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Who’s the best? We are. Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. We did it again. Or rather, you did: The Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada. Near as I can tell, we have about the usual number of weird results. Still, I think, in general, this year has the most accurate—in that I agree with them—results ever. Part of that is we had fewer registered voters than last year, about 2,700 total. That is primarily due to a less intense effort on the part of one casino to get out the votes. We’ve recognized in the past the effect the massive marketing departments have on our little contest, and over the years, we’ve actually adjusted things so that the casinos were only competing with each other. Still, having tourists voting tended to skew some of the results in areas outside of Casinos & Gambling. Another thing worthy of note is that we didn’t have the botnet attacks that we had last year. In fact, as far as I know, we didn’t have to kick out any ballots for cheating. The biggest factor that got ballots removed is that people didn’t vote in 10 categories, which, judging from the social media campaigns I was watching, is because people didn’t tell people to vote in 10 categories. The instruction was right there on the launch page, but, well, you know how people can be. So, while there were some hitches, it was very smooth this year. A lot of that is due to our operations department, particularly John Bisignano. And Deborah Redmond helped me with Excel. You know you work for a good company when one of the owners gets right in to make things run smoothly. Thanks to those two. Also, special thanks to Hayley Doshay, our art director for this project. She kicks ass. And thanks to Ron Rash for doing our iconographic original art. Finally, thanks to all the designers, salespeople, office and editorial staff (who came in to work on Saturday to tally results). You folks are the reason there is only one Best Of that matters in Northern Nevada.

Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): I, too, find Jake Highton’s article to be excessively blunt and lacking in grace; but I’m not writing to argue for or against Jake Highton. (Actually, neither Highton nor any of the subsequent letter-writers has argued at all.) I just want to ask believers, “How did you come to believe in your religion?” and “Why do you not believe in any other religion?” and “How do you think those other people came to believe in their religions?” These are not rhetorical questions; I’m genuinely curious. From the moment I first met my exwife 35 years ago, until the moment she left me 28 years later, I believed and felt with all my heart, “I’d be lost without you,” and “Without you my life would be worth nothing.” Well, it turns out that I’m not any more lost than I would have been, and my life isn’t worth any less than it would have been, all of which makes me curious about what that other me was thinking. Richard Sasaki Reno

Support downtown retail Re “One vision for downtown” (Editorial, July 19): Retail, folks, that is what we need and need to support. Kor gym downtown should be embraced. They are now offering a free first month just to try to attract the casino workers. Our downtown is considered by so many of the suburbanites to be scary. It’s not! Just unloved. I live in Park Tower. I have and always will live in the downtown corridor, as long as I live in Reno. There are so many wonderful things going on down here that people don’t ever see. Artown, thank you! I happen to work in the south of town. Speaking to people at work about Artown, they think I’m crazy to go. Their impression of the downtown is that their car will get broken into, homeless will mug them, nowhere to park, and parking is dangerous. So not true! Walking my dogs every morning at 4:30 a.m., there are people who all live in the Southwest that are on the

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River Walk. Friendly, funny, and very inviting. I would, in the years to come, love to see the area closed off, more like Baltimore Harbor. Thriving, bustling, and friendly. Or perhaps like South Street in Philadelphia. All are places I have been privileged to live, due to business. What happened to the National Conference of Mayors? The city marketers must have gone to sleep. It’s now in Denver. Not here! There are times I hear “New York State of Mind,” and I want to go home to NYC, my first home. And then I walk over the wooden bridge at Wingfield, and fall in love all over again. Yes, folks, this is a place to fall in love with. Everyone who lives in Reno/Sparks, let’s take our cities back. Make us proud to be here. And let’s have our visitors leave saying, “Wow! Reno/Sparks that’s a place you need to see!” and not for the bad reasons. Get a new marketing department for the city!

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Thirsty zombies Re “When zombies attack!” (Feature story, Aug. 2): I’m not a big fan of survivalism, maybe because I’ve had to do too much of it in my life and work. I work and live in the deserts of the Great Basin, play in the Sonoran desert of Mexico, and a liter per day is a surefire way to end up dead in a matter of a few days in desert systems, especially if you’re trying to get the hell out of Dodge on foot during an emergency. But don’t believe me, give it a try yourself. Head out to a remote part of the Basin next week and try to walk even a measly 10 miles a day on one liter. Then get up and repeat the task the next day. Note to participants; have someone with lots of water and a vehicle keep a close eye on you so they can whisk you off to the emergency room when you collapse. Notice I didn’t say if. Trying to survive on a liter/day, you’ll be dead in a few days in temps above 90 degrees F, two days in temps above 100. I frequently go through 2 or 2.5 gallons a day when I’m working in the desert in temps above 100, and still come back from the field dehydrated. This article is very under-informed. Entire books could be written, have been written, on those topics. You might wanna give ’em a read.

Off the grid Re “Grid line” (Green, July 19): Let me understand this. Indira Chatterjee, an engineering dean, who defends the safety of smart meters, says, “There’s not enough solid research about smart meters health implications. More research needs to be done.” Yet, current independent scientists coming out with biologically harmful results doing the research that “needs to be done” are often dismissed by industry shills. Funding is hard to come by in a world run by industry money and the government stake in smart grid monitoring potential. So, in the meantime, this college dean is willing to play Russian roulette with public health, exposing the unwitting masses in a huge experiment they never signed on to do? And informed people, who do not want to take the chronic smart meter exposure risk, should be forced to, as well? In 2011, the World Health Organization classified exposure to radiofrequency radiation as a class 2B potential carcinogen despite huge industry pressure not to. The classification does not even take into account some of the damning research due to

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attacks of industry on the reputations of the scientists. To impose undisclosed, involuntary cancer risk on everyone while the scientists battle it out is unconscionable, and may turn out to be a heinous crime against humanity. Ah, well, we don’t know yet, for sure, so full speed ahead with the smart meters.

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An angry god Re “Are you there God? It’s me, Jake.” (Feature story, June 28): When I was growing up, I blindly accepted going to church and believing in what everyone else believed in because everyone else believed in it, therefore it must be true. I did not learn to really question or seek the truth 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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about Jesus Christ until about two years ago at age 44. I decided I wanted to find out the truth about God and Jesus Christ on my own terms instead of swallowing what everyone had been forcing down my throat all these years. There is a story in the Old Testament about a slave who reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant because the oxen stumbled, whereupon God gets pissed off and kills him right there on the spot. I always thought that was rather excessive. Since when is a man’s life worth less then the gold used to build the ark? I dig into the Old Testament, and I see just many acts of murder are described and committed by God, infanticide is accepted as normal, slavery is endorsed and practiced and nobody bats an eye at practices committed 3,000 years in the Bible that would be unacceptable today. Now I see other so-called Christians attacking Jake Highton for his beliefs and for daring to question God. These same Christians are turning a blind eye to the atrocities listed in the Old Testament, the thousands of people that have been murdered in God’s name in this century and centuries past. Where was God when people were gunned down in Aurora, Colo.? But what I really want to say is that everything in the Bible is written in third and fourth person. There is no book of Jesus. A man who could walk on water and resurrect the dead and provide food out of thin air—this man cannot write or speak for himself? Religion is based out of faith, faith in an event that supposedly happened 3,000 years ago? What do the Israelis say? Jesus is gone, and he is not coming back. They would know best, would they not? Christians decided the Talmud was not a good enough authority and invented their own version called the Bible. I will pass on anything written by Christians. Thank you very much, Jake, for your expose on the atrocities committed by Christians in the name of an entity who allows a 6year-girl to be gunned down in a movie theatre in Colorado. Chris Granger Reno

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What’s the best thing in your life? Asked at the Sparks Post Office Lloyd Shanklin Occupation

My son. He’s turned out the way that I wanted him to, a hard-working, conservative young man.

Jeff Partyka Retiree

The best thing in my life right now is my family. I’m middle-aged, I still have a couple of kids at home, I really appreciate them in terms of what they’re accomplishing. They’re in their late teen years, you know, late high school, early college. It just kind of makes me proud how much they’ve progressed. They’re taking on more responsibility. It’s just a good feeling that they’re staying on the right track. Bob Miller

Best metaphor Every year, this Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada allows us to toot our own horn and allows everyone to toot their own horn and allows everyone else to toot everyone else’s horn. That’s a lot of horn tooting. Darn tootin’. But while we take our poll of readers seriously, many businesses and individuals take our readers’ poll more seriously than we do. And we kind of understand the reason for this: poor self-esteem. Reno often gets a bum rap on the national stage. There are more reasons than can be counted for that phenomenon, but suffice it to say, the Old Southwest neighborhood doesn’t have a spokesperson to promote its beauty. Bibo doesn’t buy national media ads. Diane Sawyer likely doesn’t give a damn that we can walk the Tahoe Rim Trail, if we have a mind to. The things we Northern Nevadans love about this area, from the soft evening breezes on the St. James deck to a burrito at El Adobe Café, don’t pay a public relations company to sing their praises. But we know about them because we live here. They are the very atmosphere we breathe (current summer fires notwithstanding). That’s part of the reason people are always surprised when some national comedian takes a dig at our city. Sure, Fozzie Bear’s funny, but he’s not funny because he’s true; he’s funny because he’s a silly stereotype that exemplifies the false stereotype of our town. And you know what? We—meaning we editorial types at the World Headquarters of the Reno News & Review— don’t care. Because you know who sings Reno praises? We do. We do it through things like this popularity contest, but we also do it when we kick some politician 4

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square in the groin for treating Reno and its people like we deserve less than the best. We do it when we highlight a local band or artist or quirky personality or towering volunteer. Staffers here are often asked about the popularity of our Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada. Much larger papers than ours around the country have much less participation. They like to think it’s something we do here at 708 N. Center St. that they could emulate— and we hardly dissuade them of that notion—but it’s really not. We do try to make the playing field level and crazy, but it’s really because the level of quality in our community is so high. That may sound like a reacharound, but when you get right down to it, our best coffee can compete with the best coffee in Seattle; our best bar is going to be different than the best bar in Los Angeles, but it’s in no way inferior. Almost anything that is the best here would rank among the best anywhere. For heaven’s sake, Wolfie Jr. won the Capital One Mascot Challenge against the biggest schools in the country. Northern Nevadans are into this community. That’s why we ferociously battle to be recognized as the best in our fields. So when Saturday Night Live makes an ignorant joke about our city committing suicide, or The Onion makes us the butt of jokes about our beloved Harry Reid, or Reno 911 dramatizes our daily newspaper, just shut up and take your kid over to the new Discovery Museum or go have a drink on Annalisa Huante’s bar. Because one of the things that makes this city worth living in is that outsiders don’t know about all the things that make it the best place to live. Ω

My wife. We just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary Saturday. It’s been great because we’re friends. Everybody asks us how, “How’ve you stayed married so long?” And our first response is, “You’ve got to be friends.”

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My family because we are a Christianbased family, and we stick together. I have a wonderful husband. Twenty-five years we’ve been married, two kids, and we do everything as a unit.

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Probably my job, right now. I’m a sixth grade teacher at Bernice Mathews [School]. I just enjoy being able to teach the same group of kids each day. Sometimes it’s crazy, sometimes it’s fun, but we all do stuff each day, and we all learn something new.

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Meat prices have not been affected much yet, but by winter they may be rising fast as a result of drought.

Incumbent protection undercut In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that again calls into question the validity of one of Nevada’s election laws, enacted more than 20 years ago. In 1984, Clark County resident Gary Lee Roberts was elected to the Nevada Assembly. At the time, he was under the illusion he was a Democrat and was a thorn in the side of his fellow Democrats. He later switched parties and ran unsuccessfully for the Nevada Senate in 1986. In 1988, he tried for nonconsecutive reelection to the Assembly. He was not elected, but his former fellow Democrats were furious at him and used the lawmaking process to take their revenge. Because Roberts had used the term “re-elect” in his campaign materials in the 1988 campaign, they passed a law based on the theory that Noah Webster had deeded ownership of the English language to the Nevada Legislature. The new laws, Nevada Revised Statutes 294A.330 and 294A.340, prohibited the use of “reelect” by candidates running for nonconsecutive terms and banned language that “implies that the candidate is the incumbent ... in any material, statement or publication ...” The job of interpreting what language violates the law fell to Nevada’s secretary of state. A common pattern was established when people began filing complaints thatcampaign materials listed only names and offices. For instance, on Feb. 5, 1996, an anonymous complaint against U.S. House candidate Jim Gibbons arrived in the office of Secretary of State Dean Heller. The complaint said the Gibbons campaign letterhead read: Jim GIBBONS CONGRESS This, claimed the brave complainant, implied incumbency. It turned out the two laws contained no enforcement mechanism and no penalty for violation, so Heller simply advised Gibbons of the terms of the law and let it go at that. Thus, the law then had mainly nuisance value, though public funds were used in conducting probes. Later, the Legislature added a $5,000 penalty and other provisions to the laws. There are currently at least five such complaints before the secretary of state, filed by Swadeep Nigam, Cammy Brunold and Michelle Mendoza. But a long line of federal court cases say governments have no business policing language or truth, even when intended to mislead. Those cases give particularly strong protection to political speech. This cycle of cases was reinforced in June by U.S. v. Alvarez, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, for the majority, that government is without authority to prosecute those who claim falsely to have earned military decorations: “Permitting the government to decree this speech to be a criminal offense ... would endorse government authority to compile a list of subjects about which false statements are punishable. ... Our constitutional tradition stands against the idea that we need Oceania’s Ministry of Truth. Were this law to be sustained, there could be an endless list of subjects the National Government or the States could single out.” That ruling relied on previous court decisions. Justice Robert Jackson, concurring in Thomas v. Collins (1945): “But it cannot be the duty, because it is not the right, of the state to protect the public against false doctrine. ... In this field, every person must be his own watchman for truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.” Justice Potter Stewart, for the majority, Monitor Patriot Co. v. Roy (1971): “[I]t can hardly be doubted that the constitutional guarantee [of speech] has its fullest and most urgent application precisely to the conduct of campaigns for political office.” The Nevada Legislature, composed of incumbents, is unlikely to repeal the two laws, and so far no candidate has challenged it in court. There is also a Nevada complaint filed by John Herrington that signs were posted in Silver City before a local law allows it. However, in Ladue v. Gilleo the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people can express themselves with signs at any time of the year. So die-hards can keep those Goldwater or McGovern signs in place.

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Drought Historic water shortage wreaks havoc in Nevada When U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declared disaster in a thousand by drought-stricken counties in 26 Dennis Myers states on July 11, the Washington Post ran a teaser headline on its website saying that “suddenly” there was a 2012 drought. It was so sudden that ranchers and farmers across the United States have known about it for months. “Nevada’s been in a drought for a while, since last year anyway,” said University of Nevada environmental scientist Glenn Miller. The disaster declaration covered some Nevada territory. A map of the drought released by the federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed a red swath from the West Coast across the middle and south of the United States to about Ohio, plus a patch that includes Florida and three adjoining states. But some portions of the swath were printed in a more intense red, showing areas where the drought is particularly severe. That streak started in the east and stopped at the base of the Sierra, a few miles west of Reno, though it bleeds over into California in some southern and northern sections. The most severe areas in Nevada are in eastern Elko and White Pine counties along the Utah border and along the California border from Douglas County through Carson City and the Truckee Meadows to about a hundred miles south of the Oregon border, then east through Pershing County to about Lander County.

“Remember this—it’s just not a one-year situation,” said University of Nevada economist Tom Harris. “Last year we had tremendous snowpacks. And with the tremendous snowpacks we had water in the lakes, Boca and all that [upstream reservoirs]. Those are sufficient quantities to get us through. That’s why you have these reservoirs. So if we had two or three years and the reservoirs are reduced significantly, that’s when we’d have trouble here in Washoe County.”

“All of a sudden you have a death of supply.” Tom Harris Economist

He and Miller said that where local residents are most likely to feel the impact over the next year is in meat prices. Farmers and ranchers in and out of Nevada will reduce their stock to levels that match the available water. “The rangelands are not that productive [in hay], and then you try to buy hay and of course, hay is pretty high expenses,” Harris said. “And so what they end up doing, they liquidate their herds, they reduce their herds to max the carrying capacity.”

Initially, this will mean falling meat prices, but that doesn’t last. “It takes about 18 to 24 months to build back your herds because of the gestation period,” he said. “During that period, after you go through the initial phase of where all the supply hits the market, all of a sudden you have a death of supply. All of a sudden meat prices jump up.” Asked to guess when those higher meat prices might start to hit, Harris suggested November, fueled particularly by holiday demand that is kicked off by Thanksgiving on Nov. 22. Election day is Nov. 6. There is not necessarily any connection between Nevadans’ meat supplies and Nevada ranches and farmers, Harris said. Nevada meat goes to meat packing plants that draw supply from “everywhere.” He said farmers on the Truckee Carson Irrigation District could be seriously hurt. In a drought, they may not get their full allocation. “What that means, they’re just going to have to space out their irrigation as much as they can.” Some areas have already had their water shut off. Earlier this year, a Desert Research Institute spokesperson said, “We haven’t received funding for cloud seeding since the 2007 legislature, which took us through 2009. Instead, we have derived about $150,000 from the Truckee River Fund and $100,000 from the Western Regional Water Commission to seed the Truckee River Basin annually for the past three years.” DRI is a scientific arm of the state’s higher education system.

Poor apricots

In an essay posted online, Fernley farmer Lori Gunn described the ordeal of drought. She said looking at farms around the area and seeing no alfalfa—it’s the region’s big crop—is strange for her. One of her apricot trees “produced 20 small, almost dry fruits.” “As the owner of a small farm, the lack of water makes an additional challenge to growing crops or maintaining a safe firebreak,” she wrote. “Winds prevented open burning during the early spring. The fire chief in Fernley ordered permits closed early because of the lack of rain and snow during the winter and spring. Vegetation, already dry, keeps fire conditions dangerous. We are clearing the pasture and the garden area bit by bit, but leave

passed a stand-alone drought bill instead of the usual broader farm bill because Republicans could not agree. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate Democratic floor leader, has not said when he will schedule a vote on the House bill. He had previously said that if the House wanted quick action, it should pass the Senate bill. USDA got an agreement from crop insurers for payment grace period on payments on policies that cover this year. USDA itself lowered the interest rate for Farm Service Agency emergency loans. Vilsack authorized farmers to tap a sort of agricultural reserve akin to the Elk Hills petroleum reserve. Harvesting from nearly 4 million acres of grasslands set aside for times like this will provide hay and reduce prices. The last time there was a drought like this Charles Russell was Nevada’s governor and Dwight Eisenhower was president. That was 1956. Now, at a time when some activists are pushing Congress to curb genetically modified foods, the most popular genetically modified foodstuff—corn—is being wiped out in the Midwest. “Thirty-eight percent of our corn crop as of today is rated as poor to very poor, 30 percent of our soybeans, poor to very poor,” Vilsack said on July 24. Ω

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enough to hold as much of the topsoil as possible. The weeds and branches are being stacked in small piles until the winter, which we pray will be sufficiently wet enough to allow us to successfully burn the debris from 2011 and 2012.” Given Gunn’s reference to prayer, she probably would not object to Secretary Vilsack’s statement, “I get on my knees every day. And I’m saying an extra prayer now. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.” But he has been criticized for it by secular humanists and Washington Post writer Alexandra Petri, who wrote, “Praying? I want my money spent on the logical, useful, needful things government typically does.” She mentioned cloud seeding. In fact, Vilsack never said that prayer was his only tool. He has said he has been using everything his department has at its command to aid farmers, but that those tools are limited in a drought of this scale. On Aug. 2, he had to add another 218 counties in 12 states to the disaster declaration and he has been haranguing Congress to provide better drought aid for farmers. Some assistance enacted in 2008 has expired and the Senate has renewed that aid but the House last week passed its own bill and the two must be reconciled or the Senate must pass the House bill. The House

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Groundwater study grounded The Nevada Conservation League is disappointed with the lack of problems addressed in an extensive, longitudinal analysis of a groundwater diversion project conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. The project analyzed was a proposal to pump more than 30 billion gallons of water to Las Vegas from rural Nevada. The NCL claims that BLM did not take economics into consideration. According to a statement released by NCL, “Federal contractors for the BLM failed to fully consider the rapidly growing cost of the project, which is now nearly $16 billion, according to the most recent figures revealed by SNWA [Southern Nevada Water Authority] staff members. A year ago, the SNWA in an analysis (required by state regulators) put the cost at just over $15 billion—four times the cost publicly released until then. … Conservationists, fiscal conservatives, rural ranchers and Native American communities are concerned with the multiple impacts that the project would have to both the economies and environment of the Great Basin of Nevada and Utah.” Other opponents of the proposed pipeline include tribal communities from eastern Nevada who are also worried about the potential environmental impact, such as the Goshute tribe, which has set up a website to track the issue, www.goshutewater.org.

Yucca buried, again Discussion about Yucca Mountain just won’t quit, but it doesn’t seem to be progressing much, either—a good sign for the proposed nuclear waste repository’s opposition. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals turned down “petitioners’ request that the court direct the NRC to act on the Bush Administration-era license application to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain,” according to a statement from Sen. Harry Reid’s office. Reid remarked on the decision, saying, “Today is a good day for Nevada and the entire country. The Court has declined to compel the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to continue licensing work on Yucca Mountain against the will of Congress and the administration. … The Nuclear Waste Policy Act has been a miserable failure because 25 years ago, Congress chose to undermine the spirit of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and allowed our government to engage in the brutalization of science. That is how we got Yucca Mountain.”

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ECO-EVENT In a spin on the annual Hot August Nights event, the Reno Bike Project will host the Hot August Bikes Ride on Aug. 11. Participants will ride with members of the bike project and the Reno Police Department through Reno, ending at Stewart Park to join in a free ice cream social. Meet at the Reno Bike Project at 5 p.m. Ride will depart at 6 p.m. and the ice cream social will start at 7 p.m. Visit www.renobikeproject.com/events/hot-augustbikes for more information.

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Home powered Energy auditor Rob Ernst Getting audited gets a bad rap when it comes to taxes, but home inspector and energy auditor Rob Ernst says that a home energy audit is a good way to find out how to save energy and save money. by Ashley “A lot of people want to do something about the state of the environHennefer ment,” says Ernst. “But conservation starts in the home. Solar panels are great, but they take a lot of glass and other materials, and require energy ashleyh@ to be manufactured. We have to reduce consumption first. Retrofitting newsreview.com homes is a necessary step to helping the environment. It doesn’t help to drive energy efficient cars, and then going home to a house that pollutes the environment. So I usually ask people, ‘What have you done to your house to make it less wasteful?’” According to Ernst, homeowners should think about preventing energy waste before implementing alternative sources. Homes should abide by the home energy rating standard (HERS) set by the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET), but many don’t. “I usually tell homeowners, ‘Let’s start with getting houses up to standard,’” Ernst says. “A perfect score is 100. I see some under 100, but To learn more about most are over 100, and some over 200.” The higher the score, the less Rob Ernst and his energy efficient a home is. energy audit When conducting a house audit, Ernst will look at every aspect of the process, visit house—windows, insulation, furnaces, lighting, water and more. He’ll www.homecsi.com. climb up into attics and down underneath homes to find heat or coolness escaping. He uses modeling software to compare homes with the HERS model, and he’ll also work with weatherization contractors. Then, he’ll give recommendations on what to fix or replace. “People think it is going to be expensive to retrofit,” says Ernst. “But most houses are in need of something. Some people think they need new windows, so they’ll be raising the air conditioning if it’s not working. But they should focus on air sealing and insulation. It’s like a person wearing a knit sweater in the winter. That won’t keep you warm by itself. Neither will a windbreaker. But if you cover that knit sweater with a windbreaker, it will block air, retaining heat.” Ernst recommends that homebuyers consider getting an energy efficiency mortgage to factor in retrofitting costs into a new home purchase. There are also some low interest loans that can help homeowners cover the costs of improvement. “When possible, it’s best to leave what’s there there,” he says. “Repurposing is preferable to throwing things away. We want to add to it, not just throw it out.” And while apartment dwellers don’t always have control over the infrastructure of their homes, cosmetic changes can help keep energy bills low—closing blinds and curtains on hot days to keep apartments cool, changing light fixtures, and installing a programmable thermostat are some of Ernst’s tips. “I just want to get people to think about what they can already do, and to be more conscious of it,” he says. “People will install solar panels or something, but not change anything else, and are upset when they still don’t see results in their power bills. But those investments only work if everything else is fixed first. And it’s a good way to get focused on ways to make a difference.” Ω OPINION

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THE BIGGEST LITTLE BEST OF NORTHERN NEVADA READERS’ POLL CELEBRATES THE REASONS WE LIVE HERE Welcome to Nevada’s Biggest, Most Accurate, Most Comprehensive, Most Celebrated, Most Fantastic and Most Understated popularity contest, the Reno News & Review’s Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada. It’s a herculean task, and that’s just the voting! But while we here at the world headquarters of the Reno News & Review like to complain about the difficulty tabulating thousands of verified ballots, it’s a labor of love. The hard part really belongs to you, the winners. Yes, it’s an inconvenience campaigning to hold or take the top spot, but every year we hear from winners who say they didn’t campaign at all. The cream rises to the top, as they say. And that’s due to our readers, the most plugged in, participatory and engaged members in our little section of the world. It’s become our tradition every year to highlight a different segment of our region—be it cultural, demographic or geographic. This year we chose to highlight the Midtown District.

Part of that included our choice of artist: Ron Rash. Once we made our decision to highlight Midtown, there wasn’t another artist who personifies the Midtown acumen the way Rash does. Yes, he’s a Midtown tattoo artist, but he’s much more. He created these original watercolor pieces especially for the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada, and he joins the pantheon of local artists who’ve contributed work to make our annual Best Of an original work of art on its own merits. It’s difficult to name all the people who deserve congratulations and thanks. But let’s start with you, the readers, all the thousands of you who took the time to work your way through all these categories. Congratulations and thank you. It’s you who make this town more than a lead in a New York Times story or a punchline on Saturday Night Live. And finally, congratulations and thanks to you, the winners. You put in the time 24/7/365 to be the best. You’re the reason we and many others choose to live in Northern Nevada.

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Readers’ choices Best taxi driver

Best place to shoot firearms

BILL ANDERSON [TIE] ELGIN ALWAY

THE DESERT

Best thrift store

JARED THE GALLERIA OF JEWELRY

JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE & ANTIQUE MALL

Best mall

Best local place to work

THE SUMMIT

8550 White Fir St., 746-6878

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

1664 N. Virginia St., 784-1110

Best landscaper

SIGNATURE LANDSCAPES 3705 Barron Way, 857-4333

Best house cleaning service

WHITE LOTUS

35 N. Edison Way, 856-2345

Best video game store

Best place to get your hands dirty

Campo has made a big splash in Reno’s food scene in the less than a year that it’s been open. Part of that success is the local, organic, farm-fresh, blah, blah, blah ingredients. Part of it is charismatic figurehead Mark Estee and the attentive staff. Part of it is the very central location, overlooking the Truckee River and across the street from the Riverside movie theater—the ideal spot for a dinner-and-a-movie date. And then there’s the best dessert in the valley: the caramel budino. As good as some of the other grub is, it’s worth saving room for dessert—because the budino is the jam. A budino is an Italian custard, served at Campo with salted caramel, chocolate cookie crumbles, whipped cream, and a bit of mint. There are a lot of great notes working in surprising harmony. The other desserts are probably good too, but it’s hard to say, because once you go budino, it’s hard to order anything else.

Nevada’s a difficult landscape in which to grow plants, but it’s not impossible, and Northern Nevada has an expert compost guru in its midst to help turn the arid environment into a flourishing garden. Craig Witt and his family run Full Circle Compost, creating a special soil fertilizing mix called humus, made from local vegetation and waste. You’ll never hear someone talk about dirt as passionately as Witt, who has spent years researching and writing the perfect recipe to help Nevada gardeners and farmers. The University of Nevada, Reno enlisted Full Circle Composts’ help on the university quad, and within weeks, the grass was full and lush. Witt’s knowledge about composting is awe-inspiring. Seriously. Full Circle Compost has an extensive operation located near the prison in Carson City, and a retail shop next to Hungry Mother Organics on 395.

13925 S. Virginia St., 853-7800

Best tanning salon

PACIFIC SUN TANNING COMPANY multiple locations

Best frame shop

AARON BROTHERS

4809 Kietzke Lane, 827-2004

Best spa

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA

3800 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

GAMESTOP

Best dry cleaners

Best gadget store

multiple locations

SCOTLAND YARD SPY SHOP

Best bookstore

Best wine shop

121 California Ave., 786-1188

WHISPERING VINE WINE CO.

3886 Mayberry Drive, 787-9672

Best place to get an auto smogged

Best cheap liquor store

LANDA MUFFLER

multiple locations

Best Italian word to learn

13957 S. Virginia St., 850-2020

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

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Best jewelry store

1085 S. Virginia St., 323-3232

BEN’S FINE WINE & SPIRITS multiple locations

Best women’s clothing boutique

PEERLESS

SUNDANCE BOOKS & MUSIC

816 E. Fourth St., 322-0112

Best place to buy a musical instrument

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Best men’s clothing store

Best gym

multiple locations

MACY’S

5100 Meadowood Mall Circle, 826-8333

777 S. Center St., 323-5443

SPORTS WEST ATHLETIC CLUB

1575 S. Virginia St., 348-6666

Best children’s clothing boutique

Best place to buy CDs

ROCKABBOO

3344 Kietzke Lane, 826-4119

RECYCLED RECORDS

538 W. Plumb Lane, 825-0700

Best place to buy a firearm

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Best tattoo parlor

Best grocery store

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Best tattoo artist

Best specialty ice cream store

RON RASH, ACES TATTOO

COLD STONE CREAMERY

681 S. Virginia St., 333-0915

Best specialty foods store

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

Best place to get pierced

Best adult-themed store

912 S. Virginia St., 329-6010

SUZIE’S

Best shoe selection

Best computer store

13933 S. Virginia St., 852-3080

APPLE STORE

Best boutique clothing store

Best place to buy vintage clothes

multiple locations

BLACK HOLE BODY PIERCING

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

THE NICHE

13925 S. Virginia St., 333-5460

multiple locations

Best pet store

SCRAPS DOG COMPANY

6120 Mae Anne Ave., 746-4364 7675 S. Virginia St., 853-3647

DILLARD’S

195 Kietzke Lane, 786-8557

multiple locations

Best pet supply store

PETSMART

several locations

Best pet boarding

PET PLAY HOUSE

JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE & ANTIQUE MALL

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

Best used clothing store

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Best antique store

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960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best optical shop

ADLINGTON EYE CENTER & EYEGLASS GALLERY

500 W. Plumb Lane, 284-3937

Best hospital

RENOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

Best monthly publication

RENO-TAHOE TONIGHT

1155 Mill St., 982-4100

Best skateboard store

Best new business

Best doggy daycare

CAMPO

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PET PLAY HOUSE

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

Best place for music lessons

26 Cheney St., 348-9440

Best athletic shoe selection

MAYTAN MUSIC CENTER

Best wireless phone service coverage

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

Best place to buy playa garb

Best workout wear selection

MELTING POT WORLD EMPORIUM

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777 S. Center St., 323-5443

1049 S. Virginia St., 322-9445

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best brothel

1200 Scheels Drive, 331-2700

Best business Facebook page

Best bicycle shop

MOONLITE BUNNY RANCH

Best outdoor gear selection

PET PLAY HOUSE

RENO BIKE PROJECT

69 Moonlight Road, Carson City, 246-9901

541 E. Fourth St., 323-4488

Best flower shop

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Best sunglasses selection

Best wedding chapel

ADLINGTON EYE CENTER & EYEGLASS GLASS

SPARKS FLORIST

Best motorcycle dealer, shop

SILVER BELLS WEDDING CHAPEL 628 N. Virginia St., 322-0420

500 W. Plumb Lane, 284-3937

Best hobby store

RENO HARLEYDAVIDSON

Best wedding reception site

Best independent coffee shop

multiple locations

MICHAEL’S ARTS & CRAFTS

4871 Kietzke Lane, 829-8000 165 Los Altos Pkwy., 626-3341

2315 Market St., 329-2913

Best beauty salon

Best new car dealership

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495 Morrill Ave., 786-7770

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Best hair stylist

BRIAN JENSEN, A SALON 7 Best barber

BILL PEARCE Best used car dealership

INTERNET AUTO

1220 Kietzke Lane, 379-2252

PATRICK SUTTON, MAXWELL’S BARBERSHOP

Best cheap motel

Best place for photo prints

Best garden nursery

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GARDEN SHOP NURSERY

multiple locations

3636 Mayberry Drive, 825-3527

Best hotel for a romantic getaway

Best car wash

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

MISSION CAR WASH

2707 S. Virginia St., (866) 821-9996

6355 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-4222

Best bank

Best home furnishings store

WELLS FARGO

RC WILLEY HOME FURNISHINGS

multiple locations

1201 Steamboat Pkwy., 337-4600

Best mortgage company

Best apartment complex

WELLS FARGO

THE BOULDERS

4775 Summit Ridge Drive, (888) 657-0610

Best place to get a car repaired

LANDA MUFFLER & BRAKE 816 E. Fourth St., 322-0112

multiple locations

Best pawn shop

PALACE JEWELRY & LOAN COMPANY

300 N. Virginia St., 322-2863

2200 Harvard Way, 689-2200 4810 Galleria Pkwy, Sparks, 356-4400

Best photography supply store

GORDON’S PHOTO SERVICE

CHISM HOUSE

BIBO COFFEE CO.

1401 W. Second St., 322-5455

multiple locations

Best wedding event planner

Best independent bookstore

LIANE MCCOMBS WEDDING & EVENT PLANNING

121 California Ave., 786-1188

SUNDANCE BOOKS & MUSIC

4790 Caughlin Pkwy., 786-1730

Best independent used bookstore

Best public relations agency

GRASSROOTS BOOKS

THE ABBI AGENCY

660 E. Grove St., 828-2665

275 Hill St., 323-2977

Best independent CD music store

Best print shop

RECYCLED RECORDS

DIGIPRINT

3344 Kietzke Lane, 826-4119

4865 Longley Lane, 786-4464

Best independent grocery store

Best selection of local art

GREAT BASIN COMMUNITY FOOD CO-OP

NEVER ENDER BOUTIQUE & ART GALLERY

240 Court St., 324-6133

119 Thoma St., 348-9440

5067 S. McCarran Blvd., 826-6488

Best independent computer store

Best spectator sport

Best yoga classes

MOONDOG COMPUTERS

RENO ACES

THE STUDIO

1085 S. Virginia St. 284-5545

Best local non-casino business

Best outdoor outfitter

2403 E. Fourth St., 324-0202

REI

2225 Harvard Way, 828-9090

4896 S. Virginia St., 332-6666

Best independent hardware store

PET PLAY HOUSE

ACE HARDWARE

Best local magazine

Best veterinarian

RENO-TAHOE TONIGHT

multiple locations

KLAICH ANIMAL HOSPITAL 1990 S. Virginia St., 826-1212

Best newspaper

RENO NEWS & REVIEW

708 N. Center St., 324-4440

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Readers’ Choices Best Midtown tattoo parlor

ACES TATTOO

Best new Midtown business

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM

MIDTOWN EATS RESTAURANT

Best Midtown massage

681 S. Virginia St., 333-0915

719 S. Virginia St., 324-3287

Best Midtown architecture

STREMMEL GALLERY

1400 S. Virginia St., 786-0558

Best Midtown bar

RENO PUBLIC HOUSE

33 Saint Lawrence Ave., 6578449

Best Midtown business

SÜP RESTAURANT

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

Best Midtown clothing store

JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE & ANTIQUE MALL

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

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490 S. Center St., 786-1000

CALIBER SALON & SPA

141 E. Pueblo St., 284-8620

Best Midtown mural

JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE BY JOE C. ROCK

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best Midtown personality

JESSICA SCHNEIDER TROY, JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE & ANTIQUE MALL 960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best Midtown body piercing

BLACK HOLE BODY PIERCING

912 S. Virginia St., 329-6010

Best Midtown restaurant

MIDTOWN EATS RESTAURANT

719 S. Virginia St., 324-3287

Best Midtown retail

JUNKEE CLOTHING EXCHANGE

960 S. Virginia St., 322-5865

Best Midtown spa/salon

CALIBER SALON & SPA

141 E. Pueblo St., 284-8620

The 168 Asian Market, 3090 S. Virginia St., has been hiding in plain sight for a while now, but when you’re looking for frozen Makrut leaves, lemon grass or dried Laos root, where are you going to go? The fact that the store had all these ingredients on the shelf is a small wonder, but it’s the overall total sensory overload that makes new visitors feel like they’ve fallen into some kind of a temporal and spatial fold that has dropped them into Beijing or Seoul or even Bangkok. It’s easy to spend hours wandering the filled-to-bursting shelves. How many kinds of dried mushrooms might you need? There are more kinds of ramen here than you can shake a college student at. Frozen mussels in the shell at $7.99 for two pounds. Desserts, cookware, fresh duck eggs, toys, candy—stuff you don’t even recognize. Take a vacation here, and you’ll make it a regular destination—and you can leave the passport at home.

Best treasure not to keep in a box At the Committee to Aid Abused Women (CAAW), then at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and now back at CAAW, Amy Saathoff is a Nevada treasure. She worked on family violence as a college project and never really left the field. She has worked on family issues and domestic violence in ways that enriched us. She has held the hands of battery victims, raised money to fuel CAAW’s mission, helped shape public policy on family violence, raised public awareness of the problem. Even now, when her responsibilities have mostly taken her away from working directly with victims, she says that’s what gave her the most satisfaction. “I loved that. That’s the best job.” One formerly abused mother aided by Saathoff recognized her great qualities and named her daughter Amy.

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Best place to question your existence

168 Chinese Café’s menu—especially the chef’s specialties—are not calibrated for the traditional corn-fed American diet. Whether it’s authentic Chinese or not, better traveled souls than ours can attest, but it’s definitely foreign. Which is a good thing. There are tastes here rarely found elsewhere in the area—spicy, savory and salty regions of the palate rarely tickled by more familiar foods. There are tons of great chicken, beef and pork dishes. (It’s not a place to take your vegetarian friends.) The restaurant seems hidden even though it’s on Virginia Street in the middle of town. The ambience and atmosphere—not to mention the name of the joint—barely register. But where else are you going to get to try spicy fried duck tongues? And discover that they’re terrific?

There’s something profound about gazing up into the universe, but when you visit the Fleischmann Planetarium & Science Center, you learn about what goes on up there, too. But the planetarium doesn’t just show features about the solar system—it also hosts documentaries and educational fiction films. The Pink Floyd’s The Wall experience is a must-see. Plus, there’s tons of fun stuff to play with in the exhibit hall, like working models of planets, moon rocks and more. Planetarium experts also host regular star-gazing events, in which participants can use telescopes and explore the night sky. The inexpensive film tickets and hands-on museum make it a great place to take a date. An entire day can be easily spent here learning about science.

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EVELYN MOUNT Best visual artist

KENDALL PRICE Best social networker

CHRIS PAYNE Best real estate agent

SUSAN ROWE

Best public figure to fantasize about: male

CHRIS PAYNE Best public figure to fantasize about: female

JORDAN SOPRANO Best principal

ROBERT SULLIVAN Reno High School

Best politician

Best music teacher

SHEILA LESLIE

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Best police officer

Best minister/spiritual advisor

ROBERT RUSSO

NEAL ANDERSON

Best plastic surgeon

Best middle school teacher

DR. JAMES E. MURPHY

STEVE SUTHERLAND

Washoe County Sheriff’s Office

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Dickson Realty

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Best pet groomer

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Best chiropractor

TODD STEVENSON

Peak Performance Chiropractic

Best bartender, female

JAMIE FARLEY

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CARY DEMARS

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JOEY TRUJILLO

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CAMIE CRAGG

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KTVN CHANNEL 2

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CHRIS PAYNE, KRZQ/KURK

GINA CARANO

KATHY BRECKENRIDGE

Best local political activist

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BOB FULKERSON

MARILEE WINTZ

JASON STERRETT

Best local musician

Sage Interiors

WHITNEY MYER

Best high school teacher

Best local filmmaker

Galena High School

LEVI WATSON

JASON SPENCER

Best elementary school teacher

Best local comedian

JACKIE SILVEIRA-SATER

DAVE MENCARELLI

Mountain View Montessori School

The Hub Coffee Co.

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Best advertising salesperson

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Imagine the feeling of delight when The Studio—a sort of yoga, massage, healthful eating joint—had a coupon for a month’s unlimited yoga on one of those social networking coupon sites. The Studio is situated above the Spy Shop at 1085 S. Virginia St. What a great place to get a stretch on! The instructors are all welcoming, skilled and patient, but our particular favorites were Angie Fraley, Melissa Martinez and Rick Eyester. There are classes at just about any time of day, but the weekends are a little sparse (although there’s the free yoga at 9 a.m. across Arlington Avenue from Wingfield Park). There are even hot yoga classes where the room is kept a justhotter-than-comfortable 90-ish degrees. The lunchtime class begins at noon and ends promptly at 1 o’clock. Sure, maybe travel time is involved, but when you compare your focus and industriousness before and after class, you’ll realize one-hour lunchtime yoga is time well invested.

Readers’ choices Best casino

Best casino restaurant

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

STEAKHOUSE AT HARRAH’S

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

219 N. Center St., 788-2929

Best casino hotel

Best casino bar

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

BREW BROTHERS

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

Best casino arcade games

XTREME ARCADE

Peppermill Resort Casino 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best female casino bartender

ANNALISA HUANTE

Cin Cin, Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

Best male casino bartender

FREDDY SANCHEZ

Bar Centro, Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

Best casino buffet

TOUCAN CHARLIE’S, ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

Best casino comedy club

CATCH A RISING STAR

Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 325-7401

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Best casino game dealer

Best customer service

ANASTASIA CHICODREFF

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

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

Best casino dance club

EDGE

Peppermill Resort Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino promotion

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino show

MAN IN THE MIRROR

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino wedding planning

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino to hear quiet music

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino spa

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Eldorado Hotel Casino 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

Best casino security

Most eco-friendly casino

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino-hotel for romantic getaway

Best sportsbook

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino color scheme

Best poker room

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best casino carpet

Best place to cash your check

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO 2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best restrooms

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

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Editors’ choices Best way not to repeat Best place to build the mistakes of the past your own robot We have a habit of thinking that history starts now, which is why a lot of journalists tend to claim things are the first this or the largest that when they’re not. As we watch our city cope with this recession and the decline of gambling, it’s useful to know some of the things Reno has tried before, either with success or failure. For instance, there aren’t many, if any, who recall when Reno tried to market itself as a health spa. There’s a book, Reno’s Big Gamble by Alicia Barber, that tells a revealing tale of how this city has tried to sell itself since the 19th century. The balance between satisfying residents and appealing to tourists was no easier in 1890 or 1920 than it is today, but there are lessons in these pages about past—and possible future—mistakes. The book is available at Sundance Books and the Nevada Historical Society shop at 1650 N. Virginia St.

Sandy’s Electronic Parts on Matley Lane is the ultimate joint for tinkerers, hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers. The store is part of a small chain, but the store has a distinctly local feel, with sparse décor and a simply organized system of items. It has parts for nearly any electronic project, including project boxes, LED lights of all sizes, switches and more, especially hardto-find items like USB hubs or a particular size of wire. The employees behind the counter can provide suggestions or answer questions based on the project, and if they don’t know something, they can direct you to someone who does. There are usually several other customers browsing nearby for parts, which can result in some good, nerdy conversation. The store is only open on the weekdays, but it’s worth it to go browse during your lunch break.

Readers’ choices Best place to watch Monday Night Football

Most romantic bar

CHOCOLATE BAR

BULLY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

multiple locations

Best trivia night

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

445 California Ave., 657-8484

Best strip club

THE MEN’S CLUB OF RENO 270 N. Lake St., 786-7800

Best place to see a concert

KNITTING FACTORY

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

Best Comedy Club

CATCH A RISING STAR

Best place to hear loud music

Best microbrew

Best concert venue

KNITTING FACTORY

GREAT BASIN BREWING COMPANY

KNITTING FACTORY

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

Best place to have sex in public

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 355-7711 5525 S. Virginia St., 284-7711

BURNING MAN

Best karaoke

Best place to cure your hangover

235 W. Second St., 324-4255

EL CORTEZ LOUNGE

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

Best club DJ

DJ CHRIS ENGLISH Best bar

PEG’S GLORIFIED HAM AND EGGS

Best happy hour

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Best place to buy sexy underwear

SILVER PEAK RESTAURANT & BREWERY

Best all-ages spot

multiple locations

445 California Ave., 657-8484

CHOCOLATE WALRUS

1278 S. Virginia St., 825-2267

124 Wonder St., 324-1864 135 N. Sierra St., 284-3300

HOLLAND PROJECT

Best place for live music

Best gay hangout

Best bowling alley

KNITTING FACTORY

5 STAR SALOON

211 N. Virginia St., 323-5648

132 West St., 329-2878

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

30 Cheney St., 742-1858

Best sports bar

Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777

BULLY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Best Hotel for a Secret Tryst

Best place for a first date

Best dive bar

Best billiards room

PEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO

DOWNTOWN RIVERWALK

SHEA’S TAVERN

CUE & CUSHION

multiple locations

Best place to watch movies

CENTURY THEATRES RIVERSIDE 11 N. Sierra St., Reno, 786-1743

2707 S. Virginia St., 826-2121

Best place to hear quiet music

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE/RENO MUSIC PROJECT 3940 Mayberry Drive, 787-3307

Best open-mic night

JAVA JUNGLE

246 W. First St., 329-4484

Best neighborhood bar

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

445 California Ave., 657-8484

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715 S. Virginia St., Reno, 786-4774

2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

935 W. Fifth St., 322-0116

Best dance club

Best beer selection

EDGE NIGHTCLUB

CRAFT WINE-N-BEER

Peppermill Resort Casino, 2707 S. Virginia St., 689-7444

22 Martin St., 622-4333

Editors’ choice Best way to help out one sick kid A few weeks ago, we told the story of Ramsey Farley, the 7-year-old boy with an undiagnosed disease, www.newsreview.com/reno/matter-oflife/content?oid=6599234. The point of the story, and the reason his parents came forward, was to ask you readers to send the link to the story, which includes contact information for the parents, to everyone you know in the medical or media fields, just in case someone, anyone, might have seen the disease before or have information. Well, the story was sent to every continent on

this planet, and as we watch the story rise and fall on the “Most Popular” stories module on our website, we can see it’s still making the rounds out there in the world. So if you haven’t forwarded the story to your family and friends, please do. Also, even though no plea was made for financial help in the story, a Foundation Account was set up at Wells Fargo Bank to help with medical expenses. It is under the name Support4Ramsey, and the account number is 7321132677.

Readers’ choice Best spot to smooch under the stars

Best outdoor beer garden

LAKE TAHOE

306 E. Fourth St., 323-5426

Best spot to run around naked

BURNING MAN Best spot to hike

MOUNT ROSE Best snowboarding

MOUNT ROSE SKI TAHOE

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

Best ski resort

LINCOLN LOUNGE

Best golf course

LAKERIDGE GOLF COURSE

1218 Golf Club Drive, 825-2200

Best picnic spot

RANCHO SAN RAFAEL PARK

Best mountain biking

NORTHSTAR-AT-TAHOE

5001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784

Best local hot springs

DAVID WALLEY’S HOT SPRINGS RESORT SPA 2001 Foothill Road, Genoa, 782-8155

MOUNT ROSE SKI TAHOE

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

Best skiing

MOUNT ROSE SKI TAHOE

22222 Mt. Rose Highway, 849-0704

Best place to swim

LAKE TAHOE Best place to ride a personal watercraft

LAKE TAHOE

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Barbara Gruenewald

Happiness is our Business!

Attorney At Law

(775) 322-0420

Practice Emphasizing Workers' Compensation

Call Today To Find Out More!!

Phone 322-3366 * Fax 322-1755

One of the most upstanding community members has to be Silver Bells Wedding Chapel, dedicated to providing area residents with the very finest in inexpensive weddings. This popular wedding chapel is located at 628 N. Virginia Street, in Reno, phone 775-322-0420, and has earned the respect and admiration of all those who have had their wedding ceremonies with them. Their honest and forthright manner of dealing on a one-to-one basis with people of all walks of life have made them the local leader in weddings. You can better appreciate the quality of their service by stopping in! Weddings at your home, hotel or location of your choice. Courtesy limo, flowers, photos, rings, gowns and wedding DVD to save this very special occasion are available. Silver Bells Wedding Chapel is renowned throughout the region as being a foremost advocate of fair business practices and community minded ventures. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review suggest that all area residents make this fine wedding chapel their headquarters for their entire wedding plans. We recommend Silver Bells Wedding Chapel to all our readers! www.SilverBellsWeddingChap.com

An accident in the workplace can happen to any working person. If you or someone you care about is involved in a work-related accident, you'll need the services of Barbara Gruenewald regarding your Workers' Compensation case. An accident at work is covered by Workers' Compensation insurance, no matter whose fault the accident was. Ms. Gruenewald can help. Her office is at 439 Marsh Avenue, in Reno. She will be glad to answer any questions you may have and explain the range of benefits available to you under the Workers' Compensation laws. Workers' Compensation can be a long and frustrating process. Ms. Gruenewald will do everything possible to obtain a prompt and fair settlement. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review, for the 17th time, recommend you seek the assistance of Barbara Gruenewald. She cares about your problems, and invites you to visit her website at barbaralawnv.com and to call 775-322-3366 and make arrangements for a $45.00 initial consultation.

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Taking Your Used Computer Equipment For Our Community. A Program of Disability Resources Inc.

Indoor/Outdoor Dog Daycare and Luxury Overnight Boarding

775-329-1126

Phone 775-324-0202 2403 E. 4th Street, Reno, NV No need to feel guilty about leaving your dog home alone or in a coldly impersonal kennel while you work or play. Pet Play House's unique facility for group daycare and boarding and luxury overnight accommodations is your solution! Doggies that are social and love to play get to run freely through the state-of-the-art facility and large outdoor yards. They can take a dip in the pool, roll in the grass, or climb and jump on play equipment with their furry friends. When they are tired out they can lounge on couches and watch TV or a doggie movie in air-conditioned comfort. Dogs who do not particularly like the company of other canines or who just wish to have a private luxury experience at night get their own hotel room with dog furniture, décor, and TV's with DVD players and 24hour care and attention - very different than a traditional chain-link concrete kennel! All pets entrusted to Pet Play House receive quality care from their professional and compassionate staff. Numerous veterinarians in this area not only recommend them, but also entrust their own pets to Pet Play House. You can rest assured that your pet will receive the finest care available. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend Pet Play House, for the 9th consecutive year, to our readers who are looking for the very best in dog care services. www.PetPlayHouse.biz

new2u computers knows computers! You can know them too! Computers you don't have to be an expert to use or a big company to afford. Computers that can change the way you live, the way you work, the way your children learn; Computers that can expand your world. Small businesses use computers to manage more efficiently, more productively and profitably just as effectively as larger businesses. All proceeds from computers and accessories sold go to benefit the work of Disability Resources, a local non-profit organization that provides support to individuals in our community with disabilities. Not in the market for a new2u computer? new2u computers is also a full service repair shop and Microsoft Registered Refurbisher. In addition, they take all electronic donations with the exception of televisions. new2u computers partners only with local, environmental recycling companies to ensure your e-waste never ends up in a landfill. If you'd like to know what a computer could do for you, get to know the people at new2u computers at 50 E. Greg Street, Suite #103, in Sparks, NV. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review recommend new2u computers to our readers. See them soon and catapult yourself into the computer age! BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIALS…VISIT US ON OUR WEBSITES FOR MORE DETAILS! WWW.New2uComputers.org www.DisabilityResourcesNV.org

Reno Tahoe Cabinets And More Quick Turn Around * We Get You In and Out in a Timely Fashion Complete Auto Body Paint & Repair

Kitchen * Bath * Closet * Garage

Call 856-1820

775-853-1224

Steve's Collision Center, located at 1200 S. Rock Blvd, #2, in Sparks, renders a complete auto body and fender repair service, including auto painting and auto glass installation. You always get the best in quality work for less. All over the Truckee Meadows, Steve's Collision Center is famous for expert work in rebuilding, repairing damaged vehicles. Whether it's just a scratch, bent fender or crushed body they can fix it like new. Steve's Collision Center's work is known throughout the area for their ability to render expert repair work and for their fair and honest dealings with customers. Keep in mind that, by law insurance companies must allow you to choose the body shop you like best. Be sure to choose the very best for all your insurance work…Steve's Collision Center. Ask about their 5-day free rental. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend Steve's Collision Center to our readers. www.StevesCollisionCenter.com

Don Weir’s

Reno Dodge "Your 5 Star Dealership" 700 Kietzke Lane

775-786-1211

For the finest innovative designs in Kitchens, Baths and Closets, Reno Tahoe Cabinets & More is in a class by itself. Reno Tahoe Cabinets & More offers the discriminating homeowner exceptionally created designs with emphasis on function. At their showroom, located at 3595 Airway Drive, Suite #405, in Reno, Reno Tahoe Cabinets & More features an impressive collection of cabinetry, hardware, custom closets; everything to create the kitchen, bath or closet of your dreams. They feature certified design and skilled installation professionals; Reno Tahoe Cabinets & More has all it takes to make your kitchen, bath or closet a showplace with quality cabinets, custom designed with pride built into every job…built just for you! Call today or visit their showroom to discuss your new kitchen, bath or remodeling project. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review are proud to recommend Reno Tahoe Cabinets & More to our readers. www.RenoTahoeCabinets.com

With so many of the new models being similar in features and price, how does the prospective new car buyer know which automobile is best for them? Well, as the saying goes, "If you don't know cars...know the man you buy from." In Reno, consumers are very fortunate in having a dealer like Don Weir's Reno Dodge, your authorized representative for famous Dodge cars and Ram trucks. The dealership has been in business in our area for over 42 years and honored with being #1 in Ram sales for all of Nevada for two months in a row (May & June 2012). In addition, Don Weir's Reno Dodge earned the #9 ranking in the nation for Ram sales for June 2012. (Claim based on Chrysler reporting June 2012) Besides offering a full line of quality products with an Express Lube that will have you in and out in less than 30 minutes (on most vehicles), this community-minded dealership bases its success on one simple fact of good business: Keep the customer satisfied! Trained technicians and the latest diagnostic test equipment assure you that your new Dodge will "keep you satisfied" for many years to come! The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review recommend you stop by Don Weir's Reno Dodge showroom today. We know you'll be satisfied with their products and service both before and long after the sale! www.RenoDodge.com

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Rosalyn A. Wright, D.M.D. General & Cosmetic Dentistry Hours: Closed Fri, Sat, Sun Mon: 8 A.M. - 12 P.M. * Tues: 7 A.M. - 5 P.M. Wed: 9 A.M. - 5 P.M. * Thurs: 7 A.M. - 5 P.M.

Practice Emphasizing Criminal Defense Arrested? Get Help Now!

Phone 775-786-4188

Phone 825-4070 Ext 101 * Fax 825-3157 Only once in a lifetime do we get a set of free teeth, which are our very own! Dr. Rosalyn A. Wright gives you reason to smile your own natural smile with personalized care. Dr. Wright's reputation has been built upon dedicated service, caring attitude, reasonable fees and the good will of her many satisfied patients. People needing dental care go where they feel welcome and stay where they are well treated. That, in our opinion, accounts in a very large measure for the success and popularity of Dr. Wright. The best way to keep your teeth and gums healthy is to have regular check-ups and good, professional care. Dr. Wright can help you and your family keep your healthy, happy smiles. Dr. Wright's office is at 3575 Grant Drive (in the Grant Moana Dental Offices), in Reno, and you're invited to call for an appointment the next time you or a member of your family needs dental care. Most insurance plans are welcome and Visa and MasterCard are accepted. For the 13th consecutive year, the editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review recommend our readers to make Dr. Rosalyn A. Wright your first choice for general and cosmetic dentistry. She has all it takes to keep you smiling!

Would you represent yourself if you became the defendant in a criminal matter? No, of course not! You'd retain an attorney. But, it's difficult to know whom to call, unless you know someone. We'd like to help! Criminal defense is not something you should consider lightly. You could spend significant periods of incarceration and large fines & assessment fees should you lose your case. Your personal freedom and your financial well-being are at stake when you are accused of a crime. David R. Houston is engaged in the practice of criminal defense. His emphasis is in the areas of DUI, drug and sex offenses, crimes of violence, theft crimes and all other felonies and misdemeanors. He knows the laws and knows how to properly prepare your case. Call 775-786-4188 today for a confidential consultation. Mr. Houston's office is located at 432 Court Street, in Reno, and he is prepared to offer you aggressive & experienced legal representation which may make the difference in retaining your driver's license, avoiding jail and large fines. The editors of this 2012 Hot summer Consumer Business Review feel you owe it to yourself to have David R. Houston on your side and be on the winning team. We're proud to recommend him to our readers for the 16th time. www.Houston-LawFirm.net

The Law Offices Of Randolph C. Wright

Voted Reno/Sparks' Best Nursery Open 7 Days A Week Year Round

Attorney & Counselor at Law

Moana Lane Garden Center- Call 825-0600 Landscape & Design Center - Call 825-0602 x 134 South Virginia St. Garden Center - Call 853-1319 Pyramid Hwy. Garden Center - Call 425-4300

Personal Injury & Accident Claims Protect Yourself Against Insurance Companies Reduce Insurance Delays & Unfair Treatment

Call 786-4111

"Better Plants. Better People." Locally Owned Since 1967

For the hardiest, most beautiful nursery stock anywhere in the Truckee Meadows, visit Moana Nursery at the following locations: 1100 W. Moana Lane (The Florist, Greenhouse and Gift Shop) and the adjacent Landscape and Design Center (1190 W. Moana Lane) or 11301 S. Virginia Street (Outdoor Living, Tree Land & Moana Rock) in Reno, and 7655 Pyramid Highway (Spanish Springs Nursery) in Sparks. Here you'll find a dazzling array of plants, flowers and shrubs that are just right for any landscaping project that you may have in mind. Trees for shade, beauty or fruit? Your friendly nursery has these too...in all varieties and sizes. Start something growing today...it's the natural way to make everything beautiful. Need do-it-yourself advice for your landscape or gardening project? Moana has everything you need especially the advice necessary for success! Schedule a $90 visit from their plant doctors (fee can be reimbursed with plant purchase). They'll evaluate your current landscape and provide expert advice on how to do it yourself and maintain it. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review urge YOU to visit Moana Nursery today and do something "naturally beautiful" for your home or business. With pleasure we name Moana Nursery as Nursery of the Year 2012! NV Lic #3379A, D, E www.MoanaNursery.com CA Lic. #317448

A sudden motor vehicle accident or death may bring you unexpected medical expenses, property damage, and the financial burden of the loss of an income due to extended time away from a job. Not knowing your legal rights can be just as devastating to you as the injury itself. Randolph C. Wright offers a free consultation to help you understand your legal options and determine your best possible course of action. He handles personal injury and wrongful death cases on a contingent fee basis. You pay only a percentage of the amount awarded to you plus costs. No recovery, no fee! Mr. Wright has over 29 years experience getting results for injured people in Northern Nevada. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and the Nevada Justice Association. He cares about you and invites you to visit him at 241 Ridge Street, Suite 320, in Reno. Call 775-786-4111 to make arrangements for your free consultation. Mr. Wright is available to see you at home or in the hospital if necessary. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review, for the 10th year, recommend the law "The state bar of Nevada does not certify any lawyer as a specialist or expert" office of Randolph C. Wright.

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1-877-523-4725 Toll Free

"We Support Hot August Nights!" Complete Auto Repair * Foreign & Domestic

* House Calls Available Upon Request * Call Today To Make An Appointment

Phone 356-6439

Creating masterpieces in stone is the full time job of Honey Lake Valley Headstones at 704-790 Thornton Road, in Susanville, one of the region's most highly regarded monument makers. It's a beautiful final tribute when your family selects one of the many fine designs in granite, marble or bronze, set in concrete foundations, which this experienced craftsman has to offer. Here's one of the Lassen, Plumas and Washoe County's largest selections, and every stone has the touch of the master on it. Artistic quality and eternal beauty is what you get when you choose your monument from the outstanding collection available at Honey Lake Valley Headstones. Honey Lake Valley Headstones is always available, 7 days a week, 8am - 8pm, to help you select the monument or marker, which best suits your needs and desires. Their prices are exceptionally reasonable and their work is among the very best. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review urge all Lassen, Plumas & Washoe County area residents to make Honey Lake Valley Headstones your choice when it comes to investing in an eternal tribute. www.HoneyLakeHeadstonesStore.com

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take your car to just one place for all of your repair work? In the Truckee Meadows, there is such a place and we're talking about Blazing Wrenches! With facilities at 965 Glendale Avenue, in Sparks, Blazing Wrenches is one of the area's leading repair shops. Ask any one who's used their services, they'll tell you that this is the only stop you need to make on your way to worry-free driving! From a simple oil change to a complete engine overhaul, Blazing Wrenches has the equipment, parts and skill to repair or replace most any part that may malfunction. With years of glowing recommendations behind them, Blazing Wrenches has established the type of reputation that other shops may be envious of, but just cannot compete with in terms of service and quality. So, when you need anything done to your car, see the best...first. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review for the 14th consecutive year recommend Blazing Wrenches...itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only stop you'll need to make!

If you are contemplating getting a tattoo, but are not sure where to get the best work for the money, contact Fondue Body Boutique, at 416 Greenbrae Drive, in Sparks. Fondue Body Boutique is the area's expert in beautiful skin illustrations and body piercings. From their large selection of creative designs, they will help you select the perfect one for you. Choose an award-winning tattoo from their own creation. Fondue Body Boutique has received many awards for their work and are the recipients of the highest honors for displaying the most professional attitude and ethical practices. Fondue Body Boutique has a reputation for being the finest in design as well as realistic initial cost. Fondue Body Boutique uses the latest equipment and tools featuring auto clave sterilization, and will expertly create the design of your choosing. The editors of this 2012 Hot Summer Consumer Business Review once again recommend Fondue Body Boutique to all tattoo and body piercing enthusiasts. We know you'll like the safe, businesslike way you are treated. The Consumer Business Review is happy to welcome Michelle back from her battles with cancer.

Fondue Body Boutique First Tattoo Shop Established In Sparks! New Tattoo Artist! Tattoos * Body Piercing * Over 30 Years Experience Huge Jewelry Selection * Ask About Special Orders Private Rooms * Custom Work * Clean * Safe

Call 359-1750

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Editors’ choices Best bubbles to pop Best place to wear a mask at noon Many former big city dwellers are familiar with bubble tea—also known as boba, the cold tea drink with balls of tapioca at the bottom, slurped up through a big straw. It’s a staple drink in places like the Bay Area or Seattle, and while there are a few places in town that offer it—mostly prepackaged—none do it quite like Honey Bakery. The list of flavors is extensive and unique, like mango, avocado, mocha and even taro, made from the tubers of a taro plant. The hole-in-the-wall bakery, off of Keystone, is easy to miss unless you happen to be in the shopping center. The bakery also offers a variety of ridiculously inexpensive meat buns—most for under $1—and other cute breads and baked goods. Ahh. Tastes like Chinatown.

Readers’ choices est Cooking School

Best salad bar

Best Chinese

Best vegetarian

Best steak

PALAIS DE JADE FINE CHINESE CUISINE

PNEUMATIC DINER

HARRAH’S STEAK HOUSE

Best Mexican

960 W. Moana Lane, 827-5233

Best burger

Best pizza parlor

EL ADOBE CAFÉ

Best Salvadoran

AWFUL AWFUL AT THE NUGGET

PIE-FACE PIZZA CO.

Best Italian

517 Forest St., 329-3022

Best doughnuts/pastries

Best breakfast

JOHNNY’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO

Best sandwich shop

DOUGHBOY’S DONUTS

PEG’S GLORIFIED HAM & EGGS

Best Indian

3650 Lakeside Drive, 826-4466

Best bakery

Best business lunch

INDIA KABAB AND CURRY

Best French restaurant

HOMAGE BAKERY

THE GRILL

Best Japanese

130 West St., 323-2227

Best fresh bread

Best greasy spoon

Best Vietnamese

ICHIBAN JAPANESE STEAK HOUSE & SUSHI BAR GOLDEN FLOWER VIETNAMESE 206 N. Virginia St., 323-5550 RESTAURANT

HOUSE OF BREAD

GOLD-N-SILVER INN

205 W. Fifth St., 323-1628

Best coffee

Best Greek

NIKO’S GREEK KITCHEN

Best sushi

THE HUB COFFEE CO.

Best Reno restaurant

NOTHING TO IT! CULINARY CENTER WHOLE FOODS MARKET 225 Crummer Lane, 826-2628

Best hot dog

FREEMAN’S NATURAL HOTDOGS 106 California Ave., 322-3434

Best frozen yogurt

YOGURT BEACH

multiple locations

Best French fries

IN-N-OUT BURGER

280 Pyramid Way, Sparks 8215 S. Virginia St. (800) 786-1000

Best smoothie

KEVA JUICE

Multiple locations

Best chicken wings

PIE-FACE PIZZA CO.

239 W. Second St., 622-9222

Best salad

SÜP

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

OK, you can pretend you’re parking to eat at Thai Chili, but everybody knows, if you’re on the south side of the parking lot at lunchtime, you’re really visiting the XXX Adult Theatre & Book Store. Word is our venerable dirty bookstore has fallen on difficult times with the closing of the 1099 Club and the gentrification of the neighborhood. C’mon people, it’s clean, safe and rumor has it, it’s the only full adult movie theater between Oakland and the Rocky Mountains. Not only that, but it’s been family-owned by generations. You’ve heard the whole “shop local” thing, right? And it’s not just a dirty bookstore, it’s a full-service adult toyshop with appendages for any orifice you can think of, pornos for any itch you want to scratch, and god only knows what else. After all, how would anyone over here know?

6139 S. Virginia St., 852-8023

55 W. Arroyo St., 327-4422

4245 W. Fourth St., 747-4511

1091 S. Virginia St., 348-6222

148 West St., 284-3678

Best Thai

BANGKOK CUISINE Multiple locations

EL SALVADOR RESTAURANT DELI TOWNE USA

BEAUJOLAIS BISTRO

HIROBA SUSHI

3005 Skyline Blvd., 829-2788

501 W. First St., 786-8888

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

57 Damonte Ranch Pkwy., 853-6844

519 Ralston, 323-8952

1185 California Ave., 322-0773

32 Cheney St., 323-3482

Best seafood

RAPSCALLION SEAFOOD HOUSE AND BAR 1555 S. Wells Ave., 323-1211

219 N. Center St., 788-2929

239 W. Second St., 622-9222

Multiple locations

6520 S. McCarran Blvd., 827-6262

790 W. Fourth St., 323-2696

CAMPO

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

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Best Carson restaurant

ADELE’S RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE

1112 N. Carson St., 882-3353

Best restaurant view

Best Sparks restaurant

CAMPO

GREAT BASIN BREWING COMPANY

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 355-7711

Best restaurant worth the long wait

Best Tahoe restaurant

CAMPO

GARWOODS GRILL & PIER

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

5000 N. Lake Blvd., Carnelian Bay, Calif., (530) 546-3366

Best chef

Most romantic restaurant

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

4TH ST., BISTRO

3065 W. Fourth St., 323-3200

Best new restaurant

CAMPO

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

Best fine dining

4TH ST. BISTRO

3065 W. Fourth St., 323-3200

Best wine list

ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

Best wine bar

WEST STREET WINE BAR 148 West St., 336-3560

Best cheap eats

BETO’S MEXICAN FOOD 575 W. Fifth St., 324-0632

Best dessert

THE CHOCOLATE BAR

MARK ESTEE, CAMPO Best server

TAMARA SUAREZ, ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA 3800 S. Virginia St., 825-4700

Best tequila selection

TOTAL WINE & MORE

6671 S. Virginia St., 853-3669

Best vodka selection

TOTAL WINE & MORE

6671 S. Virginia St., 853-3669

Best whiskey/bourbon/Scotch selection

CHAPEL TAVERN

1495 S. Virginia St., 324-2244

Best Bloody Mary

CHAPEL TAVERN

1495 S. Virginia St., 324-2244

Best barbecue restaurant

FAMOUS DAVE’S BBQ

4925 Kietzke Lane, 826-7427

95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122 7001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, Calif., (530) 562-1800

Best catering company

Best martini

855 Mill St., 348-8264

ROXY’S RESTAURANT AND BAR

Best appetizers

Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., 786-5700

Best Margarita

EL ADOBE CAFÉ

55 W. Arroyo St., 327-4422

Best solo dining

SÜP

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

Best outdoor dining

THE STONE HOUSE CAFE

1907 S. Arlington Ave., 284-3895

Best late-night dining

PIE-FACE PIZZA CO.

239 W. Second St., 622-9222

Best food truck

GOURMELT GRILLED CHEESE TRUCK 410-4124

Best ambience

CAMPO

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

DISH CAFE & CATERING CAMPO

50 N. Sierra St., 737-9555

Best soups

SÜP

669 S. Virginia St., 324-4787

Best place to eat when drunk

THE NUGGET

233 N. Virginia St., 323-0716

Best juice

PNEUMATIC DINER

501 W. First St., 786-8888

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THE CHOCOLATE BAR

95 N. Sierra St., 337-1122 7001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, Calif., (530) 562-1800

Best produce

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

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Editors’ choice Best food to order by the pound All things considered, the pizzas at Pie-Face Pizza Co. are pretty good—as proof, the restaurant won Best Pizza Parlor in this very poll. The service is generally good, though it can be a bit short-tempered when it gets busy. But what really makes this little joint such a beloved destination for denizens of downtown? The chicken

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wings. The wings are perfectly succulent, covered in garlic, green onions, and just a bit of cheese. And they’re spicy without being stupid about it—the heat is integrated into the overall flavor without overwhelming it. The central location, late hours and local art are also all nice perks. Apparently, for some reason, they’re in the process of changing the name of the restaurant to PFPCo’s Noble Pie Parlor, which is fine, just so long as they don’t mess with the chicken wing recipe.

THE TWO

Gentlemen OF Verona Shakespeare's Doubly Delightful Comedy Directed by Charles Fee

Through August 26 Sand Harbor State Park

PATAGONIA 8550 White Fir St., 746-6878

Best local farm

GROW FOR ME SUSTAINABLE FARM/ GIRLFARM 1400 Long Valley Road, 221-0001

LATTIN FARMS 1955 McLean Road, Fallon, 867-3750

Best green store

GREAT BASIN COMMUNITY FOOD CO-OP 240 Court St., 324-6133

And be sure to check out our 2012

Monday Night Showcase

Best green service

CURBSIDE RECYCLING Best green product

BICYCLE Best green non-profit group

KEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL 2000 Del Monte Lane, 851-5185

August 20 Ballet @ 7:30 p.m. August 13 30 @ 7:30 p.m. July @ 7:30 p.m. ¥ Sierra Nevada

August 6 @ 7:30 p.m. ¥ Mrs. Robinson

Chautauqua Tocatta August 13 @ 7:30 p.m. ¥ Chautauqua Marie Curie &

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Best green event

EARTH DAY Best green building

PATAGONIA

8550 White Fir St., 746-6878

FOR TICKETS AND COMPLETE INFORMATION:

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Brews, Jazz & Funk Fest Peaks & Paws Alpen Wine Festival Guitar Strings vs. Chicken Wings Oktoberfest

Editors’ choice Best little film society If you’re wondering what happened to the Great Basin Film Society, don’t worry—it still exists. It merged with a different company and has a new name, Artemisia Moviehouse. For a decade it has been bringing independent (Roadside Prophets, In the Course of Human Events), animated (A Cat in Paris), foreign (Il Posto, Queen of Hearts), Nevada (5 Against the House, Charlie Chan in Reno), classic (Shane, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), documentary (Sir! No Sir!, Living Without Money) and even the rare softcore (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) movies to Reno. There aren’t enough of the classics shown, as far as we’re concerned, but among those we’ve seen in Great Basin screenings have been Randolph Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, James Stewart, Brigitte Bardot, William Holden, Donald Sutherland and Lena Horne. Find the society at www.ArtemisiaMovies.org.

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Calyx Ricks, Ana Leyva and Helena Inskeep help keep the kids entertained at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, the Best Place to Take kids and Best Midtown Cultural Amenity.

Readers’ choices Most kid-friendly restaurant

Best place to take the kids

Best park

RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM

RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK

Best weeknight activity

Best local library

RENO ACES GAME

Best place to introduce kids to nature

250 Evans Ave., 334-4700

LAKE TAHOE

301 S. Center St., 327-8312

Best weekend activity

Best arcade games

Best family outing

LAKE TAHOE

FUN QUEST AT GRAND SIERRA RESORT

LAKE TAHOE

4999 Kietzke Lane, 825-7246

Best toy store

TOYS “R” US

490 S. Center St., 786-1000

2500 E. Second St., 789-2439

5000 Smithridge Drive, 827-8697

Best picnic spot

Best things to do on a Friday night

1900 Idlewild Drive

IDLEWILD PARK

1595 N. Sierra St.

DOWNTOWN RENO LIBRARY

Best charter school

CORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL

1701 Valley Road, 322-0274 1350 E. Ninth St., 323-2332

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WHOLE FOODS SPARKS FARMERS’ MARKET

Presented by Shirley’s Farmers’ Markets, the 20th annual farmers’ market returns with a family-friendly atmosphere and farmer-focused event. NO MARKET ON AUGUST 9th. Thursday, 8/16, 3-8PM and Th, 8/23, 3-8PM. Free. Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Ave.

CAR CRUISE NIGHTS

Every Thursday, bring your classic cars to show. Great food and a DJ for music. Summer fun and prizes. Thursdays, 5PM, Free. Grumpy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 2240 Oddie Blvd. (775) 358-2316

5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs. (775) 424-1801

SCOT AND SCOTT

Th, 8/9, 5:30PM, F, 8/10, 6PM and Sa, 8/11, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

BLUES MONSTERS

Th, 8/9, 7PM and Th, 8/16, 7PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

STEVE BRADFORD

F, 8/10, 5:30PM, Sa, 8/11, 5:30PM and Su, 8/12, 5:30PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

TREY STONE BAND

F, 8/10, 7PM, Sa, 8/11, 7PM and Sa, 9/1, 7PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

FALL VEGGIES AND FALL PROTECTION

Tu, 8/7, 7PM, W, 8/8, 7PM, Th, 8/9, 7PM, F, 8/10, 8PM, Sa, 8/11, 8PM and Su, 8/12, 7PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE PALMORE BROTHERS Tu, 8/7, 7PM and W, 8/8, 7PM, no cover. Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

BLACK AND BLUES JAM

Tu, 8:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: RUNNIN’ 4 COVER

The band performs a mix of rock, blues and country as part of the summer concert series. W, 8/8, 6:30PM. Free. Lazy

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sign a liability form when they attend. Th, 5:45PM through 9/27. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700

MUSIC AT THE MARINA

Sing for fun or compete for prizes,depending on the number of contestants, with DJ John Graham. Th, 9PM and F, 9PM. No cover. Anchors Bar & Grill, 325 Harbour Cove Dr. (775) 356-6888

W, 8/15, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300

SCHEELS BIKING CLUB

Moderate to strong riders are encouraged to participate. Rides will vary from 20-30 miles. Participants will need to

ASPEN GLEN BAR Hosted by Mike Millard of Cycorockstar Entertainment. Great drinks, dancing and beautiful bartenders! Sa, 9PM-2AM. , 5215 Vista Blvd. (775) 3542400

SEND US YOUR SPARKS EVENTS!

STEVE STARR KARAOKE M, 8PM. No cover. Grumpy’s Sports Bar & Grill, 2240 Oddie Blvd. (775) 358-2316

GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR COMMUNITY!

THE ROPER DANCEHALL & SALOON Country music dance lessons and karaoke, Th, 7:30PM, no cover. 670 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 742-0861

The popular water play park will be open W-Su, 10AM-5PM through 8/26. $3; free for seniors (61 and older) and children under 3. Melio Gaspari Water Play Park at Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Hwy. (775) 424-1801

SUMMER SWIM SEASON!

BEADS AND BOOKS!

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: DEJA VU

KARAOKE

WATER PARK

With First Take, featuring Rick Metz. Th, F, Sa 6PM. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr. (775) 657-8659

JEFF KASHIWA

Improvisational music M, 8:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030

happening now!

JAZZ

The classic rock band performs as part of the summer concert series. W, 8/15, 6:30PM. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs. (775) 424-1801

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

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SPIRO’S F, 9PM, no cover. 1475 E. Prater Way (775) 356-6000

The City of Sparks summer swim season is underway, with designated swim areas open at the Sparks Marina Park and the outdoor pool at Deer Park (Oppio Park pool is closed). The 2012 outdoor swim schedule is: Sparks Marina Park: Recreational swimming in designated swim area/north beach only (weather permitting), 12PM-4PM, 6/9 - 8/19, 8/25-26, 11AM-6PM 7/4 and 9/1-3. Free. Deer Park Pool (1700 Prater Way): Recreational swimming in the heated, zero-entry pool from 12PM-4PM through 8/19, 8/25-26 and 9/1-3. Under 18/$3.50,18-54 yrs./$6, 55+/$4, Family (up to 6 members)/$15. An “Almost Free Friday™“promotion takes place throughout the summer offering all ages a reduced rate of $1 per person to swim on Fridays. Swim lessons will be conducted at Deer Park pool, pre-registration required. Call 353-2385 or go to www.sparksrec.com

Presented by Randy Robison.. Fall is coming, and so is fall planting. Learn what to plant in fall and how to protect your crops. Sa, 8/11, 11AM & 1PM. Free. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way. (775) 355-1551

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Learn basic beading techniques with volunteer beading expert, Jamie, and work on projects with other beaders. First Su of every month, 1-3PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800

OPEN MIC

GREAT BASIN BREWING Open mic comedy. Th, 9PM, no cover, 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711

E-mail to: sparks@newsreview.com

CITY OF SPARKS Geno Martini - Mayor, Julia Ratti Ward 1, Ed Lawson - Ward 2, Ron Smith - Ward 3, Mike Carrigan - Ward 4, Ron Schmitt - Ward 5, Shaun Carey - City Manager, Tracy Domingues - Parks & Recreation Director. Mayor and Council members can be reached at 353-2311 or Sparks City Council Chambers, 745 Fourth St.

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Editors’ choice Best named rock band Band names don’t usually fit the group as perfectly as Spitting Image’s name fits the band’s arty punk sound. These guys take risks rarely attempted in Reno’s generally conservative music scene. Vocalist Austin Pratt alternates between Patti Smith-like poetical incantations and an adenoidal caterwaul. Bassist Jack Scribner and drummer Casey Conrad lay down

fractured, fragmented rhythms that are as exciting as they are unpredictable. And guitarist Julian Jacobs plays spacious melodic figures that explode into noisy shards of sound. The seem as pleasantly out-of-place at local basement shows as they do in Reno bars, so make an effort to catch them while you can before they inevitably decide to move to Portland. PHOTO BY D. BRIAN BURGHART

Nichole Canda, Shannon Dobbs and Claudia Gayle are some of the people who make the 5 Star Saloon a perennial favorite among RN&R readers.

Readers’ Choices Best 4th of July fireworks

Best dance instructor

Best Kept Secret

Best monthly event

Best radio station

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

GINA HERNANDEZ

WON’T TELL

WINE WALK

THE X 100.1

Best local band

Best neighborhood

Best talk show host

Best day trip

WHITNEY MYER BAND

OLD SOUTHWEST RENO

BILL & CONNIE, ALICE 96.5

LAKE TAHOE

Best local band album

Best non-casino thing to do downtown Best scandal

NO DRESS CODE BY JELLY BREAD

FLOAT/PLAY/WALK BY THE TRUCKEE RIVER

HARVEY WHITTEMORE

Best place to meet gay singles

THE WEATHER

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, 356-3300

Best animal shelter

SPCA OF NORTHERN NEVADA 4950 Spectrum Blvd., 324-7773

Dance Unlimited, 73 W. Plumb Lane, 250-7924

Best art gallery

Best dog park

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART

RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK Best local dance company 1595 N. Sierra St., 785-4512 SALSA RENO

Best charity race or walk

Best drag queen

MOMS ON THE RUN

GINGER DEVINE

Best church

Best gay pride event

99 N. Virginia St., 323-3221

Best place to meet straight singles

LIVING STONES

RENO RAINBOW FESTIVAL

Best local website

Best independent art gallery

DOWNTOWN RENO MIDTOWN, WWW.DOWNTOWNMAKEOVER.COM

150 N. Arlington Ave., 324-6399

160 W. Liberty St., 329-3333

445 S. Virginia St., 622-9772

STREMMEL GALLERY

1400 S. Virginia St.; 786-0558

Best local theater company

BRÜKA THEATRE

5 STAR SALOON

132 West St., 329-2878

IMPERIAL BAR AND LOUNGE Best place to people watch

Best reason to live in Reno Best Special Event in Downtown Reno

ARTOWN Best special event in downtown Sparks

THE BEST-IN-THE-WEST NUGGET RIB COOK-OFF

WINGFIELD PARK/BY THE TRUCKEE RIVER

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full of surprises, not least of them the hard-working, creative folks who make a living as nationally known artists. Artists have been quietly working in the far-flung corners and crevices of the state for decades, entranced by the sweet, sage-scented solitude, the wide-open skies, and the next-to-nothing housing prices in ranching areas or nearly abandoned 19th-century mining towns. For some of these artists, Reno is the closest urban area, and for the most part, exhibit opportunities for their work here in town is occasional at best. But the pots, pictures and productions they create are worth a trip and worth keeping on your radar. RN&R checked in with a few rural go-getters to get the scoop on their latest happenings and upcoming events. Deon and Trish Reynolds live in the historic mining town of Eureka, ailing but charming, where they run a small art gallery. The latest news about the gallery, as Deon tells it, is, “No tourists to speak of this year.” News of his and Trish’s art goingson, however, is plentiful: “We are busier than ever with shows and events all across the USA. I have shown my plastic camera photography at portfolio reviews in Santa Monica, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Houston,

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Tex., to groups of international gallery owners, museum curators and private collectors. In December, we head to New Orleans to attend PhotoNola, yet another review. The feedback is overwhelmingly favorable. Positive things are going in the right direction. Life is good.” As of two weeks ago, news of his exhibit at Sierra Arts’ satellite gallery at the University of Phoenix in South Reno, which has been up since May, had not yet reached Reynolds. He was surprised to hear about it. And you’d never know from the show’s inconspicuous placement in a hallway across from some larger, more prominently displayed, hotel-artlooking pastel paintings that he’s among a handful of rural and smalltown Nevadan artists whose work makes waves nationally or even internationally. Reynolds’ biggest recent news, in fact, is that he won a Black and White Spider Award this year from the Tate Gallery in London for his shot of cowboys at work on a ranch. To find the Reynolds and their counterparts all over the state, you have to do your homework. There’s no central small-town Nevada mailing list, and the level of infrastructure each artists or organization maintain varies from studios that are open only by appointment to arts and writing retreats that announce themselves quietly to a full-fledged performing arts center. A few hours from Reno in just about any direction, there’s art worth trekking off the beaten path for. Here’s a sampler of places to visit and upcoming events.

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TENACIOUS TUSCARORA Since the Tuscarora Pottery School started offering courses in 1966, this almost-ghost-town with just over a dozen year-round residents, has been a haven for potters, painters, jewelers, and self-sufficient travelers. The best time to get to know this microcosmic art scene and get filled in on summer retreat offerings for writers and artists is during the biannual open studios weekend. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one planned for spring 2013, but a date hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been set. Keep an eye out in the Elko Daily Free Press in springtime for details. For information about the pottery school, visit www.tuscarorapottery.com.

GOOD AS GOLDFIELD â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we bury two more cars, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have 40,â&#x20AC;? Chad Sorg announces proudly. The former Renoite is now president of the chamber of commerce in Goldfield, another former mining boomtown. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about the car forest, an art installation where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been helping long-time Goldfielder Mark Rippee plant cars nose-down in the ground. The site, officially known as the International Car Forest of the Last Church, will be the grounds for Sorgâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s End of the World Party, a homegrown music and art festival scheduled to coincide with the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Goldfield Days celebration. The lineup is still being finagled. The car forest is ungated and open to visitors year-round. Tickets to the End of the World Party, Aug. 18-19, are $25, which includes camping. To purchase, call the Goldfield Gift Shop, (775) 485-3700.

AUDOBON TAKES THE HIGHWAY If you missed the compelling print exhibit John James Audobon and the Birds of America at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2010-11, catch it on your next road trip. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at the Humboldt County Library in Winnemucca until Aug. 22. Then it travels to Western Folklife Center in Elko Sept. 22-Nov. 3, and to the East Ely Railroad Museum in Ely Nov. 17-Jan. 6. For information, visit www.nevadaart.org.

FOLLOW ME TO FALLON Kirk Robertson, director of this small townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban-feeling arts center, showcasing up-and-coming and big-name performing artists, says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A question we get asked frequently is, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Why are these things happening in Fallon?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Our answer is, OPINION

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Why not?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Tis important to have access to first-rate arts experiences, right here.â&#x20AC;? Robertson and his wife, Valerie Serpa, travel to New York annually to hand-pick their favorite acts from the National Performing Arts Festival and invite several of them to perform in Fallon. Oats Park Art Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current exhibit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Along the Open Road: Vintage Gas Pumps from the Dwight & Teresa Hunter Collection, Photographs from the Library of Congress and Churchill County Museumâ&#x20AC;? and a free outdoor concert Aug. 18 featuring the 12-piece country band Johnny Dilks and the Highway Kind, are just an hour and a half drive from Reno, close enough to make it home by bedtime. For information, call (775) 423-1440 or visit www.churchillarts.org.

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INTERPLANETARY POTTERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of our galleries are open here at the X,â&#x20AC;? reports John Bogard, founder of the comfortably rustic enclave he and his wife, Rebecca, oversee in Gerlach. At Planet X, they make, show and sell pottery; teach workshops; and host a changing roster of exhibits. The galleries are open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. most days, but Bogard recommends calling ahead to confirm. For information about Planet X Pottery, call (775) 557-2500 or visit planetxpottery.com.

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THE LONELIEST ART SCENE â&#x20AC;&#x153;The loneliest road is just that this year,â&#x20AC;? says Deon Reynolds, referring to the historically lightly traveled Highway 50 in Eureka, where his gallery is. A few artists make their homes in the sleepy town, and the historic Eureka Opera House stages the occasional musical act or cowboy poetry recitation, but Reynolds has seen the usual trickle of tourists slowed to a drought lately. Eureka Gallery, whose sign says simply â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gallery,â&#x20AC;? is open by appointment, and the Reynolds enthusiastically welcome calls from anyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to schedule a visit to see their landscape photos, Trishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jewelry, and work by other artists. The Eureka Gallery is at 41 North Main St., Eureka. To arrange a visit, call (775) 237-5303 or email gallery@deonreynolds.com. For an event calendar and additional information about Eureka Opera House, located at 31 S. Main St., visit www.co.eureka.nv.us/opera/opera01. htm or call (775) 237-6006. â&#x201E;Ś

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Davis, Calif., author Kim Stanley Robinson takes us three centuries into the future to find we’re still facing the big question: Can humanity survive itself? In the well-explored and terraformed solar system of 2312 (Orbit, $25.99), wealth is still concentrated in the hands of a few, and we’re still running out of room, plus Earth is a mess. Swan Er Hong, an odd resident of Mercury who’s fond of weird performance art and exists in near-autistic social isolation, finds herself in the middle of a mystery that involves eco-terrorism (on Mercury, Venus and Earth) and that forces her to develop some new relationship skills as she moves from inner system to outer. Best of all, Robinson makes the science readily understandable while keeping the human issues up front.

This Russian literary sci-fi novel by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, initially published in 1972 and now in a new translation by Olena Bormashenko, reminds us of how well science fiction explores humanity. In Roadside Picnic (Chicago Review Press, $15.95) Red Schuhart was only a boy when the aliens stopped by—and then departed, leaving a dangerous wasteland full of odd debris and weird spatial effects behind them. Now, he’s a “stalker,” making his living by venturing into the forbidden alien sites in search of technology—or industrial waste—to sell on the black market. And what does it mean that humanity’s best minds are the equivalent of insects at a barbecue to the visiting aliens?

The latest from Nobel laureate novelist Toni Morrison is technically a novel, but in reality, Home (Alfred A. Knopf, $24) is a narrative prose-poem that explores the ways in which cruelty propagates and defends itself. Frank Money is a penniless, traumatized Korean War vet who wakes up in a northern United States mental hospital, escapes and begins a journey back to his native Georgia to rescue his sister, Cee. This is a poetic dose of cold water. Those who would surrender for mid-century nostalgia are truly mad—the gynecologist who is using Cee in a brutal medical experiment, for example—while the women do not blithely accept their lot. Ω

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Jorinde Voigt practices a highly personalized form of drawing.

Luck of the drawing Jorinde Voigt One great thing about art is the range of opportunities it provides to communicate all those by thoughts, musings, ideas, unmarked trails Kris Vagner to ideas, theoretical miscellany, and all the amorphous, hard-to-pinpoint mental minutiae that has no other place to go, all that stuff that falls through the cracks of other disciplines but is too interesting or insightful to ignore. Often, artists tumble these otherwise uncategorized ideas and thoughts—let’s call them “A” for short—around in their Jorinde Voigt: minds for years or decades. They get Systematic Notations is revised and refined and can evolve into on display at the Nevada their own new systems of visual eleMuseum of Art, 160 W. ments, into individual languages of Liberty St., through Jan. 6, 2013. For more shapes, colors, marks and what-have-you information, visit that communicate something precise and www.nevadaart.org or hard to quantify where words just weren’t call 329-3333. going to do the trick. Let’s call the tangible object that usually results from that process “B.” There are a lot of good ways to get from A to B. The routes could be circuitous, curlicued or tangled and still be effective.

German artist Jorinde Voigt goes straight from A to B. The marks she makes on paper—anywhere from poster size to bed-sheet size to larger—are direct records of the things she observes. She’ll perceive, say, a person walking or the pulse of music or an eagle in flight. Then she’ll draw each movement, not to depict what it looks like, but to make a record of each individual motion the subject makes, each wingstroke, each step. In her Berlin studio, Voigt unrolls huge pieces of paper onto the floor and crouches over them with a compass, a straight edge and colored pencils. Some of her drawings look like topo maps a seismometer might make if it had secretly come awake one night, like a stuffed animal in a nursery when no grown-ups are watching, and decided it wanted to think for itself. Others, from Voigt’s precolor phase, look like something you might see on a blackboard in a physics lab. They might come off as obtusely cerebral if their painstaking execution weren’t so intensely graceful.

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Voigt say that as she draws, half her decisions about where to place lines are predesigned and half are spontaneous. When she starts a piece, she’s not sure what it will look like in the end. She always works in a calm state of mind, cranks the music at full volume, and gives way to the rhythms of her subject. The drawings end up with the similar mix of chaos and precision you’d find just about anywhere in nature, where everything adheres to rules, but the rules seem mysteriously governed. Looking at her work is like listening to a conversation in a language you haven’t studied, but if you tune in you can intuit the gist. Voigt’s drawings, which are collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pompidou in Paris, fit right in between the disciplines of science and language, but aren’t quite either. Hers is a highly personalized form of drawing, yet it does a job only drawing could do. Ω

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13963 S. Virginia St., 853-0700 I don’t tend to spend a lot of time at the malls, especially the Summit since it’s too fancy for me—what can I say; I’m by K.J. Sullivan from Carson City. However, on a recent weekend, I met my friend Brooke for a movie at the Summit and afterward we decided to grab something to eat. We strolled over to the Tuscan Tomato, which is conveniently located right next door to the theater. The Tuscan Tomato, which opened in April, occupies a small space with dramatic red walls that contrast nicely with the high ceilings and exposed rafters. The look was a little bare, but I saw some art resting against the wall, so it appears they’re still decorating. While sparse, the place feels upscale. The friendly waiter who greeted us immediately made us feel very welcome.

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As it turns out, Quaidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life is still boring, even when his Rekall experience triggers a secret agent scenario that may or may not be real. While Verhoeven had a ball playing with the audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head in his Recall, this one just has Farrell running around a lot with Jessica Biel. Biel and Beckinsale eventually square off, as did Sharon Stone and Rachel Ticotin in the original. While the original brawl represented a seminal moment in action movie history, this new smackdown is not at all memorable. Beckinsale is probably the best thing in the movie, stepping into the role that sent Stone on her way to stardom. Let it be said that, on top of being a decent actress who acquits herself well playing an ambiguously evil person, she wears underwear like no other. If we can be thankful to Wiseman for anything, we can thank him for filming his wife (Beckinsale) in her underwear for this film. Biel is required to do little more than run and look scared. The movie also wastes the presence of Bryan Cranston (Breaking Badâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Walt!) as Cohaagan, stepping into the role previously occupied by Ronny Cox. Cranston doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much of an opportunity to create anything worthwhile. Oh, I forgot to mention the action is no longer set on Mars. Minus the element of Mars and its mutants, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never really spelled out exactly who Quaid is trying to free from oppression. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;oppressedâ&#x20AC;? in the movie have no real identity, and we never get a sense of any peril they face besides a grumpy dictator. There are a few sly nods to the originalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a three-breasted hooker and a twist on the infamous airport security sceneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and they feel unjustified. Wisemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film seems to do everything it can to distance itself from the original, and yet it wants to remind us of that better filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existence. All these nods did for me is create a craving to leave the theater and watch the original on Blu-ray. Looks like the summer movie season is already slipping into the sort of mediocrity reserved for September. Now that all the cool superhero flicks are out of the way, lame-assed remakes seem to be whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the menu. ÎŠ

The Amazing Spider-Man

I think it’s fair to say that Marc Webb was not a good choice to helm a big budget summer blockbuster. His sole feature credit is the sweet (500) Days of Summer, a film that, to the best of my memory, had nothing like a big CGI lizard man in it. This is a “reboot” of the Spidey franchise, with Sam Raimi parting ways producers after his outrageously bad Spider-Man 3 and an aborted attempt at a Spider-Man 4 that would’ve seen John Malkovich as a vulture dude. Webb gets it all wrong, from his casting of SpiderMan (Andrew Garfield) and Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone), to the terrible operatic soundtrack, and, most disappointingly, a truly bad screen rendition of The Lizard (played drably by Rhys Ifans). As it turns out, Webb can’t handle an action scene to save his life. Garfield, so good in The Social Network, takes an “Oh-gosh-golly-gee-willickers-please-likemy-nerd-ass!” approach to the role of Peter Parker. It’s cute for about five minutes, and then it gets pretty painful to watch.

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Brave

After the severe misstep that was Cars 2, Pixar gets back to goodness with this, the tale of Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald). Merida is a princess who doesn’t want to conform to tradition, shooting arrows better than any of the boys in or around her kingdom, and not really too keen about marrying any of them under arranged circumstances. When a spell is cast on family members, she must search for a way to restore normalcy, while convincing her mom (Emma Thompson) that she has the right to choose her own destiny. Merida is a fun character, and Macdonald is the perfect voice for her. As for the look of this movie, it is beautiful for its entire running time. While I’ve liked many Pixar films more than this one, that is not a dig on this movie. It might not be one of the best the studio has offered, but it is still a highly entertaining piece of work.

The Dark Knight Rises

Director Christopher Nolan wraps up his Batman trilogy with a rousing, though occasionally clunky, conclusion. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has retired Batman, and is living a reclusive life in his mansion when Gotham is besieged by the masked revolutionary Bane (Tom Hardy). Batman is eventually forced out of retirement, and meets his physical match in Bane while also facing off against a crafty cat burglar (Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, never referred to as Catwoman in the film but obviously playing that part). Hardy makes Bane a great physical adversary, but his performance is marred by a terrible voice dub that makes him sound cartoonish and out of place. Hathaway has a lot of good fun in her role, as does Gary Oldman returning as Jim Gordon. The movie has a lot of good action, and Bale has never been better as Batman. It’s not as good as the previous chapters in the trilogy, but it’s still very good and a fitting conclusion to a great story.

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The animated wooly mammoth (Ray Romano), saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and sloth (John Leguizamo) take yet another journey to the land of the suck in this fourth, and undoubtedly not last, installment of the popular kiddie adventures. When the continents crack, the mammoth winds up on a floating piece of ice far away from the wife and kid, so he spends the movie trying to get back. Along the way, he does battle with a stupid pirate monkey (Peter Dinklage) that sings the dumbest song you will hear this or any year. Because this is in 3-D, the film offers a lot of action sequences, sacrificing plot for a whole lot of “whoosh.” In a summer that offers the likes of Brave, parents are better off just taking their kids to that movie twice than subjecting their prepubescent eyes to this thing. I actually got tired watching this due to all of the frantic 3-D movement. I fear these Ice Age movies are going to keep on coming.

Moonrise Kingdom

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s return to live action after his animated gem Fantastic Mr. Fox is probably the most “Wes Anderson” Wes Anderson movie yet, and that’s a good thing if you love the guy (I do!). The story here is set in 1965, where Sam the Khaki Scout (newcomer Jared Gilman) has flown the coop during a camping expedition, much to the worry of Scout Master Ward, (Edward Norton, in his funniest performance yet). Sam runs away with Suzy (Kara Hayward, also a newcomer), and they have themselves a romantic couple of days while parents and authority figures frantically search for them. The adolescent puppy love story is treated with the sort of storybook grace one would expect from Anderson. Every shot is a thing of beauty. Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Jason Schwartzman all contribute wonderfully in what stands, and will stand, as one of the year’s best films.

Ted

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane makes his feature film directorial debut with one of the year’s funniest movies. MacFarlane lends his voice to the title character, an obnoxious teddy bear given the gift of speech and life after a wish by his child owner, John. The two never part, even when John, played as an adult by Mark Wahlberg, is in his 30s. They become pot-smoking buddies, and John’s girlfriend (Mila Kunis) starts to get annoyed. For those of you simply looking for good, raunchy, super R-rated comedy, Ted has got the goods. But MacFarlane also takes the human elements of the story seriously, and they wind up being quite charming. It’s a major directorial feat when a first timer creates an animated teddy bear character that’s more well-rounded than most actual human characters in movies today.

The Watch

A great cast including Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade assembles for a mess of a movie that gets by on a decent laugh quotient. Stiller plays the manager of a Costco where an employee turns up dead under mysterious circumstances. He initiates a neighborhood watch that includes the rest of the above named costars, and they soon find out that their town is being invaded by aliens. Much of the blame for this not achieving very good or classic status must fall on director Akiva Schaffer, whose previous effort was the Andy Samberg misfire Hot Rod. Schaffer does a good enough job of drawing funny moments from his ensemble, but the alien invasion element feels like an afterthought more than the driving force of the plot. It almost seems as if the filmmakers started out making an alien invasion movie, got scared, and decided to focus on dick jokes. It’s co-written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the guys who wrote Pineapple Express, a film near and dear to my heart. I liked the idea of them tackling sci-fi comedy. I envisioned Ghostbusters with aliens and a lot of curse words. Instead, it’s just a mess with enough laughs to mildly recommend it.

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This movie is unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s the story of Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), a 6-year old girl living with her father (Dwight Henry) in a place called the Bathtub, a makeshift Southern community built near a levee and susceptible to storms. As directed by Benh Zeitlin, we see the film through Hushpuppy’s eyes, with the movie alternating between reality and fantasy. The results are enchanting, sometimes scary, and ultimately breathtaking. Wallis is nothing short of incredible in the central role, a child actress with astonishing power. Henry, as her father, Wink, delivers what’s surely one of the year’s best performances. The whole thing plays like a fairytale updated for modern times, but the modern times depicted feature very few modern amenities (no iPhones in this movie). It will draw many an emotion out of you. It’s one of the year’s best films.

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the sounds appeal to that deep-seated reptile part of the brain that gets amped by rock. Irwin sings in aggressive, occasionally guttural but never unmelodic voice. And the songs are actual songs, with verses and choruses, and the lyrics are full of drinking references, angry questions and disturbing narratives—rock stuff. In “Shotgun Mouth Man,” for example, Irwin sings, “I loaded my gun like a Pez Dispenser/I held it to my mouth like I did when I was a boy/And when the time came for me to bite down/On a candy, a bullet, lost love or the sound/Turned around hit the ground/And slipped right into the void.” “It’s a true story until I fictionally kill myself,” says Irwin of the song’s lyrics. More often than not, Lyons’ violin takes on the role of lead instrument, often building up to frenzied, glissando, devil-beating, hot fiddle action. Despite the heavy Eastern Europe influence, none of the band members are from that region— they’re just drawn toward those sounds. Lyons is from Ireland, and there is a strand of Celtic music in his playing as well. His brother, Daniel Lyons, an accordion player and former member of the band, is in Ireland currently, and will rejoin the ranks when he returns stateside. The band has had name troubles in the past. An earlier lineup was called The Bo Deens, the members not at first realizing that there’s a fairly well-known band from Wisconsin called BoDeans, which has been around since the ’80s. “We were just three people and somebody else’s name,” says Lyons. They’ve been Actors Killed Lincoln, with the current lineup, for the last six months, and the dramatic name fits the large, eclectic group. But, though John Wilkes Booth was indeed a stage actor, he was just one guy—an “actor” singular. “Well, there’s a story behind that,” says Irwin. “I had a friend say, you should never date an actress ... and one of the many reasons he listed is that actors killed Lincoln.” Ω

“Never date an actress,” says Kent Irwin, far left, of Actors Killed Lincoln, with his bandmates Alan Lyons, Matt Kaminski, Ian Jenkins and Zachary Rees.

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The instrumentation also borrows from Eastern European music. Many of the band members double on a variety of instruments: Alan Lyons plays violin, mandolin and banjo. Vocalist and songwriter Kent Irwin plays guitar, keyboards and banjo. Matt Kaminski plays bass and cello. Busy utility player Zachary Rees has the longest list: sax, clarinet, trombone, trumpet, banjo and accordion. Drummer Ian Jenkins stays on the drum throne, which is good because he’s quick and precise. The band members come from a variety of musical backgrounds— from punk rock to small jazz combos and even the University of Nevada, Reno’s symphony orchestra. There are indeed a lot of instrumental colors, and the band members say they often stand out on bills where the other bands have more traditional rock ’n’ roll guitar-drums-bass configurations. However, that said, Actors Killed Lincoln is most definitely a rock band. The music is high energy, the drums are often fast and loud, and

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1) Tahoe Youth & Family Services’ Great Gatsby Gala, 6:30pm, $50

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BREWS, JAZZ & FUNK FEST: The festival features beers from more than 40 breweries and live music by Orgone, The Robert Walter Trio, The Lee Boys, Mojo Green, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, George Porter Jr. & His Runnin Partners, On the Spot Trio and Jellybread. Beer tickets are on sale for $5 each. The event benefits the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. Sa, 8/11; Su, 8/12. $5 entry donation. The Village at Squaw Valley USA, 1750 Village East Road, Olympic Valley, (866) 818-6963, www.squaw.com.

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Events 2012 LAKE TAHOE CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE: The wooden boat show celebrates its 40th anniversary with the Riva Aquarama as the Marque Class. A collection of 100 antique wooden boats will gather at Lake Tahoe to compete for top honors in multiple categories. In addition to the two-day show, there will be a variety of social gatherings both before and after the main event. Events include the Opening Night Gala, exhibitor barbecue and award dinner, Ladies’ Luncheon, Men’s Grill and Mahogany Magic. F, 8/10, 10am-4:30pm; Sa, 8/11, 9am-4:30pm. $25$40; free for children under age 12. Sierra Boat Company, 5146 N. Lake Blvd., Carnelian Bay, (775) 851-4444, www.laketahoeconcours.com.

GREAT GATSBY GALA: The second annual event

Camp and star gaze in the middle of the playa with Friends of Black Rock/High Rock. Stop by for a night or stay for the entire time. Friends of Black Rock will be there from Thursday, Aug. 9, to Wednesday, Aug. 15. Th, 8/9, 6pm. Free. Black Rock Desert, northeast of Gerlach, Black Rock, (775) 557-2900, http://blackrockdesert.org/friends.

GREAT GATSBY FESTIVAL AND TEA: Volunteers decorate and host tea tables and serve Jazz Age-era sweets and savories at The Tahoe Heritage Foundation’s annual event, which includes vintage car shows, wandering musicians and jugglers, a raffle, special sales of period appropriate items and a fashion show of vintage clothing. Sa, 8/11; Su, 8/12. $35 each; $350 for a table of 10. Valhalla Grand Hall/Grand Lawn, Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 544-7383, www.tahoeheritage.org.

features 1920s-era fashion, music and dancing, as well as cocktails and dinner. Jazz Age attire encouraged. All proceed benefit Tahoe Youth & Family Services. Sa, 8/11, 6:30pm. $50. MontBleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (530) 541-2445, www.greatgatsbygala.com.

HOT AUGUST NIGHTS: The 26th annual celebration of classic cars and rock ’n’ roll features show ’n’ shines, cruising, drag racing, Classic Car Auction, the Hot August Nights Swap Meet and live music and entertainment at venues across Reno, Sparks and neighboring areas. The event concludes on Aug. 12 with the parade of cars through downtown Reno. Tu-Su through 8/12. Free for most events. Call or visit website for details, (775) 356-1956, www.hotaugustnights.net.

LAKE TAHOE SUMMERFEST: The inaugural festival features a series of classical concerts and performances, fine arts and cultural events at several locations in Lake Tahoe during the first three weekends of August. F-Su through 8/19. $25-$85. Call or visit website for details, (775) 298-0245, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

SCENIC NEVADA QUICK DRAW ART AUCTION: The ninth annual event features 28 Nevada artists creating original works of art while event guests watch. After the artwork is completed, an auction will be conducted by Jeff Pilliod of Anchor Auctions. Guests have the opportunity to bid on and purchase their favorite piece of original Nevada art. During the event a chuckwagon buffet is served to guests. There will also be a chuckwagon buffet, music by Serendipity and tours of Bowers Mansion. All proceeds from the auction are donated to Scenic Nevada. Su, 8/12, 3-7:30pm. $50 adults; $25 youth under age 18. Bowers Mansion Regional Park, 4005 Old Highway 395, Washoe Valley, (775) 323-2835, www.scenicnevada.org.

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where there are community-sponsored summer activity programs for children. Many neighborhood parks are meal sites. Most sites offer lunch, and some serve breakfast too. All meals must be eaten at the serving site, and children and teens ages 1-18 years can eat at any site without charge. There are no enrollment requirements. M-F through 8/17. Free. Call or visit website for details, (775) 331-3663, http://fbnn.org.

master artists will present a variety of art demonstrations on the campus of Sierra Nevada College prior to SummerFest Concerts on Aug. 10-11. Guests are invited to come early, purchase dinner and enjoy an art demonstration before the concert begins at 6:30pm. F, Sa, 5-6pm through 8/12. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (831) 626-0600, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

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combines learning about our food with nature-based art projects. Themed days are spent digging in the gardens in the morning and letting imaginations run wild in the art studio after lunch. For students entering grades 1-3. M-F through 8/10. $150 for the full week. River School Farm, 7777 White Fir St., (775) 747-2222, www.urgc.org.

annual celebration of the arts includes musical and theatrical performances, visual art exhibits, fairs, cultural festivals and art workshops. M-Su through 9/2. Prices vary. Tallac Historic Site, Highway 89, 2.5 miles north of Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, http://valhallatahoe.com.

KIDS’ DISCOVERY ROOM: Discovery Room Volunteers will open the Discovery Room three days a week during the summer. Each week, activities will focus around a different theme, ranging from dinosaurs to pioneers. Regular activities include “Crafts on the Porch” on Wednesdays and story time at 11am on Fridays. W-F, 10am-1pm through 8/24. Free. Great Basin Adventure, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.washoecountyparks.com.

All ages BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIMES: Staff members and guest readers tell stories to children. Sa, 10am. Free. Barnes & Noble, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882.

CHILDREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DAY: This community event for children age 6 and older and their families includes handson science activities designed to create an awareness of the unique ecology of Lake Tahoe and teach about environmental science. Sa, 8/11, 1pm. Free. Tahoe Environmental Research Center, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, (775) 881-7560 ext. 7474, http://terc.ucdavis.edu.

SMALL WONDER WEDNESDAY: Families with children 5 years old and younger are invited to play, explore and listen to stories read by the museum’s educators. Only children age 5 and younger are admitted to Small Wonder Wednesdays, which start at 9am, an hour before the museum opens. Older siblings may join at 10am. Third W of every month, 9am. $8 per person; free for members and babies under age 1. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, www.nvdm.org.

CHILDREN’S SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM: The Food Bank of Northern Nevada joins forces with several community partners to provide free, nutritious meals for children and teens through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program. This summer, meals are served weekdays through Aug. 17 (dates and times vary by site.) Meals are available at several schools

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hile the 1950s and 1960s are the focus of Hot August Nights all week, the 1860s will be the theme of this weekend’s Galena Creek Living History Day. The second annual festival celebrates the history of the town of Galena, which once had more than a dozen sawmills and a population of 300 people. The town was founded in 1860 by Andrew J. and R.S. Hatch, who turned to lumbering after their mining claim in the area proved to be a bust. The living history event will recreate what the bustling community was like at its height, complete with pioneerstyle crafts and games, period music, roping demonstrations, guided hikes, pony rides and “immersion activities” such as butter churning, clothes washing and playing cards in a saloon. Visitors are encouraged to dress up in period attire and kids who come in costume will receive a prize. The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Aug. 11 at Galena Creek Visitors Center, 18520 Mt. Rose Highway. Admission is $5 per person. Children age 5 and younger get in for free. Call 849-4948 or visit www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org. —Kelley Lang

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SUMMER ART CAMPS: One hour of art, theater, movement/music each day. Classes meet 9am to noon, Monday-Friday, Aug. 13-17, at the Lake Mansion. Register online. M, 8/13, 9am-noon. $95 for five half days. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., M, 8/13, 9amnoon. $75 for four half days. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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stars. Each Star Tour will take place from 8pm to 10:30pm. F, 8/10; F, 8/24; Sa, 8/25; F, 8/31. $30 adults; $15 children age 12 and younger. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, http://ww.northstarcalifornia.com.

Art Together: A Celebration of Glass and Mosaics. Artists Co-op of Reno Gallery member Bryn McCubbins and other artisans present a display of glass and its many shapes and forms. Work by guest artist Scott Harvey is also on display through August. M-Su, 11am-4pm through 8/31. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

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City Arts Initiative presents its summer exhibition featuring work by Northern Nevada artists Amy Aramanda, Kaitlin Bryson, Logan Lape, Kath McGaughey, Emily Rogers and Karl Schwiesow. M-F through 9/4. Free. Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St.. Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

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star guide and poet Tony Berendsen for a unique and educational night under the stars. Sa, 8/11, 8-10:30pm. $30 adults; $15 children age 12 and younger. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

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collaborative exhibition features new work by local artists Nick Larsen and Omar Pierce. The show, comprised mostly of photography, sculpture and video installation, is rooted in the idea of potential, both realized and not. A Q&A session with both of the artists, moderated by Jon Shown, will be held the night of the reception starting at 6:30pm on Aug. 17.

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Attention defici—ooh, shiny! My girlfriend has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. She was diagnosed 10 years ago, in her early 20s. She takes medication that helps her focus. Despite this, she’s very disorganized and often distracted. She often runs late and forgets things. She can also be very impatient. There are a lot of great things about her, and we love each other. Still, when she forgets about me or is totally unready—as in, unshowered and wearing a towel—when I come to pick her up, I can’t help but feel like not quite a priority to her. Researchers can’t say conclusively what causes ADHD, but Susan Tschudi, author of Loving Someone with Attention Deficit Disorder, notes that there’s strong evidence it’s a “neurobiological disorder in which the neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine are not regulated properly and cause the brain to underfunction,” leading to problems “staying focused, sustaining effort, managing emotions and accessing working memory.” Having ADHD is like trying to think while having 16 squirrels in your head, all scampering off in different directions. I know this firsthand, because I was diagnosed with ADHD about 15 years ago and take Adderall to make the little squirrels sit at their little desks so I can focus and write. Unfortunately, Adderall isn’t a life-wide miracle cure. As my boyfriend likes to joke : “Do I have your divided attention?”

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People dating those with ADHD tend to take its effects personally. In the heat of the moment, it’s easy to forget that your girlfriend has a mind like a steel sieve. When one of her attentional shortcomings makes you feel like she’s messing with you, you might ask yourself whether she’s messing with her wallet when she means to put it back in her purse but instead puts it back in the freezer. That said, it’s important that ADHD be used to explain only ADHD-related behaviors. She can’t be all, “Oh, my attention wandered … into bed with your best friend.” For your relationship to work, you need to accept that she isn’t a regular-brained person, and she needs to avoid acting like she probably does in the world of the regular-brained—by hiding it when her attention wanders off. She also needs to admit when she’s feeling too impatient to discuss or do something. She needs to see that she’s on time when it’s important to you, and you need to have perspective when she comes to the door in a towel when it’s not. Ultimately, making things work comes down to the most basic of basics—love— and wanting to be together so much that the tradeoffs seem worth it.

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The opening reception will also mark the release of Banging a Dead Drum, a limitededition book of Omar Pierce’s Instamatic photography featuring writing by Nick Larsen.

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, NORTHERN NEVADA CAMPUS: Deon Reynolds Exhibit, The photographer’s work is on display. M-F through 8/15. Free. 10345 Professional Circle, Ste. 200, (775) 828-7999.

Tu-F, 3-6pm through 8/31. Opens 8/13; F, 8/17, 6:30-8pm. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

MATHEWSON-IGT KNOWLEDGE CENTER: Far Out: The University Art Scene from 1960-1975. The Special Collections department at the University of Nevada, Reno presents this sequel to the 2011 exhibit Post-War Bohemians in Northern Nevada. Far Out will highlight the next generation of leading edge visual artists at the university during the 60s and 70s. M-Sa, 9am-5pm through 9/9. Free. University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 682-5665, http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu.

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Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Southwest Pottery From Anasazi to Zuni: Selections from the Brenda and John Blom Collection, W-Su through 9/9; Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Highlights of the California Decorative Style, Tu-Su through 10/14; Jorinde Voigt: Systematic Notations, W-Su through 1/6; Ice Music, W-Su through 10/28; Tim Hawkinson: Totem, W-Su through 10/7; Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There, WSu through 9/2; Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; Edward Burtynsky: Oil, W-Su through 9/23; Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Nature’s Colors in Fiber and Glass. North Tahoe Arts presents a collaborative exhibit featuring sister artists Catherine and Linda Strand. Catherine’s fused glass and Linda’s fiber-based wall hangings are distinctive yet complementary media celebrating color and design with nature themes. M, W-Su through 8/27; End of an Era. Jay Thelin creatively depicts the golden age of wooden powerboats (1930-1960) using fragments of these boats in artistic arrangements. The exhibit will be held in the Corison Loft Gallery. M, W-Su through 8/27. Free. Art Gallery & Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: A Very Special Art Exhibit. Work by young artists created in VSA Nevada workshops during the 2011-12 school year is on display in the gallery at Northwest Reno Library. Tu-Sa through 8/24. Free. 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: The Sierra Watercolor Society Exhibit of original watercolor paintings by local artists depicts the transformative power of plants. W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 8/18. Free. 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL: Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions in this musical film fusion event directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Terrance Zdunich. The film stars Emilie Autumn, Dayton Callie (Sons Of Anarchy, Deadwood), M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan (Slipknot), Ivan Moody (Five Finger Death Punch), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Ogre (Skinny Puppy), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids), among others. F, 8/10, 9pm. $21.45-$43.65. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4659, http://tdc_reno-eorg.eventbrite.com.

THE WARPED ONES: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of Koreyoshi Kurahara’s 1960 Japanese drama about a sociopathic youth who goes on a crime spree after he’s released from jail. Tu, 8/14, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members, bicyclists, students. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: RECON|STRUCTURE|NATURE, Five exhibitions will showcase the explorations of our natural world. The TMCC Main Art Gallery will feature fabrics, paintings and sculptural vessels by Tuscarora, Nev., artists Ben Parks and Marti Bein. The Red Mountain Gallery will feature watercolors and prints by Reno artists Carol Neel and Penny Pemberton. The Erik Lauritzen Gallery will feature printmaking and watercolors by Reno artist Lynn Schmidt. The Red Mountain Student Gallery will feature drawings by TMCC student William Johnson. The Meadowood Center will feature artwork by TMCC students relating to the theme of nature. M-F, 9am-9pm through 9/7; Sa, 9am-5pm through 9/1. Free. Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-7291, vparts@tmcc.edu, www.tmcc.edu/vparts/artgalleries.

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musicians and music lovers to gather and share their love of music. The club offers opportunities to perform individually and to participate in collaborative events and expand musical knowledge. Second M of every month, 7pm. Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 882-9517, http://breweryarts.org.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT NO. 2: Lake Tahoe SummerFest presents the second concert of its chamber music series. The program features Beethoven’s Trio Opus 11, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 and Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor. Sa, 8/11, 6:30pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

FAMILY CONCERT NO. 2: The Lake Tahoe SummerFest continues with its second Family Concert. The program features Adams’ Shaker Loops, Copland’s Appalachian Spring (original instrumentation), Mozart’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, K482 and Larsen’s String Symphony. Su, 8/12, 3pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

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SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Biggest Little City. Reno artist John Molezzo’s artwork primarily depicts vintage motels, neon signs and iconic architecture. He presents a unique collection of work by collaging an assortment of digital images together, printing them onto large canvases, and then painting over them with oils and wax pens. The artist reception is on Aug. 17, 5-9pm. M-F through 8/30. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

theme of the month. August’s theme is “Latin music.” Second Th of every month, 6-8pm. Free. Carpenter’s Music World, 2700 S. Virginia St., (775) 391-7757, www.carpentersmusic.com.

Music ALL ABOUT BEETHOVEN: The Lake Tahoe SummerFest continues with an all-Beethoven concert. F, 8/10, 6:30pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

CARPENTER’S MUSIC WORLD MONTHLY MUSIC PROGRAM: Carpenter’s Music World presents

Mile High Jazz Band Assoc. presents its annual jazz festival featuring performances by Reno Jazz Orchestra with Cami Thompson and the Mile High Jazz Band, Atomika, Barbara Baxter, The Champagne Singers and Andrews Sisters Act, Colin Ross with Frank Falcione, Pat Esters, GrooveSession, Impromptu Quintet, The Jazz Guys, Johnny Hamlin Trio, Kevin Reed, The Millennium Bugs, New World Jazz Project, STRAZZ Youth Strings Jazz Ensemble and others performing at venues across Carson City, including Comma Coffee, Firkin & Fox, Plan: B and the Brewery Arts Center. M-Su through 8/19. Free for most events. Call or visit website for details, (775) 883-4154, www.jazzcarsoncity.com.

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: DÉJÀ VU: The classic rock band performs as part of the summer concert series. W, 8/15, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 823-6500.

MARK CASTRO BAND: The classic rock band features Mark Castro on guitar, Satia on bass and vocals, Jeremy Kluck and Roland Gomes on drums and Ture Oliva on percussion. Sa, 8/11, 4-5pm. Free. Carpenter’s Music World, 2700 S. Virginia St., (775) 852-7618.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH CONCERT SERIES: ONE TRACK MIND: The band performs a mix of rock, funk, punk and reggae covers. F, 8/10, 6:30pm. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8369 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000, www.northtahoebusiness.org.

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WINN/LENZ/BROWNELL PIANO TRIO: Local musicians James Winn, piano, violinist Ruth Lenz and cellist Eileen Brownell will perform a program of Mozart, Brahms and d’Indy. Su, 8/12, 2:30pm. Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 341 Village Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0075, www.tahoechambermusic.org.

is different every year. Sa, 8/11, 7pm. $60 adults; $50 children age 12 and younger. Valhalla Grand Hall/Grand Lawn, Tallac Historic Site, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, http://valhallatahoe.com.

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Sports & fitness LAKE TAHOE’S ALL-WOMEN SPORTS CAMP: This threeday camp brings women together to share knowledge and build confidence in Women’s Outdoor Endurance Sports. The camp will have a roster of professional women athletes and instructors, teaching and demonstrating these sports, along with clinics with topics such as bike maintenance, sports nutrition, sports psychology, yoga, Bike Fit and more. F, 8/10; Sa, 8/11; Su, 8/12. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, www.allwomensportcamp.com.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s 40th anniversary season commences with Shakespeare’s comedy. Bosom buddies Valentine and Proteus are Verona’s closest comrades, but their friendship is put to the ultimate test when Proteus forsakes his beloved Julia and competes for the affections of Valentine’s newfound love, the strong-willed Silvia. TuSu, 7:30pm through 8/26. $20-$80. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

NORTHSTAR MOUNTAIN RUN: This classic 10.2k trail run starts at the Village at Northstar and finishes at the top of Mt. Pluto at Northstar California Resort. The course ascends single track and double track, offering scenic views of Lake Tahoe, wildflowers and the Sierra. Su, 8/12. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 4666784, www.bigblueadventure.com.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays Albuquerque Isotopes. F, 8/10, 7:05pm; Sa, 8/11, 7:05pm; Su, 8/12, 1:05pm; M, 8/13, 7:05pm; the team plays Round Rock Express. Tu, 8/14, 7:05pm; W, 8/15, 7:05pm; Th, 8/16, 7:05pm; F, 8/17, 7:05pm. $6-$24. Reno Aces

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: The D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program presents its abridged version of Shakespeare’s comedy aimed toward a young audience. Th, 8/9, 10am. $1-$5 suggested donation; $10-$12 parking fee. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700, www.renoaces.com.

Onstage HOT AUGUST SOCK HOP: Good Luck Macbeth presents this 1950s rock-around-the-clock tale. The Simple Town diner has 24 hours to raise the money it would take to stay open. The townspeople band together to throw a sock hop and raise the money. Unfortunately, they all have different ideas for the theme of the sock hop. This show is a fast-paced melodrama with music, dance, comedy and audience participation. Th, 8/9, 7:30-8:30pm; F,

Auditions HELLO DOLLY! AUDITIONS: The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company holds auditions for the musical Hello, Dolly! The production will play weekends at the Carson City Community Center, Nov. 3-18. Auditioners should call the performing arts office for information on what to prepare for auditions. The dancers audition is Aug. 9. Everyone accepted in the cast must register to participate in the production. Th, 8/9, 6pm. Western Nevada Performing Arts, 2038 Edmonds Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-4249, www.wnc.edu.

8/10, 7:30-8:30 & 9-10pm; Sa, 8/11, 1-2, 7:30-8:30 & 9-10pm; Su, 8/12, 1-2pm. $10. Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

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naut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. “One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,” he testified. He said it resembles a “spray of sparklers,” as 10 million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what’s gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At the heart

of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,” said Angelou, “people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you’d like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming

week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas? Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to? Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves? I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are my

questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally, Cancerian, I’m hoping you will elect to do what’s a bit unsettling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you’re not angling to please or impress me¡ ªor anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself or don’t do it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When Tchaikovsky

wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field.

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strategies for what to do in the future when you go through a rough period. For example, instead of wallowing in self-pity or berating yourself for your weakness, maybe you can resolve, next time, to amble aimlessly out in nature, dance to cathartic music for three hours, or go to the gym and smack around a punching bag.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When a

domesticated weasel captures some treasure or beats out a competitor for food, it performs a celebratory dance that’s referred to as the “weasel war dance.” During this triumphant display, it might hiss, arch its back, fluff out its tail and hop around madly. I encourage you to come up with your own private version of this ritual, Scorpio. It can be more dignified, if you like: snapping your fingers, singing a magical phrase or raising your arms in a V-for-victory gesture. Whatever you choose, do it after every accomplishment, no matter how small: buying groceries, arriving at an appointment on time, getting a good new idea or any other success.

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

out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling¡ ªthat we have misread our soul’s code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you’re among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem¡ ªto leave the niche where you don’t belong, and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you’ve found your vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level.

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

can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I’m getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13th-century Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what’s now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don’t believe they’re literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era.

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

Italian mattress company Sogniflex has created a bed with features designed to facilitate lovemaking. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extra-strong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what’s beautiful about anyone you’re attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My $10-an-

hour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: “Never try to be someone you’re not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity.” On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-a-minute wisdom is more complicated, subtle and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling. Here’s a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you’re not. Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way¡ ªgiving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimately return to the path you were born to tread.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All of us feel

bad sometimes¡ ªsad, discouraged, helpless, unloved and all the rest. It’s a natural part of being human. Here’s the good news: I am not predicting you will go through a phase like that anytime soon. Here’s the even better news: The coming week will be an excellent time to come up with effective

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at (877) 873-4888 or (900) 950-7700.

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The artist Ron Rash

It’s kind of funny how artists’ names, particularly in genres many of us are unfamiliar with, rise in stature in the public consciousness. Ron Rash, 39, is one of these, so when we started thinking about which artist might best represent Reno, and particularly the Midtown District, in the Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada, Rash immediately leapt to mind. There’s just something that says “Reno” in his style: friendly, unique, classic-yet-modern. At any rate, as arts editor Brad Bynum pointed out, when we were talking over the options, everyone who knows him likes him because he’s a genuinely nice guy. He does his tattooing at Aces Tattoo, 681 S. Virginia St., a perennial winner in our annual poll of readers.

How did you get into tattooing, anyway? Well, the long story is, I’ve been into it a long time. I’ve been getting tattooed over the course of 23 years, and always enjoyed the art itself, and I’ve had lots of friends in the business—Kevin [Cox], the owner of Aces, whom I’ve known for probably 25-26 years, just started asking me to give it a try and see if I wanted to do it for a living. At the time, I was already doing art, so he just kept asking me if I wanted to give it a try, so I finally said, “Sure.” And that was it. I loved it, and I just kept going.

And did you study art formally? Not officially. I didn’t go to school for it or anything. I studied it myself. I’ve always been interested in art. My stepdad was a cartoonist. My mom worked in a signpainting shop in the ’70s. I’ve been around it forever. I’ve always had an interest in it. I just kept doodling and pursuing it.

That makes sense because your art had a cartoony style to it, but it also has a commercial style. And that’s the thing. Both my parents—my mom eventually got into selling advertising for outdoor billboards, my dad has always been in advertising—so I’ve always been around that end of it as well.

How long ago was that?

You seemed somewhat surprised that you won best tattoo artist. Why does that surprise you?

That was four years ago.

Because there are some really good tattoo-

ers in Reno, and like I said, I’ve only been doing it professionally for four years, and that’s not a lot of time in the tattoo industry. I work around some of my favorite artists that I’ve ever known. You know, Rob Roy [Heistand], Kevin Cox, Elijah Cole—those guys are incredible artists.

In planning for this particular job, the Best of Northern Nevada, did you draw particular inspiration from anything, or what was your thinking on that? First, I was a little stressed on that, thinking I needed to do some sort of theme or anything, but then I realized the theme could be the fact that it was done by me. I just approached it like I would any sort of painting or drawing or even a tattoo. Just taking the subject matter and turning it into something fun. I love drawing and painting animals, that’s kind of been my deal for a long time. So it was just natural to try to pair those things together. Ω

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Bolting through the Olympics And so, here we are, at the end of NBC’s Olympic noodlefest, where strand after strand of competitive pasta gets fired up against the wall in a continual effort to find a few that would be compelling enough to stick. In the end, the answer was, as always ... well, there are some. I developed a surefire way to cull the Olympic menu. I would play a kind of Olympic roulette, where I sat down, turned on the tube, saw what was on, and then asked myself, “Do I give a bleep about this?” It worked well. For example, water polo between Poland and Hungary? Nope. Soccer between Nicaragua and Vanuatu? Neg. Fencing, between anybody? Later. Beach volleyball, no matter how attractive the glute factor? Sorry. Gymnastics, men’s or women’s? Sure, it’s a big hitter for many, and there always are moments of strength, drama and beauty, but I had to admit the presence of a persistent indifference as to finding out who’s the world’s greatest ring wrangler or vaultist.

Using this selective screening approach, I found I was spending a great deal of time not watching Olympics. That was OK. My TV time, lo and behold, was not being dominated by Phelps, Kobe and Gabby, but instead by my main men Jon, Steve and Walt. As in Walter White. Great to have America’s favorite meth cook back on the air this summer, and Breaking Bad keeps keeping me all caught up in a very stitchy soap opera goin’ down in Albuquerque. But then, it finally happened. An Olympic event where I asked myself “the question” and finally answered in the affirmative. Certainly not a surprise that my first genuine “yes” of the London games came in response to the men’s 100 meter final. Old-school Olympics. There’s just something pure, supreme and elemental about the 100, the race that determines the fastest human being on our planet. The adjective “electrifying,” like all superlatives these days, is overworked. But here, in the 100, it

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actually fits. This race is the essence of the entire Olympic everything, boiled down to a race lasting less than 10 seconds. Two weeks of sprawling competition, with everything from synchronized swimming to team judo, condensed to one simple and thrilling footrace. It’s not like watching the 100 has any kind of nationalistic juju going for it. Anybody who’s halfway conscious knew who would triumph. Usain Bolt is just a freakin’ star, a guy who is to track and field what The Three Stooges are to aggressive expressionistic touch therapy. The charisma positively drips off the guy, from his name to his totally perfect “Boltthrowing” victory pose. Usain gives the planet the total Olympic buzz it wants and yearns for, and I even forgive NBC for making me stay up through all those endless 1,500 meter heats to get it. Ω

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