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GETS LOADED See News, page 6.

BIKE LANES HELP RIDERS SCORE MORE See Green, page 8.

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WE LIKE IT RAW See Arts&Culture, page 14.

ABEL BODIED See Foodfinds, page 18.

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MAY 24–30, 2012

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LETTERS Fuel to the fire

Rock me, Jennamarbles Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. I just spent 15-and-a-half minutes learning how to make my boobs appear bigger from Jenna Marbles. That’s a hard thing to admit, it being Monday and all. I must be in the mood for confession because that’s the kind of crap that the internet brought into the workplace, and everyone knows it, so my disclosure is meaningless. I mean, back when I started, unless you brought some pornography into the shop, you’d almost never have access to pornography. Not that Jenna Marbles is pornographic, she seems like a nice girl, working on her master’s. Down to earth, even. But think about it. I’m sure most workplaces are like mine. You still work the same hours, basically. If you had a lunch hour five years ago, and you still work at the same place, you probably have one now. But look at all the distractions technology has brought to you. Internet and cell phones eat my time in 15-second intervals. Sometimes, it’s as simple as the internet is particularly slow. Other times, it’s somebody blowing up your phone with text messages. I can’t imagine that there’s not a minimum of an hour we waste every day on this crap. But the work that must be completed hasn’t decreased. So what gives? If you’ve ever gotten an email from me at 4 a.m., you know I’m not typical. I don’t even think of myself as a multi-tasker. My single task is my life, lame as that sounds, so I just do life. But what about the people whose work defines the hours when they can work or play or contemplate Jenna Marbles’ apparent marbles? Five hours a week, that’s about 12.5 percent per week less work done, but the same salary. Couldn’t that be considered a de facto raise? Hmmm. Twelve-and-ahalf percent across America. Amusing and slightly ironic— since it’s the very technology that enabled desktop publishing that’s now hobbling it.

The Steamboat Ditch Company has an easement to cross my property— on which I pay property taxes, my animals graze, and which I maintain. Every spring, the Steamboat Ditch Company creates and leaves in its wake 45 miles of fire hazardous materials which they arrogantly expect private property owners to clean up after them, violations of NRS 444.630, NRS 444.635, and Washoe County Board of Health Regulations 040.0101, and 050.145. No other companies with easement rights to come onto my property leave their garbage behind. That our region has endured devastating wildfires in recent years, together with the current controversies regarding fire protection in the county, the Steamboat Ditch Company’s historical “chainsaw massacre” approach to maintenance, and their dumping on private property must no longer be tolerated! From the Nevada/California border west of Reno, the Steamboat Ditch winds along the foothills through Belli Ranch, Caughlin Ranch, the gully behind Manzanitza, Lakeridge Shores, Windy Hill, Arrowcreek, etc. Is the debris left by Steamboat Ditch Company the cause or is it just a coincidence these neighborhoods have experienced such horrible fires? Once you have had a wildfire burn through your neighborhood, it’s terrifying to have your property’s defensible space compromised. D. Horton Reno

Defense Attack Re “Days of our lies” (Feature story, May 17): Dennis Myers might want to reconsider his defense of Rep. Mark Amodei, since Congressman Amodei chose to abstain from voting on the bipartisan SmithAmash amendment to reinforce the

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intent of the Constitution, and thus prevent by statute the possible illegal abuse of power by the president or other government officials concerning the indefinite detention provisions contained in the present National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Please see the memorandum to Congress from 28 concerned civic and religious groups, as well as a brief background of the NDAA found in Wikipedia. You will note there that “A federal court issued an order prohibiting the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA for American citizens on the grounds of unconstitutionality on May 16, 2012, in response to a lawsuit filed by journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf and others.” Please also note: Adam Serwer reports that House Republicans, who almost all opposed the Smith-Amash amendment, approved a “hoax fix”: Republicans opposed to the SmithAmash amendment proposed a hoax fix that “reaffirms” Americans’ right to habeas corpus. Only, the right to habeas was never in question, so their proposal wouldn’t actually do anything. The proposal is a complete non-sequitur, a badfaith attempt to prevent Smith and Amash from closing a gaping “terrorism exception” to Americans’ due process rights. That amendment passed by almost the same overwhelming margin that the Smith-Amash amendment failed, by a vote of 243-173. Beth Davidson via email

River’s edge Re “Positively Fourth Street” (Feature story, May 10): I don’t know about anyone else, but when I ride from Reno/Sparks or visa versa, I usually use the river path. Bike lanes are good, but bike paths are much, much better. No traffic, lights, etc. Tim King Reno

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Hate that Why is it that most of the “hate” letters are from those embracing the religious right? Generally, I notice that most liberals’ letters are not filled with quite so much venom as those from conservatives. I’m guessing that Jesus was a liberal, and probably tended towards socialism, rather than cutthroat capitalism. And that he probably agreed that equity/wealth should be distributed according to one’s service to one’s fellows, rather than how much “capital” one has accumulated. At least that’s my recent read on “socialism,” which I finally Googled today. It seems there are many kinds of socialism, but the theme is that the common people should have a say in how the world is run, and that essential services—vital services— should not be run ‘for profit only,’ but adjudicated by a government of the people, by the people, for the people. So for my money, I positively prefer a sharing, caring world as opposed to a “gimme more” world wherein those with the gold make the rules. After the hungry are fed, the homeless housed, and the fearful comforted, then and only then should we focus on accumulation of personal wealth. Please remember, you can vote out a government, but you cannot vote out a for-profit-only corporation. We’re all in this together, ya know, and nobody gets out alive. By your good deeds ye shall be known. Not by your bank balance.

There is, and they know it perfectly well, so now they try to cover up that “little known fact” (as they would have it) by posting images of mass criminals such as Osama bin Laden, saying those personages believe in “global warming.” Is this not against their regulations? It is very ignorant, that is certain, but to cost the Institute $1 million. That must be against regulations, just as what they did with the billboards should have at least a fine attached by law enforcement. Charlie Xzavior via email

Nutters Re “Libertarian weekend” (News, May 10): Thank you for being one of the only print publications to notice that there was major Libertarian political activity in our state last weekend. The Revolution is not being televised. Please note what is becoming a citizen revolt. A further generational changing of the guard is taking place. Many Gen-X Ron Paul enthusiasts such as myself are involved. We are running for office as well as doing more than showing-up to Republican functions. Some folks absolutely think we are nutters, but guess what? So is a $560 million debt born on the backs of Reno citizens by the City Council with collusion from Washoe County. We are nuts if things don’t change [and the city must declare bankruptcy]. How about an outside audit instead of the standard, yearly, regurgitated and re-formatted spreadsheet? Show us the money! S. Rowan Wilson At-large candidate, Reno City Council

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False facts Re “Straight to the heart” (Green, May 17): So this article is saying that the “Heartland Institute” does not “believe” in global climate change (not global warming, as many places are not being warmed)? Is there not already plenty of evidence suggesting otherwise? Executive Assistant/Operations Coordinator Nanette Harker Assistant Distribution Manager Ron Neill Distribution Drivers Sandra Chhina, Jesse Pike, John Miller, Martin Troye, David Richards, Warren Tucker, Matthew Veach, Neil Lemerise, Russell Moore General Manager/Publisher John D. Murphy President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Chief Operations Officer Deborah Redmond Human Resource Manager Tanja Poley

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Did you come here by bus? Asked at municipal bus stop ceremony David Jickling Regional Transportation publicist

I’ve been here since 7:30 for various meetings, so I had to drive here. [There are no buses] from my house to here. I live on West Plumb Lane. I was here doing interviews with Channel 4 at 5:30, and at that time there definitely weren’t any buses.

Bob Cashell Reno mayor

No, I didn’t come by bus. I was running in between two different meetings so I wasn’t able to get the bus and get back. Yes, there were buses along the route, but I had one meeting here, one meeting over there, so I came here for the first part of the meeting, went over there for an hour meeting, came back over here. The schedule just didn’t work for me today.

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You do the math Criminentlies. At what point is the United States of America going to get a clue? Our health-care system is jacked. Bad. One of the robust editors at this fine organization was ordered by his cardiologist to get a stress echocardiogram, which is essentially a sound picture of the heart. Sort of like those black and white ultrasound pictures of fetuses that we are all so familiar with from Facebook and the Republican agenda for women in the 21st century. That’s all just great. Now, here’s the not-so-great part, and the part that just about anyone can relate to, maybe enough to get irritated enough to vote against anyone who opposes Obamacare, also known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: That test was going to cost that editor more than a thousand dollars. And that voting part is based on the hope that our undemocratic U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t toss out the whole thing, likely announcing its decision before the end of its term in June. All right, since it’s early in the year, the editor’s entire $500 deductible has not been paid. Since that robust editor had a colonoscopy this year, some has been. Admittedly, he received an envelope in the mail from said ass doctor, but he has not opened it, preferring not to know just how hard he’d been reamed yet and thinking it still might be some kind of reconciliation (see “Dear Dr. John,” RN&R, April 26). But when he was called to preregister for the echo, the administrator mentioned the deductible was going to cost him $300. “And then you have to pay 30 percent of the cost,” she said, matter-of-factly, “so your cost will be slightly more than a thousand dollars.” Just to round numbers, that would put the price of a heart scan at more than $2,100. 4

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(Media consumers will recall the great investigative piece Frank Mullen did over at the Reno Gazette-Journal on this topic last November. It was called “Cardiology wars: patients’ wallets are casualties.”) Upon hearing a strangled voice on the phone and the clutching of shirt fabric, the office kindly offered to allow the patient to make payments, probably of around $50 a month. But throw in one more factor: The editor’s office might—repeat—might be changing insurance carriers in July. That means, the $500 deductible would be wasted because a new $500 deductible would kick off on July 1. The appointment was cancelled. At least until July. But here’s the thing. Even with insurance, patients are avoiding necessary medical care because costs have skyrocketed. Echo scans are old but reliable technology. They’re cheap to perform. But a heart attack. A heart attack isn’t cheap. According to the National Business Group on Health, in 2010, the average total cost of a bad heart attack was about $1 million. And as things stand, guess which editor of the RN&R does not have a million in the bank? That’s an almost guaranteed medical-cost-caused bankruptcy—the most common reason for bankruptcy in the United States. Insurance companies have a choice, but they don’t calculate the way we hope they would. We think, “They could pay a thousand bucks now, or they could pay a million bucks after the heart attack.” But they think, “Forty percent of first heart attacks end in death.” You do the math. Ω

No, I didn’t, because I had to pick up one of our artists, Denise Duarte [who was honored at the ceremony, see 15 Minutes, page 35].

Geno Martini Sparks mayor

No, I did not. It wasn’t conducive to me catching the right schedule. I just left a meeting at [Sparks] City Hall, and the bus schedule didn’t work right for me.

Dave Aiazzi City councilmember

I came by bicycle. It’s Bike to Work Week. I bike quite a bit. It depends on where the meetings are. We live very close to downtown so I ride a bike.

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Travus T. Hipp 1937-2012 In 1978 after the People’s Temple mass suicide in Guyana, WFAT in Gilroy, Calif., purchased 300 record albums by the People’s Temple choir. When word of this action got out, a reporter asked one of the station’s personalities about the action. “They’re an honest collector’s item,” said Travus T. Hipp. “Certainly, there won’t be any more albums by this group.” The quote ended up in Loose Talk, a Rolling Stone book of quotations. Last week, Hipp died in his sleep at age 75 at his Silver City home. Before he moved to Nevada he had already had a full California career, and he was far from forgotten in the Golden State, which was shown by the wide coverage when word spread of his death. “Callers began flooding Freedom-based radio station KPIG-FM … after disk jockeys told listeners that controversial newsman Travis T. Hipp passed away in his sleep overnight,” reported the Gilroy Patch site. “He was the man who gave ‘All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know—Until Now.’ ” All Access, a California music and radio industry site, reported, “Part of the ’60s hippie scene, Hipp was a contemporary of Wavy Gravy ... KPIG deejays were playing songs in his memory Friday, including Country Joe’s 1988: Hipp lectured in Gold Hill. ‘Fixin’ to Die Rag.’ ” He lived on a Sausalito houseboat, then in Silver City, both of those locations supposedly a reflection of his belief that California was going to sink. Hipp, whose real name was Chandler Laughlin III, hosted shows on so many radio stations—“town to town, up and down the dial”— that it may take time to compile a full list. “I started doing radio at KMPX, the first of the underground rock ’n’ roll stations,” he said. The legendary KMPX was a San Francisco station that became KHIP in 1960. It no longer exists. Others included KSAN in San Francisco, KZAP in Sacramento, KFAT (now KPIG) in Gilroy, KVMR in Nevada City, KZFR in Chico, KKOH and KWNZ in Reno. In Nevada, in addition to his on-air activities, he sometimes engaged with officialdom. He was a scofflaw of the state’s car insurance requirement and fought a court case over the issue to the Nevada Supreme Court and then tried to get the law changed in the Nevada Legislature. On Oct 30, 2008, Hipp and three other people were arrested on marijuana charges at his home in Silver City. The youngest person in the group was 42. Hipp maintained his aplomb during the bust, phoning KPIG to give a running report of the event as it unfolded (“Pot bust scoops up Travus Hipp,” RN&R, Nov. 13, 2008). Hipp often found ways like that of coming out OK when his outspokenness or other difficulties hurt his radio career. At one point, he said of one of his Nevada disputes, “They sold the radio station, and the guy that came up was ideologically opposed to anything to the left of Genghis Khan so I was dispensed with. Now I’m fortunate enough to be … syndicated at six stations.” At the All Access site, Dave Shanks—who used Hipp on a show he did at Reno’s KWNZ in 1984-85—wrote that Hipp “vacillated between consternation and amusement that the closest affiliate to his hideout in Silver City was a flame-throwin’ Top 40 station, but he put up with me and my rookie bullshit, and I learned from his example. He served the public, and he was always one of the most compelling news writers and presenters in all of media.” Another radio figure, RN&R columnist Bruce Van Dyke, also posted a comment: “TTH was Da Man! I had him on my show on the X in Reno in the late ’90s and early ’00s. And he was continually blowing my mind with observations and comments that were never cliche and showed the product of a hyper-intelligent mind. There was a lot of good thinkin’ goin’ on up there at the Travus stronghold in Silver City, right up until the very end! The man is simply irreplaceable.”

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Yucca’s back? Reid’s workload just got a little heavier U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who is already keeping a lot of balls in the air, has by just been handed another—confirmaDennis Myers tion of whoever President Obama appoints to replace the departing chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Gregory Jaczko. The nuclear power industry is rejoicing over the departure of Jaczko, a physicist who tried to build a “safety culture” in the agency and the industry. Reid, who handpicked Jaczko for the post, is currently handling or has in recent days dealt with legislation to extend the Export-Import Bank’s charter, fended off Republican demands that tax increases scheduled for next year be cancelled, tried to advance S. 3187—a measure dubbed “the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act”—and encountered Republican resistance when he tried to move sanctions against Iran through the Senate. In addition, he was getting a nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit approved and trying to prevent GOP tampering with Medicare. The Jaczko resignation thus came at a time when Reid already has plenty to do. But the chairmanship of the NRC is not a post Reid can afford to ignore because of efforts by the nuclear power industry to dump nuclear waste in his home state. Jaczko has been an important figure in the effort to end the Yucca Mountain project.

Jaczko, a former science advisor to the Nevada senator, was appointed to the NRC as a commissioner by George W. Bush and was sworn in on Jan. 21, 2005. President Obama, on Reid’s recommendation, appointed Jaczko to chair the commission on May 13, 2009. His term still has 13 months to run.

“Dr. Jaczko’s troubling behavior ... clearly resulted in a hostile work environment.” U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Republican floor leader As NRC chair, Jaczko emphasized a safety agenda, which irritated the nuclear power industry but looked good after the accident at the Fukushima Da-ichi reactors in Japan on March 11, 2011. But it also made it more difficult to license power plants. Jaczko announced his resignation two days after White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked, “Jay, is there any thought being given in the White House to asking Chairman Jaczko at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to step down?” Carney responded, “Not that I’m aware of, no.” The reaction to Jaczko’s resignation was not surprising.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair Gregory Jaczko’s safety fetish offended the nuclear power industry.

“The greenies have lost their guy at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” wrote Greg Pollowitz of National Review, a conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr. Natural Resources Defense Council nuclear program director Christopher Paine said, “Greg Jaczko set a high standard as America’s chief nuclear power safety regulator. His departure—and President Obama’s selection of a successor—points to the continuing need to prevent the nuclear industry from exercising undue influence at the commission, a tough challenge indeed, given its recent history.” Reid praised Jaczko and so did his Republican colleague, Sen. Dean Heller. “While we need to responsibly develop all of our nation’s energy resources, including nuclear energy, the irresponsible history of Yucca Mountain undermines the integrity of the project,” Heller said. “Chairman Jaczko played an important role in opposing Yucca Mountain, and I hope his successor will continue this fight.” “His appointment as chairman was a bit of blackmail on the part of Senator Reid to force the death of the Yucca Mountain Project,” wrote Forbes magazine staffer James Conca. Blackmail is usually waged against an unwilling participant, but Obama was quite willing. In an Oct. 13 letter last year, NRC commissioners George Apostolakis, William Magwood IV, William Ostendorff and Kristine Svinicki wrote, “In a long series of very troubling actions taken by Chairman Jaczko, he has undermined the ability of the commission to function.” They said Jaczko “intimidated and bullied” the NRC’s senior staff. More recently, Jaczko was accused of verbally abusing some women at the agency, a charge he flatly denied. Republicans in the House called Jaczko and other figures in the dispute to testify at a hearing. They kept raising the issue after the hearing. An inspector general’s report in 2011 was critical of Jaczko for holding back information from other commissioners on the NRC decision to halt a safety review of the proposed dump for high-level nuclear wastes at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain in Nye County. At one point, Jaczko apologized to his colleagues. U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts issued a report that said Jaczko was the victim, not the perpetrator of infighting on the commission. Markey said the four “conspired, with each other and with

senior NRC staff, to delay the release of and alter [the content of] the NRC Near-Term Task Force report on Fukushima.” Further, email messages showed that the four commissioners “assumed ill intent on the part of the chairman” and tried to “undermine his efforts or refuse his requests.” Reid must decide whether to try to push through another nominee for NRC chair at a time when Republicans would prefer to delay until a GOP president may be in the White House next January. But waiting has its drawbacks for them, too—Jaczko resigned effective when his successor is confirmed.

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Edwin Lyman Union of Concerned Scientists “You’ll have to admit it is a little disheartening to read the stuff to you I read from Grover Norquist,” Reid told reporters. He also said, “I have no regrets whatsoever about the suggestion that I made for a super committee. … I was hoping that there would be a lot of hand holding and hugs and pats on the back and we’d be headed off to Thanksgiving. But at this stage, we’ve seen a few arm locks and a few— what do you call it when you put someone’s, you lock somebody around the neck? ... Headlock, that’s what it is.” But a new book reports that Reid never expected the committee to succeed. In Do Not Ask What Good We Do, a book about the U.S. House, author Robert Draper wrote, “It was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s novel proposition that if 535 congressmen and senators couldn’t agree on how to solve America’s deficit problem over a period of seven months, perhaps a dozen of them could [do it] within 10 weeks. The wily majority leader knew better, of course. As Reid would later confide, he came up with the idea of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or Super Committee, fully expecting that it would fail.” A request to Reid’s office for a response to the book’s claim went unanswered. Ω

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At this point, most of us wouldn’t want to explain why the city of Reno should be doing more road repairs. Not so for Bernie Carter. He and other by James DeHaven local business owners were happy to field questions from councilmembers on the cost and potential inconvenience of a meter-less parking proposal at City Hall earlier this month. As a first-time City Council candidate, Carter can expect to be directing the city’s questions, not fielding them, if he takes Ward 1’s seat this November. He is cofounder and president of Reno investment firm Dacole LLC, which has a substantial development stake in the “efficient monitoring” of parking spaces just south of downtown.

The 61-year-old Nevada native owns or coowns several key properties in the “Midtown” area, including apartment buildings along Thoma Street and an Ace Hardware store managed by his brother, though he credits local start-ups like Junkee for the branding that has contributed to much of Midtown’s early success. “We’re attracting young professionals who want a vibrant downtown,” Carter said, “no national chains, not even a Starbucks. We’re going to have small entrepreneurs to try and establish that sense of community that we think is so critical for attracting young professionals to our area.” If building political caché comes as easy to Carter as developing Midtown real estate, Ward 1 can expect a conservative approach from its would-be councilman. Carter said the city’s numerous tax incentives speak for themselves, but only “to a certain extent.” He added that he would push for further cuts to business permit fees and work toward a “more conservative view” of structuring the city’s debt obligations. “The city of Reno will spend over $20 million this year in interest on their debt,” Carter said. “I don’t criticize the people who

Reno City Council candidate Bernie Carter says he’s unaccustomed to the modeling part of campaigning, but he poses like an old pro.

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In a robing room before the graduate student commencement at UNR, Nevada higher education chancellor Dan Klaich, left, watched while campus publicist Jane Tors (back to camera) fitted Dale Raggio with a mortarboard. At the commencement, Raggio accepted a Distinguished Nevadan award for her late husband, Sen. William Raggio. Historian Guy Louis Rocha, also a recipient of the Distinguished Nevadan award, chatted with UNR President Marc Johnson, right. OPINION

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made the decision at the time, but with the way these bonds were structured there was a time where we were in default and paying 18 percent interest on these bonds.” The city of Reno recently joined two other municipalities in suing Goldman Sachs for allegedly misleading city officials into buying auction-rate securities they didn’t understand. Reno is also far from the only city to restructure its long-term debt under the favorable short-term rates once offered by Goldman. “They went into it with their eyes open and the market turned against them,” Carter said of Reno’s agreement with Goldman. “I would have, and I have, in other instances where that’s occurred, taken the more conservative route.” Carter wouldn’t speak to any specific examples, explaining only that experience in “similar situations” is “something he brings to the table.” Carter, who sits on the board at Renown and was founding chair of Artown, took issue with any proposed increases on nonprofit licensing fees. “The city could always use the money,” Carter said of revenue that might be raised. “Their budget’s been cut in half. But does that mean you’re going to fee the Boy Scouts? The Girl Scouts? The soccer club? Where do you draw the line? … Explain to me why it is more important to have dollars go to the city to use for whatever they choose as opposed to having those dollars go to the healthcare community, to the PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) at Renown?” Of course, if elected Carter might have to give variants of that explanation himself. Truckee Meadows Community College political scientist Fred Lokken thinks there’s a good chance that could happen. He said the obvious political advantage of Carter’s business acumen is his fundraising ability. PHOTO/D. BRIAN BURGHART

Meanwhile, a new book argues that Reid proposed a solution to last year’s budget deadlock that he believed would fail. Reid last year proposed to end the deadlock by creating a special committee to work out an agreement. The U.S. Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction—dubbed the Super Committee by the press—was set up and given a strict timetable to follow. Its first meeting was Sept. 16. By Oct. 19 the Washington Post was reporting that the committee had “yet to reach consensus on the most basic elements of a plan to restrain government borrowing.” On Nov. 21 the committee gave up. As the end of the committee’s deliberations approached, Reid blamed the failure on lobbyist Grover Norquist. Reid read statements Norquist had made in which he bragged that he had elicited promises from Republican leaders not to support any deal that included tax increases and threatened the GOP cochair of the committee with political retribution if any hikes emerged.

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“Jaczko often took a more cautious approach on plant safety and security than his colleagues.”

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“They went into it with their eyes open.” Bernie Carter City council candidate “Given his connections and given his background, money will probably be much less of an issue for him,” Lokken said of Carter’s chances in Ward 1. He added that financing can become even more important in a race like Carter’s, one without an established name in which “there is a real connection, a real causeand-effect between those candidates who win and those candidates who can spend.” Carter ran unsuccessfully for the Legislature in 2010 and has served on the Nevada Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics and Election Practices. “I worked hard for what I’m able to provide to our community and I’ll continue to work hard for the City Council. That’s my objective,” Carter said. Ω

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Stormy forecast In the wake of Heartland Institute’s billboard controversy (“Straight to the heart,” May 17), climate change prevention organization Forecast the Facts started an ad campaign in retaliation. Forecast’s billboard design featured pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s logo displayed next to the words, “We still support Climate Deniers. Do you?” with a link to Forecast’s “Drop Deniers” petition, encouraging corporations to stop funding Heartland. According to the New York Times, Pfizer donated $130,000 to Heartland. But Clear Channel—which manages the billboard location—did not approve Forecast’s ads for display. The Times quoted Clear Channel spokesperson Jim Cullinan, who said, “We are not an arbiter of positions in any way. But there’s also legal issues about fair use of images and what we can and can’t do with them.” Cullinan is referring to Forecast’s use of the Pfizer logo. Instead, Clear Channel opted for a billboard by the Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore. The billboard states “Who to believe on climate? Heartland … or EVERY National Science Academy in the world?”

—Ashley Hennefer

ECO-EVENT Friends of Nevada Wilderness, along with the Bureau of Land Management, Friends of the Black Rock-High Rock and the Nevada Outdoor School host the 2012 Black Rock Rendezvous during Memorial Day Weekend. Venture out into the Black Rock Desert to camp, attend workshops and lectures, help restore wildlife habitats and more. This is a “leave no trace” camping event. Come prepared with food, water and shelter for the weekend. May 25-28. Contact Brian Beffort at 324-7667 or brian@nevadawilderness.com for more information.

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John Toth, left, and Dave Asher stand in the top floor of the Vassar-Cordone building, which will soon function as a coworking space.

Money trees Green Business Chamber of Commerce Dave Asher is a business man, and his niche is in the “buy local” movement (“Home for the holidays, Dec. 23, 2010). “I basically created the Google of locally owned businesses,” he says, referring to the Reno-Sparks Local Business Co-Op database—a free listing of by all local businesses, organized by category. The co-op also plans community Ashley Hennefer campaigns, such as switching to a credit union and hosting a series of classes on networking. ashleyh@ And now he’s also found a niche in the green movement. Asher talks newsreview.com enthusiastically about the benefits of buying local—cycling money within a community, rather than outsourcing products and services, and sparking job creation. “Much of that also has to do with this very ‘eco’ way of thinking,” he says. “Our economy is a bucket. If you buy eggs in California, rather than in Nevada, there’s a hole in the bucket. Money and resources drain from that. But if we can look to what we already have here, we can start to fill those holes.” Asher and fellow co-op member John Toth created the Green Business Chamber of Commerce, a new part of the Reno-Sparks Local Business CoOp aimed at promoting sustainable businesses and organizations. Asher makes it clear that it is not a part of the national U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the conservative lobbying organization. “Our color is purple—red and blue,” he says. “We’re not a partisan project.” For more information, The Green Business Chamber of Commerce is one of the first of its kind visit http://www.live in the country. Asher plans to head up the national chapter, while Toth will localrenosparks.com/ home.htm. maintain the local. Asher says that organizing the green aspects of the co-op was difficult, especially with other chambers of commerce well-established in the area. “It was very aggressive of me to go up against the other chambers of commerce in town—the ones that are well-funded, well-staffed,” he said. “I would attend their meetings to recruit people.” The co-op is recruiting businesses to participate in its “going green program,” in which a business can take a pledge to be a more sustainable operation. To ensure that businesses don’t get away with greenwashing— making empty claims about sustainable efforts—participants must make green efforts public to allow for accountability. “Businesses will get an energy audit,” says Toth. “And they’ll have to implement some procedures, such as invest in solar power.” “Basically, we want businesses to show how they are being good stewards of our eco-system,” Asher says. “By posting their actions on their websites, the public can follow up with them to make sure they’ve done what they said they were going to do. But the chamber of commerce will have more than just an online presence—the top floor of the Vassar-Cordone building is being transformed into a coworking space where independent entrepreneurs or startup organizations can rent out a workspace. Asher plans to set up a rooftop community garden and a co-op coffee shop, and the co-op recently started the Films for Action green movie series, which is part of a national program. Film viewings will be held every fourth Friday of the month, including climate change documentary What a Way to Go on May 25. A discussion will be held afterward with a panel of local experts. “We’re just one of many green hubs in Reno,” Asher says. “But we hope to help link them together.” Ω

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Back when I first visited Google in 2002, the company was known almost exclusively for its ability to provide answers. Then, in a field crowded with clunky search engines such as Lycos and AltaVista, Google stood out with its lightning-fast, intuitive query results. Likewise, the company’s Mountain View headquarters was the kind of place that seemed to epitomize the dot-com age’s fun, pioneering, anticorporate spirit. The Googleplex of 10 years ago comprised only two modestly sized buildings and a sprawling parking lot that seemed, in fact, bigger than its office space. But a publicist accompanied me on a tour, and our travels revealed a fun, freewheeling vibe: A helpyourself cereal bar tucked in amid the cubicles! Free vegan food in the employee café! Bean bags for napping! Lava lamps! Then, too, it was easy to schedule a quick interview with Brin and Page, the two friends who founded the company on the notion that search should be smart and easy, with query results generated via an algorithm method that ranked results by usefulness and popularity—without the influence of ad dollars. The early version of Google, Brin told me then, “was a very primitive search engine … but as more people began to use it, it became increasingly clear that we had [created] a valuable technology.” And although Brin and Page said they were “surprised” by Google’s success, they also got why the search engine had become less of a utilitarian tool and more of a lifestyle application. “[S]earches are important to people,” Brin said. “They search for information on their health, on their careers—for things important to their lives.” In the years that have followed, the company also armed its users with an arsenal of useful tools such as email, online data storage, productivity software and, with its acquisition of companies such as YouTube, Blogger and Picasa, has built a veritable virtual empire. It’s the most-visited site in the world: According to Google’s own figures, more than 1 billion queries are conducted daily via its search engine. Such success, of course, means that Google faces constant scrutiny: How profitable is it? How innovative? And, most importantly, what’s next?

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Zurich, Dubai to Hong Kong and Seoul to Tokyo. Closer to home, the Mountain View campus employs nearly onethird of its workforce and spreads out over several city blocks that are populated by three dozen buildings and a notable dearth of parking spaces. Workers bike on brightly colored cruisers or stroll through grassy commons, laptops tucked under arms or into messenger bags with Androids—the Google-powered smartphones—seemingly glued to fingertips.

“We’re [trying to get teachers] to think about a paradigm shift. When I was growing up, we had the one library on 10th Avenue and 50th Street, and five schools shared it. Now we have the web.”

Jaime Casap, senior education evangelist at Google

Dogs trot in and out of buildings, following their human counterparts to meetings and conferences and even trips to the bathrooms that sport, at least in some buildings, heated toilet seats. There are indoor playgrounds— complete with bright plastic slides and jungle gyms—and baskets stocked with Jolly Rancher candies. There are on-site haircuts and oil changes. There are video games and a bowling alley that’s available to be booked by the lane for work meetings; there are volleyball and tennis courts, soccer fields and hiking trails that snake through wooded enclaves and over picturesque footbridges. There are hammocks and picnic tables, free umbrellas for rainy days, swimming pools and big-screen TVs. There is, even, a rocket—well, a life-size replica of NASA’s SpaceShipOne, to be exact—that hangs above a staircase, held in place via an intricate system of wires and pulleys. The lava lamps are still there, as is the free food—there are numerous cafés throughout the premises, in fact, with dishes to meet every dietary need and taste: kosher, vegan and glutenfree; sushi, pizza and sandwiches, as well as refrigerated cases stocked with free bottles of vitamin water, sports drinks and bubbly sodas. These are, inarguably, great employee perks—presumably funded, at least in part, by the profits Google earns via its AdWords pro-

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With its lava lamps and bean bags, free food in the employee cafes and rows of colorful picnic-table umbrellas, the Mountain View-based Googleplex often feels more like a Willy Wonka wonderland than a corporate headquarters.

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Doesn’t every company have a life-size replica of NASA’s SpaceShipOne rocket in its lobby?

gram—$28 billion in 2010—which offers merchants pay-per-click, cost-per-thousand and site-targeted advertising. It’s no wonder Fortune Magazine ranked Google the No. 1 place to work in 2012—placing it ahead of such companies as Zappos.com, Whole Foods Market and the Mayo Clinic. But the Willy Wonka vibe belies the company’s notable evolution. Any hopes of snagging even a few minutes with either Brin or Page, a spokeswoman informs me via email, is simply out of the question. There is, too, a notably heightened sense of secrecy, security and other proprietary concerns. All visitors must sign in upon arrival, most are not allowed within eyeball distance of cubicles, a spokesperson is present for all interviews—and in some cases, will record the conversation—and photographers cannot, under any circumstances, take pictures of computer screens or employee badges.

Evangelists and space commanders commanders For Jaime Casap, “senior education evangelist” at Google, educational outreach isn’t just a way to train the nation’s future doctors, lawyers and engineers. It is, he says, about giving opportunities to all children, regardless of their career aspirations. Such outreach, he adds, is both a professional goal and a personal touchstone of success. “I’m a first-generation American, born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen on welfare. My mother came from Argentina … and English was my second language,” he says. “Education is the silver bullet, education is what can transform a family in just one generation—when I graduated from high school, the job I currently have didn’t exist.” Casap, who joined Google in 2005 as a project manager in the company’s engineering division, eventually reimagined his job and moved into education where he currently trains teachers and other school staff on how to best use the web. Now Google’s strongest tool, he says, is the Chromebook—a small laptop-type webenabled device that uses the Google Drive cloud-storage system for creating, sharing and 12

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saving documents. Chromebooks, Casap says, are relatively inexpensive, priced at $449 each, and, more importantly, easy to use and customizable for various skill levels and classes. These tools, he says, are crucial when it comes to bridging the “digital divide”—inequalities between individuals, households, businesses and classrooms as related to levels of access to technological information, resources and devices. “We’re [trying to get teachers] to think about a paradigm shift,” Casap says. “When I was growing up, we had the one library on 10th Avenue and 50th Street, and five schools shared it. Now we have the web, and the web gives us all that information at our fingertips … and we’re going to need to teach kids how to analyze and process that information.” Increasingly, the ability to evaluate all the information that’s available is going to be crucial. Because with knowledge and critical thinking, comes great things. At least that’s the ethos adopted by Tiffany Montague, Google’s intergalactic federation king almighty and commander of the universe—or intergalactic space commander for short. Yes, that’s her actual job title. Tall and lanky with electric blue streaks running through her jet-black hair, Montague epitomizes Google’s self-governing, quasi-renegade work ethos as she shows visitors one of her favorite spots at the Googleplex: The giant immersive Google Earth booth that gives viewers an awe-inspiring view of space and beyond. Indeed, the former Air Force officer’s job includes spearheading the company’s efforts to put a robot on the moon through the Lunar X Prize, a competition organized by the X Prize Foundation and sponsored by Google. The purpose, Montague says, is for privately funded spaceflight teams to compete to successfully launch, land and maneuver data-collecting robotic devices across the surface of the moon. Montague credits the company’s “20 percent time” program, which allows employees to devote a fifth of their workweek to pursue special projects. For Montague, who joined Google in 2005 as a technical program manager, that meant being able to pursue a lifelong love of space and eventually carve out a more specialized job that focused on the company’s collaboration with NASA.

“It’s not that much of a stretch,” Montague says. “It’s very much in concert with Google’s proven history. It’s thinking outside the box.”

It’s the It’s the people, people, stupid stupid Since its inception, Google’s growth has been nothing short of extraordinary. In April, the company reported its quarterly profits were up 24 percent from the same time period in 2011. The company also announced that its board of directors had unanimously approved a stock dividend proposal that would “preserve” the company’s existing corporate structure. “We are still at the very early stages of what technology can do to improve people’s lives and we have enormous opportunities ahead,” Page said in a company press release. “It is a very exciting time to be at Google.” Or, as the company stated in its 2008 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, what “began as technology company … evolved into a software, technology, internet, advertising and media company all rolled into one.” Recently, however, it seems that trying to be become everything to everyone is not enough. Google’s attempts at creating social-networking platforms to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, in fact, have been notoriously disappointing. In 2011, for example, the company “retired” its microblogging site Google Buzz and introduced instead Google Plus, a social-networking site equipped with circles, hangouts and sparks designed to promote interaction between users. But although interest in the site started strong—Google Plus boasted 49 million new sign-ups in December alone—it hardly matches its rivals. While the company reported the site had 100 million active users as of February, analysts say such numbers don’t reflect reality. “Google Plus may have 100 million users, but they’re not engaged,” says Rick Lavoie, senior vice president for the Washington, D.C.based Levick Strategic Communications. “People don’t return to [Google Plus] like they do to Facebook.” But the potential for more significant impact is there, he adds. Rob Enderle, senior analyst for the Enderle Group, a San Jose-based technology analyst firm,

sees it differently. While Google does machines very well, Enderle says, the company doesn’t really get people. Google, he says, is Web 2.0 company in an increasingly Web 3.0 world. “Web 1.0 was the creation of browsers,” Enderle says. “Web 2.0 was exploring the Web and making it useful, and Web 3.0 is making it social—and that’s where Google bounced. Google is an engineering company—the most engineering-based company I’ve ever seen … and, let’s face it, engineers are not known to be the most social individuals.” The result, he adds, is a company that excels at the nuts and bolts of technology but fails miserably at understanding the people who use it. Those poor people skills are also evident in the company’s recent public-relations woes. Criticized routinely on matters regarding privacy and censorship, Google routinely takes a brisk “no comment” approach—not a particularly smart tactic, Enderle says. Certainly, Google’s refusal to answer to various complaints, questions and criticisms is mind-boggling from a public-relations standpoint. When I called a Google spokesperson, for example, she refused to discuss recent queries into the company’s so-called illicit “data harvesting.” Perhaps the facts say enough: Between 20072010, Google cameras photographed streets the world over. At the same time, the company’s software collected sensitive information via unencrypted Wi-Fi networks: personal emails, passwords and web searches of hundreds of millions of users. Google initially claimed such harvesting was unintentional—the work of a “rogue” engineer—but a new report reveals a darker, more complex picture: According to internal documents reviewed by the Federal Communications Commission during a 17month investigation, not only was the data collection intentional, it was the result of a systematic, company-wide program. “I’m not going to comment on that,” said Google spokeswoman Samantha Smith, cutting me off mid-question.

Smith did, however, address recent reports that Google spent a record $5.03 million lobbying Washington politicians between January and March of this year. It’s money well spent—and crucial for the continued growth of a company of Google’s size. “It should be expected that we would want to help people understand our business—the work we do to keep the internet open, to encourage innovation, and to create economic opportunity,” Smith wrote in an email.

Seenonoevil, evil, hear See hear no no evil, search noevil evil evil, search no To the left of a reception desk at one of Google’s many Mountain View offices there’s an LED screen—just past the basket of candy, the lush plants and the cooler of free drinks—that scrolls through a feed of live, real-time searches. The feed is filtered for porn and other questionable topics, of course, although a publicist admits, laughing, that “sometimes things slip through.” With or without the risqué content, the screen inarguably reveals the extent to which people worldwide rely upon the tool to find out anything and everything relevant to their lives: “the Meow Mix house” “dog chew toy” “stereotypes + reality” “The Yahoo” Simple enough. Benign, actually. Historically, however, what Google does with that information remains one of the company’s stickiest sticking points. Over the years, the company has been criti-

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cized for its privacy policies—specifically how they impact the millions of users who daily use the company’s programs to check their Gmail, watch videos on YouTube or search for directions on Google Maps. In March, Google introduced a new policy that consolidates user information across all its services and platforms. In an explanation posted on the company’s blog, Google outlined the changes as such: “If you’re signed in to Google, you expect our products to work really beautifully together. For example, if you’re working on Google Docs and you want to share it with someone on Gmail, you want their email right there ready to use. Our privacy policies have always allowed us to combine information from different products with your account—effectively using your data to provide you with a better service. However, we’ve been restricted in our ability to combine your YouTube and Search histories with other information in your account. Our new Privacy Policy gets rid of those inconsistencies so we can make more of your information available to you when using Google.” Privacy experts, however, say the new agreement remains troubling. “Google’s new policy does not improve on past policies—it has fewer privacy protections,” says Rebecca Jeschke, a digital-rights analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “Before, your Google search data didn’t comingle with your YouTube search data, but now, unless you go through a series of steps—steps that are not clearly outlined on the site—then that data gets aggregated together,” she says on the phone from her San Francisco office. “That has a number of privacy implications—the more data

you collect on someone, the more complete picture you have of who they are. “I don’t want my Google search history associated with my YouTube account,” she adds. “That kind of creeps me out.” As it should—just think about the queries you type into Google’s iconic box.

24-hours-a-day box 24-hours-a-day box For most of us, however, that influence seems virtually invisible. I know I don’t think about it much when I’m typing questions into a box. I just know the box is there, at my service, 24 hours a day. Likewise, most visitors to the Googleplex probably don’t notice the writing on the window in the lobby of one its Mountain View buildings. It’s there, however, carefully scrawled in thick, pink letters at the bottom of a glass pane nearly hidden from view—overshadowed, no doubt, by the nearby espresso bar, a gushing waterfall, and

rows of cushy, comfy overstuffed chairs and couches. “Hi Google People! Thanks 4 the hard + creative work!” Certainly, as I walk through the campus now—hoping in vain for a Brin or Page sighting—and watch as employees stare intently at laptops while seated at indoor picnic tables or outside on benches near a leafy vegetable and herb garden, it’s hard not to envy both the company’s growth and its commitment to creating the kind of environment that feels more like an amusement park than stuffy corporate drudgery. Although Google arguably remains a great place to work—a place that fosters real digital growth, change and perspectives—too many troubling questions linger. Questions too complex, puzzling or philosophical to be entered into a simple search-engine box. And so far, Google won’t respond, even though it’s a business theoretically built on the promise of providing answers. Ω

Tiffany Montague’s work focuses on the company’s collaboration with NASA. Her official title with the company, not surprisingly, is intergalactic federation king almighty and commander of the universe.

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Kelly Peyton is the local director of RAW natural born artists.

A Reno Art Works mural is located on Wedekind at a bus stop.

Two new Reno arts organizations have nearly identical names. But they’re not married.

efore your brain starts to cook trying to untangle the details of two new community arts organizations whose names are definitely homonymous, loosely synonymous, and not necessarily acronymous, let’s extend a warm welcome to RAW and RAW. (No relation.) OK, now let’s sort out who’s who. This is a good time to get out some materials to draw a chart. This gets complex.

Reno Art Works The first RAW, heretofore RAW (1), is Reno Art Works, a shared studio and all-purpose arts venue that opened in March. Directors Aric Shapiro, Alex Fleiner and Pan Pantoja are all alums from the recently restructured, relocated Salvagery. The Salvagery was a warehousesized studio that stayed open on East Fourth Street for about a year. Now there’s a new Salvagery, a warehouse near Kietzke Lane where International Arts Megacrew and the Pier Group build large-scale Burning Man projects. (Full disclosure, lest you were still holding out hope this would not get incestuous: I’m tangentially involved with the Pier Group.) One original Salvagery artist, Ryan Ostler, plans to convert part of the new Salvagery into a gallery. Whether the new Salvagery is still affectionately nicknamed “The Vag” is yet to be known. 14

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Back to RAW (1). It’s a compact industrial space conveniently located near Oxbow Press, Infinity Forge, Wedge Ceramics Studio, and sign painting/motorcycle painting shop Rhodesigns, making Dickerson Road an unofficial arts district. “We go out of our way to be pretty darn inclusive,” says co-director Aric Shapiro. The group welcomes anyone to a monthly Community Art Night, for example—BYO supplies—and to Noise Night, featuring work by experimental electronic-music artists. In an advanced act of inclusiveness, they’ve even struck a balance between family-friendly education and adults-only programming. Landscape painter Eric Holland and co-director Pan Pantoja teach painting classes to at-risk youth in the afternoon. After nightfall, Midnight Minx burlesque troupe, the nascent Martis Theatre Company and Two Shits Poetry Collective use RAW (1) as a practice space. And, in a double back-flip of ultra-inculsiveness, RAW (1) did not bid good riddance to former Salvagery collaborator Ryan Ostler, but instead features his work—in which he collaborates on each canvas with other artists, no less—in its first-ever gallery show, opening May 24. RAW (1)’s freshly spackled gallery space is officially named 1995 Gallery, after its street address. While it was under construction it was referred to by some artgoers as

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“Gallery on West Dick.” But of course you will not confuse that with the already officially named Gallery at West Dick, down the street at 2221 Dickerson Road. With every new artist-run organization, the big question is: Will it last? Sometimes, like the last few generations of galleries or the old Salvagery, they burn bright on passion and determination alone, but only for so long. Ostler neatly sums up what a lot of artspace leaders have said over the years: “We were a bunch of artists that had great ideas, but when it came down to running a business, weren’t good at it.” But RAW (1), with its sheer quantity of blood, sweat and tears, and its three-tiered revenue structure, might have some staying power. The group

takes a commission from gallery sales. It’s an unusually slim 30 percent (50 percent is the norm), but early reports say one or two pieces from the inaugural show sold before even being hung on the wall. RAW (1) has received commissions from the city of Reno and RTC to lead teams of teens in painting public murals in bus stops and the like. And it generates its monthly nut by subleasing shared studio space to over a dozen artists. Co-director Shapiro, who moonlights as a massage therapist and was available for an interview after he was done in the gallery just before midnight, still caffeinated to the hilt, sounded like a source of perpetually renewable energy. “Facilitating this art movement is such a wonderful experience,” he says. “I really want to engage the commu-

nity. This is a bubbling beast of a community experience.” Bubbling indeed. Bubbling all the way over to Skyline Boulevard. Enter Alberto Gazzola, owner of Italian restaurant La Vecchia, who also owns the whole strip mall. Shapiro says Gazzola plans to donate the use of a long-empty retail space next door as of some time in June for RAW (1) to use as another gallery space. As soon as the already employed, already prolifically producing Shapiro, Fleiner and Pantoja sand the concrete floors and tweak the lighting in the new space, Shapiro reports, they’ll be the proprietors of the Satellite “A,” from which Gazzola plans to run a gelato stand.

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Pan Pantoja gives Aric Shapiro a "baptism" in the river by RAW (1)’s new headquarters.

RAW natural born artists While Reno Art Works is a place for artists to create, RAW (2) is for artists to show their finished work. Its official name is “RAW natural born artists” (not an acronym), and it’s an online database with affiliated event series showcasing local artists. It was started in Los Angeles in 2005. Now RAW (2) events occur in 60+ cities and counting. Each show features a filmmaker, a couple of bands, a dozen or so visual artists, a fashion show, and hair and make-up artists. Artists pay $200 to participate in a show. Eventgoers purchase tickets via a link on an individual artist’s RAW (2) page. If 20 fans buy tickets through one artist’s link, RAW (2) waives that artist’s entry fee. If you’re trying to decide whether you smell national franchise fare or fresh, local talent, RAW (2)’s local director, Kelly Peyton, also with 720 Tahoe, a studio/collective/gallery in the neighborhood that now has a name, “Midtown,” confesses the RAW (2) model seemed a little gimmicky at first to her too. “Then I hung out with the woman who started this whole thing,” she added. That’s Los Angeles artist Heidi Luerra, whose closing email salutation is, “Creativity & Justice for all.” Peyton liked Luerra and company’s mix of youthful enthusiasm and committed professionalism. She saw RAW (2) as an opportunity to build community through technology and social media. Peyton curated the inaugural event, which opens June 7, called RAW:Reno, from online submissions and drew from her own networks of creative folks to meet the guidelines of the preordained

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RAW (2) event format. She found filmmaker Kaleb Temple through Holland Project. A friend who works at Junkee introduced her to bikini designer Ali Strange. Peyton appreciates having the backing of experienced exhibit producers and a central, international national website with profile pages to help connect and showcase artists right here in Reno. “All the artists I have showing are artists I’m really a fan of,” she says. She’s noticed that the local art community can faction itself into groups. “I like blending those lines,” she says, and she notes that it’s important to her to help support a broad range of artists. Including, guess who, Salvagery gallerist and RAW (1) gallery artist Ryan Ostler. He’ll be among the 17 artists Peyton’s contracted so far. Have you drawn your chart yet? Are you still with me? Because, speaking of coincidences, RAW (2)’s catch line has been “We dig the Underground,” since long before it scheduled its Reno debut at … wait for it … Club Underground. Any questions? Ω

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RAW (Reno Art Works) hosts “At Least a Pear,” an exhibition of paintings by Ryan Ostler and collaborators, 7-11 p.m., May 24, 1995 Dickerson Road. Community Art Night is the fourth Saturday of each month. Noise Night, showcasing experimental electronic music, is the second Saturday of each month. For information, visit renoartworks.org. RAW natural born artists presents RAW:Reno featuring local art and fashion, 8 p.m. to midnight, June 7, Club Underground, 555 E. Fourth St. For tickets, visit www.rawartists.org/reno/solstice.

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Muy caliente The Mexican on Chicago, Asian women and limp burritos Dear Mexican: I was wondering why Mexicans in Chicago are meaner than Mexicans in California. I love my Mexican brothers and sisters in California— I’m from Cali—but they are the biggest pendejos in Chicago! Does cold weather make Mexicans pissed-off? And why do Mexican women like to ram white girls with their shopping carts? Dear Gabacha: Mexicans in by Gustavo Arellano Chicago—mean? In my many visits to the Windy Ciudad, which has had gustavoa@ the second-largest population of newsreview.com Mexicans of any city in the United States since at least the 1970s, I’ve found them to be a wonderful, hospitable raza, with their only real vice being they’re far too nice to that authenticista pendejo Rick Bayless. As for the cart ramming: be glad it’s not your car. I’m a 25-year-old Asian girl that started seeing a 29-year-old Mexican guy about five months ago.

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This is my first relationship with a Mexican. I was told by my white girlfriends that Mexican men are possessive, overbearing and cheat on their women. Since I met him, he has slowly become more possessive of me and demands more and more of my time. He also buys me a lot of expensive things to make me happy when I am mad at him. My usual white boyfriends rarely did this. I actually met my Mexican boyfriend while he was dating his “ex-girlfriend” of two years. He cheated on her once before, and broke up with her to be with me. (His ex is Mexican, too.) However, when he introduces me to his friends, he never introduces me as his girlfriend. What gives? Is he already cheating on me? Should I end the relationship now before it gets too loco? Dear Chinita: My dating-an-Asian story: cute Vietnamese chick. My parents loved her; her parents hated

me because I was Mexican. She left me for another Mexican after I rejected her offer of an open relationship. But that sordid experience doesn’t make me write off chinitas for good, so just because your gabacha pals had bad experiences with Mexis doesn’t mean you should dismiss all hombres. As I’ve written in this columna before, the stereotype of Mexican men as lotharios is true only to a certain point and diminishes with assimilation. Besides, your situation seems fine. Can’t remark on him not introducing you as your girlfriend—but you just whined that he’s becoming too possessive of you, so maybe he doesn’t want to push it. Buying expensive things for you obviously works, as you’re still with him. Seems to me you’re just spoiled—but I’m not going to attribute it to you being chinita, because stereotypes are silly; I’m going to attribute it to your apapachada ass.

I feel crushed by a comment that was made to me as a form of compliment by a tejana caliente that I was recently dating. I met this hot blonde at an AA meeting which I had been sentenced to attend after a DWI arrest. Recently, we were chingando duro estilo perrito, when she turned around in passion and told me in her Texas twang “You shoooore do have a biiiig dick—for a Mexican.” Well, at first I felt like a real Mexican stud, but when I thought about what she said, I lost my erection and have not been able to get it back. I felt insulted and confused by her racist comment. I now have to resort to Viagra whenever I have sex with my gabacha. Should I let this bother me and how can I confront her politely about her racist remark? Dear Softened Burrito: Want to teach her a lesson? Get her pregnant. Ω

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In Sticks and Stones, Ahern Hertel presents images of humans threatening animals.

Ahren Hertel “Manifest Destiny,” one of the paintings in Ahren Hertel’s exhibition Sticks and Stones, by depicts a young woman astride an Brad Bynum American bison. She’s dressed in contemporary clothes, and her face is stoic. bradb@ Her hands, raised above her head, clutch newsreview.com a stick—thicker than a twig, but not quite a club—as though she might swing down and clobber the animal at any moment. The distant expression on her face conveys not anger or remorse, but a casual thoughtfulness, as if the decision Ahren Hertel’s Sticks to attack a once endangered animal were and Stones is on exhibit as unimportant as choosing a brand of at the Holland Project peanut butter at the grocery store. Gallery, 140 Vest St., Modern consumers are often indithrough June 8. For rectly complicit in environmental more information, visit www.hollandreno.org. destruction. Hertel cites the example of a potato chip company that stopped using recyclable bags because consumers complained the bags were too noisy. In Sticks and Stones, Hertel presents images of individuals directly threatening birds and animals.

“As individuals, we would never take sludge and throw it in a creek,” says Hertel. “But essentially, companies we support do that all the time.” All of the paintings depict young, 20-something women threatening animals with sticks or stones. Hertel made the decision to only use female models because there are so many actual images—photographs—of men clubbing seals and other animals. Hertel says his paintings are intended to be somewhat fantastical and metaphorical—and images of men attacking animals would seem too realistic. With their detailed, careful rendering, many of the paintings are rooted in the traditions of portraiture. “But they’re not portraits,” says Hertel. “Portraits present the subjects as individuals. … In these paintings, the people are stand-ins for ideas.” The subjects are presented in heroic poses—“like a hunter, a CEO, or a general,” according to Hertel—and

physically dominant over the environment. The background landscapes appear small and insignificant. The landscapes and wildlife are distinctly Western. Hertel says he enjoys being an artist with regional concerns. “I’ve never understood why a Nevada artist would want to paint a giraffe,” he says. Many of the titles of the paintings are taken from the rhetoric surrounding manifest destiny—the 19th century idea that it was somehow divine providence that the United States of America should conquer the entire landmass

from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was a blatant case of humans exerting dominance over the environment. Sticks and stones were among the earliest tools used by primitive man— turning nature back onto itself. And they’re also weapons of childhood— little boys pick up sticks and pretend they’re guns or swords. It’s surreal to see adult women with emotionless expressions behaving like little boys with anger issues: In “A Natural Course of Events,” a woman looks primed to pitch a rock at a dove. In “We Are Met on a Great Battlefield”—the title comes from the Gettysburg Address—another woman is on the verge of punching a bear in the face. Though the women all have passive expressions, the paintings are filled with tension because they are forever on the verge of violence. Ω

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Spice age Abel’s Mexican Restaurant 2905 U.S. Highway 40 W., Verdi, 345-2235 Abel Del Real has history when it comes to serving Mexican food in Northern Nevada. In 2000, he opened El by Dave Preston Adobe on West Arroyo Street with a partner. In 2006, his partner davep@ bought him out, but another eatery newsreview.com was in his mind. He and his brother started La Posada Real on Longley Lane, and his brother is still running it. Abel’s dream for his own el comedor was achieved last October, when this Verdi establishment opened. His original cook from El Adobe, Jose “Chema” Munguia, is in the kitchen, and Abel has the front-of-the-house duties.

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I needed water, but Abel brought his top-shelf margarita ($8.50) with Patron Silver and a Grand Mainer float atop—beyond smooth. Water came, too. There’s a full bar and happy hour from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily. There are several domestic and imported beers ($3.00-$3.50), wineby-the-glass ($5), and a variety of soft drinks including Jarritos. Abel’s masterpiece ($12.95), the Apalancate plate, was the entrée: a chile relleno, a shrimp enchilada and a carnitas taco. There’s a choice of black, pinto or refried beans, and the dish is served with a fresh Spanish rice dotted with flecks of red and green peppers. The chile relleno was lightly breaded and pan-fried with Monterey Jack and cheddar cheese melted inside an Anaheim pepper. It had a mild taste, with the cheeses accenting the green chili flavor nicely. The shrimp enchilada had plenty of shrimp in a tomatillo sauce, wrapped in a corn tortilla covered with a light green chile sauce and some Jack cheese. The shrimp were not overcooked, and the green tomato essence flavor from the tomatillo blended well offering a seafood flavor with a slightly tart, savory taste. The carnitas taco was outstanding in the soft, corn tortilla. The slow-roasted pork was seasoned with just the right amount of oregano, onion and red pepper, and served almost dry to highlight the succulent flavor and perfectly spiced meat. Abel wouldn’t let me get away without his fried ice cream ($5.25) for dessert. A large scoop of vanilla coated with corn flakes, quickly deep-fried and placed in a fried white flour tortilla covered with whipped cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce. It was simple, elegant and fun. Eating Abel’s authentic Mexican food is comforting and flavorful on the palate and very filling to the stomach. Mexican food is an acquired taste for some, but for others, it’s an immediate love and sometimes even an obsession. I’m obsessed. Ω

It’s easy to find, and with the warm weather, I’m always up for a short drive to find exceptional food. You can see it from the highway. It’s exit 5 off I-80 west, and there’s plenty of parking. Inside, it’s a cantina-style restaurant with seating for more than 200, and there’s a patio for outside dinning as well. The staff is polite and fast. Breakfast ($4.50$11.96), lunch ($9.95-$12.95) and dinner ($6.95-$13.95) are served, with a kid’s menu and a variety of American dishes as well. Fresh chips and two salsas are immediately brought to the table. The red is flavorful with a hint of Abel’s Mexican clove on the nose making it savory Restaurant is open with a touch of sweet and mild heat. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The green is a whole other story. The nose smacks of earthy peppers and the bite will open your sinus. The habanera peppers sent my taste buds into overdrive, my eyes watered, and it took my breath away—that’s what I call salsa!

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Bored game Battleship Universal Studios unleashes the summer movie season’s first big budget stinker with this piece of trash from normally reliable director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights). Yes, the recently released Dark Shadows isn’t good and isn’t doing well, but it’s a favorite doughnut and pie party compared to this thing. And what of poor Taylor Kitsch? This is his second domestic blockbuster bust after John Carter, a movie I actually liked. Mr. Kitsch by shouldn’t just fire his agent. He should cover Bob Grimm his agent with peanut butter and dangle him over a pit of crocodiles that have been tested bgrimm@ newsreview.com for peanut allergies. Hey, it’s Taylor Kitsch’s agent we are mad at here. We wouldn’t want to cause unjust suffering to a bunch of innocent crocodiles. Nut allergies are a bitch. Can crocodiles get peanut allergies? OK, I’m off track. Sorry. Based on the board game by Hasbro— always a harbinger of great film—this one throws aliens into the mix so as to not have a film featuring two fat guys sitting at a table playing Battleship while drinking milkshakes.

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Seriously, when I heard they were making a movie based on the Battleship board game, two fat guys drinking milk shakes and crying “You sunk my battleship!” was all I figured they might come up with. It’s not a board game that screams out “super narrative possibilities!” As it turns out, two obese men slurping icysweet dairy liquids would be better than what Berg and company have concocted. This is a convoluted mess that makes the Transformers films look like God’s representation of cohesive, logical filmmaking.

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Kitsch stars as Lt. Alex Hopper, in the Navy after his big brother Stone Hopper (Alexander Skarsgard) made him join after getting in trouble for stealing a burrito. (I’m not kidding.) He’s super in love with Samantha (Brooklyn Decker) who is, of course, the daughter of his boss, Adm. Shane (Liam Neeson, a long way from his glorious turn in this year’s The Grey). Decker essentially plays the Megan Fox “Hey, nobody is really saying or doing anything relevant onscreen so please admire my ass!” role. Alex gets in a fight in the bathroom, and is put on double secret Navy probation as he heads out to sea for what will surely be his last Naval exercise before being politely asked to leave. While out there trolling around, they spot some weird objects that turn out to be alien vessels. Turns out somebody had the bright idea to send an invitation message to a neighboring galaxy. They invited the aliens to come on down and check out the unbelievable statue of Will Smith at the wax museum in Vegas. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it really is uncanny. Anyway, one thing leads to another and the aliens start shooting at the battleships, which turns out to be the big connection to the board game. There’s a sequence late in the film where we see buoys on a radar grid, or some nonsense like that, and watch as the characters essentially play a bland video game of Battleship, with dots lighting up the screen to signify a hit. Sooooooooooo stooooopid. We get to see the aliens—they look like really ugly humans with porcupine beards— but never get a true sense of what they’re trying to pull off with their Earthly visit. They use their transforming water vessels to fight with the Navy, but occasionally send razor ball type things to shore to knock down some highways and scare children. Because the aliens lack a truly compelling agenda, the film itself lacks any kind of tension. Battleship goes nowhere, and I mean nowhere. It sits out in the middle of an ocean like the damned board game on your coffee table. That board game was always kind of moronic, as is its totally uncalled-for movie adaptation. Ω

The Avengers

Everything good about the last bunch of Marvel superhero movies comes together for one massive, excessively entertaining party. Director Joss Whedon hits all the right notes as Captain America (Chris Evans), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and the Hulk (newbie Mark Ruffalo) all get equal time in this well balanced, often funny, and completely satisfying cinematic experience. I wasn’t sure if they would pull this off, but they did, with Loki (Tom Hiddleston) once again bringing the fun as the villain. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) contribute mightily to the process, as does Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). Good luck to all the rest of the summer movies in trying to top this one’s fun factor. And let it be said that this contains the best Hulk action put to film ever! Joss Whedon is a god.

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After the boring tragedy that was Alice in Wonderland, the normally reliable Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up once again to induce nap time with this plodding adaptation of the cult fave vampire soap opera from the ’60s. Depp plays Barnabas Collins, cursed by an evil witch (Eva Green) two centuries ago and buried in the Earth. Somebody digs up his coffin to make way for a McDonald’s and, boom, Barnabas is strutting around in the ’70s. Or at least he should be. As it turns out, he just spends most of his time moping around his mansion droning his lines. This had the looks of something potentially funny and weird, but Burton actually goes for the soap opera feel, a move that doesn’t work on the big screen. I would really like to see Depp do another real drama or smart comedy without burying himself under makeup and wigs. Having seen what he looks like in The Lone Ranger, I know I won’t be getting my wish soon.

The Dictator

Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles deliver their first misfire with this uninteresting comedy about a ruthless dictator (Cohen) getting lost in Manhattan, where he falls in love with a hippie (Anna Faris). Unlike the Borat and Bruno films, this one actually has a narrative, and while there are some decent scattered laughs, the overall feeling of the movie is a little too ugly and drab to be recommended. Mind you, I did laugh out loud a couple of times, especially during the dictator’s helicopter tour of Manhattan. And Cohen’s final speech is actually brilliant—a sort of the dark, evil cousin of Chaplin’s speech at the end of The Great Dictator. Still, more jokes fall flat than succeed, and this just feels like a waste of Cohen’s talents. Ultimately, the character is so unlikable it’s just a drag to spend time with him.

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This one feels more like a 50-year engagement. Jason Segel and Emily Blunt star as a couple who get engaged but wind up postponing their wedding for career considerations. While Segel and Blunt have some decent comedic chemistry, the movie just drags on and on and on. What’s more, while they work as a comedic team, they don’t really click as a romantic couple, making it all seem a little strange that they’re together in the first place. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, who co-wrote the screenplay with frequent writing partner Segel, the two fail to capture the magic that made their prior effort Forgetting Sarah Marshall so funny. The humor here is mostly flat, peppered with occasional laughs, which mostly come from Segel’s character trying to adjust to life in Michigan after living the big life in San Francisco. Segel says he won’t be in the next Muppet movie because he wants to do human movies. As this movie shows, humans can be really boring.

The Hunger Games

For a big blockbuster based on an extremely popular novel, director Gary Ross’ film looks mighty cheap. Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, forced to represent her district in a televised contest where young people must battle to the death. While Lawrence is a great actress, she doesn’t fit the role of starving teen very well. Josh Hutcherson plays her fellow district rep, Peeta, and he suits the role just fine. I just couldn’t get by the drab look of the movie, and the horrible shaky cam that manages to destroy the action visuals instead of enhancing them. Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson are all saddled with silly getups for their roles, which might’ve played OK had another director filmed them. The movie is just a strange clash of tones, never has a consistent feel, and is surprisingly boring considering the subject matter.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

This movie excels in a brand of weird, random comedy that had me laughing out loud often. Not so much a pirate movie than a fictional goof about what a jerk Charles Darwin could’ve been in his younger days, it has a lot of laughs that come out of nowhere, make no sense, and that’s something I happen to love very much when done right. Hugh Grant most entertainingly voices the Pirate Captain, trying his best to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, which usually goes to Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven). Determined to score a lot of booty and increase his chances for victory in the contest, he sets out to pillage a bunch of boats and gather the gold. He happens upon Darwin (David Tennant), who points out that his trusted parrot is, in fact, a dodo. The film is crazy funny—Queen Victoria is the villain!—and just the ticket for parents looking to be entertained by a kid movie.

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Think Like a Man

Comedian and radio talk show host Steve Harvey wrote the bestselling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy and Commitment in 2009. Even though it’s an advice book, with no plot, somebody has managed to make a movie out of it anyway. The film follows four couples as the women read and take the sage advice of Steve Harvey, who strikes me as an arrogant asshole. So I don’t buy that the characters in this movie would give two shits about what Steve Harvey has to say. Harvey appears occasionally in the film, spewing his nonsense straight at the audience, appearing on talk shows in the film, etc. A winning cast makes things sporadically tolerable, with fun performances from Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara and Gabrielle Union. They are good. Steve Harvey the douche can suck it, as can Chris Brown, who appears in a lame cameo.

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While watching DisneyNature’s latest effort, I was reminded of some of the shows I used to catch as a kid during TV’s Wonderful World of Disney. I remembered being wowed by the cool nature footage that Walt’s army used to catch, and I also remembered that the narration would bore and/or annoy me in contrast. Such is also the case with this movie. The footage of a little chimpanzee orphan dubbed Oscar is amazing stuff. Oscar, an energetic 3-yearold, is a cute little shit, and I could watch hours of footage featuring his adorable eyes and natural sense of mischief. I’d say I’d like to pinch his cheek, but he would probably tear my arms off. As for listening to Tim Allen narrate the story of Oscar and his predicament (“Power tools … grr!”), I was longing for the voice of Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones. Or perhaps even the famous primatologist Jane Goodall, who served as an advisor on the flick.

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Family friendly LovePop! The members of LovePop! have joined forces to reclaim their Reno following after an absence that has given by Kelsey Bauder them time to recreate their sound. Clayton Stanfield, Monique Jade and Kent Miura have played music together since the early ’90s and are no strangers to the pop rock genre. Former members of All About Me, the three know exactly what they want to achieve musically, but this time they’re doing it on their own terms.

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LovePop! works to fill a void in the Reno nightlife and play music that’s easily accessible, family friendly, and fun. “My parents didn’t go out to shows, but my friends with kids do, and there’s a need for people to play music that satisfies the tastes of the 30-to-50-year-olds,” says Stanfield. It’s pop rock all grown up. Fronted by female vocalist/guitarist Jade, LovePop!’s sound is reminiscent of ’90s female pop artists like Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton. While many of the band’s songs seemingly would fit well on the soundtrack of a moody teen drama, not all of what LovePop! has to offer is bubblegum pop. Stanfield’s background in alternative rock and Miura’s skill in percussion at times pushes LovePop!’s sound in a soft rock direction. Some of the songs on their new EP are refurbished renditions of songs the three compiled when playing together in All About Me. Others are brand new. LovePop! is in the process of expanding their song base, and possibly even their band to include a fourth member. “These guys are really open to the potential of something different, they’re not stuck in a box,” says Miura. “I think they both understand what makes a hook.” The three have a history together and share a caustic sense of humor about their past. The name LovePop! evolved as a response of sorts to an article published in the Reno GazetteJournal about their former band. The article was titled “Love Pop” and acted more as an exposé of the relationship between Stanfield and Jade than a commentary on their music. Stanfield and Jade chose to embrace their namesake and teamed with Miura to create LovePop! Ω

Clayton Stanfield, Kent Miura and Monique Jade of the band LovePop! are “adults with real lives.”

LovePop! have their official CD release party on June 23 at the Great Basin Brewing Company, 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 355-7711. The band also plays July 13 at this year’s Midnight Madness at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., 785-5961. For more information, visit www.love-pop.com.

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“We’re not going town to town scraping money together,” says percussionist Kent Miura. “We don’t have to anymore. That’s the beauty of it. I have no desire to go back to playing in smoky bars in the middle of the morning. Before, the commodity that was precious was money, but now it’s time.” The members of LovePop! pride themselves on enjoying the time they have to create and share their music. After all the years they’ve spent together, along with their full-time occupations and families, they’re not looking to “make it big.” The band instead hopes to inspire a strong local fan base of families, old friends and new faces. “We’re a good representation of what it means to be adults with real lives and full schedules who appreciate art and music and make time for it,” says vocalist/ bassist Stanfield. “We’ve got a good niche here,” says vocalist and guitarist Jade.

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Hit the Switch, Break the Cycle, Stewart in Elephant Rifle, Them Sonsabitches, the Basement, Up Against It, 7:30pm, $5 Swamp Donkey, 9pm, $8

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Fire spinning performance, 8pm, no cover

BEACON BAR & GRILL

Jesse Kalin, 5pm, no cover

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BECK’S BREW HOUSE

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame, 8pm, no cover Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover Rebekah Chase Band, 2pm, no cover

Schall Adams Band, 9:30pm, $5

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The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 853-5003 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover

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Celtic/American Tune Session, 7pm, no cover

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COMMROW

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Bias & Dunn, 6pm, no cover

Moon Gravy, 6pm, no cover

1) Hulk, Boggan, Lowd Noizez, Gasmik, LetZ RaGe, 9pm, $14-$25

Mark Castro Band, Phat Jackie, 9pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

Nuke Vegas, Rock ’n’ Roll Villain Society, 9:30pm, no cover

Rick Hammond Blues Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Phil, 9pm, no cover

250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7041 1) 250 Lounge 2) Duffy’s Ale House

Mark Castro Band, 10pm, no cover

Rick Hammond Blues Band, 7pm, $5, no cover charge for women

DJ Travy, 11pm, no cover

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Open Mic Comedy, 9pm, no cover

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May 25, 8 p.m. The Underground 555 E. Fourth St. 410-5993

Traditional Irish session, 8pm, Tu, no cover

1) Mandy Lion’s WWIII Allstars, Jimmy Bain, Haunted By Heroes, 8pm, $15

Large Bills Accepted, noon, M, no cover

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3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, no cover Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, Tu, W, no cover

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SATURDAY 5/26

JAVA JUNGLE

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

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

1180 Scheels Dr., Sparks; (775) 657-8659

Jazz Jam w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

SUNDAY 5/27 Sunday Music Showcase, 6pm, no cover

Borgore, Boggan, Black Rock City Allstars, 8pm, $23-$55

Live jazz w/First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

David Liebe Hart, Urethra Creep, 9pm, $7

The Melodramatics, Reno We Have A Problem, 9pm, $5

Scarlet Presence, The Kanes, Rigorous Proof, 8pm, $6

Jon E Qwest, DJ Freez, Serg Rockwell, Erik Lobe, E- Volve, 9pm, $8-$100

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KNUCKLEHEADS BAR & GRILL

Open Mic Night/College Night, 7pm, Tu, no cover

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MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

Live Robot, 8:30pm, no cover

George Souza, 8:30pm, no cover

PLAN:B MICRO-LOUNGE

Open Mic Night w/Tom Miller, 7pm, no cover

Justin Farren, Tyler Stafford, 8pm, no cover

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Johnny Lipka, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

Lady and the Tramps, 8pm, no cover

Jay Goldfarb, 7pm, W, no cover

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POLO LOUNGE

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

RED DOG SALOON

76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

RED ROCK BAR

The Big Bad, 9pm, no cover

241 S. Sierra St., (775) 324-2468

George Souza, 8:30pm, no cover

Tartufi, 8:30pm, no cover Open jazz jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Red Mercury, 9:30pm, no cover

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Hellbound Glory, 9pm, no cover

924 S. Wells Ave., (775) 323-4142

SIDELINES BAR & NIGHTCLUB 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

Apostles of Badness, 9pm, M, blues jam, 9pm, Tu, live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Metal Echo, 9:30pm, no cover

Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

STREGA BAR

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911

May 27, 8:30 p.m. Moody’s Bistro Bar & Beats 10007 Bridge St. Truckee (530) 587-8688

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Leo’s 40th Birthday Geek Sheik Party, 9pm, no cover

Weapons of Mass Creation, Darrian Grey, 9pm, no cover

STUDIO ON 4TH

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THE UNDERGROUND

555 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993 1) Showroom 2) Tree House Lounge

1) Battle for Reno, 9pm, $5 2) Symbiosis Gathering After Party w/Kytami, J.O. Beats, 8pm, $5, $8

1) The Grims, The Peabrains, Cannibal Mad Men, The Devils Train, Mary Jane Rocket, Actors Killed Lincoln, 7pm, $8

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

Justin McMahon, 7pm, no cover

Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 786-6460

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Hip Hop Open Mic, 9pm, W, no cover

Blues jam, 1pm, Otis, 9pm, no cover

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Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm, M, Dark Tuesdays w/Stefani, 9pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke w/Steve Starr, 8pm, Tu, blues/rock jam, 8pm, W, $5; free for women

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

THURSDAY 5/24

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SATURDAY 5/26

SUNDAY 5/27

2) Atomika, 8pm, no cover

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1) The Pointer Sisters, 8pm, $49, $59 2) Atomika, 4pm, Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 10pm, no cover

2) Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 8pm, no cover 2) Escalade, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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HARRAH’S RENO

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30, Chris Straight, 10:30pm, $20, $25 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge 3) Plaza 4) Convention Center

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1) David Nail, 9pm, $39 2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover 3) Paul Covarelli, 6pm, no cover 5) DJ BG Weekend JumpOff Party, 10pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 7pm, no cover 3) Paul Covarelli, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

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2) Bee Tee Xpress, 8pm, Carolyn Dolan and Friends, 9pm, no cover

2) Steve Lord, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

1) Man in the Mirror, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Garage Boys, 10pm, W, no cover

1) Nathan Owens: Motown After Dark, 8pm, $25, $30 2) Karaoke-Trivia, 6pm, DJ/dancing, 10pm, no cover

Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover

3) Travis Vega, 6pm, W, no cover

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 356-9799: F-Sa, 7pm, Tu, 6pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

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1) Bob Saget, 9pm, $30, $40

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Cabaret 3) Terrace Lounge 4) Edge 5) Aqua Lounge

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3) Jackie Dauzat, 7pm, no cover 4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

3) Tony Vee, 9pm, no cover 4) Salsa dancing with BB of Salsa Reno, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

3) Tony Vee, 9pm, no cover 4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

3) Powerplay, 7pm, no cover 4) Black Rock City Allstars, Miss Cooper, 3) Powerplay, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover The Rhino, DJ Heidalicious, PRSN, Mr. Rooney, 10pm, $20

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For Thursday, May 24 to Wednesday, May 30 GOLD HILL DEPOT STEAM UP AND OPEN HOUSE: The event features steamed-up locomotive guided exhibit at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, and continuous guided tours of the Gold Hill Depot from 10am to 6pm, which includes an interpretation of the railroad history of the Comstock mining region. Two invited artists will show their original sculpture and other art inside the depot ticket office and waiting room. Sa, 5/26, 10am-6pm. Free. Gold Hill Depot, 1420 Main St., Highway 342 at railroad crossing, Virginia City, www.goldhillnv.org.

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ETHNIC RENO, EAST SIDE WALKING TOUR: Historic Reno Preservation Society hosts a history walk down Lake Street, recreating the neighborhoods of Chinatown and Little Italy. Reservations required. Cut-off date for reservations is the day before the tour. Sa, 5/26, 10am-noon. $10; free for HRPS members. National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

BRICKS AND STONES WALKING TOUR: Historic Reno Preservation Society hosts a walk in the Humboldt and Lander streets neighborhoods. Discover a mix of bungalows, Tudor and mission revivals and cottage styles. Reservations required. Cut-off date for reservations is the day before the tour. Tu, 5/29, 6-8pm. $10; free for Historic Reno Preservation Society members. My Favorite Muffin, 340 California Ave., (775) 747-4478, www.historicreno.org.

DYNAMICS OF A DISASTER: Retired Reed High School history teacher, Nevada Humanities speaker and Chautauqua performer Fred Horlacher retells the story of the ill-fated Donner Party. Th, 5/24, 7pm. $10-$20. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION: Ride the historic Virginia & Truckee train with 1905 steam locomotive No. 25. Train rides are about 30 minutes departing from and returning to the Wabuska Depot from

EXPLORATIONS IN RADICAL OPTIMISM: Winston McCullough discusses “Deconstructing the Ego to Reconstruct the Self.” Dr. McCullough is a professor of positive psychology and Indo-Tibetan philosophy at Oregon’s State University in Corvallis. F, 5/25, 6:30-8pm. $20 suggested donation. ACI-Reno, 606 W. Plumb Lane, Ste. 16, (775) 750-2235, http://aci-reno.org.

CARSON CITY GHOST WALK: Experience Carson City’s Victorian era and diverse past. Hear about lingering spirits of the past and paranormal stories. This is a “spirit”-led, guided walking tour of the downtown district’s historic homes. Some of the outside stops along the tour include the Bliss Mansion, Brewery Arts Center, Ferris Mansion and Rinckel Mansion. The tour will leave from behind the Firkin & Fox Pub on Third and Curry streets. This 90-minute guided walking tour leaves rain or shine. Sa, 5/26, 1pm. $15 advance; $20 at the door; free for kids 4 and younger. The Firkin & Fox, 310 S. Carson St., Ste. 100, Carson City, (775) 687-7410.

Farm’s resident farm manager, will take you on a culinary tour of of six-legged delights. Find out which insects taste best and go home with a few recipe ideas to share with whole family. Sa, 5/26, 2-4pm. $15 pre-register; $20 drop in. River School Farm, 7777 White Fir St., (775) 747-2222, www.riverschool.info.

10am to 4pm. Sa, 5/26, 8am-6pm; Su, 5/27, 8am-6pm; M, 5/28, 8am-6pm. $3-$11; free for children age 3 and younger. Nevada State Railroad Museum, 2180 S. Carson St.,Carson City, (775) 687-6953, http://museums.nevadaculture.org.

SUNNYSIDE DECK OPENING PARTY: Sunnyside celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Deck Party featuring live music by Ike & Martin. A benefit raffle and silent auction will take place throughout the day. F, 5/25, 3-9pm. Sunnyside Resort, 1850 W. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-7200, www.sunnysideresort.com.

MEMORIAL DAY PARADE: Virginia City salutes veterans and members of the armed forces with its annual parade. Sa, 5/26, 12-12:30pm. Free. Downtown Virginia City, C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-4386, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

All ages ANIMAL ARK CHEETAH 500 RACES: The wildlife sanctuary’s cheetahs run at top speeds, completely off leash, around the property’s cheetah fields. RSVP required. Children must be at least 10 years old to participate. Su, 5/27, 5:30pm. $40 adults; $35 seniors; $30 children 10 and older. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road, Red Rock Road, (775) 970-3431, www.animalark.org.

MEMORIAL DAY PEACE VIGIL: Sierra Interfaith Action for Peace will sponsor a special peace vigil to honor fallen soldiers and to advocate for peace. M, 5/28, 5:306:30pm. Free. Bruce R. Thompson Courthouse and Federal Building, 400 S. Virginia St., (775) 348-7847.

OPENING DAY AT THE LAKE: North Lake Tahoe kicks off Memorial Day Weekend and the start of summer with celebrations and festivities along the West Shore and the North Tahoe region. M, F-Su through 5/28. Opens 5/25. Prices and locations vary, www.gotahoenorth.com.

WATER PARK OPENS: Melio Gaspari Water Play Park will be open weekends only for the three-day Memorial Day weekend and the first week of June. The park will begin regular summer hours on Saturday, June 9. The water park’s attractions include a giant sunflower sprinkler, spilling buckets, “spitting” horses and a water tower. Sa, Su, 10am-

RAIL FEST: Ride the historic V&T Steam Train from Carson City to Virginia City and back. A variety of special events will take place in Carson City and Virginia City. Sa, 5/26, 10am-5pm; Su, 5/27, 10am-5pm; M, 5/28, 10am-5pm. Call or visit website for details, (775) 8470380, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

5pm through 6/2. Opens 5/26; W-Su, 10am-5pm through 8/26. Opens 6/9. $3;

free for seniors age 61 and older, children under age 3. Melio Gaspari Water Play Park at Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1804.

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Marut, an ordained Buddhist monk, uses Western cultural sign posts, pop references and humor to help remove cross-cultural hurdles. Lama Marut makes esoteric brain-busters of Eastern philosophy work as practical tools for immediate transformation. M, 5/28, 7-9pm. $15-20 suggested donation. ACI-Reno, 606 W. Plumb Lane,. Ste. 16, (775) 782-3969, http://aci-reno.org.

GARDEN WORK AT TAHOE CITY FIELD STATION: The living laboratory and demonstration garden of native plants surrounding the Field Station provide visitors an opportunity to learn about truly “green” gardening. F, 5/25; Sa, 5/26. UC Davis Tahoe City Field Station, 2400 Lake Forest Road, Tahoe City, (775) 881-7560 ext. 7483, http://terc.ucdavis.edu.

Saddle up The Reno Rodeo is just a month away, but downtown Sparks will be getting in the buckaroo spirit with two events taking place this weekend. John Ascuaga’s Nugget kicks off its Country Crossroads series on Friday, May 25, with a concert by singer David Nail. The series continues with Uncle Kracker on Saturday, May 26, and closes with country legends Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson on Sunday, May 27. The shows take place in the Celebrity Showroom at John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks. Tickets range from $39-$68. Call 356-3300. Downtown Sparks will also be the site for the Cowboy Crawl on May 26. Various bars along Victorian Avenue, including The Alley, Cantina Los Tres Hombres, Great Basin Brewing Co. and Victorian Saloon, will participate in the bar crawl from 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 on the day of the event, which starts and ends at the John Ascuaga’s Nugget Cabaret. Participants age 21 and older will receive an event wristband, cup and a map to each location along the crawl. Visit www.cowboycrawl.com for details. —Kelley Lang

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Art ART SOURCE GALLERY: The Art of the Matter. More than 540 original works of art in all media are on display and for sale. Safe Haven Rescue Zoo will benefit from the purchases. M-Su, 25pm through 5/26. Free. 9748 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525.

ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: It’s A Small World. Artists Co-op of Reno Gallery presents work by Mary Chadwell, Harriet Uhalde and Ralph and Cheryln Bennett. Guest artists are Heidi Reeves, Tricia Poulous-Leonard and Chikako McNamara. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 5/31. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

BACKSEAT GALLERY AT COMMA COFFEE: Abstract Portraits. New work created by Deana Hoover is on display. M-Su through 5/31. Free. 312 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 883-2662, www.commacoffee.com.

BRUCE R. THOMPSON COURTHOUSE AND FEDERAL BUILDING: Local Artists Watercolor Display. Work by local watercolor artist Donna

Chouteau is on display. M-F, 8am-5pm through 5/30. Free. 400 S. Virginia St., (775) 355-0332.

DOWNTOWN RENO LIBRARY: Hope. Sierra Watercolor Society presents its 11th annual exhibit. M-Th, Su through 5/30. Free. 301 S. Center St., (775) 742-6339, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Sticks and Stones. Ahren Hertel’s new paintings are a visualization of the everyday damage we do to the environment. The series depicts a group of women who are making direct attacks on nature using sticks and stones. Children often use such weapons to infer a kind of playful violence as they begin to understand their power in the world. The women in Hertel’s paintings take that playfulness to the next level with a more deliberate act but

with a similar emotional detachment. This series poses a question to the viewer: If the outcome of your actions were clear, how would that inform the choices you make? TuF, 3-6pm through 6/8. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

JAVA JUNGLE: BURDEN. Artist Eric Endy takes a different take on burdens found in our everyday society through his paintings. There will also be art by local artist Nikki Kelly. Through 6/6. Free. 246 W. First St., (775) 385-8152.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: North Tahoe Arts Annual Members Exhibit. The exhibit features work by member artists. A People’s Choice Award will be given for first, second, and third place. M, W-Su through 5/30; Ursus Among Us. North Tahoe Arts and the North Lake Tahoe

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Atilla the honey I asked my boyfriend for his email password so I could look at a message he’d mentioned. He grabbed my laptop and said he’d log in and forward it to me. He’s a good guy and has never given me reason to distrust him, but if you aren’t hiding anything, why would you care whether your girlfriend can read your email, Facebook messages, whatever? He says he feels people should have a certain amount of privacy in a relationship and doesn’t believe in sharing his passwords. Really? Not even with the woman he’s been sleeping with for two years?

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While some women trade sex for dinner, jewelry and major appliances, all you expect is your boyfriend’s privacy. Privacy—controlling what information about yourself gets shared with others—is a fundamental right. Yet I’m amazed by the amount of email I get, mainly from women, who think having regular sex with someone entitles them to roll back that person’s privacy to that of a convicted serial killer. Like these other ladies, you seem to be confusing dating with rent-to-own. This man is your romantic partner, not your new washing machine. He gets to choose which hopes, dreams, fears and tasteless jokes he shares with you. You don’t get to harvest his email, his organs and his every thought. But, should you somehow bully his password out of him and start mowing through his messages, it’s like putting people on speakerphone without their knowledge. He needs to disclose the possibility of this to everyone

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SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Nudes and Neon: Stephanie Hogen, Elaine Jason, & Candace Nicol. This three-person exhibition investigates the connection between body, light and reflections. This show combines a sense of art history with a reference to Reno’s history. There will be an artists’ reception on June 8 from 5pm to 7pm. M-F, 10am-5pm through 6/28. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

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accepting submissions for its 16th annual show and sale on July 12. This call for artists is specific to those working in the communications fields of public relations, marketing, advertising, journalism, graphic design, and related fields of media and communications such as social interaction design. The exhibit will be at Sierra Arts Gallery during Artown. The theme of this year’s event is “Revolución—Celebrating A Rich Artistic Society.” M-Su through 6/25. $25 per entry for professionals; $15 per student entry. Digiman Photography Studio, 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 124, (775) 829-7444, http://aafreno.com.

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Artists Market is an Artown event that features an eclectic array of local vendors and artisans. The market takes place 11am-4pm on July 14 and July 28, 2012. Interested vendors and artisans are encouraged to send their applications as soon as possible. M-Su through 5/31. Free. The Cheese Board, 247 California Ave., (775) 338-1995, www.calave.org.

FLINT STREET FESTIVAL CALL FOR ARTISANS: Call for artisans for the 2nd Annual Flint Street Festival, which takes place July 21. This is a juried show. The festival will be part of Artown and benefits VSA Nevada. M-Su through 7/21. $25 deposit fee. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 2, www.vsanevada.org/flintst-app.

Museums NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (THE HARRAH COLLECTION): Mutant Rides: Origin of a Species, Burning Man automobile creations. M-Su through 7/25. $10 adults; $8 seniors; $4 kids ages 6-18; free for children 5 and younger. 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There, W-Su through 9/2; Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26;

Poetry/Literature LAMA MARUT BOOK SIGNING: Lama Marut signs and presents A Spiritual Renegades Guide to the Good Life. Tu, 5/29, 3-4pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

SPIRITUAL RENEGADES GUIDE TO GOOD LIFE: Lama Marut, an ordained Buddhist monk, will give a brief public talk introducing his new book at this book-signing event. M, 5/28, 1-2:30pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

Music A PATRIOTIC SALUTE TO ALL VETERANS: Former member of the Air Force Band Henry Melendres and singer Mary Richardson play patriotic songs to enjoy on Memorial Day. M, 5/28, 2:30pm. Sierra Place, 1111 W. College Parkway, Carson City, (775) 841-4111.

Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art, W-Su G.E.M. AND JAM HSIAO: The Chinese pop stars perthrough 7/1; Tim Hawkinson: Totem, W-Su form. Sa, 5/26, 8pm. $68. Reno Ballroom, 401 N. Here in through 10/7; Jacob Hashimoto: N E W S & R E V I E W BCenter U S I NSt., ES S U S E O N LY (775) 325-7333. Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su DESIGNER ISSUE DATE ACCT. EXEC. through 1/1; Anne Lindberg: Modal Lines, W-Su PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert AD St., 8.16.07 AAC through 7/15. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty series features guest artists performing on (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org. the church’s Casavant organ. F, noon. FILE NAME REV. pipe DATE Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island EVOLUTIONTATTOO081607R1 04.26.07 SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: Celtic Heritage Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org. Exhibit, M-Su through 5/27. $5 adults; free for members and children age 12 and younger. VIETNAMESE CONCERT: Entertainers Truong Vu, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, Tommy Ngo, Linda Trang Dai, Thanh Thanh, www.sparksmuseum.org. Carol Kim, Jessica Chum, Philip Huy and others perform. Su, 5/27, 8pm. $38. Reno Ballroom, 401 N. Center St., (775) 325-7333.

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Onstage Theater Troupe and the Gold Hill Hotel present All That... The 2012 Gold Hill Spring Follies, gourmet dining with two hours of dance, song and comedy. F, 7pm through 6/8. $45 dinner and show; $15 show only. Gold Hill Hotel, 1540 Main St., Gold Hill, (775) 847-0111, www.goldhillhotel.net.

presents a series of English language learning sessions ideal for non-native English speakers who want to improve their speaking skills. The group will practice speaking English around various scenarios that involve everyday activities. W, 4:30-6pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 829-7323.

FIBER PROPERTIES & YARN SUBSTITUTIONS: In this three-hour class, you will learn the basics of fiber properties, yarn gauge, stitch gauge and how they relate to substituting yarns in patterns. Basic knitting skills required. Sa, 5/26, 1-4pm. $35. Jimmy Beans Wool, 1312 Capital Blvd., Ste. 103, (775) 827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com/class.asp.

THE GOD OF CARNAGE: Brüka Theatre presents Yasmina Reza’s dark comedy that asks what happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children. The play is recommended for mature audiences. Th, 5/24, 8pm; F, 5/25, 8pm; Sa, 5/26, 8pm. $18 general; $16 seniors, students, military; $20 at the door. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

GARDENING WORKSHOP: Holland Project, Great Basin Community Co-Op and local farmers have partnered up to offer Holland’s annual gardening workshop. Learn the basics of beginning and maintaining a garden. This workshop will also jump start the community garden space at the Holland Project’s new home on Vesta Street. Su, 5/27, 10am. $5. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St. Suite 330, (775) 287-6882, www.hollandreno.org.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: FINAL ADVENTURE: Reno Little Theater presents this witty, fast-paced mystery by A. Conan Doyle, adapted by Steven Dietz. F, 5/25, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 5/26, 7:30-

10pm; Su, 5/27, 2-4:30pm; F, 6/1, 7:30-10pm; Sa, 6/2, 7:30-10pm; Su, 6/3, 2-4:30pm. $15 general,

JIMMY BEANS WOOL OPEN KNIT NIGHT: Join local and visiting fiber enthusiasts for an evening of knitting and crocheting. Door prizes awarded. Fourth Th of every month, 6-8pm. $5. Jimmy Beans Wool, 5000 Smithridge Drive, Ste. A-11, (775) 827-9276, www.jimmybeanswool.com.

Auditions CHILDREN’S CHOIR AUDITIONS: The Sierra Nevada Children’s Choir hold auditions for new singers for its 2012-13 season. The choir consists of three different groups for children in first-12th grades. A prepared audition piece is not necessary. Th, 5/24, 46pm. Free. St. John’s Presbyterian Church, 1070 W. Plumb Lane, (775) 826-0990, www.sierranevadachildrenschoir.org.

RENO PORTRAIT SOCIETY: There will be a live model for artists to paint or draw in the medium of their choice. No formal instruction, but participants can learn from experienced artists. The event is open to all ages and abilities. W, 9am-12:30pm. $10. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128, www.nvfinearts.com.

RLT AUDITIONS FOR PRIVATE LIVES: Auditions for this Noel Coward comedy will consist of cold readings from the script. Available roles are for two men ages 20s-50s and two to three women ages 20s-50s. Auditioners should be prepared to do a British accent. M, 5/28, 79:30pm; W, 5/30, 7-9:30pm. Free. Reno Little Theater Rehearsal Hall, 246 E. Arroyo St., (775) 813-8900, www.renolittletheater.org.

Community BRIDGEWIRE—MAKERSPACE OPEN SPACE NIGHT: Learn about this member-funded, nonprofit makerspace, hackerspace workshop. Th, 6-9pm through 12/27. Bridgewire, 1055 Industrial Way, Ste. 20, Sparks, (775) 219-7987, http://renobridgewire.org.

CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Second and Fourth Th of every month, 4-5:45pm. Free.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “My soul is a

fire that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may normally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevost-type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting a steady supply of the necessary fuel.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a

great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind. Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Sometimes I

think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valery. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle—a time when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm;” a time to tune in extra strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t pre-

tend you can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it. In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it. Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.

“trans said/intersex said” brouhaha, too— you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit. Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams, and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In some

Australian aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders. The first is the name everybody knows. The second is sacred, and is kept secret. Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: When you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself, and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers, or yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t indulge in this behavior any time soon. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings—not just in regards to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem. Northern Flicker Woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. To allow for necessary repairs, launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost-insignificant pest seriously.

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want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with. And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger. During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. Networking opportunities will be excellent. Your web of connections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular, and better fighters.

Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’ father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here: http://tinyurl.com/applegarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse, or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years—and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labor of love that will change everything for the better.

cial: Dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling, and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: http://tinyurl.com/dancesmart.)

totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a hero shrew. Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you—and do it with exceptional charisma.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have a head’s

up for you, Libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (Of course it could be a “he said/he said” or “she said/she said” or

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The utilitarian look of elaborate new bus stops around Reno was relieved by commissioning artists to adorn them. Several on South Virginia Street have art that uses cattle brands, barbed wire, wagon wheel and slot machine designs to tie them to the neighborhood. The artist who produced those is Denise Duarte, a lifelong Nevadan born in Reno and currently undergoing new training at an arts institute in Maryland.

Why do you do public art? I truly enjoy and find personal satisfaction in creating art work that is without any institutional barriers to the people. ...

There may not be institutional barriers for the public, but aren’t there some for the artists, particularly in the planning stages? As far as the juried portion of that, I do think that is important, since we are dealing with public dollars and public moneys that the artist be vetted and that the art be vetted to be able to be executed in a technically expert way. ... Public art, because again it’s public money, should be responsive to that public, however that public is defined. … And I welcome that. I think it creates, oftentimes, a richer dialogue with the public, the more interaction you have with the public. If I want just my voice, that’s what my studio practice is for.

What’s the difference in planning for public and private art? You have to present your [public] artwork to that commissioning body—or entity or public or a combination—completed. So in other words, it’s not evolving as you create it like you would in your studio practice. You have to sit down, plan it out, make sure the engineering is complete, that it’s feasible within the budget, that it’s technically capable of being produced in the way you have envisioned it and have worked out all those details before you ever start creating it. Studio art—when you’re just creating your own personal expression as an artist—you can have that luxury of letting the art evolve on its own.

Describe the research you did for the South Virginia sites. For instance, at the Peckham station—the inbound Peckham station—not far, on that same block, had been the Liberty Belle’s saloon and restaurant, which had the Liberty Belle slot machine museum in it. For about 48 and a half years that restaurant and museum stood on that block. … I used to go there, I

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