninth season of the Brüka Theatre for Children series, with The Bremen Town Musicians, opening Feb. 23 for three public performances before it begins its tour of schools. This tale of a troupe of older animals who find they’re no longer useful on the farm is about teamwork, friendships and living the dream. Tickets & information: www.bruka.org

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C an ’ t sit still Restless Artists’ Theatre

The area’s newest theater company is Restless Artists’ Theatre. It’s the only one on this list based in Sparks, and judging by the ambitious roster of a show every month, it’s appropriately named. The company emphasizes dark comedies, as exemplified by Bakersfield Mist, March 3-19. It’s the story of a trailer park denizen who happens upon a lost Jackson Pollack painting. Running March 31-April 16 is Parallel Lives, a show that originated as a sketch comedy routine between Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. Told through vignettes, it follows two female supreme beings as they create the world much as sadistic housewives would a living room. Then comes A Behanding in Spokane, May 5-21, from Martin McDonagh, the comedic genius behind In Bruges. It follows a one-handed man who thinks he may have found the couple who took the other. Tickets & Information: www.rattheatre.org

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Speaking of dark comedies, the multitalented performing arts troupe at TMCC presents Heathers: The Musical April 7-23. With small exceptions, it follows the plot you loved in the 1989 film—Heather homicides and all—only this time it’s set to some great music. Tickets & information: www.tmcc.edu/ vparts or www.tmcc.edu/puso

B ehinD Clo seD D oors Reno Little Theater

Not all tales of outsiders end so darkly. Suzan Zeder’s Mother Hicks, on stage at Reno Little Theater March 10-26, is a beautiful, hopeful, family-friendly tale about Depression-era outsiders—a foundling girl, a deaf boy and an eccentric recluse whom many people believe to be a witch. Then it’s something decidedly not family friendly: Douglas Post’s Murder in Green Meadows, May 12-28. It’s a contemporary thriller about two suburban couples who keep up appearances but who are actually quite twisted.

Between mainstage performances, RLT has a nice lineup of additional events and classes nearly every weekend, including Sunday jazz on the second Sunday of every month and the popular Brews, Brats & Ballet event, returning for its third year April 22-23. Tickets & information:   www.renolittletheater.org

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Merry War Theatre Group Chase McKenna’s little theater group may not have its own venue, but its impressive work keeps coming nonetheless. McKenna has scored a major get with The Word

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TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada Reno’s youth-focused theater company has plenty of adventure planned. First there’s The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, now through Feb. 26, which is a bit like what Monty Python might have done with Robin Hood— except family friendly. Then comes a good-versus-evil tale, After the Rain King, April 14-23. It’s

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Begins, running March 22-April 7 at The Potentialist Workshop. Written by spoken-word/hip-hop artists Steve Connell and Sekou Andrews, this provocative and timely show follows two men’s journey to explore race, faith and morality in America, with some of the most powerful and poetic language you’ll hear this season. Tickets & information: www.merrywar.com

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Laughing Owl Productions founders Dave and Angela Anderson feel about as untethered as their spring show’s namesake. Though details are still to be determined, a move from the current Wells Avenue location is imminent. First, there’s Pinocchio, with two performances on Feb. 25. Local director Sandra Brunell-Neace wrote this adaptation from the original Carlo Collodi children’s novel. Tickets are only $3.

the story of a group who must put aside resentments and rescue their bully when the Rain King, the personification of storybook evil, kidnaps him and takes him to a land of iconic adventure stories. Tickets & information: www.twnn.org

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The Utility Players Locals’ favorite improv troupe The Utility Players are back for their 13th season March 4-May 27. Every Saturday at Jester’s Theater at the Sands Regency, catch hilarious improvisational games with weekly themes including puberty, April Fools, recess and May the Fourth, as in “May the forth be with you.” Tickets & information: www.utilityplayers  comedy.com or www.sandsregency.com

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Spring is a time of growth, so if your spirit could use some (and whose couldn’t?), check out Alchemist Theatre, an interfaith company combining theater elements with spiritual inspiration. On the third Wednesday of each month, catch themed sermons and musical performances including giants—and underdogs—on March 15, Earth Day April 15, and liberation and letting go May 17. Tickets & Information:   www.alchemistmovement.org

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Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company The musical theater company that packs houses at the Carson City Community Center has selected Tony-winner Nice Work If You Can Get It as its 100th show. Running May 5-14, the show features all the Gershwins’ greatest hits in a story about Prohibition-era gin runners who disguise themselves as servants in a Long Island mansion. Tickets & information: www.wnmtc.com

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Maybe not “Tomorrow,” but it will, and spring promises to warm our hearts, too, with the beloved tale of the orphan who finds a forever home, Annie, Jr.—a condensed version for younger audiences—March 10-19 at the Brewery Arts Center. Then watch for auditions at the end of March for Getting to Know: The Sound of Music, a junior version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic.

Though the Eldorado’s showroom is dark for renovations, NoVi nightclub will host Privileged, a speakeasy-style variety show, running now through April 1. Inspired by the 1920s swing era, it features singing, dancing, cirque-style elements and appearances by comedian/impressionist Tony D’Andrea and magician Justin Impossible.

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If you were to read through the arts listings, see the words, “group show from the permanent collection,” and proceed to yawn, I wouldn’t call you a philistine. Sometimes those exhibits are best saved for academics. But this one—a slice of the Nevada Museum of Art’s Altered Landscape Collection—is engaging enough to recommend wholeheartedly to anyone. First off, the museum has gone to some lengths to claim a spot in the global art world, and amassing this collection has been one of its key strategies. Plans started in the ’90s, before the NMA was in its current building. “There was a recognition that you need to have a collection, a scholarly focus, relevant in your community and also beyond,” said curator Ann Wolfe. The NMA has other permanent collections, too, but this is the one that much of its identity is built around. Wolfe said it contains about 2,000 works so far. They’re purchased through galleries, art fairs, auctions or directly from artists. The images are far more likely to depict humans’ impact on the landscape than to present an Ansel Adams-style idealized view of it. Scholars from other states and countries request access to the collection, and pieces from it are sometimes lent out. “We just had maybe 15 loans go to the Pompidou in Paris,” said Wolfe. For art nerds like me, having a collection like this one in town is a cultural rallying point akin to having our own major league baseball team or our own style of pizza. (If you happen to be new or reading from out of town, we have neither of those.) Every so often, the curators pull out a selection from the Altered Landscape

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Collection to show here in Reno. The last version was in 2011. In the current version, photographs spanning several decades are hung “salon style,” in grids. This kind of presentation can come off as chaotic, but here it’s carefully thought out and seems to encourage visitors to linger, converse and even sketch. The photos depict plenty of evidence of environmental degradation, and they also convey the grandiosity and appeal of landscapes themselves. This combination makes for a lot of entry points. Viewers inclined to see landscape art through the lenses of, say, politics, aesthetics or geography, will all find plenty to chew on. A few highlights stand out easily, such as filmmaker Wim Wenders’ wall-length picture of a meteor crater in Australia. Other, quieter highlights are in danger of getting lost in the shuffle. When Catherine Opie’s poetic black and white photos of Los Angeles freeways started circulating in the mid ’90s, they sparked some interesting conversations. Opie had been previously known for big, bold images about lesbian identity. This subtler imagery re-casting Southern California freeways as quiet and architecturally graceful had the art world arguing about whether Opie did or didn’t have a responsibility to remain bold and personal in choosing her subject matter. None of this background is visible in Opie’s one tiny print in this show. Of course it would be impossible to fit all of the rich and revealing context and history behind every image into a group exhibit—and the ideas and images that are on display here make for a satisfying range. But I do have my fingers crossed. Museum reps are considering related events such as lectures or gallery talks. They’re not on the schedule yet, but I’m hoping for lots. Ω

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The Founder

Michael Keaton is flat-out great as  Ray Kroc, the sorta-kinda founder of  McDonald’s. Director John Lee Hancock’s film  tells the story from when Kroc was selling  milk shake mixers door-to-door up through  his wife-stealing days as the head of the  McDonald’s corporation. Hancock’s movie desperately wants you to like Kroc, but maybe we  shouldn’t? After all, he swept in and took the  name of McDonald’s from the McDonald brothers (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch),  effectively cutting them out of most profits and  leaving them in his dust. It’s a beautiful looking  movie that captures the essence of those  old timey fast food joints that replaced the  traditional drive-in diners. It slows down a bit  and gets a little muddled when it tries to depict  Kroc as some sort of commerce hero.

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because the Chinese were trying to hold back attacks on their sovereignty by non-distinctive, shitty CGI creatures that look like a cross between a Gremlin and that ridiculous looking Ripley alien baby that showed up at the end of Alien Something in the neighborhood of 17 bazillion zillion Resurrection. dollars got thrown at this movie thing called The Once the Chinese army discovers that Great Wall, a mash-up of American stars and a Katniss—sorry—William was able to kill one of kick-ass Chinese director. That’s 17 bazillion zillion the legendary, totally unoriginal beasts on his own, dollars somebody would’ve been better off spendthey invite him in for food, lodging, and stultifying, ing on the world’s supply of masking tape and inane dialogue. While inside, Robin Hood—oh, gummy bears. pardon me—William—starts to like them and feel Matt Damon stars in this mess, and this may at home. He even shows them how good he is with very well represent the low point of his career, a his arrows, aided by more unimpressive CGI. career that has included the atrocious Jason Bourne Willem Dafoe shows up as Ballard, the wildand Hereafter. eyed guy wearing an Obi-Wan Kenobi robe who He probably thought he was in safe hands because hides in the shadows all bug-eyed and knows all The Great Wall is helmed by director Zang Yimou, about the black powder. He’s been living on the maker of such masterpieces as Hero, House of Flying other side of the wall, inexplicably, Daggers and—one of my very favorfor years, looking for his chance to ite movies—The Road Home. Damon escape. (I never did figure out if he was probably all like, “Hey, Yimou was a prisoner, willing resident or is calling the shots. If anything, I’m male prostitute.) When Rambo—I going to look good in this pic!” apologize—William shows up, Then … he saw his wardrobe. A Director: Zang Yimou Ballard figures this is his chance to wardrobe that begins with big furry Starring: Matt Damon, Pedro  escape. As it turns out, his escape wigs and beards, and then declines Pascal, Willem Dafoe plan would’ve worked just fine into a sad man-bun wig as the film on his own and didn’t necessarily progresses. He looks silly from require somebody else, one of the frame one. film’s many plot holes. He sounds silly, too. He’s attempting some sort The wall itself is the product of more terrible, of accent here, a cross between Irish, Scottish and godawful CGI. You would think with this budget, just plain dickweed. Every time he talks in this they could’ve made this movie look better. There’s movie, it hurts the ears and the soul—especially the one moment when Daryl Dixon—I beg your souls of those who love Matt Damon. pardon—William is swinging with a girl in his Damon plays Legolas—I mean William—a arms, and it’s so terribly obvious Damon’s face has mercenary, expert archer roaming China with been computer-glued onto a stuntman’s body. There his best mate, Tovar (Pedro Pascal) in search of wasn’t a single moment in this movie where the the majestic “black powder” they hear can blow effects were impressive. things up real good. One spooky night, the Green I don’t think Damon will be returning as Arrow—sorry—William slays a mysterious beast. Hawkeye—Jesus Christ!—William in any sequels. He chops off its arm and stows it, something that The Great Wall is a great disaster of epic proportions, will save their lives when they come into contact and an unfortunate English language debut for the with the Great Wall. great Yimou. Damon should stick with movies about You see, the Great Wall wasn’t just built for being lost in space and solving gargantuan math American tourists so they could run around on problems. No … more … wig … movies. Ω it and take Facebook selfies. Nope, it was built

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Hidden Figures

Katherine Johnson was part of a segregated division at NASA in the ’50s, a  wing of mathematicians who did the work that  computers do today. Hidden Figures depicts  the humiliation she and two other historical  African-American figures, Dorothy Vaughan  and Mary Jackson, went through while solving  equations that helped put men safely into  space. The women had to put up with a lot  of racist bullshit, and the film shows their  hardships, albeit in PG fashion. Taraji P. Henson  plays Johnson, the “smart one” astronaut  John Glenn personally demanded check the coordinates before his historical flight launched.  Octavia Spencer is her usual great self as  Vaughan, doing the work of a supervisor without the title and curious about that new IBM  thing they just installed down the hall. Vaughan  would become crucial to the implementation  of computers at NASA, as well as being the  agency’s first African-American supervisor. As  Jackson, NASA’s first female African-American  aeronautical engineer, singer Janelle Monae is  so good, it’s easy to forget that this is just her  second movie role. As a composite, fictional  character named Al Harrison, Kevin Costner  does some of his best acting in years.

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John Wick: Chapter 2

A whole lot of people get shot in the face  during this worthy sequel to the 2015  breakout hit. Keanu Reeves—totally bummedout Keanu Reeves—returns as the lone assassin, originally brought out of retirement after  somebody killed his dog and stole his car. Many  deaths later, Wick is back in his stylish home,  with a new no-named dog, intent upon burying  his guns and taking a long break. No such luck.  A man from the past shows up with a marker,  giving him a killing assignment that will take  him to Italy and have him facing off with the  likes of Common. (It turns out Common is built  like The Terminator and makes for a good villain. Oh, wait … he’s sort of the good guy. Wick  is actually a villain.) Balletic violence begins and  never ends. This time out, Wick is wearing some  sort of bulletproof lining under his suit. He was  unstoppable before, but now he can take a  bullet! Reeves is the perfect guy for this role,  physically believable as an aging, unstoppable  assassin, and pretty great with the stoic line  deliveries. He’s in one mode for this movie,  and that mode is badass. Reeves has himself a  brand new franchise, and this one is very ripe  for the next story. It also has another Reeves  franchise guy, Laurence Fishburne a.k.a. Morpheus from The Matrix.

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La La Land

This is an all new, original musical from  director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)  that’s surprisingly low on melodrama while  full of vibrancy, beautiful tunes, outstanding  set pieces and a stunning sense of realism for  a movie where the characters bust out singing. It’s the best original movie musical ever  made. The story follows wannabe actress Mia  (Emma Stone) and jazz composer Sebastian  (Ryan Gosling) as they try to make it in crazy  Los Angeles. They meet, they don’t like each  other much at first, but then they fall in love,  which provides Chazelle and his performers  ample opportunities for musical numbers that  surprise at every turn. This solidifies Gosling

as one of the best actors of his generation. He  can wow you with insightful indies and carry  big-budget blockbusters. Now, with La La Land,  he takes his game to a new level. He can sing  and dance with the best of them. Stone doesn’t  just make her mark with a beautiful voice and  expert footwork—she embodies the character  with the honest and almost tragic drive to  “make it” in the business.

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The Lego Batman Movie

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Split

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This is the great Batman story that  Batman v Superman failed to be. Even  better, it has Will Arnett voicing Batman with a  new, super amped, still dark, but amazingly well  rounded and sometimes humorous incarnation.  After all these years of dark—and admittedly  sometimes brilliant—Batman movies, it’s nice  to have a vehicle where we can just have fun  with the character. Director Chris McKay,  along with a long list of writers, has come up  with a story that will please adult Batman fans  as much as the kids who will most assuredly  be dropped off at the local Cineplex to watch  a movie while parents catch a break from  the little mayhem makers. Arnett’s Batman  not only faces off against the Joker (a very  funny Zach Galifianakis), but finds himself in a  scenario where he’s battling a smorgasbord of  movie villains including King Kong, the Gremlins,  Dracula, evil British robots and Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), to name just a few. It’s a nutty plot  element that also allows for Batman mainstays  like Bane, Two-Face (Billy Dee Williams, who was  Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman) and the  Riddler (Conan O’Brien!) to get in on the act.  It’s a geek fest, a movie lover’s delight that has  a funny little trivia bit at nearly every turn, and  an emotional center.

Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan  has finally made his first good movie  since Signs (2002) with Split, a down-to-thebasics, creepy thriller propelled by excellent  performances from James McAvoy and Anya  Taylor-Joy (The Witch). The film reminds us  that Shyamalan can be a capable director and  writer when he’s not getting too carried away.  Taylor-Joy plays Casey, a high school outcast  who attends a birthday party but soon finds  herself and two classmates imprisoned by a  strange man with multiple personalities (McAvoy). In addition to the angry man who kidnaps  them, he’s also a stately, mannered woman, a  9-year-old child and, well, a few others. One  of those other personalities plays a big part  in taking the film into other realms beyond  psychological thriller. McAvoy goes nuts with  the role, and Shyamalan takes things into  supernatural territories in a chilling climax.  Taylor-Joy is quickly becoming the new scream  queen, and McAvoy’s work will surely stand as  one of the year’s most fun performances.

Four women direct short films in  this horror anthology. Most notably,  Annie Clark of the band St. Vincent—my  hero!—makes her film directorial debut with  a segment called “The Birthday Party,” where  a frantic mom (Melanie Lynskey) panics when  she finds a corpse just before her child’s  birthday. The segment looks great, is acted  well, and features some great sound and St.  Vincent music. As a piece of horror, it’s a bit  of a failure—it’s more jokey than horror—but  the segment does show that Clark can direct  performances and pull together the technical  parts. It’s just not scary. Things get creepier  in an Evil Dead sort of way with “Don’t Fall,”  where some desert campers come into contact  with demonic forces after seeing some sketches on a stone wall. There isn’t much of a story  to the segment, but the scares come fast and  furious once somebody gets possessed. The  other segments, “The Gift” and “Her Only Living  Son,” deal with starvation, parenthood and the  antichrist, and they also have their moments.  Nothing in this anthology is groundbreaking,  but there’s enough here to warrant watching  if you are a horror fan or a St. Vincent fan.  Available for download rental during limited  theatrical release.

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shishamo—five little smelts dredged in flour and salt, then deep-fried and served up nice and hot with a drizzle of shoyu and a side of shichimi. My wife—though a fan of It is said that opening and operating a most seafood—was not fond of the fishies. successful restaurant is one of the toughest They might be a bit too “fishy” for some, jobs around. Keeping a ramen shop open but I loved every bite right down to their in Reno appears to be a particularly tricky crispy little tails. business—with three of the last five openAfter so much fun with the starters, our ing and closing in fewer than four years. bowls of ramen were like a bonus round. Latest on the scene, Uchi Ramen occupies Ranging from $10-$14, every bowl starts a comfortable space with seating for with pork bone tonkotsu broth simmered perhaps 30. The menu features Japanese for up to 20 hours. My wife’s Mi-So-Hot street food favorites. I had fresh air for ($12) included red miso, soy-braised pork lunch, ensuring a big appetite for dinner. belly, spicy ground pork, corn, scallion, There are only four appetizers, plus sesame, fried chili and ajitama—a halved, a couple of yakitori—grilled, skewered six minute boiled and marinated egg that I meat—options offered. I ordered the considered one of the best things in the lot—or tried to; they were out of chicken bowl. I ordered Uchi-Kuro ($12) with thigh. No worries, though, as the pair of shoyu, black garlic sauce, fried garlic, fatty, crispy pork belly skewers ($5) with charred pork belly, ajitama, wood ear a bit of shichimi Japanese spice blend on mushroom, sesame seed, baby spinach the side held their own just fine. The other and scallion. There’s a decent list of apps—each $4—were plates of deep-fried extras you can add goodness, with all save for a buck each. I one delivered in record added marinated time. It was as if the bamboo shoot. 400 W. Fifth St., 800-1975 chef knew what we Uchi Ramen is open Tuesday through Sunday from The Mi-So-Hot were going to order 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Note: The restaurant’s name may broth was sweet— before we did. be changed in the near future. perhaps from the Shrimp shumai copious amount of dumplings were crispy corn—but with plenty of kick on the back and much more flavorful than the typical end. The meat was tender and not dry, and steamed Chinese dim sum variety. Served the noodles were just a little past al dente with a spicy sauce, those five morsels and tasted fresh. The broth in my bowl was quickly disappeared. Just as good was a savory and complex, with similar results plate of four pork gyoza with the same on meat and noodles and excellent veggies. sauce, plus shoyu and scallion for dipping. In fact, there were so many goodies in More complex in preparation and flavor, the bowl that there was barely room for three takoyaki—battered balls of octopus the broth; it acted more as a sauce for and tempura scraps topped with fish flake everything, rather than a soup. Both bowls and Japanese mayo—were hot and gooey were extremely satisfying, if a bit difficult goodness in a bowl. I really enjoy this to finish after all those great small plates. combination of flavor and texture, and Uchi The word “uchi” is Japanese for does a great job of it. “home,” and I’m hoping these folks are Last to arrive, because they take able to break the curse and make Reno more time to prepare and cook, were home for years to come. Ω

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filling the room, in my head I heard cliché player piano music as in every Western movie saloon. The friendly barkeep asked what we would like, but we paused to consider the cocktail options on advice from a friend. The varied ingredients—egg whites, fresh Besides being a beer aficionado, I also citrus, house-made syrups and more— have a love for the history of Reno and formed more of an apothecary’s pantry than Nevada in general. I don’t know what it a simple bar. But wait, which beer list do I is—more than just nostalgia or pride in my use, the chalkboard or this menu book? home and its heritage, I just find the tales Over my local coffee stout and my of the past that form the story of our state wife’s Pahranagat Punch, I impressed her compelling. Given that, in hindsight I’m a with my wealth of knowledge, nailing the little surprised that I took as long as I did to Nevada trivia questions she found nearby. visit the 1864 Tavern on California Avenue The longer I sat, the more I appreciated the for a drink. Maybe my subconscious was surroundings, every little detail just right. avoiding it, fearing the potential for a lame It was hard to tell what was authentic and attempt to cash in on the past. what was faux antique, a sign to me of An impromptu date night led my much thought and effort in the decor. The wife and me into 1864 on a most serenillusion took me away from dipitous evening—Lincoln’s 2017 Reno and delivered Birthday eve. For those me to the Comstock Lode. not in the know, it was our I wonder how this sells to a esteemed 16th President who 290 California Ave., 329-1864 young urban crowd—most of signed the papers making www.1864tavern.com whom I assume don’t share Nevada a state, granting my love of history—when him a special place in our it seems such a perfect fit for the Virginia history. The awnings over the windows City tourist. looked a particularly deep shade of Battle You could have knocked me over Born blue this night. with a feather then, when, as if on cue for Board games and popcorn were the my old Nevada reverie, a Union officer first things I noticed—nothing especially strolled into the bar. No hallucination, just Nevadan about those—then the list of draft a gathering of local reenactors for Lincoln beers in chalk above the bar. A selection Day in this appropriate venue. The timing of beers not particularly long or short, just of our visit couldn’t have been better. Old enough choices and variety to appease Abe gazed down approvingly from his most tastes, with a somewhat-better-thanportrait on the wall. average number of local or regional brews, 1864 Tavern escapes campiness with a home state advantage I can appreciate. I what seems to be a genuine love for the don’t think I’ve ever seen Ruby Mountain Silver State, the past, quality craft beer, and Amber on tap before. As I looked around, modern handcrafted cocktails. Further on my eyes took in more and more details— my list of appeal factors—nonsmoking, tab antique furniture arranged to form little opened, card returned and popcorn. I think I “parlors,” almost like individual train cars actually said, “This is my new favorite bar,” throughout the room, varied lanterns and I enjoyed it so much. Ω chandeliers. Despite the modern music

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Core values Fall Silent For roughly 13 years, Fall Silent was one of the most popular hardcore bands in Reno, releasing three full-length albums and a handful of seven-inch records before breaking up in 2007. In late 2015, the band reappeared for an unannounced show at 40 Mile Saloon, followed by a sold-out show at the Holland Project. Now, the band is releasing a new foursong E.P. Cart Return and re-releasing the long out-of-print 1999 L.P. Superstructure. When Danny Galecki (guitar), Damon Watson (drums) and Levi Watson (vocals) decided to reform the band, they required a new bass player. The spot was filled by Joe Foley, who was a fan of the band’s earlier incarnation when he was, quite literally, a kid. Foley saw one of Fall Silent’s final shows when he was 12 or 13. He still talks about the band like a fan, rather than a member. “There are very few bands that positively reflect on what music has ever been in Reno,” said Foley. “This represented a lot of cool shit. You could play fast, sing about what you want, do what you want.” Galecki was determined that if the band reformed, it would indeed be the same band, the one Foley loved a decade ago, not a mellowed or “mature” version. “The three of us—we’re all in our 40s,” he said. “You run the risk of trying to be too musical or trying to break new ground. Then everyone hears your slow, weak-ass

shit and wonders ‘Why did they even get back together?’” Their new music is as assaultive as it ever was. Without being sloppy, the band sounds like it’s always on the verge of imploding. Every song is fast, direct and free of frills—like guitar solos or intricate overdubbing. Levi Watson sings over the chaos like a chainsaw. Under all this violence, however, there is a soft heart hiding. The name of the new E.P., Cart Return, refers to a simple act of human decency—putting your shopping cart back when you’re done with it. “It’s kind of like all those little things,” said Levi Watson. “Like cart returns and generally being lazy, shitty people—how all of that shit adds up.” Though the name indicates a concern for the seemingly small, mundane ways in which people hurt each other, the actual songs address larger concerns. “Sterling” covers the killing of Alton Sterling by members of the New Orleans police department, the Brock Turner rape case, and Omar Mateen’s shooting spree in Florida. The song itself doesn’t bear much insight into these horrible acts of violence. It’s instead a prolonged scream about the simple fact of them. But sometimes a scream is the only proper response. The E.P.’s remaining songs—“Try Harder,” “Jobs, Shelter, Food” and “Youth Wasted on the Young,”—are all in some way about the fear of living a pointless life. Murder, rape, existential despair—these themes might give the impression that Fall Silent are grim and humorless. There is anger at injustices big and small, and the members of Fall Silent do want to write songs about real issues, but none of that would matter if they weren’t enjoying themselves. “I think it’s just fun,” said Levi Watson. It’s the only type of situation in life where you can scream for 40 minutes and people won’t call the cops.” “When Damon four counts and we all fire up into a song we just feel awesome,” said Galecki. “That’s what we will continue to do for another … 30, 40 years.” It’s something to hope for—seeing these four as old men, their music stubbornly unchanged, joyfully pounding out the same noise they made in the 1990s, and screaming. Screaming at the world’s lack of decency. Ω Fall Silent plays an album release show at 9:30 p.m., Feb. 24, at 40 Mile Saloon and another one at Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor Feb. 25. They’ll play last during a noon-tomidnight skate jam.

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Hopeless Jack, Spike McGuire, 9pm, $5

Rustler’s Moon, 8:30pm, no cover

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255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

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

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Miguel Jimenez Group, 8:30pm, no cover

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Datsik Mo’day Drum Circle, 9pm, M, no cover

Alias Smith, 8pm, no cover

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

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DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Gemini Duo, 9pm, no cover

Alphabet Cult, Slow Wow, Murderdream, 9pm, no cover

Maneki Neko, 9pm, no cover

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Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

9th Annual Oscar Party, 4pm, no cover

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One Man Jam hosted by Catfish Carl, 5:30pm, M, no cover

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Saturday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

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Harrington Saints, Streetlight Saints, Todd McNulty, 9pm, $TBA

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Tara Velarde, 9pm, $5

Explorations in Jazz, 8pm, no cover

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SATURDAY 2/25

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1) Decadence, 10pm, $32.75 3) Jackie Landrum, 9pm, no cover

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3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Glen Delpit & The Subterraneans, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, no cover Glen Delpit & The Subterraneans, 9pm, no cover

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2) Sons of Jefferson, 8pm, no cover

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2) Fresh, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Fridays, 9pm, no cover 4) Chili Sauce, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke La Morena Bar, 2140 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 772-2475: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover The Man Cave Sports Bar, 4600 N. Virginia St., 499-5322: Karaoke, Sa, 8pm, no cover O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, 359-1209: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, Th, 6pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., 322-3001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 8:30pm; Su, 6pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

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

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

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

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2) DJ Ivan, 9pm, no cover 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 4) Punktematrix, 9pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, no cover Ashley Red, 10:30pm, W, no cover 3) Privileged, 7:30pm, Tu, W, $27.95

3) Buddy Emmer Band and guest, 8pm, Tu, no cover

FOr tHE WEEK OF FEBrUArY 23, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

EvEnts ALPENGLOW MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL: A nine-day celebration of human-powered mountain sports that includes racing, guided backcountry tours, avalanche safety, natural history excursions, Nordic instruction, snowshoeing, yoga and film. M-Su through 2/26. Call or visit website for details, (530) 583-6917, www.alpenglowsports.com.

BIRDS OF GALENA: Presenter Kenn Rohrs will talk about the raptors, corvids, woodpeckers, nuthatches, songbirds, hummingbirds and other birds of the Galena Creek area on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. The Mount Rose Wilderness area includes several habitats that support many bird species. Sa, 2/25, 2-3pm. $5 suggested contribution. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www. galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

BOTS + CHATBOTS HACKATHON: MediaShift, Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno present the fourth annual Journalism School Hackathon. Top graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and professionals will gather for the weekend event with a real-world mission of creating startups around bots and chatbots. No coding background is needed. The Hackathon is like a Startup Weekend with the creation of a startup name, business model and pitch deck. F-Su through 2/26. Opens 2/24. $69 for students, $129 for professionals. University of Nevada, Reno Innevation Center, 450 Sinclair St., (775) 682-8612, http://mediashift.org.

CHRIS ROCK: TOTAL BLACKOUT: Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, director, writer and producer brings his first comedy tour in over nine years to Reno. F, 2/24, 7pm. $59.50-$129.50. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

DO PREHISTORIC ALIENS PAINT THEIR CAVES?: Dan Ruby, director of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, will speculate on possible answers through his own experience in art making and astronomy. Ruby is involved in ongoing planetary research around extraterrestrial caves and minor planets. He is a trained as a NASA educator in heliophysics and airborne infrared astronomy. F, 2/24, noon-1pm. $10 general admission, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN: UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: The University of Nevada Reno’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, and Natural Resources department and the Autism Coalition of Nevada present a talk by the prominent author and expert on animal behavior. Grandin is also widely celebrated as one of the first people on the autism spectrum to publicly share her insights and personal experience with autism. Tu, 2/28, 7pm. $25. Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (850) 291-6778.

GARDENING IN NEVADA: THE BARTLEY RANCH SERIES: University of Nevada Cooperative

LAKE MANSION: Youth Art Month Exhibition. Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion will be filled with colorful and imaginative children’s artwork as part of the annual nationally celebrated Youth Art Month. The artwork was created during workshops conducted by Arts for All Nevada in local elementary through high school special education classrooms. M-F, 10am4pm through 4/28. Opens 3/1. Free. 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

Extension and its certified master gardeners offer this free series in partnership with Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space. This series is for anyone who wants to learn how to garden in Northern Nevada. Tu, 6-8pm through 3/28. Free. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 784-4848, www.unce.unr.edu.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Inside the

KID-O-RAMA: Squaw Valley|Alpine Meadows presents its annual week-long kids extravaganza featuring street parties and kids’ concerts, game and craft room and other events. M-Su through 2/25. Free. The Village at Squaw Valley, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, http://squawalpine.com.

Mind of da Vinci. Northern Nevada artist Mischell Riley worked with engineering and art students at the University to realize the 10’ x 23’ sculpture, which premiered at the most recent Burning Man event. M-Su through 5/1. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4636.

MARDI GRAS DANCE PARTY: The Reno Blues

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Light Abundant: Lainie Vreeland. The abstract painter creates innovative and imaginative compositions centered on water, forms and plant life as they interact with light. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24; Extravagant Chemistry. West Gallery in McKinley Arts & Culture Center present new work by abstract painter Liz Penniman. M-F, 9am-5pm through 2/24. Free. 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

Society presents its annual Mardi Gras dance party featuring headliners The Pulsators and opening act VooDoo Dogz. The event includes a costume contest, raffle and a food drive for the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Sa, 2/25, 7:30pm. $17 in advance, $22 at the door. Ramada Reno Hotel and Casino, 1000 E. Sixth St., (775) 786-5151, www.renoblues.org.

OPERA & LUNCH: Sierra Music Society,

METRO GALLERY AT RENO CITY HALL: No

Century Riverside 12 and Silver Peak present a day of opera, food and fun. Watch The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD performance of Dvorak’s Rusalka, followed by lunch at Silver Peak. Learn about the activities of the Sierra Music Society and its show chorus P’Opera. Sa, 2/25, 9:55am. $45. Riverside 12, 11 N Sierra St., (775) 233-5105, www.poperanv.org.

RENO MARDI GRAS 2017: The Rotary Club of Reno holds its annual fund-raising event and Mardi Gras party featuring music by Fierce Entertainment, acrobatic performances by the Siren Society and appearances by Reno’s Carnavale Costumers, as well as food samples from more than 20 restaurants and food vendors and hundreds of wines, bourbons and beers for sipping. Rotary Club of Reno distributes all proceeds to local and global services projects. Tu, 2/28, 6pm. $65-$75. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800, http://renorotary.ejoinme.org.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sa, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

SKATE JAM 2017: The all-ages festival features skateboarding, live music, food trucks and more. Sa, 2/25, noon-midnight. $10-$12. Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652.

Expectations: A Photographic Exhibition. Matthew McIver’s photographic series is inspired by architecture, sustainability, water and art. M-Su, 8am-5pm through 2/24. Free. 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

NATASHA’S WORLD JEWELRY: Miriam

Reno Chamber Orchestra: Cultural Counterpoint

2/25:

The RCO continues its 2016-2017 season with a concert featuring conductor and clarinetist Carl Topilow and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. Topilow’s pops performances blend light classical, swing, jazz, Broadway, Dixieland and klezmer music and showcase some of his colorful clarinets. Man is considered the world’s premier player of the pipa, a traditional Chinese musical instrument. The Grammy Awardnominated musician has carved out a career as a soloist, educator and composer, giving her lute-like instrument—which has a history of over 2,000 years in China—a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Nightingale Concert Hall inside the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $5-$50. Call 348-9413 or visit www.renochamberorchestra.org.

Art BUSINESS RESOURCE INNOVATION CENTER (THE BRIC): ART from WNC. Capital City Arts Initiative presents art from Western Nevada College art students. M-Su through 3/30. Free. 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, (775) 283-7123.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: All In: Holland Gallery Fundraiser. The Holland Project presents its fund-raising exhibition featuring work by over 40 artists. F, 2/24, 6-8pm. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY AT BIBO COFFEE CO.: Agate. Sadie Fienberg is a self-taught artist who is interested in color theory and the different feelings associated with specific colors. In this body of work, she explores color relationships through the use of watercolor pigments to create forms that are reminiscent of agate crystal formations, which also carry their own powerful energies and metaphysical associations. The opening reception is on March 1. M-Su through 3/17; W, 3/1, 6:30-8:30pm. Free. 945 Record St., (775) 348-8087, www.hollandreno.org.

Gomberg: Taking it Off. Miriam Gomberg will have her first solo exhibition and sale of her paintings with the theme of “women and burlesque.” Sa, 2/25, noon6pm. Free. 5136 Meadowood Mall Circle, (775) 657-9144, http://charliebgallery.com.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, CHURCH FINE ARTS BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Expanded Readings: The Book to Come. This exhibition explores the book as a site for artistic exploration. The work in this exhibit exaggerates and expands this idea of the book as an active reading experience requiring the reader to interact with the book in new ways, thereby expanding the definition and the role of the book in contemporary art and culture. Expanded Readings: The Book to Come will coincide with the CODEX Book Art Fair & Symposium in the Bay Area. Tu-Sa, noon-4pm through 3/17. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

SIERRA ARTS: La Cultura de los Tatuaje. A group exhibition of paintings, drawings and mixed media art from 10 local tattoo artists. M-F through 2/24; A View Within. Karen Rips & Paula Chung’s exhibition focuses on interpretations, responses and relationships to medical images. M-F through 3/30. Opens 3/1. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787.

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SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Truckee  Meadows Reflections. The Sparks  Museum & Cultural Center presents  this exhibition detailing historical water  usage in the region. In conjunction with  the exhibit, Latimer Art Club will present  work by their members in the museum’s  Cultural Center. Artists from Latimer  explore the theme of water in their artwork, which showcases a wide variety of  mediums. Meet the artists at the exhibit  reception on Feb. 25, 4-7pm. Tu-Sa, 11am4pm through 3/25. Free. 814 Victorian Ave,  Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

ALPENGLOW WINTER FILM SERIES: Local athletes share stories of their adventures  in the mountains during the 11th annual  event. Th, 2/23, 7pm. Free. Olympic Village  Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic  Valley, http://squawalpine.com.

FILMS ON TAP WINTER FILM FESTIVAL: This  two-day festival will feature six genre  and documentary selections from  around the world. Movies will be paired  with a complimentary selection of craft  beer and wine, gourmet snacks and  small bites. Due to the adult nature of  these films, this event is recommended  for viewers age 18 and older. Sa, 2/25, 2-9pm; Su, 2/26, 10am-4pm. $45-$100.  Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty  St., (775) 329-3333, www.filmsontap.org.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH: BFA Thesis  Exhibition. Annual thesis exhibition of  artwork by graduating bachelor of fine  arts students from the University of  Nevada, Reno. M-Th, noon-4pm through 3/2; Th, 2/23, 6-8pm. Free. 1164 N. Virginia  St. Jot Travis Building, University of  Nevada, Reno, (775) 784-6658.

Call for artists CALL FOR ART: MARCH POP-UP ART SHOW:  Pitch Black Printing Company will host  a video game-themed pop-up art show  titled Level Up on March 11. Artists of all  genres are encouraged to submit work  with an video game-related theme. All  mediums will be accepted. Work must  be submitted no later than Saturday,  Feb. 25. Please email any questions or  submissions to megan@pitchblackprintingco.com. M-Su through 2/25. Free. Pitch  Black Printing Company, 1108 California  Ave., (775) 476-2003.

MusiC COME IN FROM THE COLD: The family entertainment series continues with a performance by Reno Jazz Youth Orchestra.  Seating is limited to 200 people. Sa, 7pm through 3/18. $3 suggested donation.  Western Heritage Interpretive Center,  Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000  Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

EXPERIENCE HENDRIX: The tour celebrates  the musical genius of Jimi Hendrix  by bringing together a diverse array  of musicians, including Buddy Guy,  Zakk Wylde, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne  Shepherd, Dweezil Zappa, Keb’ Mo’,  Doyle Bramhall II, Ana Popovic, The Slide  Brothers, Mato Nanji from Indigenous  and Beth Hart, among others. Sa, 2/25, 8pm. $59.50-$79.50. Reno Ballroom, 401 N.  Center St., (775) 325-7333.

GREATER NEVADA FIELD MURAL CALL TO ARTISTS: Greater Nevada Field, home to  the Reno Aces and the Reno 1868’s FC, is  commissioning a mural for the right field  concession stand. The goals of this project include transforming the concession  stand into an art form, increase public  awareness of art and use art to connect  the Reno Aces and Reno 1868’s FC with  the community. For more details, visit  Sierra Arts’ website. M-Su through 2/24.  Sierra Arts, 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120,  (775) 329-2787, http://sierra-arts.org.

FIRST TAKE FEATURING RICK METZ: Jimmy  Vermilion and Rick Metz perform vocal  jazz selections from the Great American  Songbook. F, 2/24, 5-7pm; F, 3/17, 5-7pm.  Free. The Great Western Marketplace,  4855 Summit Ridge Drive, (775) 771-4926.

STEVIE NICKS: The singer-songwriter  and former Fleetwood Mac member  returns to Reno with special guest The  Pretenders. Th, 2/23, 7pm. $63 and up.  Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St.,  (775) 335-8800.

MuseuMs NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel:

Wallsprawl, W-Su through 12/31;  Miradas: Ancient Roots in Modern and  Contemporary Mexican Art, Works  from the Bank of America Collections,  W-Su through 7/16; Maynard Dixon: The  Paltenghi Collections, W-Su through 7/16; A Place in the Country: Aboriginal  Australian Paintings, W-Su through 6/4; Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of a  Phenomenon, W-Su through 5/28; Kristin  Posehn: Architectures, W-Su through 5/21; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector,  W-Su through 12/31; Spinifex: Aboriginal  Paintings from the Robert Kaplan and  Margaret Levi Collection, W-Su through 5/28; Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic  Mountains, W-Su through 5/11. $1-$10. 160  W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

Sunland Salon: Music Video: StatementMaking Videos, 1980s to Present

2/23:

The Holland Project and  Sundance Books and Music  presents the eighth installment  of its salon-style discussion  series, Sunland. The talk will  explore how the medium of  music videos has evolved,  how videos have been used  to make artistic, political or  social statements and how  the unique mixture of music,  art and celebrity was able to  carry these messages to the  masses. The free event begins  at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23,  at the Nevada, Museum of Art,  160 W. Liberty St. Call 329-3333  or visit www.nevadaart.org.

GALENA CREEK GUIDED HIKE: Join a naturalist along one of the Galena Park trails  and learn about the area. Bring water,  sunscreen, hiking boots or snowshoes  (depending on weather.) Sa, 10am. $5  suggested donation. Galena Creek  Visitor Center, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway,  (775) 849-4948.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Toytopia. This immersive  and hands-on exhibition takes visitors  through 100 years of classic toys, games,  dolls and more. Learn about the origins  of toys, who made them and why they  are fun or dear to us. W-Su through 4/16.  $9 adults, $8 seniors, children ages 3-17.  1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

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basketball team takes on Windy City  Bulls, W, 3/1, 11am. $10 and up. Reno  Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775)  853-8220, http://reno.dleague.nba.com.

CERAMIC PLATES: This workshop will cover  basic slab building techniques along  with fun ways to personalize your plate  project using greenware decoration  techniques. Each student will make eight  to 10 plates. All supplies are included.  Bring in any stamps, stencils or textures  you would like to make impressions  into the clay. F, 2/24, 5:30-7:30pm. $75.  Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road,  Truckee, (530) 386-2700.

CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH PRACTICE: This  class meets for one hour every Saturday  to practice Spanish and improve conversational skills. Meet other travelers  and professionals who are interested  in Spanish language and culture. Sa, 11:30am-12:30pm through 2/24. $10 per  class. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke  Lane, Ste. 117, Building B, (775) 224-6271.

DRINK & DRAW: An unorthodox life drawing class with limited formal instruction  and maximum visual stimulation from  an assortment of the following—nude  models, dancers, musicians, staged still  lifes, running films and projected images.  Basic drawing supplies are offered but  please bring materials as you like. Third

W of every month, 7-9pm through 12/20; First W of every month, 7-9pm through 12/6.

onstage BRUKA THEATRE FOR CHILDREN: THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS: Brüka Theatre presents an original modern adaptation of  the Brothers Grimm tale. It’s a play  about change, wisdom and teamwork.

Th, 2/23, 10am; F, 2/24, 10am; Sa, 2/25, 10am. $10 general, $5 kids ages 12 and

younger. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia  St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

PINOCCHIO: Laughing Owl Productions presents an original adaptation of Pinocchio  based on the story by Carlo Collodi.  Sa, 2/25, 10am & 2pm. $3. Laughing Owl  Productions, 75 S. Wells Ave., (775) 3849967, www.laughingowlproductions.com.

SEX WITH STRANGERS: Good Luck Macbeth  presents Laura Eason’s erotic comedy/ drama. Th, 2/23, 7:30-9:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:309:30pm; Sa, 2/25, 7:30-9:30pm. $15-$18.  Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company,  713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

STARLIGHT! STARBRIGHT!: Laughing Owl

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Productions presents this awardwinning, one-hour solo performance  that tells the story of one man’s journey  towards healing from sexual abuse as a  child. Written and performed by Joseph  Galata. Open discussion will follow the  performance. Recommended for mature  audiences. Sa, 2/25, 7:30pm. $7-$10.  Laughing Owl Productions, 75 S. Wells  Ave., (775) 384-9967.

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES 2017: Sisters  Three Productions will bring awareness to women’s issues through performances of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina  Monologues. As part of the annual V-Day  Campaign, a global activist movement  to end violence against women and girls,  proceeds from the Reno performances  will benefit Safe Embrace. Th, 2/23,

7:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:30pm; Sa, 2/25, 4pm; Su, 2/26, 6pm. $15. Potentialist Workshop, 836  E. Second St., (775) 391-6234.

$10 donation suggested. Reno Art Works,  1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 391-0278,  www.renoartworks.org.

JIMMY BEANS WOOL KNIT NIGHT: Join local  and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting. Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. Free. Jimmy Beans  Wool, 1312 Capital Blvd., Ste. 103, (775)  827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com.

NATURAL DYEING: Learn about plants  available locally to extract color from,  mordants and fiber preparation. The  focus will be on a couple of plants and  a variety of extraction and application  techniques. Create samples in a variety of fibers, mordants and dyes that  can be created into an artist’s journal  page. There will also be time to discuss  medicinal dyes, paint making, history  and a variety of other topics related to  plant-based color. Sa, 2/25, 1-4pm. $78.  Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road,  Truckee, www.ateliertruckee.com.

UPCYCLED TRAVEL JOURNAL: See how the  unique structure of a lunch bag can be  leveraged to create main pages and mini  pages, as well as storage pockets for  stashing receipts, tickets and more. The  class will focus on building the structure  and backgrounds to later embellish with  your travel mementos. Participants are  welcome to bring materials collected  on a recent trip to begin embellishing  the cover and pages, if time permits.  The class will also include instruction  on using the Turkish map fold to incorporate a pop-up map in your journal.  Su, 2/26, 10:30am-1:30pm. $55. Atelier  Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road,  Truckee, www.ateliertruckee.com.

CoMMunity CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: This group is for  patients and families facing cancer.  Participants can share experiences  and express feelings and concerns. The  support group meets in Room 101 in  the Sierra Tower. Th, 11:30am-1pm. Free.  Renown Regional Medical Center, 1155 Mill  St., (775) 982-4400, www.renown.org.

CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or  share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 4-5:45pm. Free. Spanish Springs  Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway,  located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish  Springs, (775) 424-1800.

DEPRESSION BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE:  The Reno chapter of the national DBSA  meets. Fourth Th of every month, 7-8:30pm.  Renown Health Boardroom, 1495 Mill St.,  (775) 835-6410.

GALENA BOOK ’N TEA: Discuss nature-based  literature over hot tea. Call to reserve  a spot. Fourth Sa of every month, 3-4pm.  Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt.  Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY MONTHLY MEETING: The Reno Gem and Mineral  Society meets upstairs in Baldini’s  Casino. First W of every month, 7-9pm.  Free. Baldini’s Casino, 865 Rock Blvd.,  Sparks, www.renorockhounds.com.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Renown Hospice  Care offers a grief support group every  first and third Wednesday. Support is  available for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one. First W of every month, 6:30-8pm. Free. Washoe  County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St.,  (775) 982-2817.

KNITTING GROUP: The group is open to all  knitters, crocheters, loom artists and  people who enjoy the company of other  yarn artists. Bring your project or start  a new one. Tu, 4-6pm through 4/3. Free.  Atelier Truckee, 10128 Donner Pass Road,  Truckee, www.ateliertruckee.com.

LIFESCAPES: In this program, seniors are  given an opportunity to write and share  their memoirs. Lifescapes is a project  sponsored by the Washoe County Library  System, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute  and the Department of English at the  University of Nevada, Reno. W, 3/1, 1-3pm.  Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb  Drive, (775) 787-4100; Second and fourth Th of every month, 10:30am. Free. South  Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway,  (775) 851-5190.

NORTHERN NEVADA GHOST HUNTERS MEETING:  This event is open to those who want  to know what a paranormal group is all  about. Sa, 2/25, 4-7pm. Round Table Pizza,  801 W. Fourth St., www.nngh.net.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Doug Larson will  dip into his collection of Americana and  militaria to celebrate Washington’s and  Lincoln’s birthdays. Please bring in any  presidential coins and medals you may  have. There will be early bird prizes,  quarter pot, raffle and more. Tu, 2/28, 7-9:30pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 E. Nugget  Ave., Sparks, www.renocoinclub.org.

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) OUTREACH CLINIC: The  Food Bank of Northern Nevada hosts  SNAP outreach clinics to assist lowincome families and individuals in applying for SNAP benefits. Th, 10am-noon.  Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S.  Center St., (775) 327-8312.

SOUTH VALLEYS BRIDGE GROUP: Join Jill and  meet new friends. Basic bridge knowledge preferred. F, 1-4pm. Free. South  Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway,  (775) 851-5190.

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The 40-year-old guy I’m dating swivels his head to check out ladies everywhere. He even comments on those he finds attractive. I’ve mentioned that it bugs me. He contends that it’s my insecurities that are really the issue here. I can see how lower self-esteem might lend itself to an offended reaction, as opposed to just a shrug or an eye roll, but is this really on me? Yes, of course your insecurities are the real issue here. Because what woman wouldn’t feel great when her boyfriend’s all “Whoa, boobs are out tonight!”? That said, it is normal that he’s driven to look. Men evolved to have their eyeballs all up in every hot woman’s business because the features considered beautiful in a woman correlate with health and fertility. Ancestral men who passed on their genes (and mating psychology)—the men whose male descendants are walking the planet today—are those who went for the fertile young hotties, not the 70-year-old ladies with a lot of personality. Not surprisingly, brain imaging studies by evolutionary psychologist Steven Platek and his colleagues find that when men see pictures of curvalicious women—those with an hourglass bod, a fertility indicator—there’s “activation” in (most notably) the nucleus accumbens. This is part of the brain’s reward circuitry and, as they put it, “the seat of addictive behavior.” Regarding their findings, Platek told me, “We think that this is why men quite literally find it challenging to look away from a highly attractive female body.” However, feeling disturbed by his girl-gawking isn’t a sign you’re emotionally defective. Consider that emotions aren’t there just to jazz up your day. Psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that emotions have a job to do—to motivate us to “respond adaptively” to threats and opportunities. For example, that rotten feeling you get in response to your boyfriend’s ogling is basically an alarm going off alerting you that a man’s commitment isn’t there or is waning. Wanting to feel better pushes you to remedy the situation. Again, the problem isn’t that your boyfriend’s looking—it’s that he’s looking (and commenting) while you’re standing right there, feelings and all. Be

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honest with him: This doesn’t just “bug” you—it hurts your feelings. It makes you feel disrespected. And it needs to stop. Now. Because you want to feel loved, respected and happy—either with him or with some guy you meet at his funeral, after his tragic but inevitable death from drowning in a pool of his own drool.

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Splendor in the gracias For two years, I’ve been in the best relationship of my life, after years of really bad ones. I’m thinking that maybe the key to a happy relationship is having two people who think they aren’t good enough for each other. Not that we feel that in a pathetic way. We each just feel really grateful and lucky to be with the other person, and it makes a difference in how we treat each other. Thoughts? What seems key this time around—in how happy you two are—is the gratitude you feel. Gratitude for your partner comes out of noticing the sweet, thoughtful things they do. However, what you’re grateful for isn’t so much the garbage relocation as what it shows—what social psychologist Kaska Kubacka describes as your partner’s “responsiveness to (your) needs.” This, in turn, tells you that your happiness is important to them, which tells you that they value you and the relationship. Awww. Seeing that you’re loved and cared for like this motivates you to do sweet, loving things for your partner. Which motivates them, which motivates you. This helps create and maintain the kind of relationship where, when your partner blurts out “I love you so much!” your inclination is to respond in kind—instead of turning around to see who the hell they’re talking to. Ω

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): My astrological radar

suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think? Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Someone on Reddit

asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the most liberating thought you’ve ever had?” Among the replies were the following six: (1) “If new evidence presents itself, it’s OK to change my beliefs.” (2) “I get to choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.” (3) “I am not my history.” (4) “You can’t change something that has already happened, so stop worrying about it.” (5) “I am not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” (6) “I don’t have to respond to people when they say stupid shit to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come up with several of your own, Taurus. It’s a perfect time to formulate liberating intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It has been a while

since I told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I love you. More than you could ever imagine. And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached. That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you. That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of wellcrafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like the word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word. In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways. As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you familiar with

psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress. It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You could make a

vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged and ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach—more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable fulfillment.”

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ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy? How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his

work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded— especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight. How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling? How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect you

would benefit from acquiring a new bedroom name, my dear. But should I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you could invite a practical dreamer you adore to provide you with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such person to do the job (although given the current astrological omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face … Kiss Genius … Thrill Witch … Freaky Nectar … Boink Master … Lust Moxie … Pearly Thunder … Peach Licker … Painkiller … Silky Bliss … Slippery Diver … Swoon Craver.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Soon I’ll be

off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my house sitters. Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snail mail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The near future

will be mutable, whimsical and fluky. It’ll be serendipitous, mercurial and extemporaneous. You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks. Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.” The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S. I suspect that an as-yet-undiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Treat your body

like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being—and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What would your

best mother do in a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally, and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her. Seek her blessings.

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easier to accurately dose your edibles. ... Most recipes involve taking the flower and putting it directly in the oil, what you’re trying to get to is the oil that’s sitting on the outside of that plant material, so instead of wasting all this time and energy trying to get the chlorophyll and everything else of the plant, we’re going to use dry ice and hash bags, and remove that oil prior to the infusion process. That way, you get a base weight of what you’re putting in, which is actually pure material, and it makes it way easier to know how much you’re putting in, dosage-wise.

Jesse Monroe Alexander Jesse Monroe Alexander is a farmer  in Stagecoach, and he recently published the cannabis cookbook The  Guide To Being A Master Edible Chef  Vol. 1: Cannabis Industry Secrets  Revealed. It’s available though Amazon, and Alexander hopes to have it  in Northern Nevada bookstores and  dispensaries soon.

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How did you get into this? I grew up out in Hawthorne, and I was born in Carson City, so I’m a lifelong Nevadan. I’ve lived all over the state. I ended up getting sick when I was about 13. There was a problem with my knees, and my grandparents took me in and got me checked out. We found out that I had Osgood–Schlatter [Disease], which is a bone growth disorder. It makes little nodules of bone in my joints, and it feels like it’s sand rubbing together inside my skin. It’s constant pain, and I’ve had to live with it forever. And I ended up becoming a drug addict because of it—a stimulant addict. And during the addiction, I found that they were treating people back in China 10,000 years ago for opium addiction by using cannabis. And I self treated, and I ended up kicking the addiction completely. I have no urge for it. It also ended up taking care of the pain and the anxiety problem I had.

Some people might say you’re just trading one addiction for another. What’s your response to that? As somebody who was an addict, I remember what it was like to actually crave stimulants, and how bad that really was and the withdrawal involved. I can take cannabis and stop for a month. I’ll be in pain, but I’m not driving myself to go find it. I’m not willing to steal or hurt people to get cannabis.

Tell me about the book. I actually wrote a cookbook. It’s the first of three. I took a different method than what most people see in the cannabis cookbooks, which usually involves a long, stinky process of creating an infused oil or butter or fat of some sort. I did a little bit of research involving dry ice and the extraction of that, and it makes edibles actually taste better, and it makes it far

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Do you have an interest in selling these things commercially or is this just stuff for home use? I actually have been trying to get a job in the industry for five or six years, and every time I try, I either don’t blend with their company or the state directly stopped me from trying to build a brand early and get into the second round of the medical market. So in retaliation to both of them, I decided to start giving away cannabis industry secrets. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

The hand on the button If you think the New York Times is  fake news, well, pardon my haughty  condescension, but you’ve gone  foxic, pal. Interventions, rehab and  intense reprogramming featuring  at least a week’s worth of Rachel  Maddow are now called for. We can  only hope it’s not too late. Although  it obviously is. Speaking of the NYT, it recently described the first month  of Twitler as “an inept White House  led by a celebrity apprentice.” Bill  Maher’s description of Trump’s  press conference was also on target. He called it a “77 minute brain  fart.” Of the many memorable  lines to surface in that surreal  performance, I was comforted by  Trump’s description of “a nuclear  holocaust being like no other.” As  Inquisitor magazine noted, “good  to know Trump’s been briefed.” Twitler wasn’t finished with  nukes. “We had Hillary Clinton  give Russia 20 percent of the

uranium in our country. You know  what uranium is, right? It’s this  thing called nuclear weapons. And  other things. Like lots of things  are done with uranium. Including  some bad things.” This is the analysis of a 4th  grader. Can you Trumplodytes not  see this? Are you in this much of  an OJ-like state of denial? Can you  not see this is the commentary  of an imbecile? I mean an imbecile  imbecile, the definition of which  is “a retarded person with the  mental capacity of a child between  3 and 8 years old.” Only the IOTUS  just also happens to be in charge of  10,000 nukes. • No surprise that Dean Heller  voted for every asshole in Trump’s  Cabinet of Horrors. Would somebody please just vaporize this  Megatool next year when he runs  for re-election? Speaking of assholes, the  phrase “you fucking asshole” is

the second most commonly heard  comment these days in my TV den.  The first is, of course, “Fuck you,  Trump.” Sound familiar? Same  thing at your place? • A notable tweet seen  recently—“For 8 years, we had  a president who treated all with  respect, worked hard every day,  and embodied leadership and  inspiration.” How horribly, stunningly, frightfully quickly it has all  gone down the toilet. • Seriously, it’s now time for  media pushback. You wanna try  and de-legitimize a free press,  Twitler? Fine. Two can play that  game, and right now, pal, your  legitimacy is a bit shakier than the  media’s. It’s just a matter of time  before the media goes full blast on  instant fact checking as a part of  all coverage of Trump coverage.  If you’re a fact checker, rejoice.  You’re gonna be employed and  overworked in 2017.                           Ω

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