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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. You guys remember when I wrote about getting my concealed weapon permit back in the day (The Gun Club, July 6, 2006)? I still have one. I mention this to deter all the commentary I expect to get when this column hits newsprint that I hate guns. I personally believe that reasonable gun legislation could be agreed upon in this country, even though what I think of as reasonable, others might think of as radical. But I’d be willing to take it as far as it needs to go. I think the simplest way to reduce gun massacres is ban automatic and semiautomatic guns. The government can buy them off the street with tax rebates. In 10 years, make it illegal for private citizens to own them (including guns purchased before the ban). I won’t likely ever need more than six bullets to defend myself in the sort of situation where I’d use a gun—and I don’t say that with any false certainty that I’d prevail. That’s not really how it works. In this country, anyone who’s coming after another human being legally is going to outgun them by 100-to-1 with fully automatic weapons, gas, tanks and even helicopters. That’s the truth of the matter. This concept of gun-free zones is ludicrous. I can’t believe that anyone thinks that maniacs will leave children alone. Attacking children is inconceivable, but I think that’s why they target them. Killers know that there’s no better way to spread despair. If the Second Amendment is the only thing that stands in the way of reasonable gun laws in this country, then we should repeal it—exactly the way we repealed the 18th Amendment with Amendment 21. So, let’s talk about it. Wouldn’t more reasonable gun laws make more sense than a repeal?

Re “Road conditions” (Green, Dec. 27): What dangerous conditions on Plumas? Is there any proof or statistic on that? The end result is there is now only one northbound lane for cars. The traffic flow is now horrible. Morning and evening rush hours are ridiculous. There are side streets to the east of Plumas that are safe and could have been used by bikers. Stupidity, a waste of money and another example of a tiny minority adversely impacting the daily lives of the rest of us for no logical reason. Mark Buckler Reno

By the numbers The Congressional Research Service has recently released an analysis titled “Taxes and the Economy.” I believe that this study and its conclusions should receive more publicity. The study, whose initial methodology was revised in response to Republican objections, concludes on page 17 that: 1. The top statutory income tax rates have decreased considerably since the end of World War II; 2. Statutory tax rates affecting taxpayers at the top of the income distribution are currently at their lowest level since the end of the second World War; 3. Changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth; 4. The top tax rates appear to have little or no relation to the size of the economic pie; and 5. The top tax rate reductions appear to be correlated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution. It appears that a reasoned analysis of the nation’s economy since World War II contradicts Mitt Romney’s and the Republicans’ recent campaign rhetoric. It seems as though House Republicans, who just gutted the Speaker of the House, are motivated by something other than reasoned economic analysis. Could it be that they are trying to ensure having sufficient campaign contributions from the top 1 percent or 2 percent to ensure their reelection in 2014? Will

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today’s Republican Party split in two, i.e. the moderate Republicans and the Tea Party Republicans? Donald Schreiber Incline Village

The nonviolent ’60s Re “Horror in Sandy Hook” (Editorial, Dec. 20): We learned, far too late, the mother of the Newtown shooter was very frightened of her son, that she told a babysitter “don’t turn your back on the boy.” We learned that in 2010, she decided to take up “target shooting.” Other stories indicate that it was something over which she and her son could “bond.” I understand that in order to purchase a gun, you need to fill out a federal form that asks whether you, the purchaser, have ever had a mental condition that would prevent you from being a responsible gun owner. Does the form also include the question, “Is there currently anyone living in your household that you would consider unqualified to have easy access to firearms?” Maybe the form does, and she just lied. Recently, we had a young Sparks man kill his 13-year-old sister “by accident” with a rifle that he purchased on the black market. He was described as a “gang banger wannnabe.” He and his sister would take turns aiming the gun at each other and pulling the trigger. This last time, the safety wasn’t on. When I was a young boy, I learned that you always keep a gun pointed down at the ground and never at a target unless you planned to use it. I have known many hunters, retired highway patrol men, sheriffs, etc., who keep their guns at easy access, with their children in the house. They never had an incident because they took the time to teach their kids about the proper use of firearms. I understand that in the “old days” 1940s-60s, they used to teach handling a gun in school, and kids brought their own shotguns and rifles to class and there was never a school shooting. I believe that we need more weapons training, not less. There are armed drug gangs using assault weapons on our southern border, and peaceful people will need to be armed

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with the same weaponry to keep themselves safe because sometimes that violence spills over the border. DON’T arm the teachers because it is too easy for an undisciplined student to try to take it from one. When I went to school in Southern California in the ’60s and ’70’s, we never needed “armed guards” at our schools. Armed patrol men on our schools may be the only way to keep the kids safe. It seems to have worked with sky marshals on commercial flights. But tell me something? What the hell has changed in the past 40 years to make life so cheap? Bill Thibault Sparks

Great terrain robbery Re “In the dark” (News, Dec. 20): Thanks to Dennis Myers for shedding some needed light on the Mining Law of 1872, established during the administration of Ulysses Grant. Multinational gold mining conglomerates doing business in Nevada don’t want the law amended simply because under the law they pay no federal mineral royalties whatsoever. And of course, the corporations mining Nevada’s gold pay no Nevada state corporate income tax and have an effective mining tax rate of 1 percent. As Myers points out, the General Accounting Office reports that multinational gold mining conglomerates refuse to provide figures for the amount of gold and other minerals they take from public lands belonging to all the people. But it is estimated that at least $2.4 billion hardrock metals alone are taken from public lands every year. Perhaps the most egregious corporate giveaway under the 1872 Mining Law occurred in 1994, when the largest gold mining corporation in the world, Canada-based Barrick Gold, paid $5 per acre for 1,791 acres of public land in Nevada that contained over $10 billion in recoverable gold reserves. It is now the second largest and among the most profitable gold mines in the world. It’s far past time for this great terrain robbery to end.

Paradigm shift Re “Horror in Sandy Hook” (Editorial, Dec. 20): The common denominator in all cowardly shootings, including the tragedy that took place in Connecticut, is they took place in a gun free zone. Shooters made the safe assumption that their evil plans had a probability of succeeding because the majority, if not all of the citizens there, would be unarmed. They were sitting ducks. How many cowards attack a police station or army base? Let’s consider the ketchup bottle. For years, the ketchup bottle would sit on the shelf and gravity would draw all the ketchup to the bottom of the bottle. Then, when a person needed ketchup, they had to work to get it out of the bottle. Finally, someone said, “Why don’t we just flip it over and put the lid on the bottom?” Now, the ketchup is there when you need it. Why didn’t they think of this before? They were trained in a particular way of thinking, and they had to move themselves away from it. That is called a paradigm shift. A paradigm is “a particular mental set of particulars.” It is a powerful set of beliefs. The paradigm ketchup bottle designers fought against was that lids go on top. It made sense at one time, before silicon seals that prevented leakage. But now, there is a powerful shift in thinking that has changed the way people buy ketchup. What does this have to do with gun-free zones? I am looking for a paradigm shift. The current paradigm is that guns are bad, they kill people and they should not be allowed in certain places like schools and malls. I not only want gun-free zones abolished, but I want gun ownership and concealed-carry encouraged and teachers, administrators and school employees trained to protect our kids. What’s wrong with a teacher being trained annually and having a firearm locked in their desk? Mike Arp Reno

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BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25kShould marijuana be OFlegal? SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% BIG HE AD) Asked at Yellow Submarine, 920 Holman, Sparks

Jessica Holden Restaurant server

Hell, yes. I think it should be. I mean, we can make taxes off of it. Why not? Make money, make everyone happy. It’s safer than alcohol to drive with. All that prison time would be saved.

Marlee Penman Restaurant server

I think so, yes. I think it would help us get out of debt, a lot. I feel like if they made it legal, it would help people stay off the streets and stay out of jail. We could tax it and make money off it.

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I believe it should be, especially for medical reasons for people. I think that’s very important. I think it would cut down on crime.

It’s not like the big brains at the Reno News & Review to It’s easy to use the gun-control debate as an example. write two “things that make you go ‘Huh,’” editorials The argument in this country has been presented as polarin row, but it’s the end of the year, the beginning of an ized: Either no new laws or severe restrictions to gun era, and many things have come together to make ownership. people all over this city, state and country re-examine But the vast majority of people in this country could resome of our most cherished ideals. frame the argument themselves if they just stated what they Our society is embarking on a re-examination of want succinctly and went from there: We want to preserve fundamental political thought in a way not seen since liberty, we want to ensure personal security, and we want to the 1960s: Poverty/wealth, health care/pathology, minimize gun violence. equality/elitism, freedom/servitude and their relationAny discussion on any topic should begin with the ships are all being reconsidered. desired outcome, and then anything that It’s as though the flimsy veil of distracts from that goal can be set aside. There are no all-orfalse political discourse has been And then, everyone can say, “This is momentarily brushed aside for all us nothing propositions what I’m willing to give up to reach the citizens to see. most beneficial outcome for everyone.” in this country. Maybe it was the unintended We simply can’t allow the radicals to consequences of the Citizens United define the discussions any more in this Supreme Court decision and this election. Maybe it country; we’re smarter than that. was the smoke and mirrors of the fiscal cliff. Maybe it But resolving our country’s biggest quandaries has to was one gun-related tragedy after the next. Maybe it start with the individual. We all have to participate in the was the greedy financial excesses that took us to the discussion. We have to be able to say why we think the brink. But it was something. And something feels like way we do and back those statements up with real facts. it’s changing. We have to be able to restate our opponents’/collaborators’ There are no all-or-nothing propositions in this points of view. We have to fit the whole issue into our country. The people who present things in such a way heads in order to find the most beneficial path. The talk-toare either liars or misinformed. the-hand syllogism is obsolete. Maybe that’s the major evil in this country: The It’s got to start with you, and it’s got to start with us. We proposal that we can only argue polar extremes. And must recognize unthinking intransigence in ourselves first. maybe that’s how we can identify evil in this country: As much as possible, eliminate closed-minded people from People who falsely posture discussions of complicated the discussions, but don’t use that concept as a rationale to things as sports challenges with everyone either a remove unlike-minded people from your pool of thought. winner or a loser. There is always a middle ground, The marketplace of ideas is a meditation. All ideas must and the middle ground is where everyone wins. be considered before the lesser ones can be dismissed. Ω OPINION

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Yes, I think so. I think it would reduce organized crime. I mean, it’s not really as bad as any of the other drugs that are out there, either, like heroin or cocaine of any of that crap, you know. Legalize it and then find a way to regulate it and tax it.

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I think it should be. I think it might deter drug dealers and help the economy a bit. I think making the separation between hard drugs and marijuana [clear] would be helpful.

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You can’t win if you don’t fight 2013 could be a watershed year. Ignoring the national political stalemate, consider the political possibilities closer to home of lots of new energy injected into the Reno City Council and the Nevada Legislature. While term limits have robbed us of experience and knowledge and given far too much power to the executive branch of governby ment, at least we have some new Sheila Leslie faces who could live up—or down— to our expectations. Consider a few suggestions to get the year off to a progressive start. Governor Brian Sandoval: Set aside your national ambitions this year and lead Nevada. Use your State of the State speech to have an honest conversation with Nevadans about our future. Ask us if we want to remain a colony of the multinational mining industry, or demand these profiteers compensate us fairly for the gold they remove from our public lands. Explain why corporations should no longer get a free ride and avoid the kind of corporate taxes

they pay in every surrounding state, while our children go to underresourced schools and drop out at a higher rate than anywhere else. Stop muzzling state administrators with budget needs. Please quit pretending everything is just fine and tell the truth about our situation. Secretary of State Ross Miller: By all means, submit a bill requesting the Legislature fund electronic upgrades to our voting records so we can have same-day registration, but drop the solution-without-a-problem of photo ID. As you have noted, there is no voter fraud in Nevada. Don’t buy into the paranoia and misinformation of people who want nothing more than to discourage low-income citizens and minorities from exercising their voice. While you’re at it, how about figuring out a way for people to vote on Election Day at any designated public site? If we can manage that during early voting, why not on Election Day?

Nevada Legislature: It’s refreshing to hear all the talk about bi-partisanship and how this year is going to be different, with new leadership and a renewed sense of action. Key word here: action. Discussion of tax reform from Day 1 is not going to be enough. You don’t need more studies, or even very many hearings, to understand the limited options before you. Fix our flawed revenue streams and set Nevada on a path to predictability and prosperity. Send the right message by passing SJR 15 early in the session and let voters decide if they want to end mining’s sweetheart deal and return tax policy to the Legislature where it belongs. Reno and Sparks City Councils: Stop violating the Voting Rights Act and start the process to change your city charters to allow for ward voting. Instead of waiting for the inevitable lawsuit that will consume scarce resources needed for basic services, do the right thing and comply. Let the people elect their neighborhood representatives. And please, no more grand corporate welfare schemes disguised

as job generators or economic renewal. Our schools and public services have suffered immeasurably. Stop giving our money away. Finally, a resolution for voters. Let this be the year we insist on accountability from our elected officials. Don’t be a silent, seething citizen. Express your views loudly and often and stand up for yourself. Your responsibility doesn’t end on Election Day. As our leading Western intellectual, Rebecca Solnit, wrote in her year-end essay last month: “[P]aradises are always partial and, when you look backward, it’s worth trying to see the whole picture. The rights gained over the past 35 years were fought for, hard, while so much of what was neglected—including public education, tuition, wages, banking regulation, corporate power, and working hours—slid into hell. When you fight, you sometimes win; when you don’t, you always lose.” Ω

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Nevada Legislature to take aim at gun restrictions In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, America has been ablaze with questions. What caused Adam Lanza to kill 27 people, 20 of whom were elementary-aged children? How could such an atrocity have been prevented? And, most importantly, what are we going to do from here on out to make sure it doesn’t happen again? by The list of “culprits” for the incident Chanelle Bessette seems to be endless: violent films and video games, a poor mental health care system, a media glorification of violent perpetrators, a lack of security in schools, or, the big one, lax gun control. While the real reason for Lanza’s violence is perhaps a combination of complex causes, it is on the last point of gun control that I hope to expose a red herring. The biggest school massacre that ever happened in the United States occurred in 1927 in Bath Township, Mich. The murderer, Andrew Kehoe,

by blowing up their school building with dynamite, killed 39 elementary school students in addition to six adults, and injured 58 others. The attack was one of revenge, as he had been recently informed that his farm was to be foreclosed and that he had also been publicly defeated for a town clerk position. Not a single gun was used in this massacre. The same could be said of the Oklahoma City bombing, where 19 children were killed in an explosion. The lesson to be taken from these devastating mass murders is this: If someone is intent on hurting others, then whether they possess a firearm is of little consequence. Therefore, is it efficient to deprive law-abiding citizens of their constitutionally protected right to bear arms in self-defense? If we look back on the major mass shootings that have occurred in recent decades, a pattern emerges: nearly every single one occurred in a “gunfree zone.” From Aurora to Columbine

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to Virginia Tech, unarmed civilians were targeted and massacred by angry, mentally unstable individuals who were looking for easy pickings. Although it is difficult to know whether the presence of a concealed carry weapon would have made a difference in these instances, I think we can safely say that criminals are less likely to go after individuals who have a means of forcefully protecting themselves and others. At the University of Nevada, Reno, firearms are currently not allowed without the explicit permission from the university president. However, there is currently a bill on the 2013 Nevada legislative agenda called the Nevada Campus Protection Act that will enable students, staff, faculty and visitors to carry on campus. Although the university has not historically been subject to the kind of aforementioned mass killings, there have been cases of students being raped and/or murdered within the last five years, cases that

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could have been avoided with the earlier institution of permissible CCW permits on campus. In states where such laws have been instituted, some universities have taken extra measures to ensure student safety around firearms, such as in Wisconsin, where posted signs prohibit firearms from certain buildings or in Mississippi, where students can take a voluntary firearm safety course. Gun control and gun rights have always been difficult subjects to breach. When violence occurs, especially such devastating violence as the murders of elementary school-aged children, it’s easy to point at the weapon and say, “There. That object is the reason for our suffering and pain.” But if firearms are not allowed to be put into the hands of responsible citizens, then the only people who possess them will be criminals and authoritarian powers. We should not use tragedy as an excuse for the violation of our rights. Ω

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An indication of the endurance of the marijuana issue—this 1970s protest in front of the Nevada Legislature, which in 2013 will have to grapple with it again.

School violence in sharp dive Twenty children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Dec. 14. On average, more than 20 children are killed off school grounds every week, all year long. But both those statistics—children killed in school and children killed overall—are showing sharp declines. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, “From 1994 to 2010, the rate of serious violent crime occurring on school grounds declined by 62 percent, and the rate of serious violent crime at nonschool locations declined by 83 percent.” In other words, incidents like Sandy Hook are freakish. In most years, the number of people of all ages killed by lightning strikes is about double the number of children killed on school. School is the safest of the places children frequent. Yet there are debates going on all over the nation about how to fix the problem. They are not debates about how to deal with the far more numerous killings of children in the home and other non-school locations. These debates are aimed at the exception, not the norm. As a result, they could interfere with progress that has been made in reducing violence against the young.

Jobless pay threatened Notices went out last week to almost 25,000 Nevadans that their unemployment compensation will be cut off unless Congress acts this week to keep the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program funded. “On Jan. 2, 2013, the EUC program will expire, unless Congress votes to extend the federal benefits as it has done in the past,” according to a prepared statement issued by the Nevada Employment Security Division. “As a result, about 25,000 Nevadans currently receiving EUC will be abruptly cut off and each week another 1,000 claimants who are receiving regular unemployment, (which allows for a maximum of 26 weeks), will exhaust their benefits and not be able to move to the EUC program. However, claimants should continue to file their weekly claims so that benefits can be paid as quickly as possible if Congress does vote in favor of extending the EUC program.” Nevada unemployment is at 10.8 percent, which reflects only those out of work who are receiving jobless pay.

Passings Two colorful Reno figures have died. • Ed Carlson, known as “the Waver,” died on Dec. 27 at age 75 in Iowa. Carlson became well known in Reno starting in the 1970s by walking along streets and waving at passing drivers. It continued for years, intermittently. He would disappear for months or even years at a time. He was doing the same thing in other communities. Though Renoites thought of him as a local icon, other areas described him the same way. David Jensen of Arizona, a Science magazine writer, called him “one of Sedona’s more unusual residents, a fellow we simply call ‘The Waver’.” Carlson was author of the book I Walked to the Moon and Almost Everybody Waved. He lived in Cedar Rapids. A “Final Wave for Ed,” organized by Willie Puchert, was held in downtown Reno this week. “He made people happy with something so simple,” said participant Carol Cizauskas. • Former Reno radio personality “Wild Bill” Cody died on Christmas in Colorado. He was 62 and had been experiencing heart problems. During a 35-year career, Cody had worked at KWNZ in Reno, WBBM in Chicago, KLCA in Tahoe city, KWNZ in Lovelock, KJMP in Fort Collins, Colo., KIGN in Burns, Wy., KSXY in Shelton, Wa., and WYGY in Cincinatti. Most recently, he worked at Cheyenne’s KING. That station’s website carries a tribute from his colleague Gailen Sprague: “Bill breathed, ate and lived for radio. It was his obsession. Many times people would simply shake their heads and proclaim that “He’s CRAZY”! Yup, that was our Bill! A very creative man behind a cartoonish voice. [He] was the essence of what radio was and quite possibly still should be.”

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Decriminalization Can Nevada turn marijuana enforcement over to the feds? Assemblymember Tick Segerblom, a Clark County Democrat, will introduce by legislation at the 2013 Nevada Dennis Myers Legislature to decriminalize marijuana. Assembly Republican leader Pat Hickey is open to the idea. While a Colorado- or Washington-style legalization is not likely in the cards—at least through the Legislature—decriminalization could lead to some substantial policy changes and shifting of resources in law enforcement if police agencies abided by the policy shift.

“It would set up a condundrum for me.” Mike Haley Washoe County sheriff

Because the federal Drug Enforcement Agency does not have the resources to deal with both small users and big traffickers, a decision by the Legislature to end Nevada’s police enforcement of marijuana possession cases would effectively create de facto legal marijuana. Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley avoided expressing his own view of decriminalization, but did say, “I have to enforce the laws

enacted by the Legislature, irrespective of my personal beliefs.” But some agencies might not take that view. Nevadans in 2000 voted 381,947 to 202,211 in favor of medical marijuana, but some local police still cooperate with federal agents in enforcing U.S. law over state law. There are, in fact, two cases involving medical marijuana before the Nevada Supreme Court, though state voters supposedly settled the issue in 2000 by approving medical uses. Haley said knowing how he would handle decriminalization now is difficult because local and federal law enforcement is so intertwined. “It’s a little bit complicated because I have people from my organization who are deputized as federal marshals, federal DEA, federal FBI,” he said. “They actually carry federal credentials. … Obviously, if the [decriminalization] law were to pass in Nevada I’m bound to abide by that law, and I would, but it would set up a conundrum for me. I’m also chair of HIDTA [High Intensity Drug Trafficking Administration], and we have a marijuana initiative within HIDTA. So I would abide by Nevada law, and I would look to my federal partners because it would still be federally prohibited.” He pointed to the talks going on in Seattle between local police and federal officials to determine how

that state’s legalization of marijuana will be handled. “The chief of police there indicated that it was a very complicated discussion, one that would require restraint on the side of the public safety officer or sheriff to see how their federal counterparts were going to deal with the issue.” The actions of Colorado and Washington voters making marijuana legal under state law have in some cases cut across party and ideological lines, with some conservatives urging respect for state decisions. U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, has introduced H.R. 6606 to give state laws on marijuana primacy over federal law. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican and opponent of legalization, is nevertheless a cosponsor of DeGette’s bill. “I voted against Amendment 64 [Colorado marijuana legalization], and I strongly oppose the legalization of marijuana, but I also have an obligation to respect the will of the voters given the passage of this initiative, and so I feel obligated to support this legislation,” Coffman said. Troy Eid, a George W. Bush appointee as U.S. attorney in Colorado, recently wrote in a Denver Post guest essay, “Letting states ‘opt out’ of the Controlled Substances Act’s prohibition against marijuana ought to be seriously considered.”

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During federal alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, states were expected to join the federal government in “concurrent enforcement.” In Nevada in 1918, 59 percent of voters approved alcohol prohibition in a statewide election. That ballot measure also put enforcement under the authority of the Nevada State Police, an agency that no longer exists. But the allure of prohibition faded fast, and the Nevada Legislature later repealed the voterapproved law, replacing it with a different enforcement measure that seemed designed to be overturned by the courts, which it was. Nevada was out of the business of enforcing prohibition, leaving the task to federal officials. In 1923, President Coolidge called state governors—including Nevada’s James Scrugham—to the White House to jawbone them on helping out with enforcement.

Scrugham returned to Nevada where he, in turn, called local officials to a meeting in Elko on how to help with enforcement. Whether it was done merely for show is not clear, but it came to little. In two ballot measures in 1926, Nevadans voted overwhelmingly against alcohol prohibition. Some observers have expressed surprise that a state with a “libertarian strain” like Nevada has not embraced marijuana. But there is little in Nevada’s history of adventurous lawmaking that suggests the state is libertarian. The state’s novel legislative enactments were passed not as an expression of libertarianism but as efforts to generate commerce in a resourcepoor state. The Nevada Legislature made prizefighting legal in 1897 during the long state economic depression that followed the decline of the Comstock Lode mining boom. Six-week divorces and legal gambling were approved by the legislature in 1931 during the Great Depression. Today, the state seems less willing to offend the nation’s sensibilities in a quest for jobs than it was in the 1890s or 1930s. Its officials now treat respectability among the states and within the financial community as a higher value than being on the cutting

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edge—hardly a libertarian stance (“Has Nevada lost its nerve?” RN&R, July 14, 2011). Many citizens cite the taxation possibilities of marijuana (see “Streetalk,” page 5) and the money that would be saved if it were made legal. How much money would be saved from decriminalization is not yet known, but when Segerblom’s bill is introduced, a fiscal note will be prepared on it. These notes are researched when a bill would cost the state or local government money, even though the overall effect of the bill would save money. In the case of Segerblom’s measure, at least some money would be lost because some fines would no longer be collected. But the fiscal note will likely also explore how much money would be saved. Ω

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The Bureau of Land Management approved a right-of-way for Southern Nevada Water Authority’s water pipeline, despite the opposition of many organizations and residents from rural towns. The record of decision came shortly after the release of the final environmental impact statement. The approximately 300-mile pipeline will transport 84,000 acre feet of water from White Pine County to Clark County, and is estimated to cost around $15 billion. “After extensive environmental analysis, consideration of public comments, and application of pertinent federal laws and policies, the Department of the Interior has decided to grant the SNWA a right-of-way for the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of the mainline water pipeline, main power lines, pump stations, regulating tanks, water treatment facility and other ancillary facilities of the project,” said a statement released by the BLM. Clark County’s water situation is dire, especially after a foreboding report highlighting the limitations of the Colorado River (“A river runs through it,” Dec. 20) but experts say that strict conservation, rather than water transportation, could help ease the problem. Other large Western cities, including Los Angeles and Phoenix, have been able to meet lower water usage standards through efforts like xeriscaping, which replaces thirsty lawns with desert-thriving plants. The pipeline was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Great Basin Water Forum (“Trickle down,” Dec. 6), in which participants from Nevada, California and Utah discussed the potential impact of the pipeline on the Great Basin and rural towns in Nevada and Utah. Critics of the pipeline, including many residents of White Pine County, fear that the pipeline will disrupt the region’s water table, resulting in an arid, dusty environment, similar to that of Owens Valley, where a similar phenomenon occurred. Others are concerned about the economic impact on rural towns already facing water struggles. “The BLM’s own environmental impact statement, in thousands of pages of analysis and disclosures, confirms that, if implemented, the project would result in certain devastation for the environment, ranching families, Native American people and rural communities,” said Great Basin Water Network president Abby Johnson in a statement. Several organizations, including the Center for Biological Diversity, plan to dispute the decision on the grounds of risk to local species.

Off the rope Despite a positive meeting with the Nevada Department of Agriculture, local horse advocates were dismayed to learn that 41 Virginia Range horses are still scheduled to be auctioned at the Fallon Livestock Marketing Auction on Jan. 9. Members of Reno-based nonprofit Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection fear that the auction would allow the horses to be slaughtered. In an open letter to Gov. Brian Sandoval, the nonprofit asks for the NDoA to “Stop sending all Nevada Virginia Range wild horses to the livestock auction immediately. ... Stop the random trapping of these horses. ... Re-engage the cooperative agreements previously entered in to between NdoA and wild horse advocate groups. ... Re-engage wild horse advocates willing to assist in the on-going management of the Nevada horses. ... Encourage and support new legislation and departmental policies that will protect and preserve the Nevada Virginia Range horses.” The letter will be delivered to Gov. Sandoval on Jan. 4.

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We see them huddled on the street corners, searching for cans in the garbage, holding signs aside the freeway, resting in the grass of a nearby park. In nearly all metropolitan areas, homelessness is a fixture of life. For most of us, the homeless man or woman or family we see on the way to work every morning is nothing more than part of our daily routine. As of 2011, the nation’s homeless population was 636,000. In the Reno area, it’s estimated that there are 869 homeless. Over the past several weeks, we visited Reno’s most populated homeless areas. We sat down with the homeless. We asked them about their everyday lives, their struggles, their pasts, their futures. Soon enough, people began to emerge out of the statistics. Everyone knows that being homeless is difficult. Here are eight things you may have not known about your neighbors’ struggles in the community.

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1. HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, TOO. “Do not cuss!” Gena scolds her husband, Tommy. Though it’s about 40 degrees outside, Tommy wears only a short-sleeved shirt and jeans. He doesn’t mind the cold—especially after a couple of drinks. “I try to teach him not to cuss,” Gena explains. “Cussing is not a good thing in public. It tells people that you’re illiterate and a degenerate.” Gena Mercer and Thomas Burkett have been together for 22 years; married 13. They’re happy. And they’re homeless. “Everybody looks at us like we’re doing wrong, but I know my husband and I,” says Mercer. “In the morning when I pick my stuff up, I make sure all my stuff is taken care of. All my trash, everything we’ve got. Some people don’t think that way. But I do think that way. In the morning, if you walk over here, you’re not gonna find no beer cans, you’re not gonna find any of my groceries. I make sure I clean up after myself, but there’s a lot of people out here who don’t have that consideration.” |

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Mercer and Burkett have been living in the Record Street homeless shelters and on the streets of downtown Reno for the past three years. Sometimes, if they go canning all day, they can cash in enough cans to buy a six-pack of beer. In exchange for the beer, they’ll be allowed to crash on the floor of a friend’s apartment or hotel room. Or, they’ll just drink the beer themselves. “I find myself drinking a lot more now,” Mercer says. “It’s easier to deal with all this out here when you’re drunk. It’s so much easier to be warm at night when you have a little whiskey. Right now I’m freezing. If I had enough money, I’d go buy me a half pint right now, and I would drink it, and I would be able to sleep for the night.” Though Mercer and Burkett have no children together, Mercer has a son who lives in California. She says he makes good money, enough to get her off the street. But she won’t stand for that. She doesn’t want her son to know that most nights, despite the bitter cold, she sleeps on the concrete sidewalk outside the shelter, instead of inside it.

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“I don’t want him to be my savior,” she says. “It’s not his place. It’s my place to save him, not the other way around. I have a grandchild I’ve seen once in his three years of life because I don’t want my son coming up here.”

2 . HOMELESS PEOPLE FEAR HARASSMENT BY L AW ENFORCEMENT Burkett says he was recently released after serving a 37-day stint at the Washoe County Detention Facility located on Parr Boulevard. He was arrested for violating the city’s open container law, he says. “They’ve got a cure for homelessness in Reno—it’s called Parr,” Burkett says. Echoes of Burkett’s sentiment can be heard all over Record Street, where many of Reno’s homeless facilities are located. Many of Reno’s homeless, especially those living on the streets, feel that law enforcement officials take unfair advantage of the homeless in Reno. “The city or the county or whatever, they get money for every person NIGHTCLUBS/CASINOS

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they put in jail,” says JJ Bailey, a man who is occasionally homeless but currently living in an apartment. “They get paid $75 dollars a night for every person they put in jail. I think it’s sad. Can’t they make money another way?” Bailey says that regardless of whether the crime is a misdemeanor or a felony, the law enforcement official is provided a $75 dollar compensation for every arrest made. “We’re all about the Benjamins to those cops,” says Burkett. For fear of being arrested, one of Mercer’s biggest worries is where she’ll will use the restroom each night. The gate to the Record Street women’s shelter closes at 9 p.m., she says, and that’s where she normally uses restroom facilities. Until recently, Mercer says she and many of the other unsheltered homeless living on Record Street were using the restroom at the 4th Street RTC Bus Station, just a block away. But bus station employees put an end

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to such use, reserving their facilities for paying customers only. “We have nowhere to go to the bathroom,” says Mercer. “In the middle of the night, where are we supposed to go? So we get caught going behind a Dumpster and our asses are in jail. Do you know how degrading that is? But it’s the circumstances of life right now.”

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This dog took the brunt of the attack outside of the Record Street complex. He lost half an ear.

Another visit to Parr Boulevard isn’t even Mercer and Burkett’s biggest concern. “Our problem right now is that we’re sleeping on the sidewalk,” says Mercer. “We get woke up every morning by the police. Between 5:30 and 6 every morning, they wake us up, and we have to get our butts up and move.” Though there’s both a men’s shelter and a women’s shelter within a hundred feet of where Mercer and Burkett have made camp on Record Street, the couple chooses to sleep on the sidewalk most nights. They do so simply because they want to be together. The shelters do not permit cohabitation, except the Family Shelter, which is reserved for families with children. “They don’t consider us a family because we have no young children,” says Mercer. “My husband and I have been together for 22 years. But because we do not have children, we can’t be together.” Community Relations and Development Officer Sandy Isham says the Community Assistance Center simply can’t let couples sleep together in the shelters. “You’re going to see men and women separated by gender at pretty much every shelter,” says Isham. “It’s dorm-style sleeping quarters so we can’t allow cohabitation. They sleep on bunk beds.” But homeless couples in Reno feel unfairly discriminated against. Like Mercer and Burkett, many choose to sleep together

out in the cold rather than separated in the warmth of shelters. “I know a lot of couples who won’t come to the shelter because of the fact that they have to be separated,” says Mercer. Bailey says that the shelters not allowing couples to cohabitate may have subversive implications, however. “That rule is causing people to break laws,” says Bailey. “They’d rather not, but they’re doing it to stay together. It’s practically understandable crime. These people would rather not commit crimes, but they’re taking the best of two evils.” Mercer says she knows many couples that sell their food stamps so they’re able to get a room together for a week. Or, she says, they’ll return stolen items to stores like Walmart, where no receipt is required for the return of less-expensive merchandise. “I don’t want to be a guilty man,” says Burkett. “I’m an honest, decent man. It hurts me to have to hurt the courts like that.” But Burkett says it’s hard to stay within the confines of the law, given the circumstances presented by homeless life.

4 . I T ’ S TO U G H TO H AV E A P E T, T O O The lack of a fence or a defined household boundaries can present large problems for homeless owners with pets. Kari Hartman, another Record Street resident, owns a 3year-old male pit-bull named Dozer. The dog is Hartman’s constant companion, traveling with her every moment of the day and sleeping in her tent at night. Like Mercer and Burkett, Hartman refuses to sleep in shelter, but she does so because animals aren’t permitted inside. “He’s not an official service dog, but if she had to do without that dog, I don’t know what she’d do,” says Mercer. “Dozer’s like her son.” A few weeks ago, Dozer was involved in a dog fight when another homeless woman and her dog passed by Hartman’s tent on Record Street.

Nevada has the second highest rate in the nation of severe housing cost burden. Animal control was called to the scene. Dozer was unharmed, but he bit off half the other dog’s ear. Both dog owners were inconsolable after the fight. The other owner managed to stop the heavy bleeding from her dog’s ear with pieces of her own clothing. She sat on the corner of Record and Fourth streets with a friend, blood staining her shirt, while the animal control officer interviewed her about the incident. “He used to look at me with his ears pointed up every morning,” she said. “He can’t do that no more.” Hartman, Dozer’s owner, is unable to stop crying, worried about losing Dozer to animal control. “They’re gonna take away my baby, they’re gonna take away my baby,” she said between sobs. Despite the day’s incident, animal control officer Jeff Brooks says instances of dog attacks or fights happen on rare occasion. “We deal with a lot of homeless people with pets,” he said. “In my experience, they tend to take real good care of them. It’s companionship and a means of staying warm.”

5. WINTER OVERFLOWS T H E S H E LT E R S It gets really, really cold in Reno. And though some homeless people such as Mercer, Burkett and Hartman make the choice to sleep outside instead of in the warmth of the shelters, there are a number of homeless forced into unsheltered circumstances when the Record Street shelters fill to capacity. “I know guys who go up there five or six days in a row to try and get a bed, and they’ll finally get one,” says Mercer. “And these are elderly guys. There’s guys in wheelchairs, there’s guys on canes that go in there, and they have to wait. There’s just not enough resources.” With nighttime temperatures dropping below freezing, the winter months are especially hard for Reno’s unsheltered homeless population. For this reason, an overflow shelter is opened each year to combat the problems posed to Reno’s homeless by the harsh winter conditions, says Isham. 14

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The overflow center houses only men, Isham says, as they’ve traditionally been the homeless subpopulation in need of an overflow facility. It’s a simple warehouse lined with cots and blankets, she says, a basic overnight set-up just to get the men off the streets and out of the cold. “Last year, we used a voucher system to put them up in hotels, but we found that the warehouse keeps the overflow simple and more streamlined,” Isham says. “It’s just easier to keep track of everyone when they’re all in one place.” Like the Record Street shelters, the overflow facility has two staff members present 24-hours-per-day.

6. RECORD STREET IS RENO’S HOMELESS SERVICES Record Street is the hub of homeless assistance centers in Reno. Volunteers of America, a national non-profit organization, and Project ReStart, a community program to end homelessness in Reno, have joined together to create the Community Assistance Center in downtown Reno. The Community Assistance Center is comprised of three separate shelters: a men’s shelter, a woman’s shelter, and a family shelter. There is also the Day Area, an outdoor arena with shade pavilions, benches and trees, where homeless people can go during daytime hours under the protection of security service. Isham says the goal of the Community Assistance Center is to provide comprehensive support services to those residing in the shelters, helping the homeless to regain stable lives and living situations. Through the ReStart program, the Community Assistance Center provides mental health support services for homeless individuals, and provides a homeless prevention program to help individuals and families before they have need of a shelter or resign to the streets. “With all of these services located together we have a one-stop comprehensive collection of services to help people exit out of homelessness and continue on to a more productive and prosperous life,” says Isham.

7. I T ’ S H A R D T O G O HUNGRY IN RENO The Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada’s St. Vincent facilities, located just east of the Record Street campus, work to provide food to Reno’s homeless and impoverished residents. St. Vincent’s Dining Room and St. Vincent’s Food Pantry, and St. Vincent’s Thrift Shop, as well as a number of additional services. Scott Cooksley, the food pantry manager, had an exceptionally busy morning on Dec. 8 as St. Vincent’s held a special holiday giveaway event, handing out holiday hams, complete with fixings, to nearly a thousand needy families in the Reno area. After the lines died down, Cooksley and his team of volunteers were able to take a breather, relaxing from the hectic, but rewarding, morning event. Though the holiday ham giveaway may seem like a laborious, intensive process, but for Cooksley and the St. Vincent’s staff, it’s just another morning. “This is a great event, but this is what we do every day,” said Cooksley of the holiday ham giveaway. “We’re open six days a week. This is normal.” Cooksley was homeless once. And his past has given him an acute awareness of the number of families and individuals who are homeless or on the verge of homelessness in the Reno area. “The way things are now in this day and age, a family or a person is one check away,” he says. “They get sick for a week, they don’t get paid for a week, they’re on the street. They’re child gets sick that week,

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they can’t work that week, they’re on the street. Somebody misses a child support payment or an alimony payment, they’re on the street.” Cooksley said St. Vincent’s really enjoys holding the ham giveaway event because its comes at a time of year when the community is more aware of its needy population. But the need is ever-present in Reno, Cooksley says, it’s not strictly a holiday dilemma. “We like doing this because we were lucky enough to get a couple nice donations” Cooksley said. Other groups—We Care, Rise and Loving Hearts Club—feed homeless people at the Record Street site almost every night.

8. HOMELESSNESS IS BIG IN NE VADA Although the total homeless population has decreased by 1 percent between 2009 and 2011, the number of unsheltered people has increased, according to a report conducted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. People living on the streets, in cars, or in abandoned buildings increased by 2 percent between 2009 and 2011. And, although the homeless population did decrease on a national level, it did increase in nearly half of all U.S. states, and by 20 percent or more in 11 states. Although Nevada’s total homeless population decreased by 27 percent, Nevada’s level of unsheltered homelessness decreased by just 10 percent. The “doubled up” population (people

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who live with friends, family or other nonrelatives for economic reasons) increased by 13 percent from 6 million in 2009 to 6.8 million in 2010. The doubled up population increased by more than 50 percent from 2005 to 2010. According to the report, Nevada has the fourth highest rate of homelessness among all 50 U.S. states. Nevada has the second highest rate in the nation of severe housing cost burden. Housing is considered affordable when it accounts for 30 percent or less of monthly household income. This means, in Nevada, of the households living below the poverty line, 81 percent are spending half, or much more, of their income on rent alone, leaving the households severely housing cost burdened, meaning they spend 50 percent or more of their monthly income for housing. When housing accounts for 50 percent or more of a household’s resources, any unexpected

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Is the friendly neighborhood gym a thing of the past? With New Year’s resolutions in full swing, many people are newly resolved to lose weight lose and get in shape. by Laura Davis Following the start of a new year, gyms famously see a spike in both new memberships, and fuller class sizes of existing members. But this time around, one local gym won’t be seeing any increases. Not due to resolutionists choosing to focus on something like, say, going green in 2013 instead, but because they will be closing their doors after almost 15 New Years past. Fitness Millennium, which heard the whirling sound of treadmills for the final time on Dec. 27, is choosing to lay its weights to rest after battling a multitude of obstacles throughout its solid run—all while keeping good form, of course. Kit Brady, sole owner since June of 2005, took over from his business partner Leslee Bender, developer of the workout gem the Bender Ball. Brady says that what once was a thriving little aerobic oasis, Fitness Millennium has been seeing problems arise since the economy crashed. “As much as my core members love this gym, it also takes another layer outside of them,” Brady says of customers other than his regular fitness fanatics, whose average age hovers in the 40-plus zone, and many of which have been members for up to 10 years. “Since 2007, when the recession hit, that outside layer shrunk. I went from 575 members to about 420. And I saw a constant drop in my members every month since—especially through the summer of this year and the fall.” With the opening of larger, corporate money-backed gyms coming into play as well, Brady says he got pushed further and further off the field. “I couldn’t recruit, whatever I tried … Boutique, neighborhood gyms like mine are fading. It’s kind of the

end of an era. In their places are going the discount gyms, the 24-hour access gyms, places like that I’m competing against.” Fitness Millennium saw a membership deficit that ultimately created a financial situation that wasn’t exactly golden—and led to occasional months when Brady says his rent payments saw the backlash. The perks of being a small business in a community-oriented neighborhood, is that occasionally one can land in the hands of a local property owner who understands the plight of the little guy, and is willing to perhaps, on occasion, overlook a couple of late payments. However, when Fitness Millennium’s shopping center went to auction earlier this year, and was then put into the hands of an out-of-state property management group, Texasbased C3 Capital, that leniency changed, according to Brady. “After the economy went down, I couldn’t always make payments on time in full but the previous owners were very understanding,” Brady says. But when the gym’s lease came up for renewal the end of March, the lease negotiations began, and taking into consideration the ups and downs of its financial rollercoaster—without the benefit of having a local take on the gym sticking it out for close to 15 years thus far—certain stipulations came into play which ultimately led to Brady’s decision to unplug the treadmills for the gym’s final lap of 2012. “You do a little bit of a dance when you do lease negations,” Brady says. “We did that for a few months. But they wanted me to do a few things I wasn’t comfortable with doing, and I think they were a little strong in some of their requests.” Those included requests such as an additional $4,000 security deposit (on top of the current $2,000) and the signing of a personal guarantee versus a corporate guarantee—a signing that would put personal assets, along with the business itself, up for grabs if it failed. A representative of

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the property management group declined to comment. So Brady enlisted the help of one of his five-year members turned friend turned business attorney, Barry Breslow, and after some discussion, and taking the Thanksgiving holiday to mull it over, decided it was best to close the gym. “I couldn’t save this gym for him. The economics weren’t coming into play,” Breslow explains. “[The new property owners] don’t know him, they’re just looking at numbers. They’re not Nevadans—they don’t live here.”

DON’T MESS AROUND WITH GYM Brady admits the leasing negotiations were only part of the equation that added up to the decision to shut the doors. It was also the long hours—he was not only the owner, but one of just two employees in charge of cleaning, repairing and managing the gym—regularly putting in 60 hour work weeks—and, at 56, the approaching of his retirement age. Still, the decision didn’t come easy. “The hardest thing in my mind was how was I going to tell the Debs, the Lindseys, the Marshas and the Peggys … the Barrys and the Bretts,” Brady recalls breaking the news to his core members. “I went through my head their reaction to what I was going to tell them, that their comfortable old shoe of a gym was going to close.” Nothing prepared Brady for the reaction his members did have however. There were tears and personal sentiments Brady says surprised him despite being known among members as the Cheers of gyms, thanks to its close-knit, community atmosphere. “People I thought I had very little or no impact on got teary-eyed—I was shocked,” Brady says. “I was so wrapped up in hours and finances, distractions of day-to-day operations, that OPINION

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I didn’t see how much of an impact I had on people.” One such impact for which he was unprepared was the fundraiser, started by Breslow, from which his members pooled together to raise money for a hip replacement surgery for Brady in September. It was an operation he’d needed for a degenerative hip condition that’d been noticeably worsening. “We noticed him limping around [the gym], but the cost of the surgery was too high for him to meet,” Breslow says of himself and his fellow members. So he printed fliers asking members to attend a fundraiser dinner at Eclipse Pizza, with Brady being the unsuspecting guest of honor. “People donated whatever they could afford. We raised $3,200, and he got the surgery. We told him, ‘Kit, we didn’t do this for you—you raised all this goodwill yourself. We just helped you cash it in.’” There are other gyms on the circuit that Fitness Millenium’s members will be able to switch to. But the core members, who have become like a family to one another over the years, say they’re most upset about losing that personal connection and the comfort of seeing the same faces close to five days a week. “I started there in September of 1999,” Marsha Aymar, an 88-year-old member says. “We’re all going to leave and go to different places, but we made such close friends down there. Everyone seems to know you when you walk in, and I’ll miss that.” There may not be a trophy at the end of Fitness Millennium’s race, but they had a solid run filled with golden memories to take home. As for Brady’s personal resolution for 2013? “I’m gonna go join another gym,” he says with a grin, in regards to adding himself to the ranks of spiked gym memberships in the new year. “And let someone else clean and repair and worry.” Ω

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Lou down dirty shame In one of his greatest hits, The Mexican takes on TV commentator Lou Dobbs Dear Readers: My muchos apologies for this Best Of edition—I’m still in the rancho getting faded on the Herradura and stuffed with tamales, pozole, birria and empanadas. But this is an oldiebut-goodie: a 2007 piece ripping apart former CNN personality Lou Dobbs, who I hear does magic shows at Tea Party events now to pay the bills. What’s amazing about this is that Know Nothings still cite by Gustavo Arellano the discredited stats mentioned here as proof of Reconquista. gustavoa@ newsreview.com

Dear Mexican: Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed because of the illegals, or is he lying? Dobbs is right to a certain point, in spite of his idiocy. The father of two half-wabs spouted off his closed-hospitals claim at least three times: in a Dec. 11, 2006, interview with Charlie Rose; an Oct. 18, 2006, CNN broadcast (in which he incorrectly attributed

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the figure to a 2006 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine); and a May 1, 2006, special on that year’s amnesty marches. During that May special, Dobbs said, “Well, just for the record, it’s about 60 hospitals and clinics in California have had to close [because of uninsured illegal aliens], and in Texas. This is not a new phenomenon, and it’s just one of the hidden costs that the national, the mainstream news media, hidebound by political correctness, doesn’t want to deal with.” Know Nothing blogs, radio bros and activists repeat Dobbs’ assertion as gospel. Dobbs first discussed California’s shuttered hospitals in a June 8, 2005, interview with Madeleine Cosman, who had just published “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine,” an essay in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. Dobbs identified her as a “leading medical attorney,” but the Southern Poverty Law Center later exposed her

as little more than a résumé-padding racist who once said of Mexican immigrants, “Most of these bastards molest girls under 12, though some specialize in boys, and some in nuns.” Cosman’s paper claimed that 60 California hospitals shut down between 1993 and 2003 and that “84 California hospitals are closing their doors,” using a Sept. 24, 2004, Los Angeles Times article as citation for the latter stat. Problema is, Times reporter Jia-Rui Chong never wrote such a thing and didn’t even mention immigrants in her piece. Cosman, by the way, is the same “expert” who claimed illegal immigrants introduced 7,000 leprosy cases to the United States over the past three years, a fallacy repeated as fact on Dobbs’ show that he later retracted. And earlier this year, the pendejo stated on Lou Dobbs Tonight, “We would never have used [Cosman] as a source if we had known of her controversial background” when he aired her leprous lie.

The loco-est part of this mess is that both Cosman and her parakeet Dobbs have their figures relatively right: According to the California Hospital Association (CHA), 82 hospitals in the Golden State folded from 1996 to 2006. But in an interview with The New England Journal of Medicine, CHA vice president of external affairs Jan Emerson noted, “It would not be fair to place the blame solely on undocumented immigrants, but certainly, they are a contributing factor.” The article by contributing editor Susan Okie, M.D., also revealed that illegals make up only about 20 percent of the country’s residents who lack medical insurance and about 10 percent of the “uncompensated care in California hospitals”—10 percent too much, sí, but hardly the invasion the now-dead Cosman and still-whining Dobbs want Americans to believe. Strangely, Dobbs has yet to mention Okie’s article. Ω

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Italian Americans at Bat For baseball fans, winter is indeed the darkest, coldest season. During the long stretch between the by World Series and spring training, baseball Brad Bynum fans have an itch that can’t always be scratched by other sports. But the winter bradb@ offers time to brush up on the history of the newsreview.com sport—reading books, marathon viewings of Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary series, and even trips to a local art gallery to scope out some memorabilia. In that sense, Italian Americans at Bat: From Sand Lots to the Major League, an For more information, information-rich exhibition of baseball visit memorabilia celebrating the contributions www.arteitaliausa.com. of Italians-Americans to the national pastime, is perfectly timed. It’s on exhibit Jan. 17 through May 19 at Arte Italia, 442 Flint St., at the corner of Flint Street and California Avenue. Funded and operated by the E.L. Wiegand Foundation, Arte Italia is a cultural center celebrating Italy, particularly its visual art and food, as well as the ties among Italy, the American West and Northern Nevada. The organizations presents multiple art exhibitions annually, as

well as bringing in acclaimed chefs from different regions of Italy to teach, demonstrate, prepare and serve traditional meals. For the next culinary event, on Feb. 3-5, Paolo Sari, executive chef at Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel, will present meals in honor of the “culinary traditions” of three baseball players: Joe DiMaggio, Tony Lazzeri and Frank Cosetti. Arte Italia is based in a 1914 home designed by Frederic DeLongchamps. The building more recently housed a series of restaurants, notably Hardy House, Pyrenees and the Aero Club. The E. L. Wiegend Foundation took over the building in 2004, and, after extensive renovations, Arte Italia has operated out of the building since 2008. The ground floor contains the state-of-theart kitchen and dining room. Upstairs are two art galleries which, befitting the Italian theme, are called the Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci galleries. The walls of those galleries are currently lined with hundreds of archival photos, vintage baseball cards, autographed balls, detailed, informative text panels and uni-

forms, caps and mitts used by famous players. There’s a computer database with statistics and information about more than 450 Italian-American baseball players. There’s a framed copy of the June 22, 1970, issue of Sports Illustrated with Red Sox outfielder Tony Conigliaro on the cover sporting a nasty black eye. On one wall there’s a timeline of the years 1845 to 2012 and covering important points in the histories of baseball and Italian immigration into the United States, and, most especially, the times in which those two histories intersect. For example, this entry for 1955: “Joe DiMaggio becomes the

first Italian American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.” DiMaggio, along with his brothers, Dom and Vince, are among the stars of the exhibition. The infinitely quotable Yogi Berra is another star. But there are also places highlighting players and managers like Phil Rizzuto, Tony Lazeri, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Torre and Tony La Russa, and former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti. “For them, it was a way to integrate into the American way of life,” says Annie Turner, the Arte Italia program director. The exhibition was originally curated by the Museo Italo Americano, the Italian American Museum of San Francisco, so the show has a heavy emphasis on Bay Area teams, but this provides a great ending for the exhibition, which is arranged chronologically: an autographed cap and jersey worn by San Francisco Giants left-hander Barry Zito, who pitched Game 1 of the 2012 World Series, a crucial part of the Giants’ sweeping victory. Ω

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If you have had the pleasure of sitting at a table in one of Chef Paul Abowd’s many restaurants over the years, you have by Dave Preston had the experience of food royalty. At 85, Abowd, currently the chef at Stone davep@ House Café, is likely the oldest cooknewsreview.com ing chef in the state of Nevada. “I’ve never tried to sell myself,” he said. “I felt I had a responsibility not to disappoint my customers with what I put on a plate.”

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names in show biz—Sinatra, Crosby, Benny—all frequented the place. He created Peg’s Glorified Eggs and Ham in the Bay Area and brought it to Reno and sold the name and concept a few years ago. He moved to Carson City in 1977, and opened Adele’s. Charlie, Paul’s son, still operates Adele’s in Carson City, and like-father-like-son, Charlie has displayed his talents at the iconic James Beard House in New York City. Abowd’s French toast is made the old fashioned way. It goes on the grill first, then into the “French” fryer, and then back onto the grill, and finished off with a banana rum sauce and pecans—a wow factor. The breakfast prices run from $5.95 to $15. There’s a full lunch menu with traditional burgers, combo plates, pasta, wraps, soups, salads and Mexican fare. And then there are the sandwiches, like the eggplant and portabella mushroom with sautéed roasted red peppers, onions and Gruyere. Luncheon prices run from $5.95 to $18. The dinner menu is an overwhelming frustration in pleasure. The choices cover the gambit of cuisine so I’ll mention my preferences. True Sand Dabs are hard to find, and Abowd’s are pansautéed in lemon with butter and almonds. He offers a baked avocado and crab topped with Hollandaise and served in a puffed pastry shell. For beef, there’s a mustard steak and sautéed calf sweet breads. There are chicken livers sautéed with shallots, garlic, and a blend of wild forest mushrooms. Dinners run from $8 to $40 for steak and lobster, and all are served with vegetable and a starch. There’s a full bar and a modest, but well suited, wine list. It seats 42 inside, with linens at dinner, and patio dining is set for 84 in the summer. The father of chefdom, Auguste Escoffier, noted, “In all professions without a doubt, but certainly in cooking, one is a student all his life,” that is Paul. And like Escoffier, Paul has created his own legacy: master of the menu … food royalty … king of Nevada kitchens. Ω

His mantra has always been “find ways to always make it better.” During our interview, he told me he had to correct the way a balsamic dressing was being made that morning because “it wasn’t right.” “I enjoy people,” he said. “My ideas for food and my desire to change my menus are because this is not a boring job. I like the challenges, and I’ve been that way since I was a kid. To me, work is not a penalty, it’s a blessing. Retirement is an end, and I’m not there yet, and I know Adele would not want me to, either. But not the hectic pace. I’m taking more time for myself.” Adele was Abowd’s wife for 54 Stone House Café is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. years; she passed away in 2004, but everyone who knew her remembers her as a classy, proper lady—“the rock” in all of Abowd’s ventures. And when you visit the Stone House Café, you’ll see the living tribute to an original, Adele Abowd. Right after he was discharged from the Marine Corps at age 20, Abowd opened his first restaurant in El Cerrito, Calif., called EAT, a name that said it all. Some of the biggest

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Historical revision Django Unchained Is Quentin Tarantino repeating himself a bit in his latest film, Django Unchained? I certainly think so. Tarantino got off on revisionist history with Inglourious Basterds, changing the events of World War II for entertainment’s sake. He got away with it because the movie was stylistically awesome, and Eli Roth wowed with his baseball bat. This time, Tarantino has taken his crazy pen to the subject of African-American slavby ery, and the result is an uncomfortable, yet Bob Grimm somewhat entertaining, mixed bag. bgrimm@ The movie has all of the Tarantino-isms: newsreview.com super violence, awesome music choices, cutesy monologues—but it gave me that “been there, done that” feeling at times. For the first time ever during a Tarantino movie, I found myself a little bored during some stretches. Christoph Waltz, who played the evil Nazi Hans Landa in Basterds, returns to Tarantino Land as Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty

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hunter wandering around the southern U.S. two years before the Civil War. Schultz has the same ingenuity and flair for words that the Landa had, but he’s a much nicer human being. That is, unless you are one of his targets. Then, he will shoot you down in a spray of brains and intestines. His character despises slavery, but purchases a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) because he has heard the man has seen some wanted men he needs to shoot. As it turns out, Django is a crack shot, the two become partners, and lots of evil crackers are going to die violent deaths.

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Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) has been sold to an evil slave owner named Calvin Candie (a slithery Leonardo DiCaprio), and Schultz agrees to accompany Django on a mission to rescue her. When DiCaprio enters the fray, the movie hits its highest heights. Tarantino allows the usually virtuous actor a chance to be truly disgusting, and DiCaprio jumps happily at the opportunity. The movie is long (two hours and 45 minutes), as are some other Tarantino films, but this is the first Tarantino film that “felt” long to me. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that this is the first Tarantino film not to be edited by the late Sally Menke. Menke was a big part of the Tarantino universe, and her cuts were magical. Perhaps Menke would’ve made this gun-and-pony show fly by effortlessly, as did all of her other Tarantino projects. Django Unchained is a sporadically entertaining film that feels a little off. It also feels like Tarantino’s most sadistic film to date, and I say this while remembering the “Bring out the Gimp!” scene from Pulp Fiction. Again, maybe Menke had a way of presenting Tarantino’s crazed visions that his current editor can’t summon up. The sort of stuff that is just plain nauseating here was actually kind of funny in past Tarantino efforts. Waltz is terrific, and it’s refreshing to see him playing a crazy guy with a big heart. He’s usually such a prick in movies, so it’s nice to see him in a heroic role. DiCaprio gives his part of the film a funny and sinister edge, although his monologue about the inner workings of a slave’s skull is a bit much. Foxx makes for a decent enough hero. Django Unchained is mediocre Tarantino at best, and I can only give the slightest of recommendations. See it for Waltz and DiCaprio. I’m hoping it signifies the end of Tarantino’s revisionist history and exploitation/grindhouse phase. Maybe he should tackle science fiction or romantic comedy the next time out. Unfortunately, I just read a story where he teased an idea for a sequel to Basterds, so totally new and innovative ideas from Tarantino might be far away. Ω

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Oh damn, this one hurts to write. Damn! I waited and waited for Peter Jackson to return to Middle-earth. I so wanted to see this film that its previous lack of existence in my life has probably contributed to a myriad of social problems I just can’t explain right now. And after all that waiting, we get this, a nearly three-hour mess that lacks focus and anything resembling pizzazz. Jackson, as we all know by now, has stretched a relatively small book into what will be somewhere in the neighborhood of nine hours after three films and, so far, it’s a big mistake. Martin Freeman is fine as Bilbo Baggins, the little hobbit who decides to go on an adventure. In the book, that adventure is a quick, crisp, wonderful thing. In this movie, it’s a bunch of indistinguishable dwarves acting all goofy and stuffing their faces for half the running time, and then a bunch of battles that have no sense of meaning. Smaug the dragon doesn’t really factor yet—Jackson is leaving that for Part Two—and Bilbo gets lost in the shuffle. The movie achieves its only true great heights when Gollum (Andy Serkis) finally shows up for a game of riddles. Until then, the movie doesn’t catch fire, it meanders. And, brother, I’m heartbroken over it. I watched this in standard 3-D. I’ll try to see it in the much debated 48fps— twice the normal film speed and definition—and give an update on how this looks at a later date.

Jack Reacher

Tom Cruise brings the popular action novel title character to the big screen, and while he isn’t as physically big and imposing as the Reacher portrayed in the novels, boy howdy, is he ever mean. When civilians are disturbingly shot by a sniper, it seems to be an open-and-shut case. That is, until the suspect summons investigator Jack Reacher, who has an unorthodox approach to homicide investigation that occasionally involves the snapping of somebody’s leg. This is Cruise in nasty mode, but he mixes in some good humor that makes Reacher a well rounded character for him. Rosamund Pike delivers a memorable performance as the attorney representing the accused sniper, as does Richard Jenkins as her father. On top of the good performances, this is a decent mystery that will keep you guessing. This is a violent one, so know what you are getting into when you go to see it.

Les Miserables

This is a grand, beautifully shot adaptation of the legendary musical, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Hugh Jackman in the heavy-lifting role of persecuted bread thief Jean Valjean. Set in 19th century France, the musical calls for nearly every word to be sung, and it’s a major undertaking. Hooper had his cast sing live on the set rather than prerecording in a sound booth, and this results in a moving musical experience. Jackman has a spectacular voice, and you get at true sense that he and his costars are acting these songs, rather than lip-synching. Anne Hathaway will probably win an Oscar for her work as Fantine, singing her big number in one take and summoning honest, heart-wrenching tears. Russell Crowe, as Valjean’s lawman nemesis Javert, doesn’t have half of Jackman’s voice, but there’s something about his interpretation that’s appropriate and amplifies the character’s loneliness. Every number is treated with a majestic grace that makes this one of the greatest movie musicals I’ve ever seen.

Life of Pi

This is an amazing achievement in filmmaking. It’s one of the year’s best movies, and easily one of the best uses of the 3-D medium. Director Ang Lee is a creative force that cannot be deterred or stopped. Life of Pi is his most splendorous and enchanting film to date, and this is the guy who gave us Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Suraj Sharma plays Pi, a young man who winds up on a lifeboat with a tiger after a storm sinks a ship carrying his family and its zoo animals. Pi

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must learn to appease the tiger, the tiger must accept or eat him, and that’s the plot of the movie. The story is told in flashback with an older Pi (Irrfan Khan) being interviewed by a writer (Rafe Spall). This is a great screen adventure full of countless magical moments and a sure contender for Best Picture.

Lincoln

I love Steven Spielberg, I love Daniel Day-Lewis, but I do not love this movie. In fact, I don’t even like it. While Day-Lewis is astoundingly good in the title role, the movie around him is a drab, lifeless retelling of the final days of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Spielberg makes this a darkened room political potboiler, chronicling how Lincoln and his staff managed to get slavery abolished in the waning days of the Civil War. Sally Field is cast as Lincoln’s troubled wife. While Mary Todd’s plight deserves a movie of its own, it’s not given much consideration here, nor is the life of Lincoln’s eldest son (an utterly wasted Joseph Gordon-Levitt). The movie’s final act treats the death of Lincoln like a strange afterthought. They would’ve been better off ending the film before his assassination. I expect Day-Lewis to be in the Oscar hunt. He could actually win for this movie, a film that doesn’t live up to his magnificence.

Silver Linings Playbook

Bradley Cooper is on fire as Pat, a troubled man recently out of a mental institution and obsessed with his ex-wife. He’s so obsessed hat he can’t see the value in Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a recently widowed neighbor trying to befriend him. Directed by David O. Russell, the movie is a funny, slick treatment of people with real problems that works because Russell and his performers find the right balance. Robert De Niro does his best work in years as Pat’s obsessive father, and Chris Tucker gets big laughs as Pat’s former mental institution buddy. Cooper and Lawrence make for one of the year’s most interesting screen couples. They are certainly unique. Russell is establishing himself as one of the industry’s most reliable and innovative directors.

Skyfall

This officially stands as my all-time favorite Bond film. That’s coming from somebody who really hasn’t cared much for the Bond films. Daniel Craig had been my favorite Bond since Sean Connery and, with this fine entry, has actually become my favorite Bond. Sam Mendes directs this installment with a depth and level of excitement I haven’t detected before in the series—although Casino Royale came close— and Javier Bardem, as a former British agent gone bonkers, is a Bond villain for the ages. Great action scenes, fun homages to the series and a nice supporting turn from Judi Dench as M make this a Bond to be reckoned with, and truly enjoyed. Also stars Ralph Fiennes and a decent song from Adele. I don’t know how many Bond films Craig has left in him, but I hope it’s a lot.

This Is 40

Writer-director Judd Apatow spins off his own Knocked Up with the further family adventures of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann, Apatow’s real-life wife). The two characters prove worthy of their own movie thanks to the appeal of Rudd and Mann, who make for a great screen couple. Debbie is not interested in being 40 on her 40th birthday, and Pete wants to eat cupcakes without persecution while trying to get his independent music label up and running. Apatow pits the two against each other, and great comedic arguing ensues. Rudd is always a pleasure to have around, while Mann continues to prove herself as one of Hollywood’s funniest actresses. The supporting cast includes Melissa McCarthy (who steals the movie in her few scenes, including a hilarious closing credit outtake), Jason Segel, Albert Brooks and John Lithgow. They are all in top form, as is Apatow.

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Time out Clock’s Magic Bandits When the long fingers of Alex Miller’s hand curl around the neck of his electric guitar, accompanied by the scurrying by Laura Davis of the pick in the other hand, the notes that peal out are as meticulously made as when a spider weaves its web for one purpose— only in the case of Clock’s Magic Bandits lead guitarist, it’s not blood, but the sustainability of sound he’s hunting. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG

The sound is complicated to describe. It has the ability to both transport the unsuspecting listener into a ’60s style, smoke-filled blues bar, and the DJ booth of a modern, light-flashing dance club. The sound creates the paradox of a classic Pink Panther in an electronic video game. As for how one would go about categorizing the local trio, Miller and his fellow bandmates, bassist Mac Esposito and drummer Aaron Edgcomb, aren’t too sure themselves. The band’s original tunes are created to work like jazz, in the sense of crafting a set melody for the beginning and end of the song, while relying on improvisation for the middle. “If you were to just play [one of For more information, our songs] through, it might take visit www.facebook.com/ like 40 seconds, and we turn that ClocksMagicBandits. into a six-minute performance,” Miller explains of how his band’s songs appear on paper, before the likes of rolling drum solos. “If jazz is a process of improvising around a form and playing solos and melodies, then, yeah, that’s how our music works,” he concedes of the genre label. Complicated guys: Aaron Edgcomb, Alex Miller are Mac Esposito Clock’s Magic Bandits.

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But Clock’s Magic Bandits is much too complicated to sum up so simply. They’re heavily influenced by electronic music, according to Miller, and regularly work in covers of such artists as ’90s one-man-band Aphex Twin—who rose to fame with his inventive computer controlled sounds. The process of recreating electronically generated instrumentals in itself is no easy feat, but complication, if nothing else, can be used to define this ambitious trio. “I’m sitting there transcribing [Aphex Twin’s] computer music and writing it out for basic guitar and drums,” Miller says. “It’s the same as learning a solo from a real instrument’s recording, except you have to use your imagination because it’s a computer, it doesn’t sound like a human being playing a sax, it sounds like dots on a screen.” As a result, the members have learned to improvise in a second sense as well. Creating a variety of sounds typically necessary of multiple musicians, but crammed into only three. “I use a lot of effects on the guitar,” says Miller. “I’ve developed a technique so I can get a keyboard sound—and Aaron and Mac play drums and electric bass imitating dub samples.” Partial responsibility for the musicians’ intricate skill sets can be attributed to education. Miller graduated in 2011 from the University of Nevada, Reno with a degree in music, while both Edgcomb and Esposito are currently working for theirs. Being the first member to obtain his degree, Miller initially took off to try his skills in Portland, Ore., and a touring acoustic gypsy rock band. Upon returning to Reno, he tapped Edgcomb and Esposito to round-out Clock’s Magic Bandits— an opportunity for Miller to try out his hand as a bandleader. His experiences have trapped in his mind’s web one main impression. “I’ve seen music happen in the grimy basements of a house show, and I’ve played in upper class halls where you have to be wearing a suit,” says Miller. “It’s given me an opportunity to clarify what I am and am not interested in doing. I know I’m not interested in being successful in a way that puts success above substance. Playing should be what it’s all about.” Ω

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FRIDAY 1/4

SATURDAY 1/5

EDM Thursday, 10pm, no cover

EDM Night, 10pm, no cover

’90s Night, 10pm, no cover

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

THE ALLEY

Strangeworld, Head Trip, Na Na Nonchalant, 8:30pm, no cover

BAR-M-BAR

Freestyle firespinning, 9pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891 816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

The Spazmatics

THE BLACK TANGERINE

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

CEOL IRISH PUB

Pub Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Sean McGuinness, 9pm, no cover

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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Jan. 4, 9 p.m. Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

Rumble, 9pm, no cover

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

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2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover

DAVIDSON’S DISTILLERY

The Rattlers, 9:30pm, no cover

Nuke Vegas, 9:30pm, no cover

FUEGO

Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover

170 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-1800

Monday Night Open Mic, 8pm, M, no cover

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Open mic, 7pm, no cover

JAVA JUNGLE

Sunday Music Showcase, 7pm, no cover

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

JAZZ, A LOUISIANA KITCHEN

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

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

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

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

2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover

PIZZA BARON

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

THE POINT

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover

1) Crush: New World Album Release Show, 7:30pm, $6 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

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

POLO LOUNGE

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover

PONDEROSA SALOON

Karaoke w/Rockin’ Steel, 7:30pm, no cover

Live music, 8pm, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 106 S. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7210

Jan. 5, 8 p.m. John Ascuaga’s Nugget 1100 Nugget Ave. Sparks 356-3300

1) Camp Green Sol presents (530) vs Kronyak, 8pm, $6 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover

Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover

3001 W. Fourth St., (775) 322-3001

David John and the Comstock Cowboys

Open mic, 7pm, M, no cover

Open mic, 9pm, M, no cover

71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

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

Bass Heavy, 9pm, W, $TBA

Keith Alan Hartranft, 1pm, no cover

JUB JUB’S THIRST PARLOR KNITTING FACTORY CONCERT HOUSE

Celtic Sessiuns, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover Open mic, 9pm, W, no cover

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

1100 E. Plumb Ln., (775) 828-7665

Jan. 5, 10 p.m. Crystal Bay Club 14 Highway 28 Crystal Bay 833-6333

Sunday Night Acoustics/Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

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

8545 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach; (530) 546-0300

New Monsoon

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

The Cat-Like Reflexes, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Double B, 10pm, no cover

150 E. Main St., Fernley; (775) 575-5220

Moon Gravy, 8pm, no cover

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275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/7-1/9 1up Wednesday, 10pm, W, no cover

Arden Park Roots, Stranger, 8:30pm, $10

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 1) Cargo 2) Centric 3) Main Floor

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Comedy Night hosted by Patrick Shillito, 9:30pm, no cover

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

RISE NIGHTCLUB

Student Night, 10pm, $10, $5 w/college student ID after 11pm

210 N. Sierra St., (775) 786-0833

RUBEN’S CANTINA

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

Rise Culture Night, 10pm, $10

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

RYAN’S SALOON

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

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

Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover

SHEA’S TAVERN

715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

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Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030

3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: Adam Hunter, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $17.95; TBA, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Brian Dunkleman, Carlie & Doni, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Charles Fleischer, W, 9pm, $25

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Jamie Rollins, 9pm, no cover

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Elephant Rifle, Handsome Vultures, Cathedral Ghost, 9pm, no cover

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STREGA BAR

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

Karaoke with Steve Starr, 9pm, no cover

STUDIO ON 4TH

Allfree & Davis, 8pm, no cover

Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no cover Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Sunday Night Strega Mic, 9pm, no cover

Ladies Night w/DJ, 9pm, W, no cover

INTERZONE w/DJs Endif, TV1, Hyperkarma, 9pm, $3

DJ Boggan, DJ Stensen, DJ (530), DJ BPhree, 9pm, $5-$7

Dark Tuesdays, 7pm, Tu, no cover Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

VASSAR LOUNGE

Rick Hammond Band, 8pm, no cover

Rock’N J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover

First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, W, no cover

WALDEN’S COFFEEHOUSE

Mason Frey, 7pm, no cover

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

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993 1545 Vassar St., (775) 348-7197 3940 Mayberry Dr., (775) 787-3307

WILD RIVER GRILLE

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

Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover

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CARSON VALLEY INN

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge

2) The Motifs, 7pm, no cover

CIRCUS CIRCUS

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

CRYSTAL BAY CLUB

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

ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO

1) Aladdin, 7pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) The Crashers, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover 1) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge 3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs 5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion

HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE

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

HARRAH’S RENO

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

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SATURDAY 1/5

SUNDAY 1/6

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/7-1/9

2) Soul Experience, 10pm, no cover

2) Soul Experience, 8pm, no cover

2) Midnight Riders, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) The Motifs, 8pm, no cover

Kick, 10pm, no cover

1) Zongo Junction, 10pm, no cover 2) Boggan, Hephany, 11:30pm, no cover

1) New Monsoon, 10pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) The Crashers, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10

1) Aladdin, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) The Crashers, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10

2) The Spazmatics, 9pm, no cover 4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

4) Chris Gardner Band, 9pm, no cover

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

1) Tainted Love, 7:30pm, $22 3) DJ/dancing, 10:30pm, $20

1) The Magic of Eli Kerr, 8pm, $25, $35 2) Chaparral, 9pm, no cover 3) Club Sapphire w/DJ I, 9pm, no cover

1) Aladdin, 3pm, 7pm, $19.95-$24.95 2) The Crashers, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Left of Centre, 10pm, W, no cover 4) Live piano, 4:30pm, W, no cover

BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HEADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HE AD)

5) Ladies ’80s w/DJ Larry Williams, 7pm, no cover

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

1) Mustache Harbor, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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

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407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Ballroom 5) Drinx Lounge

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

1) David John and The Comstock Cowboys, 8pm, $15

1) Lin Phillips Annual Jam Session w/Collin Raye, Lacy J. Dalton, 4pm, $25

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2) Local guest DJs, 10pm, W, no cover

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

2) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover ; 3) Salsa dancing, 7pm, $10 after 8pm, DJ Chris English, 10pm, $20

2) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover 3) Rogue Saturdays, 10pm, $20

2) Kyle Williams, 7pm, no cover

2) Kyle Williams, 7pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

3) Dance party w/DJ Teddy P, 9pm, no cover 4) Dueling Pianos, 9pm, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Midnight Mass, 9pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover 3) Sin Biggest Little Locals Night, 4pm, M, no cover, Step This Way (dubstep, house), 8pm, W, no cover

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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, 847-4467: Gothic Productions Karaoke, Sa, Tu, 8pm, no cover

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Events BURTON MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL: Enjoy a day of on-snow entertainment, including Burton 2013 product demos, live music, sponsor giveaways and mini park for the smallest snowboarders. The festival features the Test Ride, Riglet (children’s snowboarding area), after-party at TC’s Pub and more.

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CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING: Keep Truckee

Rancho San Rafael Regional Park in Reno and Shadow Mountain Sports Complex in Sparks. Volunteers are needed to unload trees, keep traffic moving in the drop-off areas and collect donations. Trees must be free of decorations and not flocked. Recycled trees are chipped into mulch to be used year-round for weed abatement projects and to prevent soil erosion in park, river and open space projects. Mulch can also be picked up for free by residents. M-Su, 9am-4:30pm through 1/13. $3 donation. Call or visit website for details, (775) 851-5185, www.ktmb.org.

Meadows Beautiful holds its annual tree recycling program. Drop off trees at Bartley Ranch Regional Park and

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a beer, listen to music by Jelly Bread and check out the galleries at Nevada Museum of Art’s monthly event. Th, 1/3, 5-7pm. $8-$10; free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

LIVE SKYTONIGHT TALK: Learn about the nighttime sky during this informal presentation with the aid of state-ofthe-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.

NEVADA WOMEN'S LOBBY MEETING: Michon Martin, chief deputy attorney general, will give an overview of the Sex Trafficking Bill Draft Request that is designed to protect victims of sexual exploitation. RSVP is required. Tu, 1/8, 11:30am-1pm. $20 members, $25 nonmembers. Rapscallion Seafood House and Bar, 1555 S. Wells Ave., (775) 8537120, http://nevadawomenslobby.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) 4453240, www.wnc.edu/observatory.

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get out of the house and enjoy an evening of bluegrass this weekend. Northern Nevada Bluegrass Association kicks off the “Come in from the Cold” family entertainment series at Bartley Ranch Regional Park on Jan. 5. The annual winter program features a variety of entertainment ranging from big band jazz to cowboy poetry on Saturday evenings through March 9. The lineup for January includes cowboy poet Larry Maurice on Jan. 12, the Mountain Girls on Jan. 19 and the Gabardine Sisters Radio Show on Jan. 26. The shows begin at 7 p.m. Seating is limited to 280 people, so show up early at the Western Heritage Interpretive Center at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Admission is a $3 donation to help support the series. Call 828-6612.

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“BB” Flanders and Roberto Ramirez of the Latin DanceFest present the Reno Winter Bachata Festival. The festival features dance workshops during the day, evening dance showcases and evening dance parties all night long. The festival is open to dancers of all levels. W-Su through 1/6. Opens 1/2. $250. Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 813-1143, www.latindancefest.com.

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

PARENTS OF PREMATURE INFANTS: This 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 Medical Center. First Sa of every month, 10am-noon. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, 235 W. Sixth St., (775) 826-7850, www.support saintmarys.org/inthenews/195174.

SOUTH VALLEYS TODDLER TIME: This event is designed to encourage a love for books and stories, listening skills and interaction with others. Stories, songs, finger plays and wiggle action are part of the fun. For children ages 18 months to 3 years. Th, F, 10:30-11am through 2/15. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

SPANISH SPRINGS STORYTIME: Stories and activities especially for the preschool child. M, 10:30-11am through 1/28. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

SPANISH SPRINGS TODDLER TIME: This event is designed to encourage a love for books and stories, listening skills and interaction with others. Stories, songs, finger plays and wiggle action are part of the fun. For children ages 18 months to 3 years. Th, 10:30-10:50am through 1/31. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

WINTER BREAK MOVIE: Watch the Disney animated film Brave. Sa, 1/5, 10:30am-noon. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

Art BUSINESS RESOURCE INNOVATION CENTER (THE BRIC): BRIC Art 3. Capital City Arts Initiatives exhibition features Jill Altmann's fiber art, Steve Davis photography, Andy Gallian's prints, Mimi Patrick’s ceramics, Stephen Reid's drawings and watercolors and Gus Bundy's paintings. M-Su. 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, (775) 283-7123.

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: Living in El Norte. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents Blanco de San Roman’s exhibit featuring large oil on canvas portraits of two of Blanco’s friends, Alma and Ramiro, both of whom have lived with the difficulties of immigration status. Blanco’s paintings continue the centuries-long Spanish tradition of monumental portrait painting with a few contemporary substitutions: Alma in the Nevada landscape and Ramiro in front of classical architecture at the University of Nevada Reno. M-F through 1/18. Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St., www.arts-initiative.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Basement Eyes. The exhibit features wok by Jaron Coxson, Denali Lowder, Aubrey Banks and Joshua Dean Hageman. The opening reception is Dec. 21. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/4. Free. Contact Sarah Lillegard (775) 742-1858, sarah@hollandreno.org, www.hollandreno.org for details on this exhibit. These Truths. The Holland Project Gallery hallway will feature books by local artist Megan Matthers. Comprised into three hand bound books, These Truths showcases a collection of both images and selected writings from the artists journals documented over the past two years. Working in analog and Polaroid photography, Matthers work expresses a tender and poignant perspective of Nevada and the longing of exploration. The opening reception is on Dec. 21. Tu-F, 3-6pm through 1/4. Free. Contact Sarah Lillegard (775) 742-1858, sarah@hollandreno.org, www.hollandreno.org for details on this exhibit. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

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Kenoyer’s paintings are on display. Th, 1/3, 6-8pm. Free. Contact Melanie or

Amber (775) 348-9440, neverenderreno@yahoo.com, http://myneverender.com for details on this exhibit. 119 Thoma St., (775) 348-9440.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Peter Goin: Codices of Nevada and Beyond. Sierra Arts Gallery presents the work of photographer Peter Goin. Goin’s current body of work deals with the development of symbol and language. The visual narrative panels of Nevada Codices are chronicles of the evolution of a visual language. Interpreting the style, format and seriousness of pre-Columbian book-style codices, Nevada Codices are panels printed on high quality Hahnamuhle watercolor paper, 44” x 60” or larger. M-F through 1/3. Free. 17 S. Virginia St., Ste. 120, (775) 329-2787, www.sierra-arts.org.

Museums NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Juvenile-InJustice: Photographs by Richard Ross, W-Su through 1/13. $1-$10. Ciel Bergman: Sea of Clouds What Can I Do, W-Su through 2/10. $1-$10. Hoor Al Qasimi: Off Road, W-Su through 1/27. $1-$10. The Way We Live: American Indian Art of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, WSu through 3/3. $1-$10. Rebeca Méndez: At Any Given Moment, W-Su through 1/20. $1-$10. Jorinde Voigt: Systematic

Notations, W-Su through 1/6. 1-$10. The Book of the Lagoons: Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, W-Su through 1/6. The Light Circus: Art of Nevada Neon Signs, W-Su through 2/10. $1-$10. 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

PERFECT LITTLE PLANET: This full-dome digital show by Clark Planetarium Productions takes viewers over Pluto, through the rings of Saturn, across the storms of Jupiter and other destinations. Sa, Su, 11am through 1/6. $7 adults; $5 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

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PINK FLOYD'S DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: This full-

NASA explorations how asteroid hunters seek new objects in the solar system, how groundpenetrating radar finds meteorites embedded in the Earth, and how these sky fliers can pose potential dangers to life on Earth in this fulldome digital show by Houston Museum of Natural Science. M-F, 2 & 4pm through 1/4; Sa, Su, 12, 2 & 4pm through 1/6. $7 adults; $5 kids ages 3-12; seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

dome music and light show by Starlight Productions presents the legendary rock music masterpiece in immersive HD animation and surround-sound. F, Sa, 8pm through 1/5. $7 adults; $5 kids age 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St. north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

SEASON OF LIGHT: A full-dome digital star show by Loch Ness Productions. Narrated by National Public Radio’s Noah Adams, Season of Light celebrates many of the world’s holiday customs and explores how diverse cultures light up the season. M-Su, 6pm through 1/6. $7 adults; $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

SOLAR MAX: This full-dome digital feature film by John Weiley, back by popular demand, explores the vastness and power of our closest star using footage of the Earth’s sun captured from international sites, including the European Space Agency/NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). F, Sa, 7pm through 1/5; M-Su, 1, 3 & 5pm through 1/6. $7

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New kid on the bloc I spent the last two years in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe and just committed to another year. Before my assignment, I was dating a decent guy, but I told him it was temporary. When I was home on leave this summer, it was evident he hadn’t let the relationship go. I reiterated that I just wanted friendship, but when I was back in Europe he emailed, asking if I still love him. He’s always been really supportive, and even visited me in my first year, but I again told him I didn’t have romantic feelings for him. He asked for time to get over us. I promised not to contact him until he contacted me. This month, after three months of silence, he messaged me saying he wanted to talk, but now he won’t respond to my emails to set up a Skype date. I miss him terribly and wonder if I made a mistake ending it with him. Then again, I’m living in a culture where women my age are all married with two kids, and I’m getting a lot of pressure to get married. Until recently, even with thousands of miles between you, this guy’s been conveniently located: stuck on you. It sounds like you admire his good qualities— sort of in the way an auntie appreciates her little nephew’s accomplishments in the macaroni arts. But, romance? Nuh-uh. Not feelin’ it. Friendship only. And that’s final. Well, sort of final. Because, while absence, punctuated by the occasional Skype chat, couldn’t make the heart grow fonder, there’s nothing that gins up feeling in a girl like the sudden

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and inexplicable disappearance of a guy after years of his tonguedragging, tail-wagging, puppydog-like reliability. Adding to this allure, you’re the single lady surrounded by all these happy villager couples. This leads to you telling yourself that maybe you’re only now recognizing the guy’s wonderfulness, but what you’re really saying is “I don’t particularly have feelings for him, but he’s always had feelings for me, and I’m kinda lonely over here in Upper Eastern Wherever, where the milkmaid next door just got married at 14.” Paraphrasing Kant on how people shouldn’t be treated as means to an end, “Don’t be a user! That’s, like, so bogus.” Instead, engage in a truly humanitarian gesture—leave the guy alone so he can get you out of his system and go find somebody else. Ideally, she’ll also “miss him terribly” when they’re apart—but not simply because he’s the one man she has contact with who lacks both a wife and the belief that pink #300 sandpaper doubles for White Cloud and a glass of warm water is the week’s bath.

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snacks. Register online or call. Tu, 1/8, 5:308:30pm. $30 for three hours. VSA Nevada at Lake Mansion, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100 ext. 3, www.vsanevada.org.

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

SELF-HELP FORMS COMPLETION CLINIC: Nevada Legal Services offers general instructions and assistance on completing self-help forms. An attorney will be present to answer questions for qualifying clients. A notary will also be available at all clinics.

First Th of every month, 4:30-6:30pm; Second W of every month, 11am-1pm; Third Th of every month, 4:30-6:30pm; Fourth W of every month, 11am-1pm. Free. Nevada Legal Services, 654 Tahoe St., (775) 284-3491 ext. 214.

Community BEADS AND BOOKS!: Learn basic beading techadults, $5 children ages 3-12, seniors age 60 and older. Fleischmann Planetarium and Science Center, 1650 N. Virginia St., north of Lawlor Events Center, (775) 784-4812, www.planetarium.unr.edu.

PILATES FUNDAMENTALS: This mat class focuses on three Pilates principles for the seven exercises in the modified basic and basic mat routines. Recommended for students with no previous classic Pilates experience. Call to reserve your spot. Th, 5:15-6:05pm through 12/26. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

Music LIN PHILLIPS ANNUAL JAM SESSION: Local musicians will play the night away—all genres of music ranging from jazz to rock ‘n’ roll. The event will also feature guest performances by Collin Raye and Lacy J. Dalton. All money raised at the Lin Phillips Jam Session will go to Cancer Awareness Nevada, a non-profit local organization. Su, 1/6, 4pm. $25. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.linphillips.com.

PRANA FLOW YOGA: Morning yoga that stretches and strengthens the body from the inside out. This class will start your blood flowing and help you body remain toned and flexible. M, W, 8:30-9:45am through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

RENO BIGHORNS: The development league basketball team plays the Sioux Falls Skyforce on Jan. 4 and Iowa Energy on Jan. 5. F, 1/4, 7pm; Sa, 1/5, 7pm. $8-$125. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 284-2622, www.renobighorns.com.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: The Friday lunchtime concert series features guest artists performing on the church’s Casavant pipe organ. F, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279, www.trinityreno.org.

RINK ON THE RIVER: Operation of the ice skating rink is dependent on weather and ice conditions. Call the Rink on the River Hotline prior to visiting the rink to ensure that it is open and operating. Holiday hours may vary. M-Su through 2/3. $7.50 ages 13-54; $5.50 kids ages 3-12, seniors age 55+. Reno City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., (775) 334-6268, www.reno.gov.

Sports & Fitness 30/30 (CARDIO MAT/STRETCHING): Thirty minutes of Cardio Mat Pilates and 30 minutes of intensive stretching. Intermediate-level strength, stamina and flexibility are required for this class which emphasizes the principle of fluidity. Call to reserve your spot. M, 4:30pm through 12/30. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

STARGAZING SNOWSHOE TOURS: Come take advantage of the dark skies in Tahoe this winter with star guide and poet Tony Berendsen. Sa,

1/5, 5-7:30pm; Sa, 2/9, 5-7:30pm; Sa, 3/2, 57:30pm. $50 adults; $35 children; $15 rentals.

ADAPTIVE & CHAIR YOGA: This yoga program is for people living with heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other debilitating diseases. The class teaches breathing techniques, relaxation, guided meditation and visualization. Please call before attending. Tu, 2-3:15pm. $8 per class. Yoga Loka, 6135 Lakeside Drive, Ste. 121, (775) 337-2990, www.yogalokareno.com.

Northstar California Resort, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com/info/ski/stargazing_snows hoe_tours.asp.

TURTLENECK TUESDAY SKATE NIGHTS: Hear your favorite grooves from the 70s and 80s while you skate round the 9,000 square-foot rink. Tu, 6-9pm through 3/19. Free admission; $15 for skate rentals. The Village at Northstar, 3001 Northstar Drive, Truckee, Calif., (866) 466-6784, www.northstarattahoe.com /info/calendar/calendarevent.turtleneck_tue sdays.item.asp.

CLASSIC INTERMEDIATE MAT PILATES: Students learn to build on the basic mat routine. Modified intermediate to intermediate exercises will be added to the repertoire as students progress. Maximum of 10 people per class. Call to reserve your spot. Tu, 8:309:20am through 12/31. $16 per class. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.pilatesreno.com.

WOLF PACK WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: The University of Nevada, Reno plays California State University Bakersfield. Sa, 1/5, 4pm. $8 adults; $5 seniors, youth. Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-7225, www.nevadawolfpack.com.

DAWN PATROL: Dawn Patrol is a unique early morning mountain experience that includes exclusive access to untouched corduroy or fresh powder, depending on the weather. Dawn Patrollers arrive before the general public and take the Tram to High Camp before anyone else. Sa, Su, 7:40am through 3/24. $12-$29. Squaw Valley USA, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, www.squaw.com.

EXPRESS MAT PILATES: A quick 45-minute Mat Pilates class to get the body moving with concentration, control, centering. All levels welcome. M, W F, 12:15-1pm through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, www.yogareno.com.

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YOGA ALL LEVELS: Classes teach the fundamental principles and therapeutic application of a healthy yoga practice. Classes are designed to give you the time and support to understand the proper alignment of yoga postures (asana) and breathing techniques. M, 5:306:30pm through 12/30. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

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45-minute workout in over your lunch break. Instructors will help students master form, understand how to breathe and help them build confidence in the postures and explore the wonders of yoga. Tu, Th, 12:15-1pm through

12/31. $16 drop-in fee. Mind Body & Pilates, 615 Sierra Rose Drive, Ste. 2B, (775) 745-4151, www.yogareno.com.

Onstage DREAMGIRLS: Broadway Comes to Reno continues its 2012-2013 season with the Tony- and Academy Award-winning musical that tells the story of an up-and-coming 1960s singing girl group and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune. F, 1/4, 8pm; Sa, 1/5, 2 & 8pm; Su, 1/6, 2 & 7pm. $44-$79. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, www.pioneercenter.com.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: Nevada Opera presents Jack and the Beanstalk. Written by Dan Henry Boehler, this production features members of Nevada Opera’s Chorus in addition to participants of NVO’s International Young Artist Program. Jack and the Beanstalk incorporates video technology that allows the animated Giant to interact with live singers. F,

1/4, 5:30 & 7pm; Sa, 1/5, 2 & 3:30pm; Su, 1/6, 2 & 3:30pm. $20 adults; $10 seniors, children. Reno

Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 786-4046, www.nevadaopera.org.

RLT SOLICITS DIRECTOR PROPOSALS FOR 2013: Reno Little Theater requests directors and play proposals for RLTs 2013-14 season, both main-stage and fringe shows of any genre, preferably ones which have not been performed in Reno recently or at all. Submission deadline is Jan. 11. M-Su through 1/11. Free. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 348-7091, www.renolittletheater.org.

Classes THE BREASTFEEDING FORUM: Breast-feeding mothers are invited to join this breast-feeding support group. Mothers exchange their experiences and discuss concerns such as milk supply, pumping, going back to work, sleeping or lack of sleep, etc. RSVP at http://doodle.com/cy5nrur23mbg6pie. Tu, 45pm. $10 drop in; free for first-time attendees. Renown South Meadows Medical Center, 10101 Double R Blvd., (775) 240-9916, www.wellnourishedbaby.com.

E-BOOK HELP: Learn how to download e-books and audiobooks for your iPad, Kindle, Nook, smartphone or tablet. Bring your USB cord and device. Sa, 1/5, 11am-noon. Free. Sierra View Library, 4001 S. Virginia St., located inside Reno Town Mall, (775) 827-3232, www.washoe.lib.nv.us.

E-READER CAFÉ: Learn how to download library e-books and audiobooks to your electronic device. Please bring your library card, device with USB cable and a basic understanding of how to use your device. Call to schedule your 30-minute appointment. Th, 45pm through 3/28. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

PAINT AND SIP: Suellen Johnson guides you in transforming a Arthur Dove painting into your own 16” x 20” acrylic masterpiece. This class is open to all levels. Art supplies are included. Bring your own wine/beverage and

niques with volunteer beading expert Jamie, and work on projects with other beaders. First Su of every month, 1-3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, located at Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

BREAST CANCER—ON WITH LIFE: This support group provides a highly educational approach to looking at breast cancer. The latest research is discussed, along with alternative therapies, side effects of chemotherapy, reconstruction and community services. The group meets on Tuesdays at Saint Mary’s Center for Health’s Radiation Oncology Department. Tu, 4:306pm. Free. Saint Mary's Center for Health & Fitness, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Ste. 100, (775) 722-1222, www.supportsaintmarys.org.

CLICKETS KNITTING GROUP: Jean Peters guides this class for knitters of all ages and levels. Yarn and needles are available. First and Third Su of every month, 1:30-3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

CONVERSATION CAFE: The drop-in conversation program meets on the first Saturday of each month. First Sa of every month, 2-4pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

CROCHET CONNECTION: Learn to crochet or share tips with other crochet enthusiasts. Th, 45:45pm. Opens 1/3. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Lazy 5 Regional Park, Spanish Springs, (775) 424-1800.

FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB: The book club meets the first Saturday of each month. Call to find out each month’s book title. First Sa of every month, 1-2pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3203.

FRIDAY NIGHT BALLROOM DANCING: Every Friday night The Senior Dance Club of Nevada presents ballroom dancing featuring live music by the Ninth Street Band. Singles and beginners are welcome. F, 8-10:30pm. $7 members; $9 non-members. Washoe County Senior Center, 1155 E. Ninth St., (775) 828-1993, www.lreidenbaugh@washoecounty.us.

MYSTERY SLEUTHS BOOK GROUP: Solve some popular mystery books. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month. January’s title is Son of Stone by Stuart Woods. Tu, 1/8, 6pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 N. Hills Blvd., Ste. 340, North Hills Shopping Center, Golden Valley, (775) 972-0281.

NEW MOTHERS SUPPORT GROUP: This group offers support to first-time mothers in dealing with the changes and issues that come with having a new baby. Th, 10-11:30am. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, 235 W. Sixth St., (775) 770-3843, www.supportsaintmarys.org/inthenews/195174.

RENO DOWNTOWNERS TOASTMASTERS: Weekly meetings provide a forum for developing and practicing public speaking skills in a supportive environment. Participants range from experienced speakers to novices. Tu, 12:15-1:15pm through 3/6. Free for first-time visit. Round Table Pizza, 4007 S. Virginia St., (775) 750-5256.

RENO SKI & RECREATION CLUB: Hear the most current information about the Reno Ski & Recreation Club, upcoming trips and activities at the group’s general meeting. Second Tu of every month, 6pm. Free. Cantina Los Tres Hombres, 926 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 747-0233, www.renoskiandrec.com.

ROSICRUCIAN ORDER OPEN MEETING: Meet with local Rosicrucian students to learn more about the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. The order teaches its students about natural laws that enable people to achieve their highest potential in all areas of life. F, 1/4, 6:30-7:30pm; F, 2/1, 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Washoe Masonic Hall No. 35, 601 W. Peckham Lane, (775) 376-1278, http://washoe35.org.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 2013, I pledge

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to conspire with you to increase your mastery of the art of friendship. Together we will concentrate on making you an even stronger ally than you already are. We will upgrade your skill at expressing your feelings with open-hearted clarity, and in ways that don’t make people defensive. We will also inspire you to help others communicate effectively in your presence. I hope you understand that doing this work will empower you to accomplish feats that were never before possible for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Chickens and

alligators share a common ancestor. Seventy million years ago, they were both archosaurs. That’s why chickens possess a gene that has the ability to grow teeth. A few years ago, a biological researcher at the University of Wisconsin managed to activate this capacity, inducing a few mutant chickens to sprout alligator teeth. I predict there will be a metaphorically comparable event happening for you in 2013, Taurus. The “chicken” part of you will acquire some of the gravitas of an alligator.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “People wish

to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground,” said French novelist Marcel Proust. An attitude like that is always a barrier to growth, of course, but in 2013 it would be especially ill-advised for you Geminis. In order to win full possession of the many blessings that will be offering themselves to you, you will have to give up your solid footing and dive into the depths over and over again. That may sometimes be a bit nerve-racking. But it should also generate the most fun you’ve had in years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s the

horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: You escaped the chains that kept you enslaved to your primary source of suffering. You broke the trance it kept you in, and you freed yourself from its demoralizing curse. Now you have forged a resilient new relationship with your primary source of suffering—a relationship that allows you to deal with it only when it’s healthy for you to do so and only when you feel strong enough to do it. Very nicely done! Congratulations! Excellent work!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “In this world,” said

Oscar Wilde, “there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I’m counting on you to refute the last part of that questionable assertion, Leo. According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, you will definitely be getting what you want in the next six months. You will receive your prize, you will earn your badge, you will win a big game or claim your birthright or find your treasure. When that happens, I trust you will make sure it is an enduring blessing. There will be no sadness involved!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): English poet

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Alfred Tennyson wrote so many memorable lines that he is among the top 10 most frequently cited authors in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. One of his most famous passages was, “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” When he was on his death bed at age 83, his enigmatic last words were, “I have opened it.” Let’s make that declaration your mantra for the coming year, Virgo. In your case, it will have nothing to do with death, but just the opposite. It will be your way of announcing your entrance into a brighter, lustier, more fertile phase of your life. Try saying it right now: “I have opened it!”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Back in 1830, it

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was expensive to stay up and do things in your room after dark. To earn enough money to pay for the whale oil that would light your lamp for an hour, you had to work for 5.4 hours. And today? It’s cheaper. You have to put in less than a second of hard labor to afford an hour’s worth of light. I suspect that in 2013 there will be a similar boost in your ease at getting the light you need to illuminate your journey. I’m speaking metaphorically here, as in the insight that

arises from your intuition, the emotional energy that comes from those you care about, and the grace of the Divine Wow. All that good stuff will be increasing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I’ve been

absolutely terrified every moment of my life,” said Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe, “and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” I think her declaration is excellent medicine for you. In 2013, you will have great potential for upgrading your relationship with your fears—not necessarily suppressing them or smashing them, but rather using them more consistently as a springboard, capitalizing on the emotions they unleash and riding the power they motivate you to summon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Ambition can creep as well as soar,” said Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. That will be good for you to remember throughout 2013, Sagittarius. Later this year, the time may come for your ambition to soar—in the month of April, for example, and again in the month of August. But for the foreseeable future, I think your ambition will operate best if you keep it contained and intense, moving slowly and gradually, attending to the gritty details with supreme focus.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Tom

Robbins’ book Skinny Legs and All, one of the characters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.” I think that happens to be excellent counsel for you to heed during the next six months, Capricorn. You may not always be able to figure out what the hell is going on, but that shouldn’t affect your commitment to doing the right thing. Your job is to keep your own karma clean and pure—and not worry about anyone else’s karma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ll be bold

and predict that 2013 will be a time when you’ll discover more about the art of happiness than you have in years. Here are some clues to get you started. 1. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” —Agnes Repplier. 2. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus. 3. “For the rational, healthy person, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.” —Nathaniel Branden. 4. “Our happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.” —E. Wigglesworth. 5. “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” —William H. Sheldon. 6. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” — Charles Kingsley.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2013, I

pledge to help you feel at peace and in love with your body; I will do everything in my power to encourage you to triumph over media-induced delusions that tempt you to wish you were different from who you actually are. My goal is to be one of your resourceful supporters in the coming months—to be a member of your extensive team of allies. And I will be working with you to ensure that this team grows to just the right size and provides you with just the right foundation. If all goes well, your extra help will ensure that you finish almost everything you start in the coming year. You will regularly conquer everyday chaos and be a master of artful resolutions.

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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Piece by piece Joseph DeLappe teaches digital media at the University of Nevada, Reno and is also an artist and activist who’s had his work exhibited around the world. Recently, his 17-foot cardboard sculpture of Gandhi was on display in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center on the UNR campus.

Tell me about the process of building Gandhi. It’s an involved process, that. I did a project that reenacts Gandhi’s salt march in Second Life [a virtual reality game]. I walked 240 miles [over 26 days] on a treadmill on the anniversary date of the march. My avatar was Gandhi, so I created this avatar in Second Life and essentially wandered. I’ve always been a builder and sculptor. This was part of that whole project, bringing a physical body to life. When I finished that, I found myself really missing my avatar Gandhi, and a number of factors came into play, but I was really interested in bringing Gandhi physically to real life. I was appropriating the 3-D data from Second Life and had to figure out how to use that in physical space. There are 3-D prints of Gandhi using the same data, but making the cardboard version was something entirely different. I wanted to make this monumental statue out of

this data from Second Life as a way to physically represent how amazing he was and this experience was sort of living vicariously as Gandhi. It was a very strange experience, and the attachment to my avatar was much more visceral than I imagined. I used Pepakura, a Japanese shareware program that costs around $30, used mostly by anime enthusiasts to develop versions of their characters with papercraft. It involves printing designs on paper with an inkjet printer. It’s a very intricate process. I thought it was amazing. It’s essentially a poor man’s 3-D printer. I love that. ... I spent six weeks at the end of my residency engineering and building a way to make this Gandhi out of cardboard that was 17-feet tall, the same size as Michelangelo’s David, another David and Goliath scenario.

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That may be a bit harsh. Let’s say instead that we’re in about the fourth grade in the School of Energy Harnessing. It reminds us that we have a ways to go until we graduate from this particular high school. Another nice quote from the Einstein bio is one from a contemporary of Albert’s, the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who once told a colleague, “Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.” That one leads me, predictably enough, to one of my all-time faves, uncorked by British geneticist J. B.S. Haldane in 1927. “My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose” (probably the best ever use of the word “queerer”). ••• Just a quick mention on behalf of Ed the Waver, who recently died in Iowa at age 75. Ed’s existence is proof that you can make your mark on this Earth in many ways, and not all of them

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It’s an AK-47. ... It’s a new piece. What I find interesting is this evolution of first-person games. When they first came out, they were mostly science fiction, like Star Trek Voyager or Halo. And they were all fantasy. But then it was like, OK, now there’s World War II shooters, so you have these people running around playing as Nazis. That’s pretty wild, right? Then you had Battlefield: Vietnam which to me was like, shocking. Now, we have contemporary shooters, and it fascinates me that 50 percent of these players are essentially playing as terrorists. You’d don’t even think about it. Think of the context we live in, with the “war on terror,” and I really thought it was important somehow to investigate that creatively. What I’m doing is with this game that came out two years ago, a somewhat Medal of Honor type game set in Afghanistan that was very controversial. It really intrigued me that you were essentially able to play as a Taliban with these beautifully modeled characters. And I honed in on that particular Taliban figure, and I’m in the process of building a 12foot tall version directly from that 3-D data. It will be orange. There’s a lot of symbolism with the color orange, through jumpsuits and threat levels, and it’s a pretty color. I’m not exactly sure what it’s going to be, but I think it’s important to make real some of these fantasies. It just weirds me out a little bit. ... We’re spending so much time in these online spaces that it’s important to represent what these places are about. It’s our new landscape. Ω

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popular biography of Steve Jobs. He also wrote a very nice bio of Albert Einstein. Walter seems to prefer world-changers for his subjects. In his Einstein book, Isaacson reminds that the most famous equation in science, namely E=mc2, where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light, assures us that the following is true—the energy contained in one raisin could power New York City for one day. This seems, of course, gigantically preposterous. But the accuracy of the equation has been proven beyond question. When you work out that the speed of light squared is a rather large number (about 55 billion), you realize that you’re going to be dealing with a very large amount of “E,” no matter how small your “m.” Anyway, one of the things this brain-boggling reality does is remind us that when it comes to energy procurement, efficiency and utilization, we really are still rather ape-like. |

I saw you’ve constructed a gun sculpture in a similar fashion. What are you working on?

involve egomaniacal power-tripping. I mean, God bless the guy, he basically made his name by walking around waving pleasantly at people, our local happy face New Age prophet, vibing us up with goodnatured cheerfulness. He was a man who said, “My job will be to walk around and wave at my fellow man.” In diligently doing so, he became locally famous and beloved. Ed would just wear you down. He knew that the first time you saw him, you’d think, “Who the hell is this ding dong?” He also knew that the 10th time you saw him, you’d be all right with it. You’d be all right with him, and you’d be all right with yourself. And then, you’d wave back. Which was probably the whole point. The position of local Waver is currently open. Ω

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