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Letters...............................3 Opinion/Streetalk .............5 News ................................. 6 Election ............................. 7 Green ................................ 9 Feature ........................... 11 Arts&Culture ................. 14 In Rotation.......................16 Art of the State...............17

Foodfinds ....................... 18 Film ................................. 21 Musicbeat ......................23 Nightclubs/Casinos ....... 24 This Week....................... 29 Free Will Astrology ....... 34 15 Minutes ...................... 35 Bruce Van Dyke............. 35

Knecht vs.

MacKedon See News, page 6.

ssteaMy stea My stories of perpetual motion and lubricated love

n a c i r e Am

See Green, page 9.

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no future for you See Film, page 21.

and back y r t n u o c s s o Cr e in search of th nation’s soul

BRAKE F OR

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Tips for Staying Healthy All Year Don’t wait until you are sick to see your doctor. Getting regular checkups and screenings can help detect diseases at their earliest, most treatable stages. During a checkup, you can review your personal and family medical history, lifestyle habits and risk factors, as well as get answers to your health questions. It’s also a good time to review recommended immunizations, screenings and tests based on your age, gender, lifestyle, health history and other risk factors.

Don’t wait until you are sick to see your doctor.

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Board Certified, Family Practice

The Prevention Checkup Depending on your age, sex, and medical history, a checkup with your doctor may include: • Blood pressure, height and weight assessments • Blood, urine, vision, bone density, hearing tests • Review of your personal and family medical history • Discussion about your diet, exercise habits and lifestyle • Immunizations and booster shots • Order tests and screenings • Review test and screening results

Nutrition and Exercise Eating a well-balanced diet and getting plenty of exercise are crucial to good health, as is saying farewell to those unhealthy habits. Getting regular exams can help keep you inspired, motivated and on track with healthy lifestyle habits so that you and your loved ones can live a long and healthy life.

Dr. Alm is a board-certified family practice physician who enjoys treating all ages of the family. He first became interested in medicine at the age of five during a visit to the emergency department of his local hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. Following his military career in the United States Air Force, he completed his medical training at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine in Grand Forks, North Dakota where he served as President of the Student American Medical Association.

In his leisure time, Dr. Alm enjoys a wide variety of activities, including archery, bowling, fencing, gardening, scuba diving, shooting, skiing, participating in historical reenactment events and working at Burning Man.

To schedule a consultation with Dr. Alm, call 775-352-5300.

Medicare and most of the area’s health plans are accepted.

5975 S. Los Altos Parkway, Suite 100 | Sparks, NV | 352-5300 | NNMC.com Information is provided for educational purposes only, and is not intended to constitute medical advice or to be relied upon for the treatment of any particular condition. If you have concerns or questions about specific symptoms that may affect your health, please contact your healthcare provider.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

LETTERS

Best election ever

Bull’s-eye

Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Must be autumn because I’m nostalgic. But man, these cooling temperatures put me right out at night. I woke up at 6:11 this morning, 11 minutes late. You’d be surprised how rarely this happens to a guy who misbehaves so much.

It’s a good thing I slept in, though. Tonight is our Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada celebration of our winners. It’s at the EDGE nightclub in the Peppermill. It’s my tradition to wear a suit or tux. There’s just something special about getting shithoused with my peeps in a jacket. Tonight, it’s a white dinner jacket tuxedo with RN&R red vest and tie. Here’s to hoping that I don’t have any little postscripts on Monday announcing a Kickstarter campaign for my bail.

Along the lines of Best Of, I’ve been collecting a list of all the awards this newspaper has won over the years. I’m too lazy to count them line-byline, but we’ve won something like 350 state and national awards for doing, basically, what we do. The stuff we’d do even if nobody paid us. And here I go, getting all mooshy.

••• You’ve got to check out our website. With the help of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters, the Reno News & Review has partnered with Democracy Live to create an awesome platform for voters to figure out everything they need to know to vote intelligently. We’re testing, but it should be next Friday, Oct. 5.

Cross your fingers.

Our website will allow voters to plug in their addresses, and their sample ballot will appear. Voters will be able to compare the candidates in the races they care about.

Our widget includes candidate bios and quick facts; candidate photos; candidate contact information, campaign finance reports; election night reporting; polling place look up; smart-phone capability; statewide initiatives; social media tools; videos/commercials; voter registration link— you name it, we’ve got it, and now, so do you.

When businesses in Nevada have to pay sales tax, they must send the forms and checks to Arizona for payment processing. Likewise, the city of Reno Alarm Fee (for having a home or business burglar alarm) must be sent to Colorado. Our Truckee Meadows Water Authority bill payments are sent to Texas, and payments to Waste Management go to Arizona. Nevada has the highest unemployment in the nation. I can’t believe that government agencies and local utilities can’t find Nevadans to process their payments so that the money gets pumped back into the local economy, instead of “outsourcing” these jobs to other states.

Steve Davis Reno

No hard feelings Hey, how are you? The ads that you have at the end of your newspaper about the massage parlors: Do you know you are promoting Human Trafficking. I know you’re getting money from theses ads. Here is the main issue: Many of these massage parlors are a part of the human trafficking business where many Southeast Asian women are being tortured and raped. These women, trapped in the massage parlors, never see daylight in their lives. I hope that you could remove these ads from your newspaper.

Also, please stop helping the massage parlors. I hope that you and I will some day put an end to these massage parlors for what they are doing these to the women. Please no hard feelings.

Hue Yang Sacramento, Calif.

Editor’s note: We’re good, Hue. Just a note to tell you that you might have more success if you direct your energies toward media outlets that actually run the kind of massage ads you’re talking about.

Inspiration Re “Life in transition” (Feature story, Sept. 27): You are such a wonderful person, Kris. I am so proud of you for being open about who you are. You set a

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great example for anyone who is struggling with their [gender and] sexuality, and even to those who are not. By telling your story, you are giving them hope. Always remember that your bravery is helping others!

April Maximo Reno

I remember Re “Jewel” (Arts & Culture, Sept. 27): A personal (and not necessarily relevant) memory of Aug. 15, 1987: I covered the opening ceremony for the Great Basin National Park for KTVN television in Reno. I awoke late in Ely and the convoy ferrying Sen. Paul Laxalt and the other VIPs to the park had already departed. Not to worry. I had ridden my BMW motorcycle to the event. At speeds substantially in excess of 55 miles an hour, I overtook the VIP convoy on the narrow mountain road leading to the GBNP. Anxious to get video of the convoy’s arrival, I blew past the five or six cars at approximately 87 miles an hour. (This was 25 years before the establishment of Homeland Security, lest you wonder why I didn’t end up as a bullet riddled corpse alongside the road.) When the VIPs arrived, we (including Sen. Laxalt and a couple of highway patrolmen) chuckled about the outlaw nature of riding a motorcycle at [high] speed.

More importantly, I had unfettered access to the important people. Less an interview than a chat, Sen. Laxalt and I talked about our mutual affection for the Great Basin. Laxalt’s father was a shepherd in the Sierra and the Great Basin when he first immigrated to Nevada. (Legally?) Lots of warmth and smiles on that day. A little of Nevada’s beauty got exposed to the nation. And some politicians were revealed as human beings without a lot of ideological or political crap attached. Good Day. Good news story.

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Go to the head of the class Re “The man who would be president” (Feature story, Sept. 13): I have been thinking about coming up with a report card of sorts so that I can focus on my views of the issues and then do the same for each of the candidates and also make notes on their public statements, the debates, etc., concerning their consistency (and mine) toward the issues and the presentations. For whatever reason, I just wouldn’t sit down and list the issues.

Thanks to you and this interview, I now have a starting point from which I can make my list and once started, I can go back to the Constitution to more fully develop the report card. The report card won’t be the only thing on which I base my decision, but it surely will help me elucidate the positions of the candidates and focus on mine as well.

Joann Phillips Reno Editor’s note: Assuming all the technological stars align, if you’ll come to our website, www.newsreview.com/reno beginning Oct. 5, we’ll be able to help you out with candidate comparisons.

What he said Re “Apples and Melons” (Letters to the Editor, Sept. 27): Valerie P. Cohen bases a series of gratuitous attacks and insults on her equivocation of a man writing a review on bras (with his wife as tester) with the statements of Rep. Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.”

While I suggest the two incidents are

Cassandra says Re “Legendary problem” (News, Sept.

27): Who buys at retail from bricks-andmortar stores anymore? People may

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

FILET OF SOUL

Walt Weber Centralia

Larry Wissbeck Paonia, Colo.

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“shop” there—fondle the merch, try it out or try it on—then go home, log on to Amazon, etc., to purchase tax-free and have delivered to their door. Y’all are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic when you argue for sales tax from Big Retail. Future taxable consumer spending is grocery, gasoline, restaurant and services. Learn to live on the revenue produced from that spending. Quit hanging all your hopes and dreams on The Next Big Thing.

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quite dissimilar, I would rather like to call into question the idea that rape is in any way a “female-only” concern. I am not stating that only women are raped, but rather I am saying that any reasonable and significant concern is one that is not simply shared by the affected group, but should be a concern to all. I reject the idea, whether posited by the left or the right, that there is a “private language” of experience or concerns. I tend to follow Ludwig Wittgenstein’s suggestion that there is no “private language” that can be only known to a particular person or group. That is that any proposition that can be held by someone, the salient features of such can be communicated to any other person given enough context. There are no reasonable and significant experiences or concerns held by any group which cannot or should not be understood, or should not be a concern to any other group of people. If one was to hold that there was such a “private language” of concerns; why would one necessarily hold, for example that “all women” would then share in that “private language”? Why not posit that some groups of women may not share in that “private language,” down to the ridiculous extreme that each person does in fact speak their own “private language.”

It should be clear that morality is a choice that not all people decide to follow. I believe that morality is not based upon that we are all the same, or even that we all deserve respect; but that our default attitude towards each other is based upon the idea that we should treat each other with civility and with allowance for each person’s right to self-determination and that all reasonable and significant concerns are the concerns of us all. Our duty to each other is well represented by the saying attributed to Martin Niemoller in the statement, “First they came for ...”

That said, I think it is absurd that Ms. Cohen would posit that rape is a female-only concern. To be unconcerned with another’s reasonable and significant concerns is the root of evil and the beginning of one’s rationalization of horror visited upon each other.

Brian Hancock Reno

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BIG HE A SMALL H

by Dennis Myers

THIS MODERN WORLD

BY TOM TOMORROW

BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25kYour favorite road trip?

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Asked at U.S. Post Office, 1674 N. Virginia St. Suzi Stempeck Computer technician

You know, I haven’t been on a trip in 20 years, so I would have to say my last road trip was good. It was to San Francisco.

Sherri Barker Office manager

South shore. Love the views of the lake, Emerald Bay. Sometimes we camp there, sometimes we just camp for the day.

Aniaya Mingo

Elect Shelley Berkley We endorse Shelley Berkley for the U. S. Senate.

We hope Nevadans will replace appointed Sen. Dean Heller with Berkley because Heller has been bad for Nevada and for the nation.

Heller had an opportunity when he entered the federal arena with election to the U.S. House in 2006. He was a moderate Republican in the Nevada Legislature, fair and reasonable as secretary of state. He could have shown his party how to serve without being dogmatic, intransigent and contemptuous of his opposition. He could have shown how to work with the Democrats instead of obstructing business. That’s one reason this newspaper endorsed him.

Instead, like so many politicians, when he decided to play the big room, he dashed right where the big campaign money was—money whose givers demand obstruction.

In 2006, he beat Sharron Angle in the Republican primary after the far-right Club for Growth, which specialized in opposing moderate Republicans, intervened in Nevada to support Angle against Heller and fellow moderate Dawn Gibbons. They got 61 percent of the vote to Angle’s 35 percent, but after Heller was elected, he embraced the Club for Growth’s viewpoint. Last year, it gave him a 94 percent approval rating on his House votes. The Club is still far right, but Heller is no longer a moderate.

As a member of the House he became just another polarizing, intransigent Republican. He likes attention-getting issues that accomplish little, like his bill to cut off Congressional pay when no budget has been adopted. He’s a show horse, not a work horse.

Heller voted to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, voted to keep subsidies for oil companies, voted against health coverage for abortion, voted against extending job discrimination OPINION

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law to gays, voted against marriage equality, voted for and against lettings stockholders vote on executive bonuses.

On this last item, last month Heller got his reward—an endorsement from Financial Executives International, which reported that Heller was one of 22 senators who have “voted 100 percent pro-FEI priorities.” So Heller got his reward. What did the public get? Screwed.

This is not a race where the choice is clear cut, and we have misgivings about Berkley, who has made some bad judgments. She once attacked Gov. Kenny Guinn for creating a senior prescription drug program because it didn’t initially serve enough people. She’s been far too protective of the casino industry. Her explanations for her activities benefiting her husband’s business, now the subject of an ethics probe, do not wash. That she was helping Nevadans is beside the point. The same can be said for many officials’ conflicts of interest. But there are thousands of issues, from aviation to zoology, where she can aid Nevadans. She needs to stay away from aiding Nevadans if it also engages her husband’s business. She also needs to listen to those who disagree with her.

But this is not a race between perfect and imperfect.

Berkley has been less cynical, less intransigent than Heller.

She doesn’t let ideology decide all her positions. She is willing to work with her adversaries.

She voted to empower the EPA on greenhouse gases, against subsidizing the oil companies, for including abortion in health coverage, for extending job discrimination law to gays, against a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, and for letting stockholders vote on executive bonuses.

It’s time for Dean Heller to go. We hope you will vote for Shelley Berkley for the U.S. Senate. Ω IN ROTATION

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I go to California to see my daughter.

She’s married to a marine and he was stationed at Twentynine Palms. And, of course, I get to see my grandkids there.

So that’s why I’m doing the 10 hours, round trip.

Lisa Robertson Sales representative

San Francisco. It’s exciting to get away, and it’s close to home. We meet our friends down there. It’s just a great place to get together and meet. I love to take the girls shopping. It’s their once-a-year adventure, getting out with my daughters.

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State legislators Debbie Smith (left) and Ben Kieckhefer spoke at a mining convention this week. She’s a Democrat, he’s a Republican, but they agree on the need for changes in the Nevada budget process.

are the Committee on Anatomical Dissection, Credit Union Advisory Council, Commission on Ethics, State Grazing Boards, State Board of Oriental Medicine, Well Drillers’ Advisory Board, and Board of Wildlife Commissioners.

Lethal state Nevada has retained its high ranking among states where women are murdered by men.

No other state comes close to Nevada’s rate of 2.62 per 100,000.

South Carolina, in second place, is at 1.94 per 100,000. Nevada has been in first place in five of the last six years.

The states in the top five are all Southern states, plus Nevada.

No seat at the table

Reid raises religion against Romney In a conference cal with reporters last week, Harry Reid invoked a Mormon anti-Romney blogger and then agreed with the blogger’s description of Romney.

“He’s coming to a state where there are a lot of members of the LDS church,” Reid said, referring to Romney’s Sept. 28 visit to Nevada.

“They understand that he is not the face of Mormonism.”

Romney and Reid are both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Reid described blog comments by Gregory Prince, coauthor of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.

“He said that Romney has sullied the religion that he—Prince and Romney—share,” Reid said. “And he’s so disappointed that, in his [Prince’s] words, ‘It’s a good religion, and he’s hiding from it.’ ” Reid said, “I agree with him.”

“Shame on them,” said U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, to the Salt Lake Tribune, referring to both Prince and Reid.

“Harry Reid seems to be making this way too personal and consequently throwing the religion under the bus for his own personal gain. That’s not where anyone should be going with this. He’s taking this two steps too far.”

In the Washington Post, writer Jennifer Rubin was harshly critical of journalists for not giving Reid’s comments more attention.

“This is disgraceful, and yet the media is mute,” she wrote. “The story is nowhere to be found in the mainstream media. ... Imagine if House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that the president had ‘sullied’ the face of Christianity and is ‘not the face of Christianity’? He would be denounced in every newspaper, and his resignation would be demanded.”

In fact, the Reid remarks were carried on numerous mainstream news outlets, including CNN, Politico, Raw Story and USA Today, but it did not get the prominence that some other gaffe stories have received.

Syndicated religion columnist Cal Thomas recalled Reid’s previous unsubstantiated claim that Romney had not paid taxes for 10 years: “In recent weeks, Senator Reid has violated at least one of the Ten Commandments—the one prohibiting the bearing of false witness. ... I’ll leave it to the Mormon hierarchy and their flock to judge among themselves and not in public discourse who is the better face of Mormonism.”

Forums scheduled KNPB, the Reno public broadcasting television station, is running a series of candidate forums and candidate statements over the next month.

On Oct. 18 at 8 p.m., Democrat Samuel Koepnick and Republican Mark Amodei—will appear jointly in the northern U.S. House race for one hour.

On Oct. 19, Republican Greg Brower and Democrat Sheila Leslie will participate in discussing issues in the District 15 Nevada Senate race, also for an hour.

On Oct. 4 at 8:30, Oct. 25 at 8 and 8:30 p.m., and Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. the station will run programs in which candidates in numerous races are given 90 seconds to say anything they want.

The presidential forums on Oct. 16 and Oct. 22 (both at 6 p.m.) and the vice presidential forum on Oct. 11 (6 p.m.) will also be carried on KNPB, which broadcasts on Channel 5. These programs will all be 90 minutes long.

Barack Obama will be doing preparation for the first program in southern Nevada for three days before the first presidential program.

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Does it work?

A plan for assessing government effectiveness is ineffective For those who think government programs live forever, the work of the Nevada Legislature between its 2011 and 2013 by Dennis Myers sessions may be a surprise.

During last year’s legislative session, lawmakers enacted legislation sponsored by Washoe Sen. Ben Kieckhefer to create a panel to scrutinize state bodies and recommend whether to continue their existence.

The panel did not take quite the form Kieckhefer wanted. Instead of a free-standing Sunset Commission, his bill was amended to create a sunset committee under the Legislative Commission. (The Legislative Commission is one of two bodies that handles legislative business when the full Legislature is out of session.)

In addition, the bill was amended to change the phrase “all governmen-

“A lot of the time we get lost in the numbers.”

Sen. Ben Kieckhefer Washoe County Republican tal programs and services” to “certain boards and commissions.”

At a meeting of the Legislative Commission last month, the chair of the sunset panel, Assemblymember Irene Bustamante Adams of Clark County, told her colleagues, “We identified roughly 170 entities that must be reviewed by the subcommittee over the next 10 years. … Thirty-seven entities were selected by the members

during our first two meetings. … We reviewed 29. The other eight will be reviewed in future interims [the period between legislative sessions]. Of the 29 entities reviewed, we recommended terminating two boards, terminating one board and transferring its duties to another agency, continuation of seven boards with further recommendations, and 19 boards and commissions [be continued] with no changes.”

She said a state Committee on Cooccurring Disorders could be eliminated because it had accomplished its purpose—examining duplication and fragmentation in mental health services, and making recommendations to the governor and legislature. In fact, the Disorders Committee itself had recommended its own termination in July 2011.

The sunsetters also voted to eliminate a Nevada Commission on Sports, created to foster olympic, senior games, and Special Olympics activities, because it has been dormant for several years, and no one on the commission responded to requests for information.

The State Funeral Board—which now has the power to regulate funeral homes and burial businesses—will be changed to an advisory body and attached to the state Department of Health and Human Services, if the Legislature approves the sunset recommendation.

Seven bodies will be kept alive, with recommendations to the legislature for changes in them. Those panels

Kieckhefer was not made chair or even a member of the committee, something of a slap to the sponsor of the original legislation.

“It turned into the Sunset Committee of the Legislative Commission,” he said. “That’s what it became. It wasn’t necessarily my original vision, but that’s what it became. ... I don’t know why they made the appointments the way they did. I would have liked to have been on it, but I wasn’t, so I focused on other issues this interim.”

He said his original idea was to examine state programs and whether they were succeeding and should be continued or shut down.

“It was something that I was struck with when I worked for the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services,” he said. “I worked there for two years and what I found was that there was not an ongoing review of what government does, whether we’re doing things efficiently, effectively. If we create a program, do we ever actually solve a problem with it or is it just to meet an ongoing need? If we create it to solve a problem, once it’s solved, I would figure that it would go away.

We just don’t have a regular ongoing review of the functions of our government—if they’re creating the results that we expect, if we’re getting the return on our investment—and I think that’s something that we need to do.”

A number of legislators over the years have had similar concerns. When Cliff McCorkle of Reno was a state senator and sat on the Senate Finance Committee—as Kieckhefer does—he was always frustrated by the line-byline examination of agency budgets.

He wanted to also scrutinize the agency’s functions.

“Instead of just looking at, say, a travel budget for an agency, let’s also look at what the agency is doing and how well it’s succeeding,” he said.

Kieckhefer makes similar comments: “I think a lot of the time we get lost in the numbers and one of the things that we are working on is transitioning to a more performance-based budgeting system so that I don’t worry about counting how many pencils the department gets but finding out how many constituents are actually being helped by the programs that we’re funding. I think we’re making progress in moving in that direction—that was

a bill that, actually, Assemblyman [Debbie] Smith sponsored last year, and it’s something that the executive branch is implementing. So when we go into the legislative session in 2013, we are going to take a stronger look at a performance-based budget model that will help us make strategic decisions about where we allocate our resources based on the efficacy of the programs that we’re funding.”

He questions the shift in emphasis from examining programs to examining boards and commissions. He said he was less interested in the structure than in the functions being performed within the structure. And he said he never intended the panel to be used to fool with bodies that have statutory functions or are of such scale that the state clearly needs them.

“I was troubled by, frankly, some of the issues that it was dealing with at the start,” he said. “My vision was not to review the necessity of the Wildlife Commission [laughs]. You know, clearly, the Wildlife Commission is something we need. So I’m concerned that it didn’t really get the job done that I had envisioned when I originally sponsored the bill.”

He said that in the case of the Wildlife Commission, he believes some legislators were using the sunset panel to advance their own policy goals. State wildlife functions have been the focus of a war between groups who oppose the agency’s environmental duties required by law—sometimes federal law—and

Higher education, lower population

want a return to its traditional hunting and fishing concerns.

“I think that there were some more political agendas that were being brought to bear … particularly as it related to the Wildlife Commission rather than the purpose of the commission, which was to look at the role and necessity of these boards and commissions.”

He still would like to see a body that does what he originally intended.

“Not necessarily [scrutinizing]

For many Nevadans, the term “higher education” is exclusively characterized by a university rivalry between by the two big campuses. When the Bethany Deines general elections conclude on Nov. 6, either Ron Knecht or Michon Mackedon, candidates for the Nevada Board of Regents in District 9, will have to represent higher education for Nevada’s more rural communities distant from the big campuses.

The 13-member Nevada Board of Regents sets policies and approves budgets for Nevada’s entire public system of higher education, which includes four community colleges, one state college, two universities and one research institute. The district 9 regent represents the Lake Tahoe area of Carson City, Douglas County, Lyon County, Storey County, and Mackedon southern Washoe County.

“For region nine, I don’t think there’s any question that the number one issue is the funding formula and how it will allow rural community colleges to operate,” said Fallon native Mackedon, a professor emeritus at Western Nevada College.

Mackedon—author of the 2010 book Bombast, on nuclear testing in Nevada—said she approves of a new funding formula proposed by the board. According to Chancellor Dan Klaich, the new formula was created to focus on student success rather than student enrollment, allocating funding based on course completions and graduating students rather than by raw enrollment numbers.

“This new funding formula proposed by the chancellor, Dan Klaich, is an opportunity to address more than just the funding formula itself, it might be an opportunity to stabilize what we might call the ground floor, or budget A,” she said.

Mackedon said the old funding formula created a “climate of instability” among Nevada’s community colleges as they waited for the legislature to approve a budget every two years. The new formula, she said, establishes a fixed base budget for core curriculum—a “ground floor,” she Knecht calls it.

“You don’t have this juggling of resources every two years,” Mackedon said.

“We identified roughly 170 entities that must be reviewed.”

Irene Bustamante Adams Clark County Democrat agencies, but the programs that those agencies implement. And more than looking to get rid of government programs, I want to make sure that what we’re doing is working. You know, so many times we look at our programs, and we evaluate whether or not they’re being effective by looking at how many people they bring in through the door, how many people we serve—not necessarily whether or not those people are actually being helped. Are we enrolling a lot of people but not effectively meeting their needs? And those are more the issues that I‘d like a sunset committee to explore. Are we actually effectively serving our constituents?” Ω

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At KNPB in Reno, U.S. Senate candidates Dean Heller and Shelley Berkley and moderator Mitch Fox (center) prepped in the moments before their televised debate. Independent American Party candidate David Lory Van DerBeek was not included.

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Incumbent Ron Knecht, an economist and former one-term state legislator, sees problems with the new formula. He was the only regent on a board of 13 to cast a dissenting vote.

He said northern community colleges are unfairly disadvantaged by the new formula.

“All of us should be statewide regents looking out for the broad public interest, not having parochial interests, not being the regent from UNR or UNLV,” he said. “On the other hand, one of the things I’ve observed is that we’re not doing a very good job with our community colleges, and I’ve become almost the community college regent,” said Knecht.

The matrix used to allocate funding dollars is, he said, a disadvantage for northern community colleges such as Western Nevada College and Great Basin College by placing greater value on high-brow academia. According to the matrix, a doctoral course in agriculture is assigned a value of 8, while a lower division course in agriculture is only valued at 2. Doctoral and master’s courses, not commonly found in community colleges, are therefore given much higher levels of funding.

According to a Sept. 17 article by the Associated Press, the new formula has drastic implications in Northern Nevada, cutting deeply from the budgets of community colleges. Great Basin College in Elko would receive only $9.5 million, compared to the $14 million it received in the previous fiscal year. Truckee Meadows Community College would receive $27.7 million, down from $30.6 million. Western Nevada College would receive $10.5 million, down from $15 million.

“If reelected I will continue that fight to make sure that we don’t tell people in our small towns and rural areas that opportunity has passed them by, that they have to go to either Reno or Vegas to get any kind of education,” Knecht said.

Knecht proposes the board create distance education programs to aid collegiate learning in rural Nevada.

“I think we can preserve the community colleges in the rural and small town campuses by focusing on distance ed measures,” Knecht said. “If there’s a particular subject that a state is very strong in, students from Nevada should be able to take that course online.” Ω

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Volunteers on kayaks and members of the Truckee River Flyfishers also pulled out items such as shopping carts and tires from the river.

“Park staff report, due to an increase in park usage, the amount of litter in area parks has increased,” the statement read. The statement went on to encourage the community to be more aware of litter.

Volunteers cleaned more than 20 miles of the river from Crystal Peak Park in Reno to Lockwood Park in Sparks.

Power’s out A “Stop Smart Meters” demonstration was held on South Virginia Street last weekend, in conjunction with the National Day of Action to Stop Smart Meters held on Oct. 4, organized by StopSmartMeters.org.

An email sent out from Joannah Schumacher of No Smart Meters NV said, “Stonewalled by the system, concerned individuals take to the street! Concerned individuals are attempting to call to the attention of the general public the grave violation of our constitutionally protected First Amendment and Fourth Amendment Rights (of redress of grievances and to be secure in your home respectively).”

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Ashley For instance, using a machine designed and built by Reno-based company Hennefer ElectraTherm, geothermal energy can be harnessed from the excess hot water ashleyh@ separated from oil during the oil drilling process. When oil is drilled, hot water newsreview.com is pulled to the surface, and then pushed back down into the ground.

ElectraTherm’s CEO John Fox says that this is a waste of potential energy. “That’s fuel to us,� he says.

He also says that by partnering with the oil and gas industry, they can better tap into geothermal resources because oil drilling has already scouted out the best places to drill. “The hardest part about geothermal energy is drilling ‌ and what you find at the bottom of that well,â€? says Fox. The device is called the Green Machine, and ElectraTherm has found an international market for it. It produces zero-emission, fuel-free electricity.

Besides its use in oil drilling, the Green Machine can also make electricity from solar thermal, biomass, boilers and internal combustion engines.

For highlights from the GEA Geothermal Essentially, the machine takes excess heat—the heat is evaporated and transEnergy Expo, visit formed into vapor, which spins a generator and produces power. Then www.geo-energy.org the vapor is condensed, and the process starts all over again. The project is funded by a U.S. Department of Energy grant awarded in phases, the first of which went to research and development of waste heat energy production. Phases two and three consisted of development of the Green Machine.

Last week, ElectraTherm shipped off four geothermal generators to Germany. The company also has products in Austria, Romania and Hungary.

Besides oil, Fox says ElectraTherm works with farmers to help them become energy producers using waste from agriculture, such as the heat from compost piles.

A farmer in Austria “makes methane,� Fox says, and “he makes power, and he sells his power.� A district in Romania equips the Green Machine to heat and cool its facilities, including the local swimming pool. In Germany, more than 8,000 farms produce power, contributing to 7 percent of Germany’s overall power.

ElectraTherm is one of several Nevada geothermal companies honored by the Geothermal Energy Association, along with other local projects like Ormat, Ram Power and Geothermal Development Associates (“Geothermal heats up Nevada,â€? July 5). The Geothermal Energy Association’s annual Geothermal Energy Expo was held in Reno this year at the Peppermill Resort and Casino, a facility run entirely by geothermal energy. More than 160 exhibitors from around the world were present. According to Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association, Nevada has an opportunity to lead the way in geothermal energy. “There’s a lot of need for these technologies,â€? he says. “It’s just a question of human ingenuity to figure it out.â€? â„Ś OPINION

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ODYSSEY

by STEVE METZGER Photos by BETSY METZGER As the so ng but it turn says, the Metzger s ed out to be schlock were “going to G race y, so they headed ov land, in Memphis , er to Bea le Street Tennessee,” instead.

For their 30th anniversary, a Chico couple sets off to visit 30 states in 30 days—and find the nation’s soul along the way.

Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together I’ve got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And walked off to look for America —Paul Simon, “America”

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ur plan was modest at first, a little road trip to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Maybe head up to Boise to visit relatives, then drop down through Colorado and New Mexico. Back along Route 66, then up the east side of the Sierra. A week? Ten days?

Then Betsy (known to some as Liz) upped the ante: “How ’bout 30 days? For 30 years. We can drive across the country.”

A bluff? I saw her 30 years and raised her: “And 30 states.”

“Really?”

“We’re going to Graceland,” I sang.

“Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.”

We packed light, planning to stay mostly in motels, although we threw light camping gear into our Outback just in case. We also brought along a small plastic bag of ashes— my mother had died 10 months before, and she always loved family road trips in our old station wagons. We’d take her back to her favorite places, as well as to places she still had wanted to see.

Later, we would joke that we both hoped we’d be returning together in the same car— 30 days is a long time to spend with anyone.

We left Chico one morning in late June and spent the first night in Wells, Nev., and early the next morning got coffee to go at Bella’s Café. We didn’t realize the significance of the “I Got Off in Wells” T-shirts

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that they were selling until we stepped outside and noticed the “other” Bella’s, next door behind a Cyclone fence: “Bella’s Hacienda Ranch and Brothel.”

That night we stayed in a lodge outside Grand Teton National Park, where as a child I had camped with my parents. I had elk sliders as we sat at the bar chatting with the young couple who ran the place—from South Carolina, he loved hillbilly hand-fishing.

In the morning, we sprinkled some ashes along the shore of Jenny Lake, the Tetons reflected across its surface. Then we headed up into Yellowstone, where we spotted a lone white wolf slinking in and out of the firs along the far bank of the Yellowstone River. Small herds of bison, among the 15,000 left in North America—50 million having been killed in the 19th century by settlers, railroaders and the U.S. Army—grazed in distant meadows.

In the afternoon we drove across snowfields and granite ridges far above the timberline, crossing into Montana near 10,947-foot Beartooth Pass, then dropped down into Red Cloud and found a room at the Bavarian-style Yodler Motel ski lodge, whose marquee advertised “Groovy and Corporate-Free since 1968.”

The next few days would take us from the prairie lands of the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument into the Black Hills of South Dakota—Deadwood and Mt. Rushmore—and then on to southern Minnesota and into Wisconsin. We drove through seemingly endless rolling hills of corn and soybeans, punctuated by bright red barns right out of central casting.

One evening in a motel room in Mitchell, S.D., I asked my Facebook “friends,” “Who would be a good fifth bust for Mount Rushmore?” Among the answers: Ronald Reagan, Bob Dylan, Rosa Parks, Susan B.

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Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Hope, Stephen Colbert and Tina Fey. I was thinking maybe Johnny Cash or Frederick Douglass. n a narrow country road outO side Blair, Wis., we drove by the abandoned two-story farmhouse where Betsy’s dad had lived as a child in the 1920s, its weathered siding warped, the long front porch sloping into the tional Memorial Oklahoma City Na overgrown yard. Then we spent an by children at the ed int pa s tile of One of hundreds afternoon on the farm with her cousins and for lunch had sausages made from last year’s county fair entries.

In Milwaukee, we had brats and craft beer at a Brewers game, then drove through brutally impoverished neighborhoods to the downtown area, vital, upscale and largely white, where we’d been told we’d find great music and delicious ethnic food at the city’s Summerfest.

We spent about 10 minutes watching groups of drunk, flirting teenagers, then tossed most of our “Scotch eggs” (hardboiled eggs encased in sausage) into a trash can and headed uptown on foot in search of The Office, a bar that Esquire magazine’s annual list of best bars in America had described as a “businessmen’s dive.”

The Stillwater “This reminds me of Duffy’s,” Hobos busking in Ashevil le Betsy said, referring to a Chico bar we know, as we sat down at the bar, only one other couple in the whole place. When we told Bob the bartender we’d driven 2,000 miles to get there, he offered to “AMERICAN buy the first round, then apologized when ODYSSEY” Betsy ordered chardonnay. “I’m sorry, we continued on page 12 don’t serve wine.” She had a vodka tonic.

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12 years I taught Introduction to American FtextsorStudies at Chico State. One of the required was Jacob Needleman’s American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders. In the book Needleman claims that the soul of America lies in the country’s contradictions—the individual and the group; states’ rights and central government; city and country; the very rich and the very poor.

One of the most powerful parts of the book is the chapter on Frederick Douglass, which includes most of his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro,” in which Douglass, speaking to a white audience, said, “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

Needleman also discusses what he says is one of the most profound symbols of the American character, when Douglass stood up to his brutal slaver, Edward Covey, and in a violent fight took back control of his own soul—Needleman likens the struggle to the colonists standing up to the crown.

The final assignment each semester, then, asked the students, in small groups, to make cases for where they thought the “soul of America” could be found.

The projects were fascinating and wide-ranging. The soul of America, various students claimed, could be found in muscle cars, in Jackie Robinson, at the Continental Divide, taco trucks, the Civil War, NASCAR, in the Suffragette Movement, a Fourth of July barbecue, the KKK (some took a rather cynical view…), at Ellis Island, in a Friday-night high-school football game, the Emancipation Proclamation.

On the morning of the Fourth of July, passing through several small Midwestern towns, main streets lined with American flags and families in

lawn chairs awaiting parades, we were surprised to tune to an NPR interview with Needleman himself, and were both struck by something he said: Most Americans are very aware of their rights but very few understand the responsibilities that go with them. “Remember,” he said, “from good thought must come action.” hat night, we sat on the lawn in front of our TWisconsin hotel in touristy Mackinaw City and sipped wine from plastic cups as we watched a stunning fireworks display over Lake Michigan. We were planning to take the ferry over to Mackinac Island—one of my mother’s favorite places—the next morning and then cross the border into Canada. We woke to a heavy downpour, though, and a note in the tour book about needing passports to get into Canada as of 2009 (oops…).

Most Americans are very aware of their rights but very few understand the responsibilities that go with them.

Instead we walked down to the lake, sprinkled some ashes across the water and headed south through the poplars and white pines of central Michigan. “Philadelphia?” Betsy said, reading the map as I drove.

Outside Cleveland, exhausted at the end of a long day, we turned off the Ohio Turnpike in Elyria and checked into a motel, then headed out for dinner—but kept getting turned back by copcar roadblocks. Even the off-ramp was blocked off. Back at the motel, the clerk—who had stepped out into the parking lot to watch the action—pointed to the turnpike and said, Softshell-crab “Obama’s coming sandwich and through.” We waved as fries, lunch on the motorcade went by the Outer Banks 50 feet away. t Kent State, we stood Aminutes silently for several at each of the spots where the four students—Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Bill Schroeder, and Sandy Scheuer—were killed on May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds into a crowd protesting the Vietnam War. In the spring, the memorial is surrounded by a field of 58,175 blooming daffodils— one for each American killed in the war.

Later, the afternoon sun casting long shadows across the green hills of eastern Pennsylvania, we wound along a narrow road toward the spot where United Flight 93 slammed into a sloping

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hillside, the ground completely swallowing the plane. Neither of us spoke.

We parked and walked over to a series of displays with the crews’ and passengers’ photographs and short bios, then followed the marble wall out toward the crash site. A docent, who lived “just over that hill there,” described hearing the crash and seeing the fireball, then pointed, moving his arm in a wide arc, as he indicated the flight path.

On the way back to the car, we stopped at a kiosk with a bulletin board and table with index cards and pens—the board covered with notes, mostly thanking those who had attempted to take back control of the plane.

We pulled into Philadelphia on the afternoon of July 7, navigating the narrow, 200-year-old streets to our downtown hotel, then walked over to the City Tavern Restaurant—built in 1773, reconstructed in 1948—the unofficial meeting place of the first Continental Congress. The menu includes venison, rabbit and West Indies pepperpot soup.

I had two pints of ale, one made from Jefferson’s recipe, one from Washington’s.

Perfect for my constitution.

The next day, in line to view the Liberty Bell, we passed tables with protesters handing out literature condemning the Chinese government’s persecution of Falun Gong followers. After the obligatory photo op beside the bell, we headed back onto the street, surprised to hear bells and shouting ringing out across Independence Square.

We followed the noise and the crowd to the steps of the State House, where an actor in breeches, powdered wig and tri-corner hat was recreating—as is done just once a year—the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, July 8, 1776. Hip, hip, huzzah.

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n the morning we headed across the Walt Whitman Memorial Bridge and down the New Jersey shore to Cape May and caught the ferry, dolphins racing alongside, over to Delaware, then drove across the tip of Maryland and into Virginia.

We followed a series of back roads and mileslong bridges just yards above endless tidal marshes to Chincoteague Island, the area home to a large herd of wild ponies—according to legend, descendants of horses that swam ashore after a Spanish galleon sank in a storm in 1750. For dinner we had local flounder overlooking the harbor.

We rose early and drove down the eastern Virginia peninsula, over the 20-mile bridge across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, then headed for the Outer Banks, a 200-mile long strip of narrow barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. We found a room in a hotel on the beach in Nag’s Head, had shrimp and grits and blackened crab cakes in Kill Devil Hills as a storm rolled in, and in the morning braved torrential rains to visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial, where you can walk the paths, down sand dunes and across grassy fields, of their first four flights.

Mostly deserted—and reachable only by ferry or private plane or boat—Ocracoke Island is 12 miles long by a quarter-mile wide, a small fishing village (year-round population 950) on its southwestern shore, where tourists ride around in golf carts and locals drive pickups with fishingpole racks mounted to their front bumpers. In the early 18th century, the Ocracoke harbor was a favorite hangout of Blackbeard, who was killed offshore in 1718 in a swordfight, his head hung from the bowsprit of the HMS Pearl.

Cavalry gravestones at the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, Montana

At the Jolly Roger Pub and Marina, we met Crazy Keith, a leathered sailor, his 36-foot sailboat, aboard which he spent most of the year alone exploring the eastern seaboard, anchored in the harbor.

The morning we left, our huge ferry passed a small boat a couple of hundred yards to our portside, its sails furled, outboard throttle barely open. I waved back to the captain waving from the cockpit before realizing, as the boat slipped into our wake, that it was Crazy Keith. wo hours later we drove off the ferry onto Cedar Tthrough Island and followed a narrow marsh-side road tiny backwater towns, Spanish moss hanging from trees, fresh shrimp for sale out of the backs of roadside pick-up trucks. In Cape Carteret, we passed a pet-grooming shop called Doggie Styles. Then we crossed over into South Carolina and through a series of beach towns full of high-rise hotels, miniature golf courses, Hooters diners—and a bar advertising “free martinis for girls in bikinis.”

Pulling into downtown Charleston that afternoon, we were struck once again by the chasm between the haves and have-nots, in this case separated by little more than one street, one side blighted and boarded up and African American, the other side upscale hotels and gigantic stone mansions belonging to white families of Old South means and money.

On our way to visit friends in Atlanta, we were startled by a sign west of Augusta: “Laurel and Hardy Museum next exit.” We turned off the highway and headed 10 miles south along the narrow empty country road through the pines, finally pulling into Harlem, Ga. (pop. 2,000), the birthplace of Oliver Hardy, where a little brick museum is packed floor to ceiling with costumes from films, scripts, dolls and knickknacks sent from fans all over the world. We sat in folding chairs, laughing at the 1932 short film County Hospital.

That evening our friends took us to a Crosby, Stills and Nash concert in Alpharetta, outside Atlanta, and the next day out into the countryside, where multimillion-dollar mansions crest sprawling hillside horse ranches and farmers sell produce—watermelon, peaches, tomatoes—on tree-shaded roadside tables.

We stopped near a circle of some 20 shacks right out of a Dorothea Lange photo, cold-water sinks on crumbling porches, screen doors hanging

from broken hinges—the Holbrook “campground,” where the same Methodist and Southern Baptist families have been coming for 175 years for their annual revival.

We walked over to the large tent and joined the congregation, the preacher talking about having found Jesus after a losing season as a high-school football coach, and then imploring anyone who hadn’t found Him to come on down to get healed.

The following evening, in Asheville, where Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has just begun work on its second brewery, we listened to the Stillwater Hobos—in plaid pants and suspenders, with banjo, guitars, Irish bouzouki, and fiddle— busking on the sidewalk in front of the Woolworth’s building, now an art gallery.

Later, we bought them drinks on the outdoor patio across the street and learned that they were English majors from the University of Dallas in town to play music for the summer. An hour out of Asheville the next morning, we realized that we should have scattered some ashes there, too, knowing that my mother would have loved the joke.

We’d hoped to see Charlie Daniels and the Oak Ridge Boys at the Grand Ole Opry, but the show was sold out, and I wasn’t interested in Death Cab for Cutie at the Ryman Auditorium.

(The Ryman, the “mother church of country music,” was home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974, when it moved out by the interstate.) So, after checking into our hotel, we walked down to Honky Tonk Row. Kitty Wells had died the day before, and every band in every honky tonk we visited—we made it to only five or six—was playing tributes.

We ended up at Robert’s Western World, originally a Western-wear store (you can still buy cowboy boots), where we met a local construction worker who ordered a shot of moonshine for Betsy. “Welcome to Tennessee, darlin’,” he said, then added, “I can’t believe you can buy this stuff legally here and my cousins are still getting arrested for making it.”

In the morning, we sprinkled some ashes on the empty sidewalk of Honky Tonk Row, my mother having wanted to see Nashville before she died.

Graceland the next day was a disappointment: schlocky, 10 bucks to park alongside motor homes and tour buses, tickets for tours $32-$70.

Instead, we headed down to Beale Street and had delicious dry-rubbed smoked ribs at Pig on Beale, then walked around the corner to the Gibson guitar factory, where kids sat on stools in the showroom test-driving Hummingbirds and Les Pauls.

By now it was Day 23. We’d driven 6,400 miles and seen 21 states, if some only briefly.

We’d settled into a very comfortable rhythm and were loving every minute of the trip. At the same time, we were tired, and we missed Chico and our friends. So what if we didn’t make 30 days and 30 states. We’d made 30 years. We headed west across I-40, the old Route 66, instead of dipping down to Austin as planned.

In Oklahoma City, we walked by the reflecting pool where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood and looked at the chairs representing those killed in the bombing on the morning of April 19, 1995. We took the elevator to the third floor of the three-story museum next door, where a docent ushered us into a small room, empty except for a tape recorder sitting on a desk.

two years, had found work. We left around 5, heading through junipers and pines—and a pounding monsoon-season rainstorm—crossing the Colorado River into California and pulling into Needles shortly after 9. It was 108 degrees.

The next morning we flew over Tehachapi Pass then dropped down into the valley, cutting over to I-5 just north of Buck Owens Boulevard in Bakersfield. By mid-afternoon, Sacramento was in our rear-view mirror. We high-fived as we passed the Chico Welcomes You sign around 4.

It turned out that a water-rights meeting was being held across the street the day of the bombing and had been recorded. We listened, through speakers in the ceiling, to the clerk calling the meeting to order. Two minutes later, the explosion, and the room went black. When the lights came back on, they were trained on the wall, now covered with photos of all 168 victims.

Nineteen were children.

The rest of the tour took us through the rescue—one woman’s life was saved when an off-duty doctor amputated her leg with a Swiss Army knife, although her two young children were both killed—and the aftermath.

In one room, the twisted axel from McVeigh’s rented Ryder truck sits behind glass, while several rooms are dedicated to the victims, with short notes about them by their photos. One man pointed to a photo and said to someone who looked to be his teenage son, “That’s your aunt.

She would have been 47 today.”

soul of America? Needleman’s contradictions?

TthatheSlaveowners crafting a document proclaiming all men are created equal. The Stillwater Hobos joining together to make something bigger than the sum of their parts, and Crazy Keith, alone on his boat at sea. Turnpikes and dusty back roads. Old-money mansions and sharecropper shacks and honky tonks, even the schlock of Graceland.

Recently, we were talking about the Flight 93 Memorial with our good friend Francesca, who has lived in France, Senegal, the Philippines and Japan. The attempts to retake control of the plane, she said, seemed like a “very American thing.” Tomo, her Japanese friend, had agreed— at the time telling her she couldn’t imagine Japanese attempting such a thing.

From good thought comes action—perhaps the most heroic interpretation of what Needleman called the responsibilities that go along with our rights.

The night we got home we sat in Adirondack chairs on our front lawn in Chico drinking California wine. We toasted 8,463 miles, 26 days and 26 states. And 30 years. And agreed that, despite the occasional storm, it’s been a beautiful journey. Ω

n the late 1980s and early ’90s we’d spent long IMexico summers exploring every corner of New researching guidebooks that I wrote for Chico’s Moon Publications, so I was excited to see it again. But I was saddened by what the economy had done to the little towns, which even during better times struggled to hang on.

Now, from Tucumcari to Gallup, streets were emptier, more storefronts boarded up. Ghosts of gas stations sat at intersections, paint-peeled and crumbling.

We pulled into Flagstaff, Ariz., on the 25th day and spent the afternoon with some friends who’d moved out from Oakland 20 years ago.

Two days earlier they had received notice that their house wasn’t being foreclosed after all— Rick, a carpenter, having been unemployed for

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Here are my personal top picks of the recent home entertainment offerings. The last few weeks have been a treasure trove for fans of offbeat comedy and Steven Spielberg when it comes to DVD and Blu-ray.

Steve Martin: The Television Stuff Shout Factory Shows: A Special Features: B I’ve been waiting a long time for something like this, a collection of Steve Martin’s television specials and appearances. For fans of Martin, this is a dream come true.

The set includes specials like “Comedy is Not Pretty,” which contains the infamous staging of Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” with Martin and

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chimpanzees. You also get “Steve Martin’s Best Show Ever,” a live special released around the time of Pennies from Heaven. Martin does a tap dance showdown with Gregory Hines, and I think he wins it.

You also get a film of Martin’s ’70s standup, and that’s worth the price of the set right there. But no, there’s more. There’s an entire disc of various Martin TV appearances, from his first time on TV playing a banjo, to various award acceptance speeches where he skewers the institution rewarding him. There are also some gems from his Letterman and Carson appearances, and a banjo music video. It’s all awesome.

Special Features: Each disc contains portions of an excellent recent interview with Martin. I especially liked the moment where he recalled the “El Paso” shoot and how his heart broke when he inadvertently scared one of the little chimp actors.

Get a Life: Un-Special Non Anniversary Edition Shout Factory Show: ASpecial Features: B I was deeply in love with this show’s first season, and at least mildly in love with the second. This is the first time the complete series is available on DVD. Chris Elliot stars as a 30-year-old paperboy still living in his parent’s house (his father is played by reallife dad, Bob Elliott). Storylines included an episode where Chris builds a submarine in his bathtub in which he and his dad become trapped and get attacked by a miniature squid.

Every episode gets progressively weirder—no surprise considering the show’s writing staff included Elliot, Charlie Kaufman and Bob Odenkirk.

The series lost a little steam when

Elliot’s character moved out of his parent’s house in the second season, but it still had a lot to offer. The opening credits, with Elliot delivering newspapers to the tune of R.E.M.’s “Stand,” is classic.

Special Features: Plenty of commentaries, featurettes and interviews with show creator David Mirkin to keep fans busy.

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repetitive at times. Still, they contain a treasure trove of on-set footage and Spielberg interviews.

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray) Universal Movie: A Special Features: B This alien classic from Spielberg has also aged well (as has his Jaws, which also got a recent Blu-ray release). This is the original version of the film, not the one with the CGI embellished E.T. and walkie-talkies replacing guns.

Hold on to your prior DVD release of that one if you like it, because I think Spielberg is trying to pretend it doesn’t exist.

Originally titled A Boy’s Life and probably Spielberg’s most autobiographical film—due to its divorce themes, not the funny alien in the closet—it still packs an emotional wallop. When E.T.’s ship streaks across the sky during the finale accompanied by that triumphant John William’s score, I’m always a puddle.

Watching it this time, I really found myself enjoying the smarmy kid work of Drew Barrymore as Gertie. It always smarts to see little Barrymore crying during the E.T. death scene. She kind of thought the animatronic creature was real.

And, yes, the Blu-ray is an incredible transfer, and fans will be very pleased. With this release, most of Spielberg’s major blockbusters have gotten a Blu-ray treatment. Still no 1941 or Schindler’s List, but I’m sure they will see their day.

Special Features: A deleted scene with E.T. in the bathtub, which was in the Special Edition, and a bunch of featurettes from prior editions. You do get a new interview with Spielberg discussing the film’s legacy. Ω

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the land of Indy, but now we get to do it with a brilliant, high-definition picture and sound that will have your apartment neighbors smacking their ceiling with broomsticks.

Raiders of the Lost Ark remains the franchise’s best, a wonder of a film that has lost none of its magic.

It’s hard to imagine that Harrison Ford almost didn’t play Indy. The likes of Tom Selleck, Bill Murray and Steve Martin were all in the running, with Ford getting the role just weeks before filming. Steven Spielberg always wanted him, but series creator George Lucas wanted somebody new to his universe.

Good thing Steven won out.

The movie is perfection, the quintessential action flick with a small flavoring of the supernatural.

Nazis as the enemy, lots of snakes and spectacular chase after spectacular chase—the original can’t be beat.

Then came Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a violent, crazy, sometimes gloomy installment that prompted the creation of a new rating from the MPAA, PG-13.

I still don’t know how this movie, replete with still-beating hearts being ripped from people’s chests, didn’t get an R. Even though it’s awfully dark, it contains some of the franchise’s best set pieces, including the mineshaft chase and the raft/parachute scene.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade got a little heartwarming with the casting of Sean Connery as Indy’s father. It also played it a little safe, bringing back the Nazis as the bad guys and injecting more laughs.

It didn’t’ take the franchise to new places, but it closed out the ’80s on a satisfying not for Indiana Jones.

And then, two decades later, we got Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, easily the franchise’s weakest entry, but still a fun watch. I’m actually getting a little tired of the fanboy beating this one continues to take. Sure, the monkeys are stupid, Cate Blanchett sucks in it, and the aliens are a bit hard to take. But Ford is AWESOME in this movie, and I happen to love the atomic bomb/refrigerator bit.

Talk of a fifth chapter continues, although I highly doubt it will ever happen, especially since Lucas has declared himself retired and Ford is 70. Hell, he’s older than Mick Jagger.

Movie grades: Raiders (A), Temple of Doom (B), Last Crusade (A-), Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (B-).

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Anything You Like. His story is absolutely fantastic, and also mirrors 40 years of Reno history itself. He was lieutenant governor; he’s mayor in his third term— another rags-to-riches story. … These are the stories I like most. Through sheer guts and hard work and brains, create something out of nothing.

Mike Sion It’s hard to remember a time when Mike Sion wasn’t a creative member of the Northern Nevada scene. Newspaper reporter, magby D. Brian Burghart azine editor, pop musician, chess master—many people may not even be brianb@ aware of his primary bread and butter: newsreview.com ghostwriting. He’s worked on more than 100 books, having lost count over the years. He makes it clear he’s not the writer, but he’s worked with many wellknown Renoites on their books, including Link Piazzo, Joe Morrey and Mayor Bob Cashell. The best way to get in touch with Sion is through Facebook, where he’s Michael Sion.

You’ve never written fiction, right?

Of course I have. I’ve written everything. The fiction that’s been published is ghost-written novels. I’ve ghostwritten novels, memoirs, family histories, marketing books, relationship books— I’ve ghost written quite a large spectrum of books.

Can you say who you’ve written for?

I shouldn’t, and I apologize for that, but all I can say is, the people have been prominent families who wanted their family histories written, people with very interesting backgrounds, whose memoirs I’ve done. The few novels I’ve ghostwritten are for people who have absolutely amazing stories. What I do is, it’s their stories, their words, their thoughts, their spirit, their soul. All I do is make sure that I get it into print in a professional fashion.

I’ve known you—what, probably 15 years—so I know that what you’re saying is true, but it’s hard to talk to a writer who can’t even say the name of his book.

[Laughs] I’ll give you a few titles of books I’ve helped out on. But I want to stress that these books are not mine, these books are the clients’. It’s their words, their heart, their soul, their story.

Some of the books that I’ve helped put out—there was a novel, Two Toes: The Coyote Legend of Green River. That was

ghostwritten for the late Preston Q. Hale. …

It was a fantastic story of man vs. animal in the wilds. … I’ve written the memoirs for a lot of people, including Joe Morrey—he was the founder of Morrey Distributing. He was born in a shack … in the shadow of the Hamm’s Brewery in St. Paul, Minn. He started below the poverty line and worked his way up to an extremely successful businessman. I’ve helped clients write these rags to riches stories, many, many times. …

[I helped tell the story of] Link Piazzo, who flew over the atomic bombing sites days after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was called It Can Always Be Worse.

I helped Mayor Cashell on his family history. It was called Call Me Mayor, or

What’s your process?

My process is I interview the clients. I create a draft. We sit down and go through the whole thing letter by letter, word by word, syllable by syllable until everything is accurate, everything says what we want to say. We don’t put in things that aren’t as interesting. We go for the highlights, and then I help shepherd it through publication.

And did you leave the Reno GazetteJournal to pursue this?

What I did was, while working a fulltime job at the Gazette-Journal, I did this as a sideline so that I could get my family out of an apartment, into a house, then into a bigger house. And then I worked at the University of Nevada as the editor of Silver & Blue. I decided then I was going to be completely self-employed. And that’s the story. Ω

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Animal impulses

Eunkang Koh working at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Eunkang Koh In Eunkang Koh’s intaglio print, “Down To Earth,” a narwhal with human arms crawls somby nambulantly from a hole, along with an Kris Vagner animal that looks like an ox with the head of a serious young woman sporting a chic A-line haircut. Other human-animal creatures emerge from their own holes, their expressions possibly glum, but there’s plenty of room there to interpret other states of mind, from determined to confused to matter-of-fact in an Edward Gorey kind of way.

Although the image is not set next to Eunkang Koh’s exhibition A Study of Human is at words, everything about it makes it look the OXS Gallery, 716 N. Carson St., Carson City, like a storybook illustration: the creathrough Nov. 16. tures’ subtle gestures, their unexplained environment with all its holes in a dark, black, textured ground, and their not-yetrevealed motivations. Not to mention the finely detailed lines that make drawing look like as much an escape hatch as a drafting method.

If these creatures don’t exactly seem earnest and unassuming enough to illustrate the expression “down to Earth,” that’s because Koh, originally from

Korea, is playing on the literal meaning of the expression “down in the earth.”

She explains that in this picture, she’s making a more literal translation of the idiom, “down to Earth.”

“Everybody is under the ground,” she says.

Cross-understandings like that are everywhere in her work. (They’re too intentional to call them “misunderstandings.”) Koh says her fantastical characters come more from looking closely at reality than from intentionally trying to construct an escape from it.

The mixes of people and animals, figurative and literal interpretations of expressions, has developed in accordance with Koh’s changes in environment over the last several years. She started out making abstract work, and in her last year of college in Seoul, Korea, she started responding to the urban environment, making work about cities.

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She was interested in both the physical resemblances and the metaphorical ones.

“I think there’s a kind of general understanding about how we see animals to describe people,” she says. “The pig symbolizes somebody as greedy. A snake is sneaky, sly.”

After her working method was established in Seoul, Koh moved to Los Angeles to attend grad school, then to Reno to accept an assistant professorship in printmaking at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Each move has affected her aesthetic— Reno’s mountains juiced up her color palette a bit, for example—while her concepts continued developing on a similar track.

She’s interested in exploring ideas that are shared between cultures and just as interested in noticing how idiomatic expressions don’t always make sense when they cross a national or linguistic border.

“At the moment I’m making my work I don’t really think of the specific,” she says. “I spend a lot of time looking at people making observations, then I put it in my brain, then I mix it in my brain, like a fermentation. Later when I use them, it becomes my own hybrid kind picture.” Ω

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415 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, 351-1274 I’d noticed a taqueria sign up on the old Landrum’s on Rock Boulevard and was immediately interested. I love by K.J. Sullivan Mexican food, and the building itself has always intrigued me. It’s a strange, small building that was shipped in on a railcar. The building was once a diner and the feel remains, with counter seating around an open grill.

by the huge burrito in front of Brett.

Like the tacos, the burrito was stuffed with meat but was also topped with red sauce and cheese. A pile of home style potatoes with red and green peppers accompanied it. I was pretty jealous I didn’t have a big old burrito and sulked until he cut off a huge piece for me. The burrito was amazing with tender meat, refried beans and lots of cheese but mainly lots of meat. The potatoes were cooked well, and I liked the large pieces of peppers.

After turning my attention back to the tacos, I realized I shouldn’t have been entirely jealous of the burrito because these tacos looked delicious. The corn tortillas were stuffed with shredded pork with a slight spice. Piled on top of the meat were pickled red onions, cilantro and chopped white onions. The pickled onions had a great tang I enjoyed, and I began to wonder why all tacos don’t have pickled onions.

Everything from the tortillas to the cilantro tasted fresh.

Frequent customer We got to watch the owner make My friend Brett and I took a seat Ivan Rubio enjoys the lots of food while we ate ours and Tilapia Hawaiian style on the stools and were immediately with white rice and given menus by the friendly cook, everything he made looked delisalad. cious so Brett and I made vows to who is co-owner of the business along with his wife. The menu has a come back and try breakfast sometime. We also spent some time lot of non-taqueria type items, such chatting with both owners, who are as chicken salad and turkey sandnew s owner & r e vtold i e w usb uhes i n e s s extremely u s e o n l yfriendly. I found out that wiches, and the only couldpgcook us things not the 04.07.11 El Gordo has gdoopen a designer issUeon dATe ACCT eXeCbeen month which surprised me but also menu, including burritos, tacos, FiLe nAMe donutBistro040711r2 reV dATe 06.17.11 made sense given the incomplete enchiladas, etc. We were brought menus as well as the sparse small bowls of fruit your saladadvertisement filled with printed please carefully review and verify the following: melon and watermelon. It was unex- decorations. El Gordo seems to have Adpected size (CoLUMn X inChes) a bit of an identity crisis where but appreciated. speLLing diner-type meals are being served While munching on fruit, we nUMbers & dATes decided what to get. I went with two when the emphasis should focus on ConTACT inFo (phone, Address, eTC) taqueria items. Additionally, the pork tacos ($1.99 each) while Brett Ad AppeArs As reqUesTed décor is all over the place with went with a shredded beef burrito ApproVed by: black and white checkered curtains, ($6.99). I liked watching my food some Tuscan items and then a made on the grill. The owner has random poster of banditos, but who obviously been cooking for some cares about that when the food is so time, because his hands were flying excellent, the service so friendly while he flipped the meat and El Gordo Taqueria is and the restaurant so clean? El chopped ingredients.

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Johnson doesn’t go the Back to the Future route when it comes to people meeting their future selves in the present. The universe doesn’t unravel, but Joe’s present life most certainly does. Future Joe has an agenda, and Present Joe knows that he’s the sort of tenacious bastard who will do anything to achieve that agenda because, well, he’s him. It makes for a very interesting rivalry.

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There’s a scene where the two face off in a diner, and I’m going to go ahead and call this scene one of 2012’s greatest film moments.

I love the look of 30 years into our future depicted in this movie. It’s as realistic and viable a future world as I have ever seen in a science fiction film. The cities are at once spiraling, sprawling and dilapidated. I bought the world Johnson depicts here.

And I bought Gordon-Levitt as a younger version of Willis, and Willis as a future version of Gordon-Levitt. Gordon-Levitt is wearing makeup to slightly alter his appearance, but it’s his slightly smirking demeanor that screams Willis. He doesn’t overdo it with the smirk, nor does he overdo it with the growly Willis vocal inflections.

Willis, who is having a mixed year with direct-to-video crap and masterpieces like this and Moonrise Kingdom, looks totally invested in this picture. He’s looked like he is sleepwalking through films in recent years—Cop Out could be his very worst performance—but he is old-school, awesome Willis this time out.

Jeff Daniels delivers some of his best work in years as Abe, a crime boss sent back from the future to make sure things don’t get out of hand.

The great thing about Daniels as a ruthless crime boss is that he plays him the way we generally know Daniels—as a mild mannered, warm, gentlemanly sort. It makes the moments when Abe goes off genuinely frightening.

For a change, Emily Blunt gets a good role as Sara, a farm-dwelling mother looking to protect her moody son (the amazing child actor Pierce Gagnon) and herself from vagrants. She has more than vagrancy to contend with when the Joes come calling.

Gagnon has an arsenal of facial expressions that would make a young Haley Joel Osment cry with envy.

Johnson has made a movie in which it’s virtually impossible to guess what’s going to happen next. You’ll walk in with a general idea of the goings on, but your jaw will be agape with surprise by the time this thing wraps. It’s a true mind-bender, and it’s one of the year’s best films. Ω

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña shine in this absorbing cop drama from writer-director David Ayer (Harsh Times).

They play Los Angeles police officers who go above and beyond the call of duty, and sometimes bend the rules just a little bit. Their willingness to put their necks on the line eventually leads to trouble with a drug cartel, and their lives are threatened. Gyllenhaal and Peña make for a great screen duo. The movie is often very funny simply because of the way they interact. Ayer uses the old “cops videotaping themselves on the job” gimmick a little bit, but it never becomes too distracting. He also fills his movie with great action and chase sequences. The movie is a shocker in many ways, and truly makes you think about what cops go through on a daily basis. Nice supporting performances from Anna Kendrick and America Ferrera.

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This animated take on Dracula (Adam Sandler) and other big monsters like Frankenstein’s monster (Kevin James) and the Werewolf (Steve Buscemi) has a fun setup and some great gags. But its overall feeling is that of total mania in that it barely slows down long enough for you to take it in. It’s often unnecessarily spastic in telling the tale of a nervous Dracula dealing with his daughter on her 118th birthday—young in vampire years).

A human (Andy Samberg) shows up at the title place, a building Dracula created to keep dangerous humans away, and his daughter (Selena Gomez) falls for him. The overall story is hard to digest, but there are some great moments, such as every time the vampires turn into bats (cute) and a werewolf baby knowing what plane flight somebody is taking by smelling his shirt (unbelievably cute). Even with the cute moments, there were too many times when I just wanted to look away because the animation was far too frantic.

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Nine years after its original release, this Pixar charmer comes back to screens with a nice 3-D presentation.

Honestly, I felt like I was watching it for the first time. The Pixar films are primed for 3-D. The movie looks like it was always intended to be this way. Albert Brooks voices Marlin, a paranoid clown fish who loses his kid Nemo to human divers. While Nemo sits in a dentist’s aquarium, Marlin frantically races across the ocean with new friend Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) in tow. For me, DeGeneres is the true star of this movie. Her voice work will always stand as a favorite cartoon character of mine, especially when she speaks whale. Other voice actors include Willem Dafoe as a growling angelfish and Brad Garrett as a puffer fish. I know I sound a bit clichéd saying this, but this is a real treat for the entire family.

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This reboot, with Karl Urban putting on the helmet and keeping it on for the duration of the film, is a vast improvement over the embarrassing Sylvester Stallone effort. Urban plays the title character, a generally angry man living in a post-apocalyptic world where policeman are also the judge, jurors and executioners of criminals on the spot. When he and a trainee (Olivia Thirbly) investigate a homicide, they wind up trapped in a building with a crazed drug lord (Lena Headey) trying to take them down. Director Pete Travis has made a grim, very violent film.

Because the drug in play here is something called SLO-MO, a drug that makes the brain feel as if it has been slowed down, much of the violence is depicted in slow motion. Yep, slow-motion shots of bullets passing through faces. It’s a visual feast for the eyes, and Urban is perfect in the part.

Looper You take a big risk when you cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young Bruce Willis. You also take a big risk when you cast the suddenly inconsistent Bruce Willis in anything nowadays.

Those risks pay off in super-mega jackpot fashion in writer-director Rian Johnson’s brilliant and taut Looper, one of the best time travel epics to ever hit the screen.

Levitt plays Joe, a loner living in 2042 who has actually been sent back from the year 2072 by to kill people that organized crime wishes to Bob Grimm dispose of. He stands in a field with his gun bgrimm@ aimed at a tarp, waiting for the his hooded newsreview.com victim to zap back from the future and receive a very rude greeting.

There’s a big twist to having this job, nicknamed “looper.” The reason you are a looper is because, eventually, your “loop” will be closed. That person you will dispatch will one day be you, and a big chunk of gold will be strapped to your dead back to make the 30 years leading up to your “loop” being closed a little more pleasurable.

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Joaquin Phoenix plays Freddie, a troubled World War II vet who returns from a stint with the Navy a little messed up in the head.

He’s having trouble finding his place in the world, and he’s constantly swigging lethal alcohol drinks made of anything he can find in the medicine cabinet or tool shed. He’s prone to major mood swings and violence. His relationships and jobs aren’t working out, and his drinking is getting him into a lot of trouble. He winds up a stowaway on a luxury yacht where he meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), leader of The Cause, a cult-like movement with more than a few similarities to Scientology. The two wind up strangely dependent on one another as they both battle different demons. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) the film features great performances, but also has a vibe of been there, done that. It’s worth seeing for the Phoenix-Hoffman fireworks, but not one of Anderson’s best.

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Here’s a stop-animation movie that isn’t afraid to be creepy for the kids. Norman (voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee) can see dead people and has premonitions, for which he gets picked on at school and yelled at by his parents.

As it turns out, he’s the only one who can save the town from a curse involving zombies and witches. Directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell have put together a great-looking movie. And Butler’s script pushes the limit of the PG rating to the point where adults might be surprised by what they have taken their kids to see. As for this being too scary for kids, let me tell you that the kids were screaming with delight at my screening. They love this stuff. Also features the voices of John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Casey Affleck and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. One of the year’s best animated films.

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As far as demon possession movies go, I’d have to count this as one of the better offerings in recent years. That still doesn’t make it all that good. Based on a “true story”— bullshit!—it stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a basketball coach who moves his two daughters into a new house. They go to a yard sale, where the youngest daughter (an impressive Natasha Calis) grabs a mysterious box that has dead moths and spooky stuff in it. She winds up getting possessed by a demon, requiring the help of a Hasidic Jew instead of Roman Catholic priests for a change. And, of course, that Hasidic Jew is none other than Matisyahu.

Director Ole Bornedal provides some genuinely creepy moments—I especially liked the very spooky CAT scan—but he also provides a little too much bad melodrama that drags the film down. Still, Morgan and Calis are good here, and the possession portions of the movie do have a decent freak-out factor. (Love those hands coming out of mouths!) A hearty “Screw you!” to the dumbass who decided to make this a PG13 affair. This one should’ve shot for an R.

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In the fifth chapter of the popular zombie franchise, things get so sloppy, disorganized and frantic, it’s as if one of the T-Virus zombies bit the movie on the leg and it got all crazy and infected. This is the third installment directed by the much-maligned Paul W.S. Anderson, who has been involved with the franchise from the beginning in various capacities.

He directed the first movie, took a couple of movies off, and returned for 2010’s lousy Afterlife, and now this even worse monstrosity.

He has the dubious distinction of having directed the best and worst films in the franchise.

Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, zombie killer, and her efforts are all for naught. The movie makes little to no sense, the action is haphazard and clumsy, and this franchise seriously needs to call it quits. It got off to an OK start with the first two films, but things have deteriorated mightily since then.

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Surprise and shine The Pretty Unknown Bassist Mac Esposito describes The Pretty Unknown’s sound as “smooth, pop, jazz fusion rock.” And the band by can credit that eclectic sound to Nora Heston their diverse backgrounds and tastes in music.

Cecil McCumber, lead singer and guitarist, grew up in Reno and was inspired by bands like the Beatles. Esposito, originally from Northern California, credits his jazz background for his style.

Saxophonist Karl Busch got started in a family band in Wisconsin, playing big band swing.

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Guitarist Cecil McCumber, with a broken string between his teeth, bassist Mac Esposito, drummer Adam Dunson and saxophonist Karl Busch are The Pretty Unknown.

The Pretty Unknown plays Oct. 26 at Swill Coffee & Wine, 3366 Lakeside Court, 8239876, as part of Reno Tahoe Tonight’s “The Acoustic All Stars” series. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ theprettyunknown or theprettyunknown.com.

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But perhaps the most surprising influence comes from drummer Adam Dunson, who says he grew up listening to heavy metal but realized he wanted to be a drummer after watching Mary Poppins.

“What really just lit the fire for me for music a long time ago was when I first saw Mary Poppins,” says Dunson. “I saw that guy with the drum machine he was walking around with. … That’s really what started it for me.”

The band formed slowly, member by member.

It started with McCumber and Esposito, who were introduced through a mutual friend and played a couple of gigs together, including their first gig at Sierra Tap House and, more recently, a wedding.

Dunson compared the way he joined the band to an arranged marriage. He said Esposito just introduced him to McCumber, and they didn’t hate each other, so he joined the band.

“Arranged marriages work sometimes,” laughs McCumber.

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The members have been told the band sounds like the Dave Matthews Band, but it’s pretty unique.

“We sound like ourselves,” says Esposito. “It’s all melodic, lyrical music that is easy to play, but the hard part about it is to just really make it sound good and groovin’ in the pocket.”

Though newly-formed, The Pretty Unknown has already played gigs at Reno Art Works, Naan & Kabab Benefit Show, Harrah’s The Stage venue, and most recently, Street Vibrations.

So far, McCumber has written all of the band’s songs, but that’s not to say the rest of the band hasn’t contributed as well. While the lyrics and music are written by McCumber, the other members write their parts and orchestrate, change and arrange the songs during their rehearsals, which take place in Esposito’s basement where the neighborhood kids sometimes peek in on them and occasionally write obscenities on the windows.

“Mostly it’s failed romance or being in the midst of romance,” says McCumber of his lyrics. The divorced singer credits his ex-wife for songwriting inspiration.

“I’m not a cynic about love in any way,” says McCumber. “The songs are either about how … [it] makes you feel when you are really into somebody or how they inspire you or how they make you see the world differently.”

But not all of the songs are love songs. “‘Feel like Dancing’ is just a fun song,” says McCumber of the “overtly sexual” tune with lyrics like “If I tell you I love you baby will you take off your clothes?”

But McCumber says his favorite song he’s written, “Surprise,” is for a girl he dated who went off to Italy. “I would say that’s one of the best ones,” he says. It’s about being surprised about the type of person you find yourself attracted to and the things they do to surprise you.

The band members say they enjoy the Reno music scene.

“People are friendly,” says Dunson, who contrasted them to the “mean” people he met in Las Vegas where he grew up.

“It doesn’t take much to start talking to people and getting gigs,” says Esposito. Ω

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THURSDAY 10/4 3RD STREET 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

FRIDAY 10/5

SATURDAY 10/6

Blues jam w/Blue Haven, 9:30pm, no cover

SUNDAY 10/7 Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

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Na Na Nonchalant, The Letdowns, Clementine Knights, Candyshoppe, Reno We Have a Problem, 8:30pm, no cover

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Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891

Oct. 5, 8:30 p.m.

The Alley 906 Victoria Ave., Sparks 358-8891

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 345-0806

Diego’s Umbrella, Vokab Kompany, 7:30pm, $12; Reagan Years, Voted Best Band, The Boys After, 8:30pm, no cover

Open mic comedy night, 9pm, no cover

188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480

THE BLACK TANGERINE

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

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558 1099 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-2244

Voo Doo Dogz, 9:30pm, $5

Voo Doo Dogz, 9:30pm, $5 Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm Tu, no cover

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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Ladies Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 for women

College Night w/DJs (dubstep, electro, house), 10pm, $5 with college ID

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

COMMA COFFEE

312 S. Carson St., Carson City; (775) 883-2662

Open Mic Night, 7:30pm, no cover

Community Drum Circle, 5:30pm, no cover

535 E. Fourth St., (775) 622-1774

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255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. 1) Cargo 2) Centric 3) Main Floor Virginia St., 329-4777: Rocky Whatule, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; 275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917 RC Smith, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95

DJ Double B, DJ Luciano, 10pm, no Provocations presented by RAW: natural cover 1) Satisfaction, 8pm, $15, $25; born artists, 8pm, $10 adv., $15 d.o.s 2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover (21+) Soulporn, 9:30pm, no cover

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The Rattlers, 9:30pm, no cover

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover Sunday Music Showcase, 4pm, no cover

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DJ Double B, DJ Luciano, 10pm, no cover; 2) Adhara 8pm, no cover; 2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover (21+)

New World Jazz Project, 7pm, no cover

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

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

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

THURSDAY 10/4

FRIDAY 10/5

SATURDAY 10/6

SUNDAY 10/7

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/8-10/10

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR

Open mic, 9pm M, no cover

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KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE 211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648 1) Main Stage 2) Top Shelf Lounge

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover

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Open mic night/college night, 7pm, Tu, no cover

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PIZZA BARON 1155 W. Fourth St., (775) 329-4481

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

Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm W, no cover

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

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

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

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Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

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

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Thursday Jam Session, 9pm, no cover

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

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

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

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

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Diego’s Umbrella Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m.

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Bluegrass w/Strange on the Range, 7pm M, no cover; Trivia, 8pm Tu, no cover

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Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

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FRIDAY 10/5

SATURDAY 10/6

SUNDAY 10/7

1) Steppen’Stonz, 10pm, no cover

1) Steppen’Stonz, 10pm, no cover

1) Steppen’Stonz, 8pm, no cover

1) The Hackensaw Boys, 9pm, free

1) Local funk showcase, 9pm, free

1) Tea Leaf Green w/ Jellybread, $17 adv, $20 at door

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

1) Jersey Nights, 8pm, $19.95+; 3) Skyy High Fridays w/Roni Romance, DJ Dragon, 9pm, $10 ; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Jersey Nights, 7pm and 9:30pm, $19.95+; 3) Addiction Saturdays 9pm, $10; 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

4) Whiskey Dawn, 9pm, no cover

4) Whiskey Dawn, 9pm, no cover

4) Whiskey Dawn, 9pm, no cover

3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

2) Live local bands, 10pm, no cover; 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

2) Live local bands, 10pm, no cover; 3) Club Sapphire, 9pm, no cover

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/8-10/10

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

The Hackensaw Boys Oct. 4, 9 p.m.

Crystal Bay Club 14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay 833-6333

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge 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 15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage 3) VEX

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Bottoms Up Saloon, 1923 Prater Way, Sparks, 359-3677: Th-Sa, 9pm, no cover Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: F, Tu, 7pm; Su, 2pm, no cover Flowing Tide Pub, 465 S. Meadows Pkwy., Ste. 5, 284-7707; 4690 Longley Lane, Ste. 30, (775) 284-7610: Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover 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 Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Sparks, 356-6000: Music & Karaoke, F, 9pm; Lovely Karaoke, Sa, 9pm, no cover Washoe Club, 112 S. C St., Virginia City, 8474467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

Karaoke

1) Anders Osbourne Band + Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, $20 adv, $23 at door

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

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18 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (800) 427-8397 1) Cabaret 2) Tahoe Live 3) The Improv 4) Outdoor Arena 5) Cabo Wabo Cantina Lounge

5) DJ Chris English, 10pm, no cover

5) Cash Only, 9:30pm M, no cover; 5) DJ JBIRD, 9:30pm Tu, no cover

2) DJ REXX, 10pm, no cover; 3) Live jazz, 4pm, $10; 3) Salsa Etc., 7pm, no cover

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5TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY PET BLESSING: Bring your pet and enjoy games for the dogs, meet adoptable animals ready for new homes, donate a new toy to animals in local shelters. Donations benefit local animal rescue. Sa, 10/6, 10am-2pm. Free.

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BENEFIT FOR WILD HORSES: Hidden Valley Neighbors Sale benefits Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund. Items include acrobatic kites, women’s Schwinn bike, Longaberger Baskets, antique dolls, Coca-Cola collectibles, men’s and women’s clothing, holiday costumes and decor and Disney col-

Events 15TH ANNUAL FALL FEST CRAFT FAIR: More than 50 Native American and nonNative American vendors will sell beadwork, jewelry, baskets, blankets, paintings, various arts and crafts and baked goods. Indian tacos will be sold.

Free admission and free trick or treat bags. F, 10/5, 10am-6pm; Sa, 10/6, 10am-6pm. Free admission. RenoSparks Indian Colony Gym, 34 Reservation Road, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, (775) 425-3561.

lectibles, among others. Sa, 10/6, 8am3pm. Free. Wild Horse Fundraiser, 3570 Tamarisk Drive, (775) 857-0119.

ELDORADO GREAT ITALIAN FESTIVAL: The 31st annual celebration of Italian food and culture features includes grape stomping contests, sauce cookers competition, an Italian farmers’ market and Italian food, drink and music. Sa, 10/6; Su, 10/7. Free.

Eldorado Hotel Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700, www.eldoradoreno.com.

FALL GARDEN TOURS: Join Washoe County Horticulturalist Bill Carlos for a free onehour guided tour through the Wilbur D. May Arboretum & Botanical Garden.

Bring your camera. Meet at the Arboretum office inside Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. F, 10/5, 5:30pm; Sa, 10/20, 11am. Free. Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-4153, www.maycenter.com.

LIVE SKYTONIGHT TALK: Learn about the nighttime sky during this informal presentation with the aid of state-of-the-art digital technology, followed by telescope viewing (weather permitting) at Rancho San Rafael Park. First F of every month, 6pm. $6 adults; $4 children, seniors.

Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St. north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, http://planetarium.unr.edu.

LOVE LIFE GALA: The SPCA of Northern Nevada holds its annual gala featuring entertainment by Jimmy Brewster, dinner, silent and live auction. All proceeds benefit the SPCA of Northern Nevada. Sa, 10/6, 6-10pm. $65 per person; $100 VIP ticket. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-7773 ext.

204, www.spcanevada.org/events/ special/love_life_gala_2012.html.

22ND ANNUAL RENO CELTIC CELEBRATION: The festival will feature pipe bands, clan tents, Scottish and Irish dancers, historical reenactors, Celtic animals, vendors, kids games and more. Main stage entertainers include Molly's Revenge, Tempest and 3-17. Newer attractions include the addition of Clydesdale horses and a “Sessiun” tent, featuring local musicians playing a variety of

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twenty-five percent goes to Komenfunded research to find the cure. Su, 10/7, 9am. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, www.komennorthnv.org.

AYOBA: Spirit Of Awesomeness and the former owner of Guardian Quest, has taught diversity training internationally and is dedicated to helping individuals succeed in life by equipping them with powerful life tools and inspirations. Sa, 10/6, 9am-noon. Free. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 848-0217, www.ayobaspirit.com.

RENO AREA THEATER ALLIANCE YARD SALE: The Reno Area Theater Alliance (RATA), a consortium of theater companies from the Reno-Sparks area, will hold a yard sale of theater furniture, costumes, props and knick knacks. Proceeds will support RATA. Sa, 10/6, 9am-1pm. Free. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 343-8100, www.renolittletheater.org.

OPEN HOUSE & TELESCOPE CLINIC: Visitors can explore the observatory at their leisure, ask questions of observatory volunteers, learn how telescopes work and even learn how to image celestial objects. Guests are encouraged to bring their own telescopes and use the observation deck to view the evening sky. First Sa of every month, 7pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 445-3240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

RENO CELTIC CELEBRATION: The 22nd annual event features pipe bands, Celtic musicians, athletic demonstrations, Scottish and Irish dancers, Celtic vendors and more. Musical headliners include Tempest and Molly’s Revenge. Sa, 10/6; Su, 10/7.

Contact for info. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612, www.renoceltic.org.

PAINT AND SIP: Suellen Johnson guides you in transforming a Paul Klee painting into your own 16-inch-by-20-inch acrylic painting. This class is open all levels. Art supplies are included. Bring your own wine/beverage and snacks.

Register online or call. Tu, 10/9, 5:308:30pm. $30 for three hours. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

RENO FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: Reno Food Truck Fridays is a gathering of the areas mobile food vendors and features live music and family activities. Reno Food Truck Fridays will be held on the First Friday of the month from April through October. First F of every month, 5-9pm through 10/5. Free.

Former RTC Citicenter, Fourth And Center Streets, www.facebook.com/ RenoFoodTruckFridays.

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independent arts organization, for artists, by artists. This months event will feature music by Mark Sexton Band, comedy by The Utility Players, a performance by Dysrhythmia Dance Company, film by Jason Spencer and others. Th, 10/4, 8pm. $10 advance; $15 day of show. CommRow, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400, www.commrow.com.

Teams of costumed outhouse racers compete against each other as one person rides and the remaining team members push, pull or drag decorated outhouses down C Street in downtown Virginia City. The official parade of outhouses starts at noon on Saturday, followed by a double elimination tournament from 1 to 5pm. Second rounds of the competition and the final race for the championship take place on Sunday starting at noon. There will be a chance to vote for the ugliest, the prettiest, the most unusual outhouses, etc. during the People’s Choice Awards on Saturday. All races take place on C Street. Sa, 10/6, noon; Su, 10/7, noon. $50 entry fee; free for spectators.

Downtown Virginia City, C St., Virginia City, (775) 846-1130, www.nvshows.com.

RACE FOR THE CURE: Seventy-five percent of net proceeds generated by Northern Nevada Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure are granted to lifesaving local breast cancer programs. The remaining

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OK, here’s a joke for you: A Celt and a gunfighter walk into an outhouse together. The bartender says, “Why the long face?” To which a drunk patron replies, “That’s stupid.” This weekend, three massive events will give Northern Nevadans a reason to thank their lucky stars they don’t live in someplace more culturally relevant like Austin, Texas. First, from Oct. 4-7, in Fallon, will be the World Cowboy Fast Draw Championship, which is awesome because sometimes people really die at these gun shows.

More information can be found at http://cowboyfastdraw.com. The 22nd Annual Reno Celtic Celebration at Bartley Ranch Regional Park runs Oct. 6-7, and while it may involve drinking, it will also involve music and crafts and men in skirts. Find out more at http://renoceltic.org.

And last but not least is the Virginia City World Championship Outhouse Races, in which people race down VC’s main road in modified shithouses. That one runs Oct. 6-7, and you can get the dirt at www.nvshows.com/home/ world-championship-outhouse-races. There won’t be any long faces in Northern Nevada this weekend.

ent media and techniques weekly. All supplies are included. One-hour workshops, Thursdays, Sept. 27-Nov. 1 and or Nov. 8-Dec. 20. Pre-registration required. Th, 4-5pm through 11/1. $45 for six classes. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

ART ADVENTURES FOR KIDS: Explore different media and techniques weekly. All supplies are included. One-hour workshops, Thursdays, Sept. 27-Nov. 1 and or Nov. 8-Dec. 20. Pre-registration required.

Th, 4-5pm through 11/1. $45 for six classes.

Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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

CLAY, CLAY, CLAY (AGES 8+): Explore hand building and glazing techniques. Classes are held every Wednesday beginning Oct. 3. W, 4-5:30pm through 11/28. $95 for eight classes. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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24-Oct. 29. M, 4-5pm through 10/29. $45 for six classes. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

FUN WITH DRAWING: Students will learn value, shading and an introduction to perspective while developing techniques and skills to practice on their own. One-hour workshops, Thursdays, Sept. 27-Nov. 1. Th, 5:15-6:15pm through 11/1. $45 for six classes. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

INTERMEDIATE SEWING: Have fun learning how to sew multiple projects. Classes are held every Thursday through Nov. 8. Th, 4-5:30pm through 11/8. $55 for seven classes; supplies not included. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

KIDS ACTING: Learn to act while gaining selfconfidence and poise. Classes are held every Wednesday, Oct.3- Nov. 7. W, 4-5pm through 11/7. $45 for six classes. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd., Sparks, (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

LEARN TO SEW: Have fun learning how to sew multiple projects. Classes are held every Wednesday through Nov. 7. W, 4-5:30pm through 11/7. $55 for seven classes; supplies not included. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100, ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

PARENTS OF PREMATURE INFANTS (POPS): This

Medical Center. First Sa of every month, 10am-noon. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, 235 W. Sixth St., (775) 826-7850, www.supportsaintmarys.org/ inthenews/195174.

R.I.S.E. AND DINE: PEOPLE FEEDING PEOPLE: Each week Reno activists and volunteers shop, prepare and cook for local persons and families without a home. On Saturdays at 5pm, volunteers meet outside of the Community Assistance Center and serve about 250 or more of Reno’s most poverty-stricken until 6pm. All assistance and donations are appreciated. Sa, 5-6pm through 12/29. Free. Community Assistance Center, 335 Record St., (775) 322-7143, www.renoinitiative.org.

group is for all parents of premature infants and children who were born prematurely. The group meets in the lower auditoriums of the Saint Mary’s Regional

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The guy I’ve sorta been seeing travels around making videos for an extreme sports company but lives two hours away in the mountains. We met through a mutual friend, went to dinner and then had sex. We had a few more dates, and then he got a girlfriend. He contacted me after they broke up. I went up to see him, and we went to dinner and had sex. He then visited me, and I cooked him a lovely dinner and gave him a massage, putting lots of effort into everything, but he never puts much effort into us. He’ll always say, “I really like you, you should know that,” but only when I’m hounding him, asking why he never calls. Because he lived with his girlfriend for two years, he seems capable of commitment. Should I tell him how I feel—that I want more out of our “relationship”?

There are some pretty funny extreme sports, like extreme ironing—lugging an ironing board to a remote location, like the top of a 1,000-foot rock formation—and, as extremeironing.com put it, combining a dangerous outdoor activity “with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.” Less amusing is the extreme sport you seem to favor—all-terrain hurling yourself at a guy who rings you up for sex whenever nobody in his zip code is available.

When you want a boyfriend, you don’t send the message that all a guy has to do to get you is sit across from you and eat a burger. Your extremely casual sex partner popped up again, and you not only had sex with him but cooked him dinner and gave him a complimentary massage. Are you an aspiring

girlfriend or an aspiring day spa?

Feminism tells us that a woman should be able to do anything a man can do, from becoming an astronaut to having sex on the first date.

I’m all for girls growing up to be astronauts. And obviously, a woman can have sex on the first date— but because men tend to devalue women they don’t have to chase, she’s taking a risk unless all she wants is a little nail and bail.

You need to accept that you’ve blown it with this guy, having trained him to see you as dating roadkill—the sex-providing equivalent of a flattened possum. If he’s starving, he’ll scrape up some possum steaks; otherwise, thanks, he’ll take the $36 T-bone.

Your thing with him won’t be a total loss if you turn it into a lesson in how not to act with men in the future. But, don’t just play hard to get; become hard to get. This means developing yourself into a woman who wants a man but isn’t so needy for one that she’ll shove her self-respect in the closet and try to bribe him into wanting her with sex, shiatsu, and homecooked gourmet meals. Sure, the way to a man’s heart is sometimes through his stomach, but only for laparoscopic surgeons taking the scenic route. Ω

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ARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Wings and Waves Air and Water Features. Ann Weiss and Larry Jacox are the featured artists for October. Their show is themed around their love for planes, birds, skies and water. Come and visit with the artists at the reception on Sunday, Oct. 7, from 1-4pm. The co-op also hosts three guest artists: Sandi Burke, Marilyn Newton and Jenny Antonucci. Through 10/31, 11am-4pm; Su, 10/7, 1-4pm. Free. Contact Eileen Fuller (775) 322-8896, eileen.fuller@sbcglobal.net, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com for details on this exhibit. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

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Call for Artists HOLLY ARTS CALL TO ARTISANS: North Tahoe Arts invites artisans to participate in this year’s Holly Arts. This exhibit will run November and December. Work includes all types of gift-giving items like cards, painting, ornaments, pottery, knitted items, etc. All work must be original and ready to hang or display. A $20 non-refundable application fee and a $25 per month gallery participation fee applies. All work will be subject to a jury committee. You can download an application online or email for a schedule of important dates and information. Deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 16, by noon. M-Su through 10/16. North Tahoe Arts Center, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.

Association Show. The Nevada Artists Association presents its Early Fall Featured Artists Show featuring work by Nancy Clark and Joanne Wood. Clark will show her landscapes and national parks paintings through Sept. 28. Woods works of flowers and lanscapes will be on display Oct. 1-19. The works of other NAA artist are also on display. M-Sa, 10am-4pm through 10/19. Free. Contact Bob Hickox (775) 882-0189, bobhickox@sbcglobal.net, www.nevadaartists.org for details on this exhibit. 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, http://breweryarts.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: 80 Million Gallon Summer, 40 Million Gallon Winter. Sculptor Cait Finley combines found objects with ceramic fauna and flora, presenting them like a natural science museum. The work is a physical merging of the relics of mankind along with delicacies of nature. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 10/26.

Opens 10/8; Th, 10/11, 6-8pm. Free. Contact Sarah Lillegard (775) 742-1858, sarah@hollandreno.org, www.hollandreno.org for details on this exhibit. Third Annual Stranger Show. This project and exhibition pairs Hug High students with local artists for a month to collaborate on and create an art piece. The opening reception on Oct. 11 will be catered by Hug High School’s culinary class. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 10/26. Opens 10/8; Th, 10/11, 6-8pm. Free. Contact Sarah Lillegard (775) 742-1858, sarah@ hollandreno.org, http://hollandreno.org for details on this exhibit. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Jacob Hashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper. W-Su through 1/1. $1-$10. Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs by Richard Ross. W-Su through 1/13. $1-$10. Tim Hawkinson: Totem. W-Su through 10/7. Arthur and Lucia Mathews: Highlights of the California Decorative Style.

Tu-Su through 10/14. $1-$10.Jorinde Voigt: Systematic Notations. W-Su through 1/6. 1-$10.

Ice Music. W-Su through 10/28. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: A Salute to Our Military. This exhibit commemorates the nation’s battles from the Civil War to the “Global War on Terrorism.” The show includes photos, weapons, artifacts, models and uniforms donated by more than 30 local veterans and their families. Tu-Su through 11/17. $5 adults; free for children under age 12, museum members, active duty military.

814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.

OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: A Study of Human. Eunkang Koh uses intaglio printmaking to depict creatures that are part human and part animal. Through 11/16, 8am-5pm.

Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City, (775) 687-6680.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Mid-Way Exhibitions: Benjamin Poynter. Poynter’s Mid-Way exhibition comments on Apple Computers use of Chinese labor to assemble products, and it features a video game created for the project. Visitors can stroll through a cardboard Apple store constructed within the gallery.

M-F, 10am-5pm through 10/19. Opens 10/8. Free.

Contact UNR School of the Arts (775) 7844278, forrest@unr.edu, www.unr.edu/arts for details on this exhibit. 17 S. Virginia St. Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

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HSAO: UNR PERFORMING ARTS SERIES: The awardwinning Afro-pop sextetdraws on native roots and artful blends of gospel, soul and jazz to produce their a capella sound. Th, 10/4, 7:30pm. $24 general, $20 seniors and UNR staff, $12 general students, $5 UNR students. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

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ARGENTA CONCERT SERIES: ARGENTA TRIO: Argenta Trios first performance of the season features two works by husband and wife Robert and Clara Schumann. Su, 10/7, 2pm. $20 general; $5 UNR students. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.

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Balalaika Orchestra celebrates 20 years of bringing music and culture to Reno with a special performance featuring world-renowned musicians from Moscow, Russia, Alexander Tsygankov and Inna Shevtchenko. The group performs classical tunes featuring instruments like the balalaika, domra and bayan and vocals from Nevada Opera tenor Steven Murdoch. Sa, 10/6, 7pm. $20. Reno High School Theater, 355 Booth St., (775) 746-1809, www.sierrabalalaika.org.

OPERA IN THE MOUNTAINS: Gil Deane, a long-time Sierra Club activist and dedicated opera buff, will present a selection of popular and rare recordings, videos and highly opinionated comments during this encore program. Deane will present the best of Maria Callas in scenes from Norma and La Traviata, as well as features examples of arias and ensembles showcasing the some of the greatest mezzos, sopranos, tenors, baritones and basses. There will be five music sessions—one after dinner on Friday, after each Saturday meal, and one on Sunday after breakfast. Prices include two nights lodging and all meals beginning with dinner on arrival day and ending with lunch on departure day, listening sessions, lecture and discussions. F, 10/5; Sa, 10/6; Su, 10/7. $155-$175.

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The Virginia City Cemetery comes alive with the 19th century Comstock residents. They share their stories, lives, and deaths. The performance will last 90 minutes as you walk through the cemetery with the widow of Silver Terrace as your guide.

features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free.

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ent the improvisatory forms of Baroque music for solo harpsichord—the fantasy, toccata and prelude. Composers include Thomas Morley, Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, Francois Couperin, Rameau and J.S. Bach. W, 10/10, 6pm.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “In a full heart there is room for everything,” said poet Antonio Porchia, “and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” That’s an important idea for you to meditate on right now, Aries. The universe is conspiring for you to be visited by a tide of revelations about intimacy. And yet you won’t be available to get the full benefit of that tide unless your heart is as full as possible.

Wouldn’t you love to be taught more about love and togetherness and collaboration?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I turn

inward and call forth psychic impressions of what’s ahead for you, I’m seeing mythic symbols like whoopee cushions, rubber chickens and pools of fake plastic vomit. I’m seeing popcorn shells that are stuck in your teeth and a dog that’s eating your homework and an alarm clock that doesn’t go off when it’s supposed to. But as I push further into the not-too-distant future, exploring the deeper archetypal levels, I’m also tuning into a vision of fireflies in an underground cavern. They’re lighting your way and leading you to a stash of treasure in a dusty corner.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It was the

best of times, it was the worst of times.”

That’s the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ best-selling novel A Tale of Two Cities. The author was describing the period of the French Revolution in the late 18th century, but he could just as well have been talking about our time—or any other time, for that matter. Of course, many modern cynics reject the idea that our era is the best of times. They obsess on the idea that ours is the worst of all the worst times that have ever been. When your worried mind is in control of you, you may even think that thought yourself, Gemini. But in accordance with the current astrological omens, I challenge you to be a fiery rebel: Come up with at least five reasons why this is the best of times for you personally

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Art washes

away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” said Pablo Picasso. That’s certainly true for me. I can purify my system either by creating art myself or being in the presence of great art. How about you, Cancerian? What kinds of experiences cleanse you of the congested emotions that just naturally build up in all of us? What influences can you draw on to purge the repetitive thoughts that sometimes torment you? How do you go about making your imagination as fresh and free as a warm breeze on a sunny day? I urge you to make a study of all the things that work for you, and then use them to the max in the coming week.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Our culture pecu-

liarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” So said literary critic Lionel Trilling. Now I’m passing his idea on to you, Leo, just in time for the No-Blaming Season. Would you like to conjure up a surge of good karma for yourself? Then for the next 10 days or so, refrain from the urge to find fault. And do your best to politely neutralize that reflex in other people who are sharing your space, even if they love to hate the same political party or idiot fringe that you do. P.S.: For extra credit, engage in speech and activity that are antidotes to the blaming epidemic.

(Hint: praise, exaltation, thanks.)

the daytime. This seemed impossible to him.

But he later consulted astronomers who told him that in fact Venus does emit enough light to be visible by day to a highly trained human eye. My prediction for you, Libra, is that in the coming months, you will make a metaphorically equivalent leap: You will become aware of and develop a relationship with some major presence that has been virtually undetectable. And I bet the first glimpse will come this week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Whether or

not anyone has ever called you an “old soul” before, that term will suit you well in the coming months. A whole lot of wisdom will be ripening in you all at once. Past events that never quite made sense before will more clearly reveal the role they have played in your life’s master plan. Relatively unimportant desires you’ve harbored for a long time will fade away, while others that have been in the background—and more crucial to your ultimate happiness—will rise to prominence.

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

most of my horoscopes I tell you what you can do to make yourself feel good. I advise you on how can act with the highest integrity and get in touch with what you need to learn about. Now and then, though, I like to focus on how you can help other people feel good. I direct your attention to how you can inspire them to align with their highest integrity and get in touch with what they need to learn about. This is one of those times, Sagittarius. I’m hoping you have your own ideas about how to perform these services. Here are a few of my suggestions: Listen with compassionate receptivity to the people you care for.

Describe to them what they’re like when they are at their best. Give them gifts they can use to activate their dormant potential.

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

you’ve ever watched tennis matches, you know that some players grunt when they smack the ball. Does that help them summon greater power? Maybe. But the more important issue is that it can mask the sound of the ball striking the racket, thereby making it harder for their opponents to guess the force and spin of the ball that will be headed toward them. The coming week would be an excellent time for you to hunt down a competitive advantage that’s comparable to this in your own field of endeavor.

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

people seem to believe that all of America’s Christians are and have always been fundamentalists. But the truth is that at most 35 percent of the total are fundies, and their movement has only gotten cultural traction in the last 30 years. So then, why do their bizarre interpretations of the nature of reality get so much play? One reason is that they shout so loud and act so mean. Your upcoming assignment, Aquarius, is to do what you can to shift the focus from smallminded bullies to bighearted visionaries, whether that applies to the Christians in your sphere or any other influences. It’s time to shrink any tendency you might have to get involved with energy vampires.

Instead, give your full attention and lend your vigorous clout to life-affirming intelligence.

BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HE AD) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the rea-

sons platinum is regarded as a precious metal is that it is so infrequently found in the Earth’s crust. A second reason is that there are difficulties in extracting it from the other metals it’s embedded in. You typically need 10 tons of ore to obtain 1 ounce of platinum. That’s a good metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Virgo. The valuable resource you’re dreaming of is definitely worth your hard work, persistence and attention to detail. But to procure it, you’ll probably need the equivalent of several tons of those fine qualities.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): While doing

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): [Warning:

The following horoscope contains more than the usual dose of poetry.] Mirthful agitation! Surprising deliverance! I predict you will expose the effects of the smoke and mirrors, then find your way out of the labyrinth. Lucid irrationality! Deathless visions! I predict you will discover a secret you’d been hiding from yourself, then escape a dilemma you no longer need to struggle with. Mysterious blessings arriving from the frontiers! Refreshed fertility roused by a reborn dream! I predict you will begin to prepare a new power spot for your future use.

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

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Noble man Ryan Goldhammer

Pie-Face Pizza Co., 239 W. Second St., 622-9222, was a locals’ favorite pizza joint, winning best pizza and best chicken wings in this year’s RN&R readers’ poll. Pie-Face was beloved not just for its food, but also for its exhibitions by local artists, and events, like the weekly rock ’n’ roll bingo every Wednesday. But beginning on Aug. 1, coincidentally right around the time of that Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada poll, the pizzeria changed names to PFPCo’s Noble Pie Parlor, much to the confusion and consternation of local pizza lovers. We caught up with co-owner Ryan Goldhammer to find out what prompted the change.

I’m sure you’re sick of explaining it, but why the name change?

The name change came about because we had a trademarking issue. Although we did file for our name, we didn’t go through the channels that we probably should have gone through with a lawyer. You can kind of see why having a business lawyer is such an important thing, and the tools that they have at their disposal for searching those trademarking databases [are] a little bit better than you can at home. It just turned out that somebody had filed before us, and it was impending, and we just didn’t see it. And we went ahead and rolled with it, and we found out that the company did already exist in

Australia. It’s a meat pie and fruit pie company. They trademarked everything from breakfast foods to pizzas to hot dogs. They covered it all. They moved into Manhattan.

Steve Wynn, from Wynn hotels, invested 15 million. I think he’s 53 percent shareholder, if I’m quoting correctly [the Wall Street Journal makes it 43], and they’re in Manhattan now, and they plan on a rapid U.S. expansion. We tried to do everything that we could to keep the name. They did make us an offer for leasing the name from them. But at the end of the day, we just sort of made the decision that it was just too much money. On top of that, we don’t have any control over who they are and what kind of products they put out and what sort of representation they give to themselves, and with the marketing power and national rollout that they intend to do, we actually decided not to want to be associated with a company that is not our own. We thought it was just a good idea at that point in the game to just go ahead and make the switch.

You sure, dear doc, can this be true?

Doctor said wish I was lyin’ to you, but the truth is, and you can write it in red, that body of yours gonna outlive your head.

Your crazy old body gonna outlive your head.

Not many more days can there sadder be, for a man to go home for his momma to see.

As he walks in the door and he says howdy do, his momma looks up and says who are you? momma looks up says who the hell are you?

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We’ve been toying with ideas of opening a bar—a Prohibition-style speakeasy called The Noble—and that name was based on the idea of “the noble experiment.” And because we’re intending on going down that road sometime in the future, we thought that it would be a good idea to go ahead and begin that sort of branding and marketing and have them work as a cohesive branding—at some point in time when we do go down that avenue. We just felt that it spoke very strongly to the style and the road that we ended up going down. When I first thought of the name Pie-Face Pizza Co., I really had an entirely different restaurant in mind. I was 25, 26, when I thought of the name and started developing the business plan. And I was thinking of that classic, divey rock ’n’ roll black-and-white checkered floor pizza joint, and as we did our build-out and—the quality of the recipes and the people that we were so fortunate to meet who helped us out cultivating those recipes, the handmade sausage and meatballs and all the things we ended up doing, it sort of took on a new life, and it took on a new vibe. The décor became that kind of rustic modern, kind of warm, cherry wood and gold tone.

All that stuff kind of happened, and we ended up getting this historic building space [in the El Cortez Hotel] and really embracing it, and having this whole different kind of vibe in there. And at some point in time, and even though Pie-Face Pizza Company was such a great name, and I think it’s very endeared by a lot of people, but I think it didn’t really speak to the quality of food and the vibe of the space that we had at that point. Ω

∫y Bruce Van Dye

Blues for Momma The doctor he said hey hey Mary Lu, I got awful bad news to lay upon you.

I got results right here of a test you can trust.

Indications are strong that your brain’s gonna rust.

Sorry to say, yer head’s gonna rust.

How did you come up with Noble Pie Parlor?

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Over the years, I’ve posted updates about my mom, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s back in July of ’06.

Since then, she’s actually done pretty well, with her slide toward demented oblivion being very slow and gradual. We’ve had time to do some nice things, and have some nice talks. But that slide has indeed been happening, and it’s been inexorable.

Now, she’s in a Home, a very nice, mellow Home, and when I called recently to check on her, she told me that everything was fine, and that she was doing a little packing because she needed to get up to San Jose.

“Really?” I replied. I figured I might as well humor her, knowing full well that she wasn’t going anywhere. “Well, what’s going on in San Jose?”

“Oh, I’ve got to visit my mother. She’s not feeling well.”

Ooooo-K. Actually, I don’t think Grandma’s feeling much of anything, since she’s been dead for 34 years. It’s safe to describe the next few seconds in the conversation as awkward. Awkward squared. We quickly got back on track, thank God, by bashing a little on my brother. Good ole Tom. But one of these days, she isn’t gonna know who Tom is. She isn’t gonna know who I am.

The way things are going, that day may come soon. I imagine it will be a day of some significance. And pretty weird, too. A day when my personal gyroscope will wobble noticeably.

Shit. I’m gonna miss her. Ω

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MISCELLANY

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

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RN&R

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