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Reid vs. Romney

Brian and the bandits Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

If you had any doubt as to my relative sanity, wonder no more. My girlfriend and I are heading out on a roadtrip at the height of summer to the Midwest with two dogs and a 15-yearold.

Needless to say, this is the week a bunch of my vegetables are going to start coming ripe.

Also needless to say, I’ve got a friend who is willing to check on the ripening vegetables and the cat, who has elected not to go on a roadtrip through the Midwest at the height of summer with two adult humans, a 15-year-old (likely to be the most mature person on this trip), and two dogs—neither of which is old enough to drive.

We are specifically not setting a stick-to-it itinerary. I mean, most of our family members know within a few days of when we’ll arrive, but we’re taking literally that old quote attributed to Robert Frost: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

So anyway, I’ll leave stuff in the capable hands of my coworkers Brad Bynum, Ashley Hennefer and Dennis Myers. I’m sure they’ll be able to work it all out. And, you know, I have a cell phone.

This is one of those time vortex type editor’s notes.

Unless something untoward happens, I should actually be turning toward home when this publishes. A lot depends on the actions of at least one wild raccoon whose fate I must help decide in the days before I leave.

I’ll bet we’re not the first people to have new problems with raccoons this summer.

Reno has a bumper crop of fruit, the likes of which I’ve never seen. And with the drought out in the hills, backyard windfall is ripe for the picking. And you know, a lot of little dogs don’t know any better than to go after a trio of those little bandits. Anyway, if I get rabies, I’ll probably be a lot less fun to travel with.

—D. Brian Burghart brianb@newsreview.com

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Nevada’s albatross, Sen. Harry Reid—once again, the senator has validated his incompetence, using the Senate floor to discuss a rumor about the taxes of Mitt Romney. In the private sector that is “theft of time” and no different than the theft of the company’s assets. This makes the senator a common criminal. In the private sector, a leader who does not lead should no longer serve. The senator represents every every American and should have utilized this time to bring bills to an up-or-down vote, thus moving the country forward.

The word is out that tourists are avoiding Nevada based on the conduct of Sen. Reid. Shame, shame on Sen. Reid. The real shame is that our military is making the supreme sacrifice to protect our way of life and we are subjected to the whining and lack of leadership of our elected politicians. They have no idea of the pain and emotional roblems they have created by not doing their jobs.

Dwayne Evanson Nampa, Idaho

Portrait of Romney Mitt Romney is better than you are.

Have you noticed? He was born into a family of wealth and luxury and that is his lifestyle. He has friends who are millionaires and billionaires.

And not only that, he is going to be the next president of the United States. He exudes supreme confidence because he has it all. And he has your vote, of course.

Brad MacKenzie Reno

17 days What is this magic we find gracing our TV airwaves as of late? Ah, yes, it’s the 2012 Summer Olympics! A brief period in time that fills our hearts with a wondrous blend of agony, ecstasy and exhilarating pride.

A time that allows us to live quite vicariously through the splendid athletes who are giving us their all.

Patriotism abounds, and the much needed diversion is so appreciated!

Our Mission To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages people to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

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Send letters to renoletters@newsreview.com For just over two weeks, we can somehow put aside the politician’s empty promises, the worldwide recession, the wars in far away lands, terrorism, prejudice, hatred, and on, and on, and on. And so it goes. All the nations on this frail planet manage to come together in harmony, solidarity and celebration for a mere seventeen days. But then, and all too quickly, it ends. The universal camaraderie we just shared is gone. The purity of the Olympic games that drew us together as one world is forgotten. Back to the negativity we have come to know, and regrettably accept. But I’m asking you now.

Haven’t we just learned something?

And if not, why not!?

Mark Murray Reno

Are you there, Mike?

Re “Are You There God? It’s Me, Jake.” (Feature, June 28): All of the letters to the editor discussing this piece, as well as discussions I have had with people from a variety of beliefs, lead me to one unshakable conclusion: No two perceptions of God are alike.

Therefore, God is what each of us perceives Him to be. So to Jake and all of the letter writers, I agree with each of you wholeheartedly. God is everything you believe Him to be.

You’re welcome.

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Tierra Bonaldi Impetus Agency Reno Editor’s note: Ms. Sutherland heard about this letter from another “Best of” winner in advance of its publication and contacted us to say she lived in Reno from age one until June 2011, that she still has an office in Reno—one office in a three-office suite—and that there is a full-time employee in that office. K. Sutherland PR is registered with the Nevada secretary of state’s corporate registration division.

Mike Bohling by email

Locals only, please Re “Best of Northern Nevada” (Aug. 9, 2012): This email is regarding Kerry Sutherland of K. Sutherland PR winning best public relations professional in Reno and K. Sutherland PR winning second best public relations agency. I know these awards are based solely on votes but I would assume that a requirement be that you are actually based in Reno. Kerry Sutherland lives in Huntington Beach and claims to have a Reno office which is really a friend’s executive suite. Based on a comprehensive search with the city of Reno we can find no evidence of her having a Reno business license. She also has

Editor/Publisher D. Brian Burghart News Editor Dennis Myers Arts Editor Brad Bynum Special Projects Editor Ashley Hennefer Calendar Editor Kelley Lang Contributors Amy Alkon, Amy Beck, Megan Berner, Matthew Craggs, Mark Dunagan, Marvin Gonzalez, Bob Grimm, Michael Grimm, Dave Preston, Jessica Santina, K.J. Sullivan, Bruce Van Dyke

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had no Reno employees until yesterday when she hired her first, well after your voting period. All of the income she earns from the two clients she has in Reno goes to the State of California.

I’m sure like others, she encouraged everyone she knows to vote for her, which is how she won, but I think it is offensive and unfair to actual local agencies. I am not complaining at all that our agency was not named as we did not at all try to solicit votes. I am merely letting you know that she is not in Reno, and I would encourage you to disqualify her and name your second place winner, Abbi Whitaker, best public relations professional as she is local, has employees, and does very good work, including a lot of charitable work with local non-profits. I also encourage you to disqualify K. Sutherland PR as second place agency as there is no actual agency here in Reno.

I appreciate your attention to this matter and look forward to your response.

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Youth drug Re “Highway to health care” (Notes from the Neon Babylon, July 5, 2012): When we moved to Nevada in 1979 we became vaguely aware of a dust-up over “Gerovital.” “Wasn’t that the sponsor of a TV quiz show back in the ’50s?” thought I then, but no. Whatever the controversy was about, Nevada seemed to be a central

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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battleground for the issue somehow.

However, it was fading from the headlines by that time.

Some 20-plus years later we were watching an episode of “Celebrity Ghost Story” which contained a segment featuring Eric Roberts. He described how he survived a devastating jeep accident just as he was starting his acting career. Extensive injuries included his brain and power of speech. He described an older couple visiting him in his hospital room and telling him of a certain medicine which, though “illegal,” was available at any pharmacy— behind the counter. Roberts credits the medicine with allowing him to come back, resume his career and active life. The medicine was Gerovital or GH3.

I recalled Eric Roberts’ story just recently after hearing of a young friend stricken suddenly with a stroke. I thought of my dad’s deepening depressive symptoms. Others. I revisited the Gerovital story. It is not illegal, but it has been suppressed.

The story is quite fascinating. A large California-based health insurance company supports treatments available just over the border with Mexico, but suppressed within the land of the “free.”

Michael O’Neal Reno Editor’s note: While Gerovital (procaine hydrochloride) is technically legal in Nevada, it is barred from interstate commerce and it is illegal to import it.

Corrections Re: “Moving Pictures” (Arts & Culture, Aug. 2): We misidentified Cyclectric cofounder Skye Telka as Skye Laskin.

We regret the error and apologize for any confusion.

Re: “Tattoo you the best” (Arts & Culture, Aug. 2): The address listed for Classic Skate Shop, which won “Best skateboard shop,” was incorrect. The correct address is 119 Thoma St.

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THIS MODERN WORLD

BY TOM TOMORROW

How are you handling the heat?

Asked at Hot August Nights in Sparks Doug Smith Custom metalworker

Not good. It’s hot! Hotter than I’ve seen it here in a long time. We’re from Sacramento—Loomis, actually. We’re getting by.

Janet Wagner Retiree

All right, I guess. We drove here in this 1939 Chevy. We have a time share here—air conditioned.

Stop the journalism boosterism Last month a Truckee physician, John Eisele Jr., wrote an essay for the Sierra Sun in which he laid out some of the problems residents of this area will face if there is another Olympics here.

It was not surprising that he needed to turn to a “My Turn” essay to get his concerns out there. Reporters, at least in Reno, will not cover them.

A look at coverage of the business community’s drive to bring the 2022 Olympics here over the last year or two will provide a display of boosterism, chamber-of-commerce verbiage, and complete lack of searching inquiry.

There’s a 2010 Sparks Tribune story by Jessica Carner that quotes two boosters of the idea and no critics. Even a Trib story about a Regional Transportation Commission meeting with Olympic boosters never touches on the traffic problems associated with an Olympics.

On television, there has been story after story that all seem to have been written by the Reno-Tahoe Winter Games Coalition instead of by reporters—all pro, no con.

In the Reno Gazette-Journal, we have seen article after article by Dan Hinxman written in upbeat style on the benefits of having an Olympics in this area. If there have been interviews with critics of the notion, it has escaped us. They certainly have not appeared in every story where boosters are represented.

The environmental hazards, the implications for taxes and public funding, the impact on traffic and other quality of life indices have been mostly ignored. So have the people who want to voice those concerns. It’s not as though they don’t exist, but that’s the danger—reporters get so heavily into boosterism they begin believing that everyone feels the same way. Not everyone does—there are many, many critics in this valley of a new Olympics.

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As journalists, it is not our job to be boosters for the concerns of special interests in the community. But that’s what has happened in nearly all coverage of the possibility of a new Olympics here. Most news “reports” could have been published by boosters as promotional material with few words changed.

Our job is to scrutinize the claims by those on both sides, or any side, to subject their rosy scenarios or pessimistic predictions to analysis. Most of all, we need to make sure we give everyone their say.

Now, with 2022 a no-go, local businesspeople want to try for 2024.

Eisele wrote, “[I]t is impossible to minimize or mitigate the deleterious impact of more people, more buildings (and their infrastructure), more vehicles (particularly buses) and roads, and their consequence of more lake pollution and damage to the fragile Tahoe basin landscape. ... Try to think of what Lake Tahoe and its landscape might look like in 2030 as the price to pay for one more Winter Olympics—bringing an estimated 1 million visitors, many from places historically less concerned about the environment than we citizens of the Tahoe region.”

Why hasn’t his view, which represents a number of people, been reflected in every story done in Reno on this topic?

In 1988, Reno businesspeople launched a push for the 2002 winter games. They were given their say in the news coverage of the period, but there was also fair coverage of critics of the idea, which helped bring into public view just how deeply the business group wanted to dip into tax dollars. What has happened to local journalism in the ensuing quarter-century? Ω

Matthew Marquez Police officer

I’m trying to stay hydrated, but it’s tough. Yes, we do have to wear these dark clothes. That’s not the bad part, either. It’s the Kevlar that really hurts.

Gail Hansen Legal secretary

Well, I’m from Washington State, so I’m liking it. I like it. It’s warm in Washington. It’s been in the 80s, but it’ll be hot for a few days and then we always get rain there. It’s drier heat here.

Penelope Guzman Restaurant server

Barely. I’ve been going to Lake Tahoe a lot. I don’t know. I’m not handling it.

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The Galena Creek Bridge, because of its size and its very visible looming presence over Pleasant Valley, has gotten most of the publicity as the opening of the new leg of the freeway spur nears. But there are other impressive bridges like this along that leg—eight of them.

Word games After the Romney campaign used television spots to accuse the Obama administration of softening work requirements in federal welfare law, the White House pointed out that many state governors— including Republicans Gary Herbert of Utah and Brian Sandoval of Nevada—had requested the kind of waivers Romney was criticizing.

The Sandoval administration did not actually ask for waivers but did seek a discussion of them with federal officials.

Gov. Herbert didn’t offer Romney much support, simply reinforcing his previous stand that the federal work requirements “do not lead to meaningful employment outcomes” and abridge state authority. Gov. Sandoval’s office did try to give Romney a lifeline, but bungled the attempt. Sandoval spokesperson Mary Sarah Kinner told Politico, “The Obama administration’s attempt to portray Nevada’s comments as anything more than an attempt to increase efficiency and improve outcomes for our programs is a gross mischaracterization to advance its own agenda.”

That wording led White House press secretary Jay Carney to agree that “any attempt to characterize this [Obama] policy as anything more than an attempt to increase efficiency and improve outcomes for our programs is a gross mischaracterization.”

An effort by Team Nevada spokesperson Darren Littell fared little better, because it included the phrase “Obama’s attack on welfare.”

Team Nevada is the shadow Nevada Republican Party organization set up after the takeover of the regular organization by Ron Paul backers.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney supported changes in the welfare law similar to those he now denounces.

Ceremony planned The Reynolds School of Journalism building at the University of Nevada, Reno, only 19 years old, has undergone a major renovation to adapt to new technology and will be “rededicated” on Aug. 23 at 2:30 p.m.

The school is named for the late Donald W. Reynolds, owner of numerous media properties, including many mostly small newspapers, a billboard company, television and radio stations. His Nevada holdings included the Nevada Appeal in Carson City, Las Vegas Review-Journal, KOLO television in Reno and KORK television in Las Vegas. In 1977, the Federal Communications Commission stripped Reynolds of his license for KORK because of fraudulent financial practices and lying about the fraud, forcing Reynolds to sell the station.

Reid: Deniers outside reality In an Aug. 7 speech on climate change, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid said it is time for policy makers, journalists and utility execs “to stop acting like those who ignore the crisis or deny it exists entirely have a valid point of view. They don’t.” He said the scientific consensus is so onesided that there is no excuse for inaction, or for legitimizing deniers.

He also said it is time to shut down one of Nevada’s power plants, Reid Gardner in the Moapa Valley (no relation).

“Each year for the last 47 years, more than 2.8 million tons of climate-changing carbon dioxide—not to mention thousands of pounds of toxins such as arsenic, mercury and lead—go up the plant’s four giant smokestacks.”

Team Nevada issued a statement that said the shutdown would “shutter a facility that employs 150 people. … [Reid] doesn’t realize Moapa’s population is about 7,000 people and shutting a facility like this would almost double the area’s unemployment rate.”

But Reid said it is those residents who are threatened by Reid Gardner. About two football fields away from those smoke stacks lives a band of 300 Moapa Paiute Indians. Every day Reid-Gardner rains down on the dwindling Native American tribe fine particulates and coal ash filled with chemicals that cause cancer, emphysema and heart problems.”

A 2004 study found that aging coal fired power plants shorten almost 24,000 lives a year. Scientific American reported a 2007 study indicating that power plant ash carries about 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy, and that “sometimes leaches into the soil and water surrounding” a plant. Moapa is an agricultural area.

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Getting to Carson Or, as it’s called in Carson, “Getting to Reno” It was at 4:03 p.m., 42 years ago last week— on Aug. 6, 1970—that the new U.S. by 395 freeway through Washoe Valley Dennis Myers opened, after a troubled construction period during which an overpass collapsed, and there was difficulty working with damp ground along Washoe Lake.

Previously, 395 had been farther west, along the foothills of the Sierra.

In 2012, the latest incarnation of the Carson/Reno route is a new leg of the U.S. 395 freeway through the Truckee Meadows. Over the years, it has been creeping, in sections, farther south. In 1973, a portion from the north valleys to Glendale Avenue opened, followed in 1980 by the leg from Glendale to South Virginia Street near Meadowood Mall.

There, only two ramps instead of the normal four were installed, in spite of the enormous traffic generated by Meadowood. There was only a southbound exit ramp and a northbound on-ramp, no southbound on-ramp and no northbound off-ramp. Eventually the construction of what later became the Borders and Barnes and Noble bookstore buildings blocked the paths where those ramps could have gone.

In 1983, the leg from the Meadowood area south opened.

Meanwhile, in Carson City the same process has been going on, with a portion from the north end of Eagle Valley to U.S. 50 opening in 2006 and a second leg from U.S. 50 (a.k.a. East William Drive) to Fairview Avenue opening in 2009.

But the piece in the middle, through Washoe Valley, was put in first.

Gas wasting route

Alongside that new 1970 straightaway freeway through Washoe Valley were the stone remains of a Comstockera structure, the Ophir mill. In subsequent years, it became apparent that the increased vibrations from the new highway accelerated the building’s deterioration as wall after wall collapsed. And with 395 now no longer tucked into the foothills over by Bowers Mansion but out in the middle of the valley, wind became an obstacle for long-haul truckers and the big motor homes that had begun appearing on the scene.

It wasn’t the first time the Reno/Carson road was troubled either by construction problems like the overpass collapse or post-construction problems, and it would not be the last.

When the first Carson/Reno highway was built, route was a point of friction. In Jan. 1920 after the Nevada Highway Board decided on the east side of Washoe Lake (then an empty expanse but offering a linkup with the Jumbo Grade to Virginia City), Gov. Emmet Boyle fired the chair of the three-person board and replaced him to change the margin from a two-toone vote for the east side into a two-to-one vote for the west side.

That highway was made of concrete and was done all in one project, not in portions.

Route also became a fiery political issue in the early 1980s as the portion

south of Meadowood was being planned. It generated considerable anger, particularly because low-tomiddle income residents of the Home Gardens neighborhood had recently been forced to leave their homes to make room for airport expansion. The rich people in southwest Reno were unwilling to do the same and brought all their influence to bear, preventing adoption of the most direct route.

That’s why the freeway drive suddenly jerks to the east for several miles, then back west—and why it now takes longer and uses more fuel, which adds up when the number of trips is in the hundreds of thousands.

After that portion was completed and work on the Mt. Rose highway-toWashoe City portion began, the state started putting up new “shield” signs designating 395 as I-580. For years, people have wondered why the name of a California freeway was used, especially given the fact that Renoites are so familiar with it. “I use 580 every time I visit my family in San Rafael,” one local complainant told us.

“Why confuse things like this?”

The answer wasn’t easy to get.

State highway officials didn’t seem to know, but federal interstate highway officials in D.C. did, though they didn’t want their names used. Here’s what they said: First, 395 is a U.S. highway, not an interstate highway. And I-580 isn’t an interstate highway, either.

It’s an interstate spur.

The numbering of interstate highways cannot be duplicated. “And I-95 is on the East Coast so 95 can’t be used for an interstate in the West,” according to our source. There is a U.S. 95 in the West, but no I-95.

But the numbers of interstate spurs can be duplicated. We didn’t get an explanation of why, but they can.

“Three-digit interstates [spurs] are numbered on the base of an existing interstate route, in this case I-80, with the addition of an initial digit. To secure an interstate number, Nevada proposed 580 so it would be a spur off of I-80. Spurs connecting on only one end with an Interstate are given an odd digit, while loops connecting on both ends are assigned an even digit.”

The I-580s have their counterparts in other areas of the nation, though they don’t normally overlap places that have such common ties in commerce and media as western Nevada and the Bay Area. Among spurs along Interstate 80, there are I-380s in Pennsylvania, Iowa and California.

Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wyoming all have I-180s.

The California I-580 runs from San Rafael to deep in the Central Valley.

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For weeks, the state has been sort of opening the new interstate spur.

There have been days when people could walk or bike the route or drive in one direction. There has even been a ribbon-cutting. But as of this writing, there is still no date set for the actual opening other than “mid-August.”

There were some small incidents in the construction of this leg of the spur, such as damage from the Washoe Drive fire in January to seeding of slopes and damage to logs placed on the slopes to combat erosion.

More serious was the cancellation, on May 18, 2006, of a $79.5-million contract with bridgebuilder Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc. of Wisconsin because of disagreements over whether the Pleasant Valley bridge, called the Galena Creek Bridge, could be safely constructed in its location given the powerful winds in the area that were dubbed “Washoe zephyrs”

by Mark Twain. Kraemer had already completed some of the smaller bridges but the one hovering over Pleasant Valley was unfinished. It set back the project years. “[We] continue to have technical disagreements over construction,” said Kraemer exec Michael Fischer in a prepared statement. “Both parties have agreed that the best path for [us] is to wrap up our work.”

Against such charges, the state conducted more than one probe to assure that the structure is safe.

As local officials and state highway officials celebrated the approaching opening of the new leg, one discordant note came from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which editorialized that the entire project was a waste of money and that the money for it came from southern taxpayers: “Interstate 580 is a testament to political power, misplaced priorities and wasteful spending. The bridge-linked, mountainside route will cut just six minutes from the current, lower route between Reno and Carson City, on U.S. Highway 395 in the Pleasant Valley.

Instead of widening U.S. 395 at less than one-fourth the cost, the state and Washoe County decided to create a more costly, scenic route from scratch.

Had heavy traffic and population growth warranted such largess, it might have been defensible. But the new road is projected to carry just 25,000 vehicles per day. … Reno and Carson City—thanks to powerful northern lawmakers who directed resources to their own backyards— now have a new highway that won’t approach its capacity for decades.”

A reader named Timothy Hoover posted a response on the newspaper’s Facebook page: “[O]ur freeway between Reno and Carson City is VERY much needed. US 395 through Pleasant Valley is a four-lane road that has cross traffic. Simply widening the road and having cross traffic remain is NOT a viable option, and you know it!” Ω

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Energy in motion Last week a celebration was held after the Spring Valley Wind Farm, located in White Pine Country a half hour east of Ely, began operating. The farm is the first wind energy project in Nevada, and will provide power for Las Vegas. It consists of 66 Siemens 2.3 megawatt turbines, and, according to NV Energy, “employed up to 225 workers [to construct]. About a dozen full-time permanent positions are required to keep the wind farm operational.” The turbines will generate around 150 megawatts, enough to power 45,000 homes.

The farm is situated on around 7,500 acres of land, but the turbine footprint is 77 acres, leaving the rest of the land open for hunting and cattle grazing. In the past, the farm has faced opposition by organizations concerned about the turbines’ impact on the environment.

“Scientists say this is genesis—the beginning,” said Harry Reid about global warming in his opening speech at the summit.

Club vote The Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club has announced its endorsement of legislative candidates Skip Daly, Sheila Leslie, Debbie Smith, Teresa Benitez-Thompson, Mike Sprinkle and David Bobzien. Key to the endorsement was the candidates’ opposition to Senate Bill 271, which proposes removing Nevada from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (“Political science,” May 3). All of the candidates voted against the bill, except for Sprinkle, who was not in the Assembly.

Last week the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at the University of California, Davis released the “Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2012.” The report is released annually, and highlights factors impacting the lake, including its “clarity, physics, chemistry and biology,” according to the report.

The report discusses the unusual winter of 2010-2011, noting its low temperatures and high precipitation. However, the average water temperature increased by 0.6 F, indicating change in the lake’s infrastructure. Scientists then tested the lake’s stability and found that stratification—separate levels of water with different temperatures—lasted longer than usual, indicating a potential impact of climate change.

In 2010, clarity improved but fluctuated in 2011. The report says that algae Cyclotella might be the cause. In 1968, clarity was 102.4 feet. The lowest level in 2011, the second worse recorded, was 51.5 feet.

The report also discusses present and future research projects. Scientists are investigating surrounding areas of the lake, including a study done on the impact of the 2007 Angora fire, which was shown to have no effect on the water.

Others are looking at the mortality of trees in the Tahoe forests.

—Ashley Hennefer ashleyh@newsreview.com

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On the horizon National Clean Energy Summit

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Tapping into the West’s natural energy sources—Nevada, especially—was the focus of this year’s National Clean Energy Summit, hosted on August 7 in Las Vegas.

The fifth annual summit, headed by Sen. Harry Reid, used social networkby Ashley ing for weeks leading up to the event, including a virtual town hall hosted on Hennefer Twitter (“Tweeting Reid,” Aug. 2), to get the public to participate in conversations about clean energy. Reid opened the summit with a speech about the ashleyh@ importance of addressing climate change. newsreview.com “Scientists say this is genesis—the beginning,” Reid said. “The more extreme climate change gets, the more extreme the weather will get. In the words of one respected climate scientist, ‘This is what global warming looks like.’ … The seriousness of this problem is not lost on your average American. A large majority of people finally believe climate change is real, and that it is the cause of extreme weather. Yet despite having overwhelming evidence and public opinion on our side, deniers still exist, fueled and funded by dirty energy profits. Those people aren’t just on the other side of the debate. They’re on the other side of reality.”

Attendees included former U.S. president Bill Clinton, who delivered the keynote address. In his keynote speech, Clinton touched on the success of green efforts—primarily solar—in countries like Germany and China.

Also in attendance were energy business leaders such as Tesla Motors cofounder Elon Musk, Revenge of the Electric Car director Chris Paine, and secretary of the interior Ken Salazar, among several others. The summit also presented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ solar decathlon. Bellagio, the hotel hosting the summit, participated with a presentation on sustainable lunch foods.

Musk, Paine and representatives discussed options for reducing dependence on oil. Despite the positive response the Tesla Model S, released in June, has received from electric car advocates, Musk addressed the challenges Tesla will face during the last half of the year—balancing production with cash flow. Musk also talked about another new project—SolarCity, a collaboration with Walmart, in which solar panels and batteries will be installed in Walmart stores. The project is in early stages and is expected to begin in 2013.

Money was also on the agenda for the summit, with several panels dealing with consumers and job creation. One panel, moderated by Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce member Kristin McMillan, facilitated talk about offering energy consumers different renewable energy options.

But wind energy stole the show, with several new energy projects announced for Western states, including Nevada’s first wind farm in Spring Valley (see Greenspace for more information). Other projects include a 140 megawatt set-up in Kern County, Calif., a 57.6 megawatt farm in Idaho, and a 21 megawatt farm in Hawaii. According to an announcement made at the summit, wind energy production in the U.S. has reached 50 gigawatts— enough to power 13 million homes. In 2008, the U.S. was producing 25 gigawatts of wind energy.

In the end, though, much of the summit came down to politics needed to implement proposed changes to the U.S.’s approach to green energy. Salazar announced that the Senate Finance Committee had agreed to extend the tax cut for wind energy production, a measure which, according to Reid, is likely to pass later this year. Ω

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Cove pit in Lander County during the early stages of filling. The lake level is higher now.

WHAT’S TO BE DONE WITH WATER LEFT BEHIND BY MINING?

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t’s an awesome sight, even though it’s really only a hole in the ground.

An open pit mine is an injury to the Earth that, unlike some other such injuries, is not reclaimed by the planet all that easily. Roads can be overgrown in a couple of years. Open pit mines will be there for centuries.

Some of them go so deep that the mining happens below the water table, the water being constantly pumped out to permit the mining to continue. But always, sooner or later, the mining comes to an end.

Then, so does the pumping. The water returns to its natural level, only now it’s a lake.

They’re called pit lakes. There’s not much to be done about them. Mining corporations are not required to replace their divots and it’s not likely the public could afford to do anything about it. Environmental scientist Glenn Miller recalls when someone told him what it would take: “It costs a buck a ton to put the dirt back into the pit. If you’ve got a billion tons of dirt—.” The thought didn’t need finishing.

The scale of the matter is huge, yet is largely unknown to the public. In a 2002 article in Southwest Hydrology magazine, Miller described it:

“Gold-mining pit lakes in Nevada, when filled, will contain more water than all of the reservoirs within the borders of this arid state. An estimated 35 pit lakes from all types of hard rock mining are expected to form, containing from less than 100 acre-feet up to about 540,000 acre-feet of water. On a statewide basis, all of the existing reservoirs within the state (excluding Lake Mead) contain approximately 600,000 acre-feet. In contrast, pit lakes in the Humboldt River Basin alone will contain 1,500,000 acre-feet, and evaporation from their surfaces is expected to remove the equivalent of five percent of the flow of the Humboldt River at Winnemucca each year.”

In a desert state, it’s simply not responsible to ignore that much water. Miller: “Thus, from a water resource perspective, pit lakes are important to Nevada, and the quality of the water in them will determine their future use, as well as their effects on the aquifer, wildlife and ecosystems.”

So, if it’s cost effective for the pits to be filled, what’s to be done with them, and with the lakes?

Right now, the policy is simple—fence them off. That protects the public from what is, after all, an extremely dangerous aftereffect of mining.

But just doing that and no more troubles some folks.

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mining corporations have left? Are there sufficient funds to manage these sites in perpetuity?”

But even if elected officials, including the legislature, realize the potential, what are the chances that there will be the money to develop a

Are there SUFFICIENT FUNDS to manage these sites in perpetuity?

Bob Fulkerson Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada

Instances of pit lakes that responded to water treatment, Miller said, are Lone Tree and Sleeper, pits on the Carlin Trend near Winnemucca. Lone Tree is a Newmont Mining property, Sleeper is held by Paramount.

“Lone Tree was [hazardous], for example, because they’ve been dumping thousands of tons of lime into that … each year and at Sleeper, which was really, really acidic, they’ve got tens of thousands of [tons of] lime into it until it comes up and then it covers all the reactive rock. And then the water turns out to be pretty good.”

Sleeper is one the few Nevada pits whose water is currently ranked by the state as “good.”

There are some uses to which the water can’t legally be put, including human consumption, irrigation or municipal/industrial uses such as power plant cooling. But fish would do nicely.

If the water can’t be used for those kinds of things, would people want to eat the fish that grew in it?

“I wouldn’t have a problem with it,” Miller said. “I mean, Pyramid Lake has a TDS of 5,000.” The normal TDS of drinking water is 500 mg/l.

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whole new program? It’s hard to imagine a less promising time in Nevada history to launch such an initiative. At the moment, the state ranks four of the pit lakes as having “good” water. The same can be achieved at other sites through treatment, which does not come cheap.

At a meeting on pit lakes last week, Miller spoke with former state legislator Sheila Leslie, who is running for the Nevada Senate. It turned out he had found one policy maker who actually has some hands-on experience with pit lakes. She visited Tuscarora in 1989 during a dispute between a mining company and local residents.

“I remember swimming in a pit lake in Tuscarora,” she laughed. “It

was a hot day and it was very refreshing. Later, I wondered if I should have gone into the water.”

She said she’s interested in pursuing legislation that would make it possible to give the public more access. “So, yes, I think there is some potential. I think it’s worth taking a look at.” It would require change in law to allow pit water to be used for irrigation, as one example.

But what approach to take in legislation will have to wait on more information and more dialogue among all the players.

The state Department of Wildlife is in much the same posture. “We are open to the idea of fisheries like these if some of the challenges can be met and overcome,” said Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesperson Chris Healy.

Many of the most promising pit lakes are in the “checkerboard” railroad lands along the Humboldt River/Interstate 80 route, which brings ownership into play. Some are on public lands, others on private.

Neither Miller nor state officials see ownership as an obstacle, though they may be overly optimistic. The Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1989 does require that mining sites be put to productive use after the end of mining operations and it’s difficult to imagine how many uses these punctures in the Earth can have.

“After they’re done mining, the surface rights are public land,” Miller said. “And most of these pits in Nevada have at least part of it … on public land.”

He said 32 to 40 percent of gold mining in Nevada occurs on public land and when the mining operations end, residents have a stake in what happens thereafter. Faced by fences on public lands, he said, residents will be within their rights to say, “That’s public land. I want to get down into that area. As a taxpayer, I want to be able to go onto the public land and that fence there keeps me out of it.”

He said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is sensitive to that argument and interested in dealing with it, but as in the legislative and NDOW forums, the issue is still uncooked.

OTHER FACTORS One asset the state has is access to expertise on pit lakes, such as Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology hydrogeologist Lisa Shevenell, who has written on the subject for professional publications like Applied Geochemistry and Environmental Geology.

Some of the sites are not particularly close to population centers, which could suggest that they would not draw a lot of recreational use.

But many relatively remote reservoirs like Rye Patch are popular recreation sites. An area in northwest Nevada near the Idaho border that was identified by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science and the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2005 as among the Earth’s “least imprinted by humans” is also near Wild Horse PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

There are perhaps 70 pit lakes in the state. Some of them are not contenders for public use because of water quality or other factors. Some, because of nearby tampering with water sources or other factors, have gone dry. And some are intermittent lakes that contain water mainly in the cold months of the year.

But some of them could be used for post-mining purposes.

Miller is a leader in seeking new uses for the pit lakes. He acknowledges that the water is not likely to be of drinking water quality, but he doesn’t necessarily concede even that. There are a handful of pit lakes, he said, that approach that level.

Nevertheless, most pit lakes will require some expensive work.

“But they’ll probably support a fishery,” he said. “Some of them will be five miles long and if you want to take a jet-ski out or some fun thing like that, or even water sports, swimming, whatever, ultimately a lot of these, maybe not all of them, but a lot of them could be turned into a positive recreational resource.”

In Tuscarora, he said, locals have already put a pit lake to recreational use. In addition, he said, if the residents could divert stream water into it, they could improve the quality of the water so it can be used for irrigation.

The quality of the water is the first thing that occurs to most people when this discussion gets under way.

Montana’s abandoned Berkeley Pit is one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Plant and all but the hardiest insect life are gone and birds that stop there die. The rising water level threatens to enter the groundwater.

But the quality of water is affected by what was mined at a site. When exposed to the air, the walls of pits release sulfate, acid and metals into the lake, and the nature of those walls is important.

Berkeley was a copper mine. Not all pit mines present that kind of threat.

In Nevada, the huge Kennecott copper pit near Ruth—the state’s largest—will never likely be useful for the kinds of things Miller envisions. But some of the gold mining sites in northeast Nevada can probably be used, if not for drinking water then for recreation.

And one reason the pit lakes may be less threatening than the public thinks is that in a relatively unregulated industry, one regulation that is in place is a requirement that, going in, there must be no potential for a pit lake to adversely affect avian, terrestrial or human life.

That doesn’t mean the gates can be thrown open right now. Even in some of the untroubled sites, the

water needs treatment, as with lime, which can reduce the acid level. But in terms of the total dissolved solids (TDS)—a measure of the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances in the water—things are promising.

AWARENESS One of the big problems in exploiting the resource possibilities of these sites is its low visibility, though some state leaders have been trying to bring it onto the state’s radar screen.

At a hearing of a state mining oversight committee in December last year, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada director Bob Fulkerson said, “Massive pit lakes containing degraded water will be left behind for centuries or longer.

What are the plans for monitoring and ensuring public safety after the

Scientist Glenn Miller is working to get the issue of pit lakes before the public and policy makers

Reservoir, which has fishing and camping facilities.

There are other issues. The stability of the walls of open pit mines would need study. Some pit walls are known by technical measures to be relatively strong and safe. “There are some you can swim in,” Miller said.

“You know, there are some that are stable.” He has swum in one himself.

For others, Miller said, “What we can do is we can wait for 50 years.”

It’s not like these sites are going anywhere or are in demand for other uses, so where there is doubt about stability,

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there is time to wait. “But these impacts are a thousand-year impacts, 2,000, 5,000-year impacts,” he said at one point, putting 50 years to monitor a few of the sites in perspective.

As it happens, slides in mine pits are generally slow-moving, unlike, say, the disastrous 1983 mudslide off Slide Mountain south of Reno. But there are pits where there is serious instability. Miller visited one where a wall had slipped enough that a mine worker said, “If you touch it, it could start sliding again.”

As the years pass, people are going to find their way into the pit lakes. It would be nice if it happened in a safe, sanctioned way.

“Just leaving it fenced around is, first of all, not very productive and second, it’s also an attractive nuisance,” Miller said. “There’s going to be people throw fish in them, and there’s fish in them, people are going to get down in them. Someone was telling me—oh, Dick Chambers, a friend of mine—he said, ‘There’s something about fishermen and gold miners that they’re both pretty passionate people, and they want to get at that gold or fish, and they will stop at almost nothing to get to it.’

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It would also be nice if the mining corporations that created the pit lakes were a part of any resolution. Miller has said he has heard from some mine officials that they are unwilling to be involved unless they are relieved of all liability. Industry lobbyist Tim Crowley said, “I can’t imagine that wouldn’t be a condition,” but that he has not discussed it with any mining executives.

Miller argues that the corporations, not government, are determining the future of public lands by creating the pits, causing them to be closed.

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Then they will effectively have withdrawn the land from public use in perpetuity by putting up a fence. They say, ‘Hey, we’ll even put money in the bank to keep that fence operational in perpetuity.’ My response is, no, because it’s public land and the public has a right to access the public’s land. ... It isn’t that expensive compared to what Barrick [Gold Corporation] is—

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Barrick’s what, 20, 30 billion dollars out of the Gold Strike Mine? This would probably be a few tens of millions of dollars to make it accessible.”

Articles like this normally end with resolution or the potential for resolution. That’s not possible here.

This issue has not reached critical mass. It remains a matter being discussed mostly in rarified circles.

“But the bottom line,” Miller said, “is they have the potential of being a valuable resource and if you just fence them around, the fences are going to go away because this is millenniumlong impact and people are going to want to get into those pit lakes.” Ω

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AUTOCROSS YOUR HEART …

OUR CORRESPONDENT TALKS TRASH AND EMBARRASSES HIMSELF AT A LOCAL AUTOCROSS COMPETITION story and photos by

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ARE YOU A DRIVING GOD?

DO YOU WATCH THE SO-CALLED “PROFESSIONALS” IN FORMULA 1, WORLD RALLY AND NASCAR AND THINK, “BAH, I COULD SMASH YOU ALL”? IF SO, OUR FAIR TOWN OFFERS AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE YOUR SUPERIORITY. I refer to the Reno Chapter of the Sports Car Club of America, or SCCA, as the cool kids say. For $75, anyone can join. You will receive a subscription to the stiflingly boring Sportscar Magazine, lots of little discounts and the eternal thanks of your new friends.

You will also get to race. Most expensive are the track days, or Performance Driving Experiences. In these events at the Reno-Fernley Raceway, you may drive as fast as you please on track. It costs $190. You may compete in your normal, full-roof street car.

For $25 a session, or $40 if you aren’t a permanent member, the SCCA also offers rallycross and autocross competition. In both events you must drive as fast as you can between cones on a twisty, short course. Speeds rarely exceed 60 mph, but that doesn’t mean you won’t scare yourself silly. The only real difference is locale. Rallycrosses take place in dirt fields and autocrosses take place on big slabs of concrete—airfields, go-cart tracks and parking lots.

AUTOCROSS DAY ONE Author Ben Garrido is serious about autocross.

Above, Wes Friesen’s Mazda Miata is ready to race.

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Don Smith, Reno SCCA head honcho, promised me a ride at the autocross. He smiled like Cruella Deville and made sly little references to “making you scream.”

What sort of horrors did he have planned?

A Centex powered lawn chair? A sled built entirely from broken glass and rabies?

I arrived at the Stead Airport and beheld some truly terrifying devices, a Triumph Spitfire—which weighs about the same as spit—powered by an atomic Mazda rotary, a Chevrolet Corvair with the engine in the back seat, a gaggle of turbocharged Subarus. Surely Don Smith would get me killed me in one of those.

But no. Wes Friesen, an older gentleman with white hair and suntanned cheeks, invited me into his stock-looking, effeminate and depressingly eco-friendly Mazda Miata. Surely the slowest racecar in all human history.

Miatas are about the size of a chicken nugget, and so when I eased into the passenger seat a great deal of accidental yoga ensued. We pulled up to the starting line and Friesen went quiet. We launched with the ferocity of a mildly irresponsible commuter. Oh, dear. As I contemplated the Miata as cure for insomnia we reached the first, very sharp corner.

Friesen didn’t slow down. Then he didn’t slow down some more. I thought “death” and braced my leg against the center console hard enough that it bruised.

Friesen smashed the brake pedal .3 inches away from the corner. He slammed the effete little car at the apex like Albert Pujols swatting a curveball. The violence of this maneuver made me literally forget to breathe. Then he did it again, and again.

About halfway through, Friesen went too fast into a left-hand turn. The Miata bit back. You just don’t catch a car turning this hard, I thought. You don’t rescue a car sliding this much. Once again, I was wrong. Friesen gathered it up, laughed and continued.

We finished the lap in 52 seconds, and Friesen told me to get out. My leg hurt, my head was stuck in the convertible top, and I’d just remembered to breathe. He didn’t have to ask twice.

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first slalom, the car sliding sideways on the first long corner and the engine yelping in pain. Then I got lost. I’m still not sure where, but I missed a corner. My time slip read 82.9 seconds, DNF. No matter, I would take my proper, exalted spot next run.

Sadly, the second time I got even more lost and hit about 20 cones.

104.3 seconds, the slowest time of the day by miles. An achingly slow, cautious third lap resulted in my one clean run of the day, 82.7 seconds. During the fourth and final run I once again got lost and cut a corner somewhere, but at least my time got down in the low 80 second range.

“Maybe you should use a map,” Gina said.

I returned to the pits and spoke once more to Satus and Morrison. Iris beat me by a mere seven seconds and Morrison had beaten me by only 10 seconds.

Some would view that as a call to humility, but not me. My competition had reached those heights only because of the inspiration my amazing skills provided them.

It really doesn’t take a lot to participate in local autocross. You need a car that doesn’t look like rolling death—trucks are generally not welcome. You need to either borrow a helmet or bring your own, and the organizers will ask you to clean all the crap out of your ride.

For a standard car, I would recommend running higher than normal tire pressures. About 42 psi works well. Just go to a gas station and use their air pumps if you don’t have an air compressor.

Autocross rewards agility above power. It’s not unusual for old econoboxes to beat Ferraris. You don’t need, or even want, a nice car. Building up your own skill and buying better tires will improve your times more than mortgaging the house for a Lamborghini.

Bring a good attitude and do your work assignment. Most sessions are split into two groups. One will race while the other monitors the track and replaces cones. Everybody works for at least one session.

If you want others to hate you a lot, skip the work.

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I have a friend who rarely reaches the speed limit. Gina Akao, a 30 year-old expert in institutional analysis, prefers to drive with glasses pushed down near the tip of her nose, the steering wheel right up against her chest—the infamous old lady lean. It was natural I should go straight to Gina for my racecar needs.

“You can use my car,” she said. “But you’d better not break it, and I am not going to drive in the race.”

I accepted these terms for two reasons. First, if I did break the car, I’m pretty sure I can run faster than Gina. Second, my masterful driving would surely convince her to partake in the joys of autocross herself. I am, after all, a driving god.

We arrived at Stead Airport around 11:30 a.m. and headed for the safety inspection. Gina’s 1998 Civic was in good condition, and so the inspector sent us through quickly. Her completely standard car had no special adjustments to make, no racing equipment to tune.

This left us 45 minutes of sitting on the grid, doing absolutely nothing. I decided to fill the gap with trash talk. I went first to Friesen and University of Nevada, Reno professor/Porsche racer Robert Morrison.

“I’m here to crush you with my amazing skills,” I said.

“Think of this as an opportunity to admire my majesty.”

This clearly frightened them, but, being crafty older men, they quickly covered their fear by pointing and laughing.

Well pleased, I moved on to 21 year-old UNR student Iris “The Stig” Satus. I scoffed at her 2007 Mini Cooper S and predicted crushing defeat. This struck fear into her heart.

“I’m trembling,” she said. “I just tremble really small so you can’t see it.”

Competition cowed, Gina and I went to the start line. In an effort to boost my confidence, she said, “That girl is probably gonna beat you.” I brushed off her nay-saying and focused on glory. It was my first time driving Gina’s car, and I was unfamiliar with the track, so I decided to do an easy first lap.

“I won’t even squeal the tires,” I said.

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Day of the dead The Mexican picks a couple of his own greatest hits, with fashion advice and meditations on death Dear Readers: I’m currently smuggling mescal out of Oaxaca and into hipster bars nationwide, and thus give you two oldies-but-goodies. But I do want to give a shout-out to Olympic silver medalist Leo Manzano, a former undocumented immigrant who’s turning out to be the greatest American long-distance runner since the legendary Jim Ryun. Take that, Know Nothings! Anyhoo, on to the by Gustavo Arellano preguntas ... gustavoa@ newsreview.com

Dear Mexican: It seems that whenever Chicano professors want to show off their mexicanidad, they wear a guayabera. In fact, I saw a picture of you in the Los Angeles Times donning the shirt, along with Dickies pants and Converse All Stars. How trite and bourgeois! You go to a café or bar in any university town in Mexico, and the students will think you’re totally naco. I stopped wearing the guayabera when a friend said I

looked like a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. Do certain clothes determine your Mexicanness?

Abso-pinche-lutely. “The bigger the sombrero, the wabbier the man” is a commandment all Mexicans learn from the Virgin of Guadalupe. But seriously, Mexican clothes correspond to social and economic status—sweaty T-shirt indicates laborer, calf-length skirt means a proper Mexican woman, and if a cobbler used the hide of an endangered reptile to fashion your cowboy boots, you’re probably a drug dealer or a Texan. The guayabera—a loose-fitting, pleated shirt common in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz and other tropical regions of Latin America—also announces something about its owner: the güey is feeling hot and wants to look sharp. Why the hate? Remember what Andy Warhol said: “Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois.” Who cares if people mistake you for a waiter if you sport a guayabera? Just spit in their soup. And who cares if

Mexican university students call me, you or any guayabera wearer a naco (Mexico City slang for bumpkin)?

They can’t be that smart if they’re still in Mexico.

What’s with the memorials on the back windows of Mexican cars?

Some days, driving through Santa Ana, I feel like I’m navigating a cemetery.

Ruminating on the Mexican obsession with death is as hack as a reporter rolling with gangsters. Yes, Mexicans embrace death—we laud it in song, codify it with holidays, and, sí, plaster the names and dates of birth and death of our deceased beloveds on car windows, ornate back tattoos and even sweatshirts. “In Mexican homes across Aztlan, an altar is usually present,” notes La Pocha, a SanTana artist who specializes in Day of the Dead lore.

“In this modern age, spending more time in our cars than our homes, resourceful Mexicans have placed

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mini-mobile altares in their vehicles.

Now you can honor your dead homies while cruisin’ in your Chevy. That’s progress!”

“Death is present in our fiestas, our games, our loves and our thoughts,” wrote Octavio Paz in his 1950 classic The Labyrinth of Solitude. “To die and to kill are ideas that rarely leave us.

We are seduced by death.”

But before you cite Paz—along with Aztec human sacrifice, cockfighting, bullfighting and the front pages of Tijuana tabloids—as proof of our inherent blood lust, consider this: Isn’t there something honorable about living in the presence of death, something valuable, even, in remembering our mortality? Why relegate death to cemeteries as gabacho Protestants do?

Why forget those who passed before us? Again Paz: “The cult of life, if it is truly profound and total, is also the cult of death, because the two are inseparable. A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.” Ω

Larry Hunt In the ’60s and ’70s, Reno artist Larry Hunt, like many young men, was a devotee to his by craft. But as so often happens to our most Marvin Gonzalez romantic notions, the real world showed its ugly face.

“When I was young in the ’60s and ’70s all I wanted to do was be artist,” says Hunt. “Then I had a kid and didn’t do art for many years. I was trying to raise a family.”

He moved to Reno in the early 70s to make a living, and after abandoning his Larry Hunt’s solo pursuit of art, he set up a successful exhibition is on display landscaping business in Carson City, and at Reno Art Works, 1995 later moved into the insurance business.

Dickerson Road, through In the years that followed he tried to Aug. 31. The artist’s reception is reignite his interest in painting. In the Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. mid ’80s he painted a series, but into the garage they went because he didn’t feel they were strong.

It was only about three years ago that he had an epiphany.

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my insurance business, and all I start doing is art.”

For many years, Hunt has had an interest in motorcycles, and his use of steel and auto-paint certainly point toward that interest. But, the inspiration for his art doesn’t necessarily come from the motorcycles themselves, but the way the landscape unravel as he rides the width and breadth of Nevada.

“Most of the abstract stuff, as well as the images that you see, are all pretty much related to riding motorcycles,” he says. “I ride motorcycles a lot, and when you ride a motorcycle, you catch your landscape in stills. And all these images are basically images that I collect in my mind as I ride through the mountains or desert.”

His earlier paintings, from the ’80s, reflect the same kind of attention to landscape and abstraction. Some of the images are double images. At a glance, they appear to be simply abstract landscapes delineated by what is most certainly a Nevada skyline, but upon further inspec-

tion a woman’s body, or part of her body, opens up before the viewer’s eyes.

When I point out what appears to be a sexual nature in his work, he responds that that’s often an observation of his work that is close but not quite right.

“Well, it’s not so much sexuality as sensuality,” he says “That sensuality is nothing more than the tactility, if you will, of looking at landscapes and wanting to touch them. So, you have a tendency to want to touch my work.”

In a sense, what he wants from his observer is to hearken back to those days as a child, looking through the windshield

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"Chihuahua in the Weeds" is a sculpture by Larry Hunt.

of a car and wanting to reach out and collect that passing myopic world.

“I have always thought of Nevada of being very voluptuous and mountainous but smooth,” he says.

In a way it’s fitting that he has included this series of painting from the ’80s in his newest exhibition, which opens at the Reno Art Works gallery on August 23, because thematically the paintings have been part of the process of the development of his current style. Not only is he using mixed media, but his choice of materials and subject matter also seem to be a dichotomy. There seems to be this play between the natural and the manmade— between man and nature.

“A lot of time steel just tells you what it wants to do,” he says. “It’s just not real easy to work with.”

Which is the case with anything of lasting value be it relationships, art or work. It’s less about what you put into it, but what it brings out of you. Ω

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BAGGIES AND YARD BAGS To keep items clean & accessible or to keep yourself dry during a downpour. Don’t store water in them.

BANDANA/SCARF Keeps the sun off your neck and doubles as a dust mask.

BATTERIES Buy a bulk pack of each.

BICYCLE Makes cruising around the Playa easier. Bring patches, tubes/tires, lights and a pump.

BIO-SOAP Biodegradable soap, that is. Keep it clean!

Supplement with a pack of moist wipes.

BUCKET With a lid, for garbage and gray water.

BUNGEE CORDS To secure items during a windstorm or to your bike (like ice bags).

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CLOTHING Cotton is better than synthetics for hot days.

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Prime time Duke’s Steak House

Casino Fandango, 3800 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 885-7000 According to Webster’s, consistency is “the achievement of a level of performance that does not vary greatly in by Dave Preston quality over time.” And in the world of food establishments in Northern davep@ Nevada, that would define the food, newsreview.com since 2005, at Duke’s Steak House.

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ral, Angus Prime dry-aged for 28 days in Duke’s own dry-aging room. Grilled over real wood, a combination of hickory, oak and mesquite, it doesn’t get any better if you’re a carnivore.

You could cut it with a butter knife and it had a smoky wood flavor. I rest my case. You can have Béarnaise of Gorgonzola demiglace on top, but why?

All entrées are served with soup or salad, vegetable and starch, but Cardinal pointed me to a couple of epicurean sides— gorgonzola stuffed potato ($4) and Jay’s Iowa sweet corn ($4). The potato was whipped with veined Italian blue cheese made from unskimmed cow’s and goat’s milk. The flavor profile was buttery and a bit salty, with a “bite” from its blue veining complementing the meat perfectly.

The corn is a story itself.

White corn boiled, cut from the husk, sautéed with butter and a pinch of sugar then blended with cream cheese. It couldn’t get any better— it was a-maize-ing.

The great wine list has a nice selection of by-the-glass ($6.50 $17.50). I went with the Antigal Uno Malbec ($9.75) from Argentina, something different and interesting with its intense red color with violet tones. There were aromas of wild berry and dark plum that continued to the palate, with smoke and vanilla joining through the persistent finish with light espresso bitterness.

What makes a great steakhouse?

It must be dark, the consumption of red meat is such a primal, bodily act that darkness—like darkness in the bedroom—opens one up to experience pleasure with reckless abandon.

It would need to have the best quality meat, and attentive but not bothersome waiters. Finally, you should leave full in a deep way, the way you might feel, for example, after reading a 1,000-page novel. A great steakhouse isn’t Charlotte’s Web. It’s Gone with the Wind. If someone takes your picture at the end of the meal, you should radiate warmth and good cheer. Duke’s is a great steakhouse. Ω

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Jay's Iowa sweet corn, Caesar salad, Gorgonzola-stuffed potato, and a six-ounce steak at Duke’s Steak House.

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Starting with the Caesar salad ($8), fresh Romaine with a classic dressing and extra anchovies, per my request, this unique offering was served in a molded bowl of Parmesan cheese. Not only was the garlic subtle but breaking the bowl added a crunchy texture with a slight bite from the cheese.

My appetizer was a mini beef Wellington ($10). Flaky crust with medium rare filet inside topped with a classic Bordelaise sauce. A French sauce, made with dry red wine, bone marrow, butter and shallots. It added a savory, rich flavor with a hint of red wine tasting throughout your mouth.

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Under a bad sign The Bourne Legacy What started as a promising summer movie season has degenerated into a string of remakes, lame reboots and stretched-out franchises delivering minimal entertainment.

When Universal decided to forge ahead with the Bourne franchise after Matt Damon, a.k.a.

Jason Bourne, decided to call it quits, they were looking for a glorious changing of the guard— something akin to when Daniel Craig took over for Pierce Brosnan as 007. by What they get with The Bourne Legacy is Bob Grimm something closer to the vibe when Roberto Benigni replaced Peter Sellers in the Pink bgrimm@ newsreview.com Panther franchise.

OK, that’s a little harsh. I’ll scale it back a little bit.

Jeremy Renner taking over for Damon in this franchise feels like the underwhelming switcheroo that occurred when Andrew Garfield took over for Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man. Renner, like Garfield, is a good actor. But he doesn’t command a movie like Damon can, no matter how good The Hurt Locker was. In taking over for Damon, Renner is going to draw comparisons, and he isn’t nearly as good as Damon as the Bourne centerpiece.

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When the film opens, we see Cross alone in the wilderness climbing wintry mountains and shooting drones out of the sky due to his super strength and super eyesight. He’s a man on some sort of mission, running low on the miracle drugs that make him a super strong smartypants. This concerns him.

Back in the world of computer screens, suits and sticks up the asses, a group of military/government types led by Retired Colonel Eric Byer (Edward Norton, looking for another franchise after totally blowing it with The Hulk), are looking to wipe out the program that birthed the likes of Cross and Bourne. While Bourne wreaks havoc in Manhattan, and Cross evades wolves in the mountains, the government is trying to cover up the whole mess by killing the other superhumans and the doctors who created them.

The plot actually feels a bit desperate, taking what was a good initial premise and stretching it thin in order to keep the cash cow rolling. The glimpses we get of Damon’s photo during news reports make us wish for the true presence of Damon. It’s not generally a good idea to remind viewers of superior movies while watching yours.

Writer-director Tony Gilroy, who wrote the three previous Bourne screenplays, actually does put together a couple of decent action sequences. The early scenes with Cross fighting drones are fairly suspenseful, as is a shootout in a renovated house.

For every good action sequence, there’s a stinker, like the final chase scene involving motorcycles and another superhuman guy trying to chase down Cross. The whole sequence feels slapped together, a poorly edited mess that’s actually hilarious in how bad it is.

Rachel Weisz costars as a whiny doctor who helped to make the superhuman agents and manages to escape the powers that be with Cross. She’s involved in that final motorcycle chase, which features her hanging off the motorbike in one instance that looks totally staged and fake.

Damon, formerly reluctant to the idea of doing another Bourne film, has recently said he would reconsider if there were a good script.

Producer Frank Marshall has been crowing about the idea of Renner and Damon in a future installment.

That sounds like a good idea to me. Give Damon his franchise back and let Renner do one of the things he does best: supporting action mega-stars in the franchises they have already established.

Either that, or write a better movie than The Bourne Legacy for Renner. Ω

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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.

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.

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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.

Director Jonathan Demme likes to make movies with Neil Young, and that’s turning out to be a very good thing. In this, their third collaboration, Young returns to the city of his birth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to perform a solo show at Massey Hall. And when I say solo, I mean solo. Young does it all with the acoustic guitar, powerful electric guitar, harmonica and that wonderful organ.

He serves up classics like “Ohio” and “After the Gold Rush” and new ones, like the beautiful “Leia,” with no accompaniment. Demme cuts in footage of Young driving around the city, following his brother Bob’s Cadillac and seeing the sights. As for the way Demme shoots a concert, nobody does it better. He has a camera aimed right under the brim of Young’s hat, so you get Neil’s awesome scowling face punching your eyes. I hope these guys keep making these movies, because they are damn good.

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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.

While this falls into the category of weaker Will Ferrell comedies, it’s still funnier than most of the stuff thrown out there with the intent of making us laugh.

Ferrell stars as a congressman running for reelection who is surprised by the candidacy of an unknown candidate looking to unseat him (Zach Galifianakis). Ferrell is basically doing a riff on his Ron Burgundy character, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He has a few shining moments, including a profane phone message left for the wrong person and a classic baby punching incident. Galifianakis is funny, but his character’s two dogs, heavy breathing pugs, are funnier. This one is frontloaded, with most of the funny stuff happening in the first half. While it misses out on the opportunity to really skewer the American election process, it does have some good giggles involving refrigerator sex and petting zoos, so it’s got that going for it.

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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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Granted, his turn as a sexy-nasty vampire in the Fright Night remake was fun to watch, but that movie didn’t live up to the original.

Now we get this junk, with Farrell occupying the role of Douglas Quaid/Hauser, made famous by a little guy named Arnold Schwarzenegger. This remake jettisons the humor, crazy gore, and Mars locations, resulting in one majorly dull sci-fi chase film.

Kate Beckinsale is the best thing in the movie, stepping into the role made famous by Sharon Stone and wearing underwear like a true champ. There are a few nods to the Paul Verhoeven original—a three breasted hooker and a twist on the infamous airport security scene—and they feel unjustified. Wiseman’s film has little nods to the far better original scattered throughout. These nods create a craving to leave the theater and watch the original on Blu-ray.

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Any way you haunt it Cathedral Ghost The three members of Cathedral Ghost have collectively been in a dozen different bands in almost as many by Mark Dunagan genres over the years, dating back to the mid ’90s. A little over a year ago, vocalist and guitarist John Ludwick noticed something odd about the Reno music scene. For such a small music community, Reno had many genres and subgenres of music covered.

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The members of Cathedral Ghost, John Ludwick, Megan Kay and Spencer Benavides, have a checkered past.

Cathedral Ghost performs, along with Keyser Soze and DJs 50 Spence and Staxx of Wax, at the grand opening of Chapel Tavern, 1099 S. Virginia St., on Saturday, Aug. 18 at 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.reverbnation.com/ cathedralghost.

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“There’s bands that set out to do a post-punk thing, there are pop-punk bands, there are hardcore bands, all this stuff … but there wasn’t really any rock and roll bands left, I felt, so I thought the city needed someone to do it,” Ludwick deadpans. “It’s a fucking dirty job, man, but …”

“Yeah, it’s a dirty job to write fun songs and play fun shows,” bassist Megan Kay chimes in sarcastically.

The dirty work began when drummer Spencer Benavides hit a wall of his own.

“I had a meltdown with this band I was in, and I’d been wanting to play drums in a rock and roll band,” recalls Benavides. “I wanted to play something simple that everybody could dance to, and just have really fun shows.”

He called up his old friend Ludwick, and the two started jamming as a two-piece without any loftier goals than a good time.

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announced that she should play bass in their band. The growing pains were minor. Ludwick teases Kay about how clueless her tuning was at first, but it wasn’t long before Kay’s backup vocals and artistic energy rounded out the sound that Ludwick had been aiming for.

To a non-musician, the easiest thing to pick out when hearing Cathedral Ghost for the first time is a surfy guitar sound and garage-y riffs soaked in reverb. As influences go, they’re not shy about carrying a torch for the past. They get their swagger from rock and roll, and their raw, defiant energy from more than a dash of punk pedigree.

“I’m not trying to do something that’s a total throwback,” Ludwick says. “Garage rock revival … that’s cool, but it’s not what I want to do.

I want to take that sound and see what comes out when we apply it in our own way.”

As it turns out, what comes out is hooky, infectious, ass-shaking fun. Ludwick perceives a lot of musicians looking down on rock and roll because it is technically simpler than some other music.

But when virtuoso musicians strive to be technically impressive or challenging, Ludwick says the product can suffer. “Sometimes songwriting is about doing what serves the song and not just what your fingers can do.”

Cathedral Ghost’s tunes are so catchy that if you’re only listening casually—or even better, hopping around in a crowded bar—you might not notice that the songs have some dark subject matter.

The good-time sound is somewhat belied by song titles like “Graveyard Hex,” “Creature of the Night,” and “Hey Hades.” While obviously playful, the themes serve as a serious approach to music for primary songwriter Ludwick. He’s a happy person, but a good outlook isn’t always fodder for good music, so Ludwick takes his lifelong love of dark imagery and creates something with an edge. The result, when combined with the broad influences and experiences of the band members, feels familiar but strangely fresh. Most importantly from the band’s perspective, though, is that it feels like a damn good time. Ω

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Strung Out, The Darlings, Handguns, 7:30pm, $18

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Jason and the Punknecks, Liverscars, 9pm, no cover

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Bike Night Blues Jam w/live music, 7pm, no cover

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Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Slide Mountain Band, 9pm, no cover

Neil O’Kane, 9pm, no cover

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Sonic Mass w/DJ Tigerbunny, 7pm, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

Grand opening party w/Keyser Soze, Cathedral Ghost, 9pm, $TBA

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Ladies Night w/DJs, 10pm, $5 for women College Night w/DJs, 10pm, $5

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World Dance Open Floor Night, 8pm, no cover

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3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Rocky Whatule, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; RC Smith, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Joel Lindley, Avi Liberman, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Charles Fleischer, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: Hypnot!c with Dan Kimm, F, 7pm, $13, $16; Ladies of Laughter w/Carla Rea, F, 9:30pm, Sa, 7pm, 9:30pm, $13, $16

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Karaoke with Doug, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Nick, 9pm, no cover

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New World Jazz Project, 7pm, no cover

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DG Kicks, Jakki Ford, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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Simple Creation, 9:30pm, no cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/20-8/22

Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

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

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

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Jacob Green, Thom Crowder & Friends, 9pm, $3

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Java Jungle Open Mic, 7:30pm, M, no cover

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

2) Family—A Stilldream Festival Reno Warm-Up Event, 9pm, no cover 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

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Estocar, The Stabby Unicorns, 9pm, $5 1) Seedless 10DenC CD Release Party, 7:45pm, $6 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

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Handsome Vultures, The Deadly Gallows, 9pm, $5

302 E. Fourth St., (775) 323-5426

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Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Roger Scime, 8pm, no cover

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Open Mic Night w/Dale Poune, 7pm, no cover

The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

New World Jazz Project, 8pm, no cover

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

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Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

Karaoke Idol singing competition, 9pm, $10 contest entry fee

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

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Gemini, 9pm, no cover

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Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

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Karaoke w/Steel & the Gang, 7:30pm, no cover

Road Daddy, 8pm, no cover

RED DOG SALOON

Hipsters of the High West, 8pm, $60 for event pass

Hipsters of the High West, 5pm, 9pm, $60 for event pass

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Jay Goldfarb, 7pm, W, no cover

Hip Hop and R&B Night, 10pm, $5, no charge for women before midnight

1483 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-9424

Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, 9pm, Tu, no cover Hip Hop Open Mic, 9pm, W, no cover

RYAN’S SALOON

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Renegade, 9:30pm, no cover

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Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover Spontaneous Combustion, 8:30pm, M, Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

The Wicked Hicks, 9:30pm, no cover

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Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

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Takin’ it Old Skool w/Dewayne Liaison, 9pm, no cover

Live music, 9pm, no cover

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Laila O’Sullivan, Danielle French, 7pm, no cover

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

Verbal Kint, 7pm, no cover

The Novelists, 8pm, no cover

310 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-9911 3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

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Tristan Selzler Trio, 7pm, no cover

17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455

Aug. 18, 8 p.m.

Wild River Grille 17 S. Virginia St. 284-7455

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Local Band Listening Party, 9pm, M, Dark Tuesdays, 9pm, Tu, DJ Ahn, 9pm, W, no cover

Erika Paul Carlson’s School of Song, 2pm, Colin Ross, 6:30pm, no cover

JK Trio, 6:30pm, M, Justin McMahon, 6:30pm, Tu, Moon Gravy, 6:30pm, W, no cover

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1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, $19.95+ 2) Atomika, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Left of Centre, 10pm, W, no cover 3) Spindustry Wednesdays, 9pm, W, no cover

1) Cirque ’84, 9pm, $10 4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

1) Cirque ’84, 9pm, $10 4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

4) Seven Days Gone, 9pm, no cover

1) Cirque ’84, 9pm, $10

1) Cirque ’84, 9pm, Tu, W, $10

2) Big Bad Wolf, 8pm, no cover

2) Cool Black Kettle, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

2) Cool Black Kettle, 9pm, no cover 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Tyler Boeh, 8pm, $15

1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 2) Tyler Boeh, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 2) Tyler Boeh, 8pm, $15, live local bands, 10pm, no cover 1) Persuasion, 9pm, $25, $30 10pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover 4) Journey Unauthorized, 8pm, no cover

5) Cool Black Kettle, 9:30pm, no cover

4) Joe Cocker, Huey Lewis & The News, 7:30pm, $49.50- $99.50 5) A-Train, 10:30pm, no cover

4) Sugarland, Canaan Smith, 7pm, $59.50-$125.50 5) A-Train, 10:30pm, no cover

5) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

5) Cash Only, 9:30pm, M, DJ JBIRD, 9:30pm, Tu, Dyer Maker, 9:30pm, W, no cover

2) John Dawson Band, 7pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 5:30pm, no cover 5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ BG, 6pm, no cover

2) John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Shaka, 5:30pm, DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

2) John Dawson Band, 8pm, no cover 3) Rosendo, 6pm, no cover 5) Shaka, 5:30pm, DJ BG Weekend Jump-Off Party, 10pm, no cover

2) John Dawson Band, 7pm, no cover 5) Shaka, 5:30pm, no cover

3) Michael Garvin, 6pm, W, no cover

3) Milton Merlos, 7pm, no cover 4) Bad Girl Thursdays, 10pm, no cover charge for women

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

3) Chocolate Martini, 9pm, no cover 4) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

3) John Ponzo, 7pm, no cover

3) John Ponzo, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

CIRCUS CIRCUS

500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

Sugarland

14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-6333 1) Crown Room 2) Red Room

Aug. 18, 7 p.m.

Harveys Lake Tahoe 18 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 427-8397

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

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

2) Grizzly J, Intellitard, 11pm, Tu, no cover

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion

Karaoke Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 356-9799: F-Sa, 7pm, Tu, 6pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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

HARRAH’S RENO

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

Red’s Golden Eagle Grill, 5800 Home Run Drive, Spanish Springs, (775) 626-6551: Karaoke w/Manny, F, 8pm, no cover Sneakers Bar & Grill, 3923 S. McCarran Blvd., 829-8770: Karaoke w/Mark, Sa, 8:30pm, no cover

HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE

Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko 4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s

Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 8474467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO

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JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

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

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THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE PROJECT: Hundreds of athletes compete in more than 15 different sports all in one place for one weekend. Competitors will face off in Olympic, mixed martial arts, bodybuilding, outdoor and action sport categories. Th-Su through 8/26. Opens 8/23. $10 per day. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, www.humanperformanceproject.com.

The deadline for entries in the issue of Thurs., Aug. 30, is Thursday, Aug. 23.

Events 27TH ANNUAL A TASTE FOR ART: The art party features California regional wineries and food pairings, live music, a wine and culinary-themed marketplace and a silent auction of wines and gifts from highlighted regions. The event helps support the Nevada Museum of Art’s education and exhibition programs. F, 8/17, 6-9pm. $75 general; $65 for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

JOBIE BAZAAR: Reno Job’s Daughters holds an old-fashioned bazaar offering kidfriendly games, vendor booths and Bingo for prizes donated by local businesses.

Bingo cards $5 each; games scheduled every 15 minutes. Sa, 8/18, 10am-4pm.

Free admission. Washoe Masonic Hall, 601 W. Peckham Lane, (775) 225-4785, www.renojobsdaughters.com.

PAWS ON THE PATIO: This fundraiser for the SPCA of Northern Nevada includes dinner and entertainment by Tyler Stafford and Wren and Clio Brady. There will be a silent auction and raffle prizes. Su, 8/19, 4-7pm. $19. Cafe De Thai, 7499 Longley Lane, (775) 324-7773 ext. 204, http://pawsonthe patio.eventbrite.com.

BACK TO SCHOOL FAIR AND FALL FASHION SHOW: Get your family ready for the new school year with free immunizations for children ages 4 to 18 in an effort to help meet the Nevada school immunization requirements. Immunizations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will also be a performance by recording artist Chris Rene. Sa, 8/18, 12-5pm. Free.

Outlets at Legends, 1310 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 358-3800, www.experiencelegends.com.

RENO CELTIC CELEBRATION FUNDRAISER: The Celtic Celebration will hold a fundraiser featuring local Celtic performers Neil O’Kane and Ciana, bagpipers, dancing and a raffle. Proceeds will support the 22nd Annual Reno Celtic Celebration on Oct. 6-7 at Bartley Ranch Regional Park.

Sa, 8/18, 7-11pm. $5. The Celtic Knot Pub, 541 E. Moana Lane, (775) 378-0931, www.renocelticcelebration.com.

CARSON VALLEY INN’S ANNIVERSARY PARTY: The casino-hotel celebrates its 28th anniversary with a family-friendly party featuring sand sculpting demonstrations and rock climbing walls and entertainment by the Magic of Merlinski and Woody the Clown, as well as free ice cream and popcorn for kids. At 7pm, country singer Johnny Lee will perform a free show. Su, 8/19, 4-8pm. Free. Carson Valley Inn, 1627 Highway 395, Minden, (775) 782-9711, www.carsonvalleyinn.com.

RIVERWALK DISTRICT WINE WALK: Visit any

Experience Carson City’s Victorian era and diverse past during this guided walking tour of the downtown district’s historic homes. Hear about lingering spirits of the past and paranormal stories. The 90-minute guided walking tour leaves rain or shine. Tours depart from Third & Carson streets next to the St. Charles Hotel (Firkin & Fox Pub). Sa, 8/18, 6:30pm; Sa, 9/15, 6:30pm. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Call or visit website for details, http://carsoncityghostwalk.com.

RENO GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL: The 16th annual gay pride celebration features live performances and entertainment, vendor booths, beer garden and a variety of foods. Sa, 8/18, 11am-6pm. $5. Wingfield Park, 2 N. Arlington Ave., (877) 344-7366, http://renogaypride.com.

Riverwalk District Merchant on Wine Walk day to get a map of participating Wine Walk merchants. Go to the participating merchant of your choice, and, with a valid photo ID, you’ll receive a wine glass and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. Every month offers a different theme and part of all proceeds are donated to a local charity. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm. $20.

The Riverwalk District, downtown Reno along The Riverwalk, (775) 825-9255, www.renoriver.org.

ROCK CRAWLING COMPETITION: Cal-Neva Extreme and Yukon Gear & Axle present this competitive rock crawling event offering displays of driving talent and rollovers, nail-biting excitement and some of the wildest, coolest and weirdest vehicles on displays—from modified 4x4 trail rigs to extreme competition rock crawling Moon Buggies. Sa, 8/18, 10am-4pm; Su, 8/19, 10am-4pm. $5-$25; free for kids age 7 and younger. Donner Ski Ranch, 19320 Donner Pass Road, Norden, Calif., (530) 391-2580, http://cal-nevaextreme.com.

THE SALON: ARE VIDEO GAMES ART?: Nevada Humanities and Sundance Books and Music offer the chance to discuss this question in this month’s Salon. Join panelists Todd Imus, who used to write video game narratives and now works for IGT, and Kevin Fredericks, founder of the Reno Video Game Orchestra, in a conversation about the ways in which we define and explore artistic creation in a technological age. F, 8/17, 6-8pm.

Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

SOCIAL SCIENCE AT THE DISCOVERY: The adults-only event features a food truck court, libations served by local bars and breweries, science demos and art projects. Sa, 8/18, 6-9pm. $20 in advance; $25 at the door. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., (775) 398-5940, www.nvdm.org.

VALHALLA ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: The 32nd annual celebration of the arts includes musical and theatrical performances, visual art exhibits, fairs, cultural festivals and art workshops. M-Su through 9/2.

Tallac Historic Site, Highway 89, 2.5 miles north of Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe, (530) 541-4975, http://valhallatahoe.com.

WHOLE FOODS SPARKS FARMERS’ MARKET: The

SUMMER ART CAMPS: One hour of art, the-

20th annual farmers’ market returns with a family-friendly atmosphere and farmer-focused event. New highlights include a gourmet food truck court and expanded food area. Th, 8/16, 3-8pm; Th, 8/23, 3-8pm. Free. Victorian Square Plaza, Victorian Avenue, across from John Ascuaga’s Nugget, Sparks, (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

ater, movement/music each day.

Classes meet Monday-Friday, Aug. 2024. Register online. M, 8/20, 9am-noon. $95 for five half-days. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 8266100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

TAHOE STAR TOURS WITH ACCENT STRING QUARTET: Tahoe Star Tours offers an evening of science, poetry, stargazing and music. Reno-based string quartet Accent Nevada will perform while Tony Berendsen takes you on a tour of the skies. Sa, 8/18. $65 adults; $30 children age 18 and younger. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

All ages ANIMAL ARK’S ARK AFTER DARK EVENT: Join Animal Ark for a nighttime “safari.”

Learn about the behaviors, diet and habits of resident wild creatures during a docent-led and flashlight-led group tour under the stars. Prior to the tour, learn about Nevada’s owls. A biologist from the Nevada Department of Wildlife will bring live birds to the event. Must be at least 7 years old to participate. Sa, 8/18, 7:30-9pm. $15 adults, $13.50 seniors, $12 children age 7 and older. Animal Ark Wildlife Sanctuary and Nature Center, 1265 Deerlodge Road off Red Rock Road, (775) 970-3431, www.animalark.org.

Art ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Piecing It 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) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

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

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: New Crop.

CHILDREN’S SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM: The

Capital 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.

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. Meals are available at several schools 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.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Heavy Forever.

This 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. The opening reception will also mark the release of Banging a Dead Drum, a limited-edition book of Omar Pierce’s Instamatic photography featuring writing by Nick Larsen. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 8/31; F, 8/17, 6:30-8pm. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 7421858, www.hollandreno.org.

KIDS’ DISCOVERY ROOM: Discovery Room Volunteers will open the Discovery Room three days a week during the summer months. Activities will focus around a different theme, ranging from dinosaurs to pioneers. 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.

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Greek to me The 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London have come to a close, and in four years—two if you include the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia—the world’s best athletes will come together in Rio de Janeiro to commemorate this ancient Greek celebration of physical prowess and excellence. But for the rest of us mere mortals, a feast of Greek food and drink is a cause for celebration any time. This weekend, St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church will hold its 25th annual Reno Greek Festival. The gathering will feature traditional Greek fare including gyros, dolmas and baklava, as well as music, dancing groups, kids’ games, church tours and a marketplace. The event takes place from 5-10 p.m. on Aug. 17, noon to 10 p.m. on Aug. 18 and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 19 at the church, 4795 Lakeside Drive. Advance tickets are $12, which includes $10 in food purchases. Tickets at the door are $5 and do not include the price of food. Call 825-5365 or visit www.renogreekfest.com.

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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 acclaimed 2011 exhibit PostWar 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/materials/specoll.

NEVER ENDER: Now & Never. The exhibit features Megan Berner’s layered photographic and digital prints made while thinking about mapping and migration, time and travel, moments and memory, and presence and permanence—all packed into neat little boxes. M-Su through 8/30. Free. 119 Thoma St., (775) 348-9440, http://myneverender.com.

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 fiberbased 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, WSu 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, 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Biggest Little City. Reno artist John Molezzo’s artwork primarily depicts vintage motels, neon signs and iconic architecture. He presents a 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.

SOUTH RENO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Nationally renowned watercolor artist Gerald Brommer will demonstrate how to incorporate collage elements into watercolor painting. Sa, 8/18, 13pm. Free. 200 DeSpain Lane, (775) 343-8100, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

Life is what you fake of it I’m in love. This person makes me feel like a shaken-up Coke bottle ready to explode with happiness! But, not even my therapist understands. She wants to hand me pills for the problem. Being in love isn’t the problem; it’s the fact that I’m in love with someone who doesn’t exist. I’m 19, and I’ve been in love with him for nine years, since I was a kid with no friends.

I love him for his courage and willingness to help. I understand that he isn’t real and that I’m supposed to have real relationships with real men now. I have the capability to get a real guy and let lots of opportunities go because of him! Why am I in love with someone who will never love me back? How can something so unreal feel so good?

Well, you do have a great way to get those pesky flesh-and-blood guys off the phone: “Gotta go. Just heard my boyfriend’s unicorn pull up outside my apartment.”

When you are 7 and have no friends, an imaginary boyfriend is the ideal tea party guest. When you’re 19 and turning down real live guys for Prince Nonexistent, you’re digging yourself into a psychological ditch. You’ve been engaging in the literal version of what clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Firestone deemed a “fantasy bond”—when two actual people use the pretense that they have love as a way of avoiding the risks of real love. In Fear of Intimacy, Firestone calls this “an addictive mode” of retreating to “an emotionally deadened existence.”

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An imaginary boyfriend never shoots you a disappointed look when you go back for more pie, but he also never challenges you in the good ways a real boyfriend would. A real relationship requires compromise and empathy.

There are risks in dating a guy you can’t put your hand through. He might try to catch you when you’re falling but miss or not even notice you’re falling because he’s staring at some other girl’s jigglies. Of course, there are also risks in not taking a risk with somebody real, like waking up at 40 and realizing you’ve been pretending to have a life for 30 years.

Retiring from your emotional slackerhood starts with evicting “that special nobody” from your head.

Whenever he pops into mind, recite the Turkish alphabet or count backward from 100. You can’t do these things and moon over him at the same time.

You might even follow the lead of comedian Amy Sedaris, who told David Letterman that her imaginary boyfriend, Ricky, had been murdered—brutally stabbed 18 times. If that’s too violent for your taste, maybe tell yourself that yours finally realized he’s gay and he’s off at a pool party comparing little gold Speedos with his imaginary new boyfriend.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

Sports & fitness

Lightfeather at lovelightfeather@gmail.com.

F, 8/17, 7:30pm; Sa, 8/18, 7:30pm; Su, 8/19, 2pm; F, 8/24, 7:30pm; Sa, 8/25, 7:30pm; Su, 8/26, 2pm.

BACK TO SCHOOL GOAL-SETTING SEMINAR: Aikido of Reno hosts this seminar for kids and teens taught by Guido Walter, founder of the Awareness Process, and by Vince Salvatore, chief instructor at Aikido of Reno. Th, 8/16, 55:45pm. Free. Aikido of Reno, 135 S. Wells Ave., (775) 337-8030, www.renoaikido.org.

$15 general; $12 members, students, seniors.

Maizie Jesse Harris Black Box Theatre, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, www.breweryarts.org.

SWANKY SHAMPANE: Boogie Woogie Productions presents this comedy by David Creps set in Reno, Beverly Hills and Malibu. The play tells the story of the Best Actress nominee Swanky Shampane, a fierce, fearless, ridiculously neurotic but fabulously unforgettable character, who is obsessed with changing her public image prior to the night of the Academy Awards, when she will be taking the front row, center seat next to her bitterest rival Meryl Streep. Th-Sa, 7pm through 9/22; Su, 2pm through 9/23. Pace-Menante Theatre, Sierra Marketplace, 3702 S. Virginia St., (775) 229-7077, www.swankyshampane.com.

OLYMPIC FENCING OPEN HOUSE: Meet two-time National Champion and 1956 U.S. Olympic Fencing Team member Skip Shurtz. Learn about the three different styles, see demonstrations and talk to local fencers. F, 8/17, 5-8pm. Free. Reno Silver Blades Fencing Academy, 2450 Valley Road, Ste. C, (775) 3378449, www.renosilverblades.org.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays Round Rock Express. Th, 8/16, 7:05pm; F, 8/17, 7:05pm; the team plays Fresno Grizzlies.

W, 8/22, 7:05pm; Th, 8/23, 7:05pm; F, 8/24, 7:05pm; Sa, 8/25, 7:05pm; Su, 8/26, 1:05pm. $6$30. Reno Aces Ballpark, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-4700, www.renoaces.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.

SCHEELS BIKING CLUB: Moderate to strong riders

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. 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 673-7291, www.tmcc.edu/vparts/artgalleries.

Museums

TALES OF THE MAYA SKIES: The full-dome digital planetarium show travels to the ancient jungles of Mexico and features the ancient complex of Chichén Itzá, the “seventh wonder of the modern world,” in a rich combination of science, culture and legend. Spanish language showing at 6pm on Wednesdays. M-Su, 12, 2, 4 & 6pm through 9/3. $7 adults; $5 seniors age 60 and older, children ages 3-12. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

Poetry/Literature CAROL A. JENSEN BOOK SIGNING: The local author will sign and sell copies of her new book Lake Tahoe’s West Shore. Sa, 8/18, 4-7pm. Free.

Zephyr Books, 1501 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-6657.

GUY CLIFTON BOOK SIGNING: The author signs and discusses his latest book, Reno, a photographic history of Reno for Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series. Sa, 8/18, 1pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrew Rogers: Contemporary Geoglyphs, W-Su through 8/26; Southwest Pottery From Anasazi to Zuni: Selections from the Brenda and John Blom Collection, W-Su through 9/9; Gail Wight: Hydraphilia, W-Su through 8/26; Gregory Euclide: Nature Out There, W-Su through 9/2; 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; Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Edward Burtynsky: Oil, W-Su through 9/23. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL REGIONAL PARK: Sierra Watercolor Society Exhibit,W-Sa, 10am-4pm through 8/18. Free.

1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

Music 32ND REQUIEM FOR JOHN LENNON: Maestro James Rawie and Friends, a soft rock band and the singers of the TOCCATA chorus take a walk down memory lane as they perform some of the Beatles’ music in a “classical requiem” format interspersed with five centuries of Mozart, madrigals, motets and folk-rock music.

M, 8/20, 7:30pm. $25-$80. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 7474697, www.laketahoeshakespeare.com.

BOWERS MANSION BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL: Run Boy Run, Central Valley Boys, Monday Night Volunteers, Wyatt Troxel, The Mountain Girls, Strange on the Range, The Gabardine Sisters, The Note-Ables and Southwestern Pilgrimage are scheduled to perform. Free camping and jamming at Davis Creek Campground with a free concert Friday night. Sa, 8/18, 9am-6pm. $15 adults; free children age 12 and younger.

Bowers Mansion Regional Park, 4005 Old Highway 395, Washoe Valley, (775) 772-4263, www.bowersbluegrassfestival.org.

Film CHICO AND RITA: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of this Academy Award-nominated Spanish animated film. Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Tu, 8/21, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members, bicyclists, students.

Good Luck Macbeth Theater, 119 N. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, www.artemisiamovies.org.

CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT NO. 3: Lake Tahoe Summerfest concludes its series of three chamber concerts with a program featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, Poulenc’s Sextet and Mendelssohn’s Octet. Sa, 8/18, 6:30pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, www.tahoesummerfest.org.

CORAL REEF ADVENTURE: The SkyDome 8/70 largeformat film presents the real-life expedition of ocean explorers and underwater filmmakers Howard and Michele Hall as they guide viewers to the islands and waters of the South Pacific.

M-Su, 1, 3, 5 & 7pm through 9/3. $5-$7.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812.

FAMILY CONCERT NO. 3: Lake Tahoe SummerFest concludes with an all-Mozart concert featuring his Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, “Voi che sapete” from Le Nozze di Figaro, “Non so piu cosa son” from Le Nozze di Figaro, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Symphony No. 40 in G minor. Su, 8/19, 3pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, www.tahoesummerfest.org.

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: Pink Floyd’s legendary rock ’n’ roll masterpiece is recreated in fullcolor HD animation with surround sound and new footage and effects. F, Sa, 8pm through 9/3. $5-$7. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

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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.

JOHNNY DILKS & THE HIGHWAY KIND: The city of Fallon and the Churchill Arts Council present the second of its free in-the-park concerts.

The 12-piece ensemble performs a blend of classic country and soul music, heavily influenced by the brass band traditions of New Orleans and Mexico. Sa, 8/18, 7:30pm. Free.

Oats Park, Center and East Park streets, Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

LAZY 5 SUMMER MUSIC SERIES: 2-PLUS: The band performs a mix of pop and jazz standards as part of the summer concert series. W, 8/22, 6:30pm. Free. Lazy 5 Regional Park, 7100 Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 823-6500.

are encouraged to participate. Rides will vary from 20-30 miles. Participants will need to sign a liability form when they attend.

Helmets are required. The rides depart from the southeast corner of the parking lot by Best Buy. Th, 5:45pm through 9/27. Free.

Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700, www.scheels.com/events.

SCHEELS RUNNING AND WALKING CLUB: Runners and walkers are invited to join this Tuesday night group run. Water and snacks will be available after the runs. Meet in the men’s sport shoe shop. Tu, 6:30pm through 11/27.

Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700, www.scheels.com/events.

Auditions LADY BIGHORNS DANCE TEAM WORKSHOP AND TRYOUTS: The Reno Bighorns announces Lady Bighorns dance team tryouts as well as a pre-tryout workshop. The pre-tryout workshop take place on Aug. 19. The workshop will act as a mock audition and will feature the choreography style that will be taught at auditions.

The cost for the workshop is $50, and any girl who participates will have the regular tryout fee waived. The Lady Bighorns tryouts will be held Sept. 9. Registration starts at 9am with tryouts beginning at 10am. Participants will learn dance routines from 10am to 1pm, at which point they will break for two hours and return at 3pm to perform routines in front of a team of judges. Su, 8/19; Su, 9/9. $35-$50. FIT Reno, 5301 Longley Lane, Ste. C-81, (775) 8538233, www.renobighorns.com.

VARIETY YOGA: Each week the Sunday class is taught by a different instructor. Su, 10:3011:20am through 12/30. $15 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 670 Alvaro St. Ste. B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

Onstage STEEL MAGNOLIAS: The Proscenium Players will present Robert Harling’s comedy-drama focusing on the friendship among six southern women and a celebration of love, loyalty, strength and the bonds of sisterhood. On Aug. 17, the cast and crew will host an Opening Night Party following the show.

Treats from the play, such as red armadillo cake and cuppa, cuppa, cuppa will be served.

Admission to the party is free with a purchased ticket, however reservations are required. Please email co-producer Dianna

RENO TAHOE COMEDY SHOW US YOUR TALENT! CONTEST: Auditions are open to everyone, but you must register first so that you can be assigned an audition time. F, 8/17; Sa, 8/18; F, 8/24; Sa, 8/25.

Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233, www.renotahoecomedy.com.

A LITTLE JAZZ, A LITTLE LATIN: Sundance Books and Music presents this evening of jazz and Latin music with Rocky Tatarelli, Judith Ames, David Kubin and Aaron Edgcomb. The program will include a few tunes from a variety of eras and genres. Th, 8/16, 6:30-8pm. Free. Sundance Bookstore & Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon.

Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

RIVER RANCH CONCERT SERIES: ZEPPARELLA: The allfemale Led Zeppelin tribute band performs. F, 8/17, 9pm. $20. River Ranch Restaurant and Lodge, 2285 River Road, Tahoe City, (775) 3378344, www.renegadeshows.com.

STAR SESSIONS: NORTHSTAR CONCERT SERIES: Northstar hosts three nights of music under the stars in an intimate mountain setting. All three concerts will take place on the main Village Stage. F, 8/17, 8pm. $22 advance; $28 day of event. Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (800) 466-6784.

SUMMER IN ITALY: Lake Tahoe SummerFest continues its concert series with Rossini’s Overture to L’Italiana in Algieri, “Una voce poco fa” from Il Barbieri di Siviglia and “In si barbera” from Semiramide, Vivaldi’s “L’estate” (Summer) from La Quattro Stagione and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (Italian). F, 8/17, 6:30pm. $13-$85. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, http://tahoesummerfest.org.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): These days,

you have a knack for reclamation and redemption, Aries. If anyone can put fun into what’s dysfunctional, it’s you. You may even be able to infuse neurotic cluelessness with a dose of erotic playfulness. So be confident in your ability to perform real magic in tight spots. Be alert for opportunities to transform messy irrelevancy into sparkly intrigue. By the way, how do you feel about the term “resurrection”? I suggest you strip away any previous associations you might have had, and be open to the possibility that you can find new meanings for it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The game of

tic-tac-toe is simple. Even young children can manage it. And yet, there are 255,168 different ways for any single match to play out. The game of life has far more variables than tic-tac-toe, of course. I think that’ll be good for you to keep in mind in the coming weeks. You may be tempted to believe that each situation you’re dealing with can have only one or two possible outcomes, when, in fact, it probably has at least 255,168. Keep your options wide open. Brainstorm about unexpected possibilities.

stars and galaxies. This miraculous technology got off to a rough start, however.

Soon after its launch, scientists realized that there was a major flaw in its main mirror. Fortunately, astronauts were eventually able to correct the problem in a series of complex repair jobs. It’s quite possible, Libra, that you will benefit from a Hubble-like augmentation of your vision in the next nine months. Right from the beginning, make sure there are no significant defects in the fundamentals of your big expansion.

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

people, sweating is regarded as an indelicate act that should be avoided or hidden.

But there are others for whom sweating is a sign of health and vigor. In Egyptian culture, for example, “How do you sweat?” is a common salutation. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, I encourage you to align yourself with the latter attitude. It won’t be a time to try to impress anyone with how cool and dignified you are. Rather, success is more likely to be yours if you’re not only eager to sweat but also willing to let people see you sweat. Exert yourself. Extend yourself.

Show how much you care.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Let’s turn

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Nirvana’s

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

our attention to the word “mortar.” I propose that we use it to point out three influences you could benefit from calling on.

Here are the definitions of “mortar”: 1. a kind of cannon; 2. the plaster employed for binding bricks together; 3. a bowl where healing herbs are ground into powder. Now please meditate, Gemini, on anything you could do that might: 1. deflect your adversaries; 2. cement new unions; 3. make a container—in other words, create a specific time and place—where you will work on a cure for your suffering. song “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was a megahit that sold well and garnered critical acclaim. But it had a difficult birth. When the band’s leader Kurt Cobain first presented the raw tune to the band, bassist Krist Novoselic disliked it and called it “ridiculous.” Cobain pushed back, forcing Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl to play it over and over again for an hour-and-ahalf. In the course of the ordeal, the early resistance dissolved. Novoselic and Grohl even added their own touches to the song’s riffs. I foresee a similar process for you in the coming week, Cancerian. Give a long listen to an unfamiliar idea that doesn’t grab you at first.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of history’s most

notorious trials took place in Athens, Greece, in 399 B.C. A majority of 501 jurors convicted the philosopher Socrates of impiety and of being a bad influence on young people. What were the impious things he did? “Failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities.” And so the great man was sentenced to death. This is a good reminder that just because many people believe something is true or valuable or important doesn’t mean it is. That’s especially crucial for you to keep in mind. You are in a phase when it might be wise and healthy to evade at least one popular trend.

Groupthink is not your friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With all the

homework you’ve done lately, you’ve earned a lot of extra credit. So I’m thinking you’ll get a decent grade in your unofficial “crash course” even if you’re a bit sleepy during your final exam. But just in case, I’ll provide you with a mini cheat sheet. Here are the right answers to five of the most challenging test questions: 1. People who never break anything will never learn how to make lasting creations. 2. A mirror is not just an excellent tool for self-defense, but also a tremendous asset in your quest for power over yourself. 3. The less you hide the truth, the smarter you’ll be. 4. The well-disciplined shall inherit the Earth. 5. You often meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount,” wrote poet Antonio Porchia. “The exact amount is no use to me.” I suggest you try adopting that badass attitude in the coming days, Sagittarius. Be a bit contrarian but with humor and style. Doing so would, I think, put you in sweet alignment with the impish nature of the vibes swirling in your vicinity. If you summon just the right amount of devil-may-care jauntiness, you’ll be likely to get the most out of the cosmic jokes that will unfold. is the longest-running lie in your life?

Maybe it’s a deception you’ve worked long and hard to hide. Maybe it’s a delusion you’ve insisted on believing in. Or perhaps it’s just a wish you keep thinking will come true one day, even though there’s scant evidence it ever will. Whatever that big drain on your energy is, Capricorn, now would be a good time to try changing your relationship with it. I can’t say for sure that you’ll be able to completely transform it overnight. But if you marshal a strong intention, you will be able to get the process underway.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may

have heard the theory that somewhere there is a special person who is your other half—the missing part of you. In D.H. Lawrence’s version of this fantasy, the two of you were a single angel that divided in two before you were born. Personally, I don’t buy it. The experiences of everyone I’ve ever known suggest there are many possible soulmates for each of us. So here’s my variation on the idea: Any good intimate relationship generates an “angel”—a spirit that the two partners create together. This is an excellent time for you to try out this hypothesis, Aquarius. As you interact with your closest ally, imagine that a third party is with you: your mutual angel.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming

weeks, you’ll be wise to shed your emotional baggage and purge your useless worries and liberate yourself from your attachments to the old days and the old ways. In other words, clear out a lot of free, fresh space.

And when you’re finished doing that, Pisces, don’t hide away in a dark corner feeing vulnerable and sensitive and stripped bare.

Rather, situate yourself in the middle of a fertile hub and prepare to consort with new playmates, unexpected adventures, and interesting blessings. One of my readers, Reya Mellicker, sums up the right approach: “Be empty, not like the bowl put away in the cupboard, but like the bowl on the counter, cereal box above, waiting to receive.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Hubble

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Chaplain Duncan Mitchell

Duncan Mitchell is the owner of Chapel Tavern, a popular watering hole, which recently changed locations, moving a couple of blocks north to 1099 S. Virginia St. The grand opening is Saturday, Aug. 18, at 9 p.m.

The grand opening is this weekend. Tell me about that.

Why move?

I felt like we outgrew the old location. Size was kind of limiting what we could do. … I kept coming up with new things that I wanted to do, but we just didn’t have the space to do it. So moving Chapel to a bigger spot gave us more opportunity to do that kind of stuff. And I have plans to do more of a highend cocktail bar, whiskey bar, so I have more room to do that in the future and keep Chapel as the every man’s bar, where we do beer and cocktails and everything.

Why that location?

Honestly, I called out of curiosity. I was looking at another location and saw the “for lease” sign on the building and called out of curiosity, basically as a comparison to see what was going on, and met with the property owner, and he’s a really nice guy. We got along pretty well, and the price was right. It’s also only two blocks away from the old location. It’s quarter lot with parking, basically the same kind of setup. It’s just bigger.

Tell me about some of renovations.

floors. We took out two walls and put in post and beam construction to hold the ceiling up. We took out like three ceilings, all kinds of different walls. There was this huge soffit—like an art deco thing—that was over the center bar. We took all that out. We basically gutted the entire place and put it back together. When we put it back together, I tried to use as much reclaimed materials as we could. A lot of stuff came from Lovelock, where I was born and raised. I bought some stuff from some ranchers out there, friends of min, friends of the family. The other stuff, like the bar top was a subfloor that was actually in the building. It’s maple.

You had the soft opening a few weeks ago?

Three weeks this weekend. The eighteenth [of July] was the first invite-only soft opening.

Great, actually! Everybody seems to love it.

It’s definitely a little bit bigger. That’s kind of the biggest thing that people say when they

easily 3,000 years old, and he suspected that some specimens might be considerably older still. His hunch would soon be confirmed, in spades.

There was one tree, WP-114, that caught Currey’s eye. Wanting to get a sample of its core, the young scientist broke a couple of boring tools, and to get a new one would take too long, forcing all sampling to wait until the next summer. For reasons that remain murky, but can probably be written off to a string of traits and decisions that make all principals involved look horrifically lame, the green light was given to just go ahead and cut down WP-114.

After all, there wasn’t much that was special about the tree, so let’s just chop it down and see what we got.

What they had, of course, was what was then believed to be the oldest living organism on the planet. (It is now believed to have been twice eclipsed.)

After cutting it, Currey discovered the tree was at least 4,844 years old. Oops.

Another researcher in Arizona said, no it’s more like 4,862. And when you add

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A little bit. I don’t want it to be strictly a venue at all. It’s beer, cocktails, wine— that’s our main focus, creating a place to hang out. But we do have the room and the stage and the PA system. But we’re kind of thinking no more than once a month. ... We want to cherry pick what we want, no more than once a month, and have some cool shows. We don’t want to be one of those places that has four shows a week. That’s not our vibe. Cocktails and drinks are still our main focus.

We still have Tiger Bunny every Thursday. We have a rotating list of DJs on Friday. And we’ll probably have some more stuff coming up. I’m not really sure. A lot of people, once they see the new place, they’re really interested in wanting to play and wanting to be involved. Ω

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Forty-eight years ago this month, one of the more embarrassing moments to ever occur in the history of biological sciences took place right here in Nevada. It remains a blooper of considerable achievement.

In the summer of ’64, Don Currey was a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and his passion was the study of climate dynamics during the so-called Little Ice Age. His preferred data source was dendrochronology—the study of tree rings. In 1957, Edward Schulman of the University of California at Berkeley made the marvelous and unexpected discovery that bristlecone pine trees of the Great Basin, specifically the bristlecones in the White Mountains east of Bishop, were incredibly old. As in one tree, Methuselah, having an age of 4,700.

Currey became interested in another group of bristlecones, these in the remarkable grove of pines on the slopes of Nevada’s Wheeler Peak. He found that some of these trees were NEWS

Is live music going to be more of a focus?

∫y Bruce Van Dye

Everything’s expendable

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We’re having Keyser Soze play, along with Cathedral Ghost. The reason we really wanted Keyser to play. Besides being friends with Jammal [Tarkington] and everyone, Keyser actually played the very first show at the original Chapel Tavern, like two weeks after it opened ... so I thought it would be cool to repeat history and have Keyser play the first show again.

And the regular DJ nights?

What’s the reaction been?

We basically gutted the entire place.

Everything’s new. We poured new concrete

walk in. All our customers were used to our little 800-square foot bar. But everybody loves it. Everybody thinks it’s warm and cozy, but still has the room to move around.

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in a few necessary corrections for missing rings and other such permutations, it was very likely that WP-114 was over 5,000 years old.

Double oops. WP-114, a plant that germinated in approximately 3000 B.C., is now the most celebrated stump in Great Basin National Park.

If you’re a tree fan, one of the nicest field trips you can make is to the Schulman Grove in the White Mountains east of Bishop, easily accessible via Cal. 168. This famous grove of bristlecones is at 9,000 feet, so have no fear, you’ll have the heat blissfully beat. There are few finer places in August, the trails through the trees are excellent, and you may well eat your tuna sandwich while leaning against the trunk of Methuselah itself.

You see, no one knows which tree is The One, because it remains unsigned and anonymous. We at least learned that much 48 years ago. Ω

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