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Letters............................ 3 Opinion/Streetalk............ 5 Sheila.Leslie.................... 6 Brendan.Trainor.............. 7 News.............................. 8 Green............................ 11 Feature......................... 12 Arts&Culture................ 16 Art.of.the.State............. 19

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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review. It’s an epic battle in my vegetable garden. I use a lot of “square foot gardening” techniques. Square foot gardening is a high density method of planting vegetables for high yield in small spaces. Part of that is I only plant the seeds I intend to grow. It saves on thinning and weeding. I planted 20 beans, and they began to sprout on Monday. Problem is, since I got a late start, the insects are full-grown and voracious. Four beans have sprouted, and I’m pretty sure earwigs, which is that little brown insect with the pincers on their abdomens, have eaten the primary leaves off of three of them. Fiendishly, they left one leaf on one plant, so it may survive, but that is probably a false hope. I put out earwig traps, three of them. An earwig trap is a small cup, like a yogurt container, buried with its lip at ground level. Inside, you pour some dark beer—I prefer Guinness for the leftovers—and then some olive oil on top of that. Then you cover it with a piece of cardboard or plywood. My past experience has been that dead insects will fill an entire container by the end of the season. I think the beer attracts them, and the olive oil smothers them. Another weapon I’ve used in the past, but I haven’t yet installed into the garden, are those solar powered lawn lights. This is largely theoretical, but I figure since the little bastards don’t like light, maybe they’ll avoid lighted areas. I’ll be picking up some new rechargeable batteries today. On the advice of a friend on Facebook, I’ve begun cutting plastic bottles down to cylinders and placing them around the plants as they sprout. We’ll see. I won’t put poison in my garden, but I’m not above sleeping in it to check for bugs throughout the night, at least until they get their secondary leaves. It helps to be a bit obsessive when you garden in Nevada. +++ Don’t forget to vote in our Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada popularity contest. Go to www.newsreview.com/reno and look for the Best of Northern Nevada button in the upper right.

Re “Drug tests” (Feature story, July 8, 2010): I work at a headshop, happily, but yesterday I tried those Sleepwalkers. I needed euphoria pills. See, I’m pretty diplomatic when it comes to not trying any of what I sell. I just figured that nothing I sell is really appealing to me. But yesterday, I felt as though I needed an energy boost. I made the mistakes of taking them on an empty stomach and taking too much all at once. I took four Sleepwalkers on an empty stomach. It said that it had the same effects of two cups of coffee, so I thought it was harmless. My mistake. After feeling great for about an hour, this weird nausea began to take over me. It was harmless at first, and then it became much worse. I vomited about 20 times on and off for about six hours. The pain in my stomach was unbearable. I felt extremely cold, and I really thought I was going to die. The worst part was that I was trapped at work with no way of leaving early. It was extremely frightening. I shouldn’t have driven home alone, or at all, but I really had no choice. I couldn’t see very well, my head hurt, my stomach and spine were cold, and I continued vomiting, stopping each time it overcame me. Man, I regret taking those pills. Perhaps I took too much on an empty stomach. Either way, I will never ingest anything like that or even remotely close to that ever again. Michelle Loya Houston

Dead wolves, but lone? Re “Lone wolves strike again” (Let Freedom Ring, June 26): If Jerad and Amanda Miller were alive today, and were somehow released on a technicality, Brendan Trainor could sell them assault rifles from the trunk of his car. No background check would be required. No record of the sale would be required. He wouldn’t even have to know their names.

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Or see their faces. He could also sell them extra high-capacity magazines, a few thousand rounds of ammunition, and two more handguns exactly like the two they used to execute Officers Saldo and Beck. Trainor likely would not be breaking any laws. The secondary gun market is virtually unregulated, so as a practical matter America has no gun control, not even background checks. Any mental patient or terrorist only needs some cash and the classifieds, to gain access to over 300 million guns. Trainor also mentions—twice!—that Jerad Miller voted for Obama in 2008. Not to distract from cop-killing Obama voters, perhaps there were some influences closer to home that align more with the Millers’ actions. Possibly they were inspired by their fellow armed citizens at the Bundy Ranch, citizens who pointed guns at police officers. It’s possible that lone she-wolf Michelle Fiore inspired the Millers by joining them at the Bundy Ranch (armed) and by doing media on behalf of the protesters. You might consider that the Millers were among those hailed as “Patriots” by Sen. Heller. Or that Gov. Sandoval endorsed the armed confrontation as the exercise of “fundamental rights.” And of course there were the media influences. Take columnist Brendan Trainor, who had written the article “In Praise of the Second Amendment” (RN&R, Jan. 16, 2014). He wrote that “Las Vegas citizens are in a state of fear of their police.” Trainor warned of the danger of LVPD violence, and the need for citizens to hold the police in check. He compared police to British soldiers invading colonists’ homes 240 years ago. And in the same column, he also celebrated tens of thousands of Nevadans carrying guns, ready to defend themselves. If Jared Miller had posted Trainor’s words on Facebook, it could have been called a “red flag” or even a “manifesto.” But don’t expect any sense of personal responsibility from the crowd that throws around phrases like “Second Amendment remedies.” Gun-toters

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truly believe they have the right— an imaginary constitutional right— to murder government officials. That, despite the fact that “tyranny” has a wholly subjective meaning, to be determined by any individual shooter, by any “lone wolf.” Officers Saldo and Beck might well have been killed at the Bundy Ranch, if things had gone terribly wrong there. Killed by some of the other 800 or so “lone wolves.” I wonder, will Brendan Trainor ever apologize to the officers’ families? Will Heller or Sandoval or Fiore? Or will they just howl on about that big, bad government? C.G. Green Reno

Another B&B Re “Does Reno have an image problem?” (Feature story, May 22): If Reno didn’t have an image problem (well rooted in reality) it wouldn’t be trying to piggyback on Tahoe, i.e. Reno-Tahoe. You never hear any of the communities around Lake Tahoe hyphenating themselves with Reno! Hell if it weren’t for the Basques and the Burners, Reno would be just another corner of the Nevada wasteland! Chris Longstaff Carson

Wouldn’t want to live there Re “Does Reno have an image problem?” (Feature story, May 22): Michael D. Rose put it best about Reno when first trying to purchase Harrahs in 1979. He said, “It must be a great place to live because it sure is a shitty place to visit.” Rick Mitchell Geneva, Florida

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Sure, blame the prostitutes Re “Does Reno have an image problem?” (Feature story, May 22): I feel that we have an image problem in regard to tourism and also attracting companies to move here or start up here. We’re seen as a party town. Nearby brothels have ads on taxis and on billboards across the region that promote prostitution, but prostitution is illegal in Washoe County and that creates a perception problem for tourists who want to come here and have a paid sexual adventure. Reno-asparty-town also aligns us with Las Vegas and further promotes our frontier image as a wild, roughand-tumble place. Furthermore, casino marketing dominates our exposure, particularly in our key tourism markets, and our visitors have become bargain travelers largely as a result. All that makes Reno less than fancy and sophisticated. For companies wanting to relocate here or start new, the perception is that we endorse prostitution and many companies find that distasteful. Coupled with the party image and companies have a reason to shy away. There are other issues involved in regards to economic development as well such as the need for more private schools/boarding schools. Our tepid business growth is due to the various issues I mention. People in your article said Reno as the Biggest Little City is what makes Reno special, and Biggest Little City is widely recognized as our town’s motto. In so many words, they also stated that our tourism draw was limited by the fact that we are small, that we don’t match up to our competition. I agree and would suggest to those people that they voice their ideas on how to add to our attractions and improve the ones we’ve got because I believe we can do much better. If RN&R should devote an article to public input on these issues, I’d be happy to share my ideas. Oscar Williams Reno

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How are you handling the heat? Asked along the Truckee River George Lopez Job seeker

Sweating. And I jump in the river.

Jason Mabe Retiree

I just moved here from San Francisco a month ago. Over the weekend, I visited my friends in San Francisco, and everyone asked me that exact question. … And I said, I have a favorite new word—siesta.

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Put school district under glass Washoe County Superintendent of Schools Pedro Martinez should resign, and if he doesn’t, he should be fired. But that’s not likely to happen because most of his bosses—the members of the Washoe County School Board—were in on the act. Martinez fired schools police chief Mike Mieras without cause on July 27. He made no public announcement of it, though he had surreptitiously planned the firing with secret serial meetings with selected school board members, raising open meeting questions. We use the term “without cause” because that’s the way Martinez has described it in interviews with journalists. He keeps praising Mieras, even while sliding in the shiv between the lines. Because of Mieras’s unblemished record, the firing generated rumors all over town of a hidden scandal, rumors that became so pronounced that Martinez rushed to stamp it out before it became actionable—“There’s a lot of rumors: Is there something he did wrong in the past? Something related to Sparks Middle? None of that is the case. I have nothing but respect for Chief Mieras.” In a statement to KOLO News about the chief, Martinez seemed to hint, without actually saying so, that the schools climate is unsafe because of Mieras: “I have learned the hard way, you know, with all the incidents we have had in the last 12 months, that we cannot minimize the role of safety in a building. The reality is children cannot learn if they don’t feel safe.” Other of the superintendent’s public statements raise further questions. Martinez has said he wants to know about the size of the force and where officers are assigned. Why did he need to remove the chief in order to have that inquiry? OPINION

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Martinez: “So again, going back to the reason we made this decision to transition Chief Mieras, we wanted somebody to come in with a fresh perspective.” Then why wasn’t the chief returned to duty at a lower level? What Martinez did was remove him from the system altogether, destroying his previously untarnished career. District sources by the dozen have been leaking information, reluctant to go public—suggesting that Martinez has created an unhealthy climate of fear. Many of those sources have the same view, that Martinez wants only department heads who agree with him, and Mieras did not fill the bill. They also say the talk of departmental “restructuring” is a blind behind which the firing took place. Martinez secretly informed most of the school board members in advance but excluded at least one of them. That kind of favoritism and manipulation of his superiors alone should result in Martinez being fired, and the willingness of the members who were in the know to go along with this seamy procedure should be remembered by voters in the future. The firing of a department head is different from the firing of a rank and file worker. The public has a big stake in it and should have been informed what was planned. There was no announcement, no hearing in advance. Instead it all happened in a figurative dead of night, the firing notice slipped under a door, the messenger running away, then the public kept ignorant for several days. One thing that should result from this mess is that the board and the superintendent should be under more scrutiny in the future by parent groups and journalists. The superintendent and some board members have shown they cannot be trusted. Ω |

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I love the heat. July is my favorite month of the year. I think the heat is very spiritually cleansing. People go to saunas and stuff and go out to the desert. There’s a guy I really like by the name of Wine Lotus who is an electronic music producer. His first album was called July Heat.

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Corporations are people, just like us Don’t they have mothers, sisters, daughters, wives? Don’t they understand that our country was founded on the concept of separating religion from government and assuring that everyone is free to choose their own form of worship without the state favoring by one over the other? Sheila Leslie And what about the American ideal of personal freedom to make our own decisions without interference from a tyrannical “father knows best” government? Many Americans rise up in revolutionary mode at the merest hint of closing the infamous gun show loophole allowing gun sales without a background check, citing their individual rights under the Second Amendment. Others protest what they see as overzealous governmental regulation meant to keep our water clean and our air fit to breathe. Do these same people really see no harm in the government allowing corporations, family-held or not, determining what kind of contraceptives their female employees can use?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to allow Hobby Lobby and other corporations to determine what specific reproductive health care products their female employees can have is appalling and infuriating. The decision was based on the majority interpretation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, stating government may not “substantially burden a person’s free exercise of religion.” In essence, the justices decided a corporation’s owners’ religious beliefs are more compelling than its employees’ personal health choices. This kind of action was precisely the reason progressives objected so strongly when the Nevada Senate passed Senate Bill 192 in 2013, with bipartisan support. The 14 Senators who voted for the bill insisted it was just a harmless update of the federal religious freedom act and would not be used to deny women reproductive health care or allow businesses to discriminate against gays or other groups of people they found objectionable. The Hobby Lobby decision and the Arizona experience with its Senate Bill 1062 clearly prove otherwise.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a disturbing dissent of the Court’s 5-4 decision, pointedly stating, “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield.” Ginsburg said the decision opens the door to corporations deciding their religion prevents them from financially underwriting other health concerns in the company health plan: “Would the exemption … extend to employers with religiously grounded objections to blood transfusions (Jehovah’s Witnesses); antidepressants (Scientologists); medications derived from pigs, including anesthesia, intravenous fluids, and pills coated with gelatin (certain Muslims, Jews, and Hindus); and vaccinations[?]” Indeed, where does it stop? As a woman, it’s hard not to take this decision by all male jurists personally. Hobby Lobby doesn’t seem to have any problem supporting male sexual health since the owners apparently don’t object to Viagra or vasectomies. Their religious objections don’t extend to the company’s investment decisions either, since their retirement plan has holdings in companies that manufacture contraception.

The bottom line is, no corporate overlord should come between a woman and her doctor when it comes to personal health decisions. Corporations should not be allowed to pick and choose the health care products their insurance will cover based on religious beliefs of any kind. Female workers should not have their individual rights infringed upon by a corporation’s “religious views.” While I’ve never entered the doors of a Hobby Lobby, I imagine its customer base is primarily female due to the focus on crafts and home accents, which makes their battle against women’s health all the more galling. Are women going to continue to patronize a company so focused on denying their rights? Perhaps the best way to fight back against such a corporation is through the profit catastrophe of an empty store. I do know it’s a tragic day in America when our Supreme Court chooses corporate religious dogma over the personal health care choices of half the population. Ω

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End marijuana prohibition Nevada’s implementation of the law requiring medical marijuana establishment (MME) licensing is so far plagued by hidden financing, proxy companies, questionable campaign contributions and forbidden crossovers between gambling licensees and dispensary ownership in Clark by Brendan Trainor County. The problem is that the state has capped the number of dispensaries by county, has required enormous capital to apply, and the licenses are awarded by politicians. What could possibly go wrong? When the state artificially creates a market, rather than markets creating themselves, there will be corruption. When the number of legalized outlets is capped by government, and only government can approve new applications, the opportunity for start up competition is capped as well. Without competition, there will be a few entrenched special interests who will dominate the industry. Nevada promised transparency in the selection process, but so far the process has been opaque.

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Even an inefficient or corrupt process is better than prohibition. The elephant in the room is the federal government, which is demanding heavy regulation in marijuana states or else it will turn loose the DEA. That is what happened in California. California’s experiment with medical marijuana was decentralized and largely unregulated. Different localities had different rules, and very pot friendly jurisdictions like Oakland began talking about city-sanctioned large indoor grow rooms. The result was a series of federal raids and confiscation of bank accounts that crippled many California green gold rush dispensaries. Sacramento’s response was to write new regulations, but they still do not provide state support for local dispensaries or provide statewide legal protections for cannabis workers. In Congress Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker have introduced a bill that would defund the DEA’s ability to harass states where medical marijuana is legal.

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This November, Alaska and Oregon may vote to join Washington state and Colorado in legalizing recreational marijuana. Washington’s experiment has been criticized for being overly regulated, while more libertarian Colorado is characterized as too commercial. Both states are hoping that their regulations will keep the federal government at bay. Colorado’s model has been a financial success and has brought in significant tax revenues. Denver’s regulations ban smoking cannabis either in the pot stores or in restaurants. This has led many pot tourists to purchase a lot of edible cannabis. Edible marijuana usually takes an hour to be effective and inexperienced users may think it’s not working and consume too much. Even though instructed by the budtender to divide a cannabis cookie into six pieces, a young Wyoming student ingested far to much. This young man tragically became disoriented and fell to his death from a hotel balcony. Another death possibly linked to an edible

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cannabis reaction combined with a bump in cannabis-related emergency room admissions have not led to talk in Colorado about any bans, only requiring warning symbols for edible packaging and to a debate over relaxing Denver’s public smoking ban. Legalization works! Nevada State Sen. Tick Segerblom helped finalize the state regulations on MMEs just this March, and he told Nevada counties and cities to “get off their butts” and issue their own regulations. Applications for Northern Nevada MMEs and related businesses will be accepted from Aug. 5 through Aug. 18. The form can be downloaded from the Nevada Department of Public Health website. On May 27, Segerblom announced support for an initiative drive to fully legalize marijuana in Nevada for the 2016 election. If it qualifies for the ballot and passes, it will be another victory for freedom. Freedom is the best way to ensure quality, safety and low costs in the new cannabis industry. Ω

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Business owner Alejandro Sabogal speaks with public radio reporter Anh Gray about his support for Question 3 while in the background, other supporters gather on the courthouse steps.

Language slanted The city of Sparks is circulating a questionnaire to businesspeople on a possible cannabis medication ordinance, but it likely was not drafted by professionals in the opinion survey field. Instead of neutral language to describe its purpose, such as “to determine what impact the proposed regulations will have on your business,” it actually reads “to determine whether the proposed regulations … will impose a direct and significant economic burden upon your business, or directly restrict the formation, operation or expansion of your business” (emphasis added). This kind of language is normally used to elicit certain responses. In Researching the Public Opinion Environment/Theories and Methods (Sage Publications. 2000), communications expert Sherry Devereaux Ferguson wrote, “Terms that suggest restraints on freedom or liberty tend to evoke negative responses (e.g., ‘constrain,’ ‘ban,’ ‘restrict,’ ‘control’ or ‘forbid’).”

Language corrected Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has directed county voting officials to use the legal name of the Democratic Party and no other. “In all applicable election materials that your offices produce, print, and/or publish, please be sure to use the correct reference of ‘DEMOCRATIC PARTY’ and not ‘DEMOCRAT PARTY,’” read a letter from Miller to county clerks in the smaller counties and registrars of voters in Washoe and Clark counties. “We have received some complaints lately and there was a recent article about the incorrect usage of ‘Democrat Party.’ ” The party is legally incorporated in Nevada as the “Democratic Party of Nevada” (“Election office uses Publican Party tactic,” RN&R, June 26), though its incorporation is currently listed in default. Republican leaders around the nation use the term “Democrat Party” as a tactic because it grates on the ear and because they dislike the notion of describing the party with a favorable term. Rank and file GOP workers are less enamored of the tactic. During 2008 Republican National Convention platform committee hearings, delegates led by Indiana delegate Jim Bopp insisted on using the party’s proper name in the platform. “We should afford them the respect that they are entitled and call them by their legal name,” said Bopp, and that position prevailed by a vote of the committee. Some language reference books now define the term “Democrat Party” as an epithet.

Out of left field Dan Kennedy, a Boston journalism professor who writes criticism of the media, was surprised last week to receive a message from Washoe County Republican legislative candidate Rex Crouch. “I read how you support the Communist Bill Ayers and even lied in support of the Communist Bill Ayers,” Crouch’s message began. “Why do you support Communism? Yes, if you support Ayers, you support Communism.” The capitalizing is in the original. After that ice-breaker, Crouch went on to write emotionally about a variety of things, like China, Islam, and use of language. (“I’m nonresponsive to the Liberal hater nouns of Racists, Islamophobe, Homophobe.”) Kennedy wrote about Ayers a few times, mostly during and right after the 2008 presidential campaign, when Barack Obama’s relationship with the 1960s radical was in the news, and most recently in 2013 when Kennedy corrected a Howie Carr claim that Ayers is a “convicted terrorist.” Kennedy told us, “For the record, I do not ‘support’ Bill Ayers.” Crouch is running in Assembly District 27. He defeated Rodney Bloom in the GOP primary and is opposed by Democrat Teresa Benitez-Thompson, who was unopposed in her primary.

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Competing to reform Legislators ducked making taxes stable, so Question 3 backers try Credo Technology Group owner Alex Sabogal is not accustomed to public speaking. At a rally on the steps of the by Washoe County Courthouse, he Dennis Myers nervously fingered the two pages of his text. “We need to act now,” he said. “We as small business owners are helping students on tight budgets, donating computers, supporting whoever wants to learn, and we

“Do we have enough lined paper to get us through the year?” Dee Ann Roberts Washoe County teacher welcome people into our business daily to try to teach the skills, attitude, ethics and integrity that are so important. … Better student performance attracts businesses, better education is better income for households, better education means better health.” Sabogal spoke at a kickoff last week for Ballot Question 3, an initiative petition intended to get more tax revenue for schools. The petition has been around for months, as signatures were gathered, and it qualified for the ballot. Only now has marketing it

directly to the public in a major way begun—though its opponents have been pretty active all along. One teacher who spoke at the rally, Dee Ann Roberts, tried to impress on the crowd how difficult even the simplest of needs are in schools in a high tech era. “And let’s talk about pencils,” she said. “It’s hard to believe that this basic resource would be an issue in 21st century classrooms, but it is. What teacher in the last few years hasn’t become frustrated with poor quality pencils that break as soon as the student puts them to paper? There is a constant line at the pencil sharpener, wasting instructional and work time. Sometimes the pencils won’t even sharpen because the lead is actually broken in pieces inside the wood— so we just throw those away and reach for a new one. Wouldn’t it be nice to just have quality pencils in the first place? … Old buildings need to be rewired, teachers need to be trained, and enough technology must exist to be placed in the hands of every child every day. Thirty minutes a week in a lab with old computers to practice math facts is not going to cut it.” The ballot measure would create a 2 percent tax on gross revenue— each dollar a company takes in. The first million dollars is exempt, but after a company reaches that

level, the full amount is subject to taxation, not the amount above the million. Question 3 is the latest of several efforts over the years by education advocates to draft a tax measure to aid schools. Some businesspeople have faulted previous proposals for various reasons, so this proposal in part sought to respond to those criticisms. But other business figures don’t like this one much better. In an essay in the Reno Gazette-Journal on June 17, corporate accounting executive John Solari wrote that Question 3 “is a direct threat to the reputation and reality of Reno as a small business-friendly city that incubates entrepreneurial growth. It will be a deciding factor for businesses calculating whether to move to Reno. … Nevada business and education leaders need to keep Nevada’s future in mind, go back to the drawing board and create an education funding proposal that is fair and equitable and does not harm Nevada’s economy.”

Alternative sources One of the questions facing advocates of Question 3 is why they are seeking more tax revenue after a major tax package was approved in 2003. In fact, they are using the same sales pitch used to sell the $800 million tax increase at the 2003 Nevada Legislature. Posters at that legislature read, “MAKE BIG BUSINESS PAY FOR OUR SCHOOLS” over photos of children in school. At the courthouse rally for Question 3 last week, school volunteer and parent Doug Smithson said, “The leaders of this state are incapable of improving the schools of this state because their legislators are deadlocked and hamstrung by politicians who refuse to tax the giant multinational corporations that take advantage of the minimum wage workers that this state’s schools produce.” But the 2003 tax increase was approved by the legislature. So why is this new tax hike necessary? Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada director Bob Fulkerson said the original 2003 proposal was not adopted, that the kind of tax originally recommended at that legislature by Gov. Kenny Guinn was changed before the tax hike was approved. Nevertheless, the tax hike was approved. Does it matter where the money comes from? Fulkerson said another goal of the

petition is to make state taxes less regressive, less reliant on the poor and middle class. “Well, it does [matter], because right now two-thirds of the state budget comes from sales and gaming taxes,” Fulkerson said. “Because if you recall in 2003 it was not a corporate profits tax or anything like that, it was just a modified business tax. [Gov.] Kenny Guinn wanted a gross receipts tax in 2003. Now the idea is to join 47 other states that have taxes like the ones we propose to make these giant corporations pay.” He said sales and gambling taxes are “volatile, undependable, narrow,” and have led to substantial injury to state schools in hard times. It is well known in Nevada that state government has experienced major budget crises during economic downturns in 1981-82, 1990-91, 2001, and beginning in 2007, each time damaging education badly. State legislators have often been urged to create a tax program that is both more stable and less regressive. Such crises will likely continue unless the state’s reliance on those tax sources changes, Question 3 supporters argue. Another obstacle the backers of Question 3 may face is that their measure will appear on the ballot alongside another measure that will definitely “tax

the giant multinational corporations”—specifically, foreign mining corporations. Ballot Question 2 would, if enacted, remove a 19th century mining tax loophole from the Nevada Constitution. Some businesspeople can be expected to argue that Question 2 renders Question 3 unnecessary. Most mining corporations are based out of state or out of the United States. The mining measure was placed on the ballot by the Nevada Legislature.

“ If Nevada wants more businesses … it should spend more on education.” Alex Sabogal Business owner Other disputes that could dog Question 3 are the question of whether it goes too far—the Nevada AFL/CIO had intended to support a 0.8 percent tax, but bailed out when the Nevada State Education Association went for 2 percent—and whether this type of tax is coming or going. Its advocates say it is used by all but three states, while its critics say it is a type of tax that is dying out in the states. Ω

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been killed by law enforcement in the United States since 2000, people often ask me if I’m scared of police. And except for times like this, standing outside the Reno Police Department’s main building—that white, vaguely Orwellian building on East Second Street—I’m not. Sure, I’ll never be able to be unaware where my hands are when I get pulled over again, but afraid? Don’t be ’noid. But at 7:45 a.m. on a spring morning, a couple of weeks after a mostly satisfactory but woefully inadequate story about law enforcement-involved deaths was on the stands, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t worry that I’d forgotten to pay a ticket during that whole parking meter fiasco with the city of Reno. And after months of doing research on the depressing topic of police killing Americans, it’s probably not all that surprising that the stuff gets into my head. I was there at the invitation of Reno Police Officer Travis Warren to do a ride along with a MOST squad, so my presence couldn’t have been under friendlier circumstances. But still. The MOST squad is those men and women who drive around in the white police vans with the green, blue and sky-blue racing stripes, the police badge in the “O” and the words “Mobile Outreach Safety Team” underlining the acronym.

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The MOST team is a duo consisting of a mental health professional and a law enforcement officer. Originally, in 2009-10, it was a partnership between Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health and the Reno Police Department. Since then, the program has grown in size, and gained partners and agencies, but its fundamental purpose remains the same—to stabilize threatening situations in which mostly mentally ill people “in crisis” are interacting with police. After a few minutes, Warren opened the door, introduced himself, exchanged my driver’s license for a vistor’s ID, and led me into the labyrinthine building. I got a good vibe from him. He’s a photogenic guy, muscular, taller than average, with dimples and close-cropped hair, the kind of guy who probably hates to see himself described in print. He’d have worked fine as an actor on one of those 20th century TV shows that featured uniformed cops as the heroes—CHiPs, for example. After the perfunctories, coffee and such, I was introduced to Warren’s partner, James Kilgore, and others on the squad. Kilgore is a stocky guy with glasses, and a goatee that goes from white in the mustache to gray in the beard. He’s got a broad, friendly demeanor and was dressed business casual. If I was going to place him in a pop culture context, I think he’d be a great fatherly character in a leather chair facing away from a patient in one of those mental health-oriented sitcoms like the Bob Newhart Show. The fact that he’s a mental health counselor probably adds to that. Warren and Kilgore are eloquent representatives for MOST. “We do emergency mental health calls, crisis stabilization and try to keep the person who’s struggling with the mental illness safe, try to keep the community safe, and last but not least, try to keep our officers safe,” Kilgore said. “If there’s a 911 call that comes in, we go out to that, and we intercept the situation. We try to determine at that point what would be the most successful

recourse, where to refer them. We’re the mental health paramedics. … If they need to be taken to the hospital, we make sure that they get to the hospital. If we need to pass the baton and get them to Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services [his employer], we try to get them into our services and open the services, get counseling, get medications—whatever is needed to be able to get the person stabilized. That’s a mouthful, and it’s only a few facets of one of the most progressive police programs I’ve heard of in Nevada (and cheap at around $250,000 a year). But let me throw some background at you. In my research regarding fatal encounters, the big untold story is the size of the percentage of mentally ill people in the United States who are killed by police. After researching in the neighborhood of a thousand instances, my feeling—since I still have collected just a drop in the bucket—is that the actual percentage is in the neighborhood of 30 percent. Another suspicion I have is that these types of deaths are most likely to happen, by percentage, in areas with lower urban density. Think Sparks vs. Las Vegas. In 2013 in Washoe County, three out of four people who were killed by police were mentally ill. In denser areas, police kill a higher than average percentage of minorities. In less dense areas, police kill a higher than average percentage of mentally ill people. It makes sense, right? Who else is going to pull a knife or a gun or charge cops with a stick? Nobody in their right mind, to be indelicate. And yet, mental illness doesn’t make someone an inaccurate shot, and police are trained to respond to neutralize the threat to themselves or bystanders. The MOST squad was created to prevent, as often as possible, that horrible sort of outcome. The teams go out in the community to get comfortable with people who suffer from various mental health issues before they’re “in crisis” so they can be of value at the moment of truth.

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guilt over it, especially in light of what happened. It’s hard to gain perspective on the evening of Abbey’s death at the hands of police. Police reports are certainly a version of the truth, records down to the minute. But the story they tell of the person is diametrically opposed to what the people who knew him best had to say. It’s a question of perspective, isn’t it? Police—and the public, generally—want to see evidence of the bad guy whose actions put him in a position where he essentially killed himself, although he used other people as his agents. It’s human nature. Friends and family see the guy who took care of his grandma, who didn’t drink, smoke or do drugs, who worked hard despite his bad back, who helped his aging housemates, who wasn’t unstable, just a bit emotionally damaged by a divorce. It’s human nature. Here’s how one investigator described the man: “Micah Steven Abbey had a history of mental illness to include major depression, anxiety disorder, post |

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Despite the fancy stripes, the van isn’t what you’d call luxurious. It’s got the cop car electronic set-up, but there’s no moon roof or Corinthian leather seats or anything. The most interesting thing about it is the seating options behind the partition in back. There’s a bench seat and a single bucket seat that appears to be designed for people who are balance impaired or who need to be restrained. I’ve spent my life avoiding a ride in that particular chair. Warren and I come to a quick agreement about protocol. I’m fine with withholding people’s names, and believe it or not, I’m also fine with getting dumped off at 7-Eleven if there’s a 10-78, which is basically a situation too dangerous for us “civilians” without bullet-proof vests. We’re barely on the road before we get our first call. A homeless couple is having a dispute next to a law office on Arlington Avenue, just south of the river, and we go to investigate, as do other patrol cars. While the woman has disappeared, we find the guy. His camp is well-hidden, spitting distance from the avenue, but completely camouflaged. That in itself is a bit of an eye-opener for me. He’s tucked into a little spot out of the wind. Affable enough, officers move in to talk to him and establish that he’s not a threat to others or himself and then Kilgore moves in with his soothing presence. “Ed” acknowledges he could use a bit of detox, and after he throws most of his possessions in a Dumpster, we oblige him with a lift. I don’t want to get into a recitation of the day’s activities. Suffice it to say even though Warren kept remarking that it was a quiet morning, we kept going

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and had to go on several walks to calm himself down. Micah made comments about “going gangsta” on the people that put his brother in jail.” Michael Ross gave him his medications at 7 o’clock, but traumatic stress disorder, and it was less than an hour later rule out bipolar disorder. Micah that, police say, he was yelling injured his back in an accident and at another resident about his had a herniated disc operated on. missing backpack. “Michael told Micah was left with 25 percent Micah that he couldn’t handle the numbness starting in his lower situation by yelling and getting back and going down his legs to upset. Micah shoved his feet. Micah was Michael, slammed taking several his body into medications Michael, and to include was yelling Depakote, at Michael Paxil, while Geodon, holding a Diazepam, fork in his Flexeril and outstretched Oxycodone. arm.” Micah had Micah Abbey and his Ross called a history of mother, Denise 911. drug abuse to Abbey, pose in There are three happier times. include synthetic public documents marijuana known as associated with this incident, one “Spice,” and conflicts involving from the Washoe County Sheriff’s violence, the police and suicidal Office at http://bit.ly/1lC2Pid; one statements.” from the University of Nevada, The investigator said that Abbey Reno, Police Department at http:// was upset because his brother bit.ly/VhxVGu; the complaint in was about to be released from federal court alleging that Abbey prison. “The daytime caretaker was wrongfully killed, http://bit. Anita Ritt said that Micah was ly/1zacnuR. pacing, grunting like an animal,

iRReconcilaBle diffeRences Bad things shouldn’t happen on Christmas day, but sometimes they do. People shouldn’t be alone on Christmas day, but sometimes they are. People shouldn’t work on Christmas day, and sometimes they don’t. But sometimes they do. The world is filled with such inconsistencies. Micah Abbey, 33, had wanted nothing more than to play penny slots at John Ascuaga’s Nugget on the evening of December 25, 2011. He’d been to a Christmas party earlier, and he was happy. He had plans to go to the Nugget with his buddy James Faulkner, but it turned out Citifare stopped service at 5 p.m., Faulkner said, and Abbey would have been stuck in Sparks. Since he lived at 9801 Crystalline Drive out in Stead—a group home owned by Project Uplift for people with mental illness who are transitioning to living on their own—coming to town seemed impractical, so they had to cancel. Abbey was undoubtedly disappointed, and it’s pretty obvious that Faulkner feels some

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All the documents depict chaos in that small bedroom. That a 165-pound man with a bad back could take on up to four trained police officers from Reno and the University of Nevada, Reno is hard to reconcile. It’s hard to reconcile that to restrain him up to four men would have to beat him with batons, taser him 26 times, place him in a chokehold or hogtie him on his stomach with his wrists and ankles cuffed and tied together. It’s hard to reconcile that they didn’t need expend this much energy to subdue him, either, simply because, if they didn’t need to, why would they? And yet, there’s little in any of these documents that disputes these facts. Micah Abbey’s grandmother Anita Nelon cries when she talks to a stranger on the telephone about his death. She’s still got the accent from her native lands of Copenhagen and Denmark, but she’s been here for decades. “It’s such a big loss, such a big loss,” she said. “He was such a soft soul. He was the sweetest, most thoughtful boy. ‘Grandma, what can I help you with today?’ It’s been like a nightmare. That should not have happened. Not to him. Not to him.” —d. BRian BuRghaRt |

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“COPS” from event to event. We went from people suffering from substance abuse to one man with a nearly complete psychotic break with reality—he was dying on his feet, but refused treatment—to an assisted-living facility, and then to a pregnant and dehydrated meth addict. And through it all was that uncommon authority-mixed-with-sympathy teamwork. There was one man, though, who struck me as symbolic of the day. We were called to some apartments off Booth Street. Somebody had called 911 saying their relative, “Fidel,” was threatening to commit suicide by eating rat poison. My pulse quickened as we wove on foot through that apartment complex, not quite certain of the apartment number or the man’s location. When we found him, he invited us into the worn but comfortable enough living room. Kilgore and Fidel talked about work history, alcohol and drug use, relationship status, all the things you’d expect to talk about in a shrink’s office. Fidel sheepishly admitted that he had no intention of harming himself, he was just trying to get attention from his estranged girlfriend. However, I wasn’t convinced that was the truth of things when we sat down, even though I believe it was the truth when we left. It felt to me like he was in need of some sympathy because the people around him weren’t acknowledging his psychic pain.

for the small investment of the MOST program. In one, another RPD affiliate of the team, Colleen Guilford, a trained negotiator—Warren is a negotiator as well—was able to communicate with a person who’d already fired one shotgun round into a wall and then set off down the road with the firearm. He thought he was taking out the media that was always spying on him and stealing his ideas. But instead of becoming a statistic, he’s getting the help he needs. “And that was really, really big,” said Warren. “Colleen was convinced—all the officers there were convinced to a degree—that they were going to have to shoot this kid. And he did everything right. If he would have done one thing wrong, it would have changed. But he did everything right, and she did everything right. “There’s a lot of interventions that we have done that have actually spared our community a lot of pain and a lot of difficulties. There’s one in particular that we worked out when we first started working together. There was a subject who came into town that had nine firearms, over 4,000 rounds of ammunition, and his fantasy was to enact some kind of global change and to get everyone’s attention. He was either going to go to a mall or a school and shoot people. And we were able to intervene and get him into the hospital, followed up, he’s doing well now. He’s under psychiatric care, and he’s being monitored. “The community never really hears about those kinds of things.”

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I know that sounds a little touchy-feely, but that’s essentially all that transpired in the time between the uncomfortable search for the apartment, and us leaving, success defined by an appointment set for Warren and Kilgore to stop by and visit “just to check” in a couple of days. It wasn’t anything miraculous, but it’s probably nothing that would have happened if officers less trained in mental-health issues had responded to the call. The vast majority of encounters that Warren and Kilgore are faced with are like that—human interactions that plant a friendly seed in case the person ever ends up in crisis. Warren said the crisis situations are much less common. He has two that are emblematic of the big payoff

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The van comes to a stop in the back parking lot of that Orwellian building on East Second Street. I’m in a rush to make another meeting. The hallways no longer seem like a labyrinth designed to keep me off balance, and even though I make it outside before I remember the cops have my driver’s license, I’m not hesitant to go back in to retrieve it. Warren and Kilgore are able to make friendly connections with potentially unstable people in the community, helping them be more comfortable with police officers. Walking back into the police station, I realized that their engagement with me, a journalist who documents killings by law enforcement, had the same effect: I was now a little more comfortable. Ω

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In an interview in March, Reno Police Chief Steve Pitts and Deputy Chief Mac Venzon talked about the many methods local law enforcement have at their disposal for improving protocol, training and policies. Chief Pitts said our local law enforcement agencies look to other agencies—particularly in areas of community-oriented policing—for policies that work best to mitigate negative outcomes, like officer-involved deaths. “The simple answer, the Reader’s Digest version of our policy is we write our policy,” Pitts said, and that includes constant re-examinations, updates and training on changes. “But we are definitely going to examine the best practices in the country. We have actually examined practices in the UK, when it comes to community policing, because they actually do a very good job of things there, that we could improve on. And so we’ll take best practices. We’ll take ideas, suggestions at many levels and make sure it fits into our philosophy of policing the community.” Other methods for introducing new policies and ideas include Lexipol, www.lexipol.com, a national organization that regularly compares local policies to national, federal and state statues, case law, regulations and best practices, and it audits changes from a riskmanagement standpoint. RPD doesn’t use it, but the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office does. Pitts said the Force Science

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Institute, www.forcescience.org, is also an available resource. According to its website, Force Science is a think tank regarding “research and application of unbiased scientific principles and processes to determine the true nature of human behavior in high stress and deadly force encounters.” With regard to mentally-ill people, Pitts said Reno police have three primary assets, crisis intervention training (CIT), which he estimated 70-80 percent of RPD officers have undergone, the MOST squad (see main story, page 12), and crisis intervention negotiations training (CINT), which is training in negotiating with people who are in crisis (not specifically mentally-ill people). In addition, changes have been made at RPD based on the 2012 Department of Justice investigation into the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Deputy Chief Venzon said. That report resulted in 40 reform recommendations, from which RPD pulled three particular areas for reform of its policies. Those polices focused on the de-escalation approach, critical incident review and realitybased training. “You take some of those recommendations, and incorporate them and a few other things,” Venzon said. “Those are the three things to me that really hit home.” The full DOJ report is available at https://drive.google. com/file/d/0B-l9Ys3cd80fQ3d0 VVlkaVJvNGNSNTlTVjF6ekJvVD duVzRz/edit?usp=sharing. —D. Brian Burghart

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walk around downtown Reno reveals a contrast—and sometimes a clash—between progress and history. Old churches stand stoic next to bustling, trendy bars. The Truckee River rushes alongside bike trails and streets on which electric cars and classic cars can be seen parked next to each other. Pulling up an app on a smartphone to access the region’s history is a similar experience. Reno Historical, a project that documents the historical locations and events in Reno, seeks to celebrate the marriage between past, present and future Nevada. Reno Historical is a smartphone app and website created as a collaborative effort between area historical groups, including Historic Reno Preservation Society, Nevada Historical Society, City of Reno Historical Resources Commission, the Regional Transportation Commission, Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the library department of the University of Nevada, Reno. The app comes at a good time, too. In October, Nevada will celebrate its 150th anniversary. For Reno, this also signifies several milestones. Most recently, the famous Reno arch reached its 88th birthday—the first arch was installed on June 25, 1926. The original arch has moved at least four times since then, and in 2009, the sign was retrofitted with energy efficient LED light bulbs. And with 2009 already five years past, this adds more history to an already iconic monument in Reno. This is one of the many benefits of having a platform that can be updated continuously, according to historian Alicia Barber, who came up with the idea for the app more than a year ago. The app essentially serves as a living archive that documents not just history long past, but history in the making. “We love using technology to connect to the present, not just the past,” Barber says. Barber holds a University of Texas at Austin doctorate in history and is a former history professor and librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno. She collaborated with her colleague Donnelyn Curtis, head of UNR’s Special Collections, to help facilitate the data and contributors to the app. “We wanted to create a source of authenticated information, instead of the rumors that exist about Reno’s history,” says Curtis. Together, Curtis and Barber take the lead on planning what will be featured in the app, but the contributions come from staff and volunteers. “There are a lot of people working on it and providing content,” Barber says. Photographs and documents are sourced from library archives. Although Special Collections contains

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more than 25,000 documents, some photographs were difficult to find, says Curtis. “We had to do outreach we don’t usually do, but we found things hidden away,” she says. Some organizations donated documents to the project, which Special Collections has since added to its archive. The app is one of several city historical apps developed by DXY Solutions, a global web design and development company. Barber knew of the DXY platform, which has been used for other city historical apps. Development of the app was funded by grants. While DXY designs the user interface of the app, the data and documents are curated by Nevada historians and librarians. All data syncs with the site, RenoHistorical.org, so that it can be accessible on many types of devices. Curtis says that the biggest challenge of curating information was writing for a different platform. “I think when you’re writing for the web, you want to be concise,” Barber says. “Writing for an app, you want to write even less.” According to Barber, there are more than 90 stories in the app, each profiling a different place and its history. The process of compiling these stories, which feature photographs, multimedia—audio and video clips—and an essay, started about a year and a half ago. “The app makes it easy to add audio and video features,” Barber says. She has already conducted several interviews with notable Renoites for the app, including Mama Inez of Casale’s Halfway Club. So far, the app has been a success. It received more than 900 downloads in the first week of its launch in May.

Biggest little history Despite efforts to rebrand Reno, this city has a rich, sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, history. And although history is visible through architecture, it’s not always visible through plaques or markers sharing dates or stories. “One of the reasons we wanted to do this was to help bring some of that out,” Barber says. “If you look around Reno, the history is not very well marked. That’s really a limitation. But now we don’t have to physically mark things.” Barber cites buildings like the Washoe County Court House—a user can pull out their phone and tap on the map to learn more about it. This will benefit both residents and tourists alike because it makes the city more personal to all app users, according to Barber.

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“You get to know it better even if you live here, and if you don’t, it shows you a different side of it,” she says. The app and website currently feature seven tours. More are coming. The tours are “geographic more than regional” says Curtis. She mentions one of her favorite tours, “Tying and Untying the Knot,” which covers Reno’s legacy as a city of marriage and divorce. This tour includes information about the Virginia Street Bridge, known as the “Bridge of Sighs,” where divorcees would supposedly toss their wedding rings into the river after their paperwork was filed. And the California Apartments on California Avenue were dubbed the “Divorce Colony” in the 1920s, according to contributor Mella Harmon. The colony served as temporary housing for divorcees to reside in while waiting on pending decrees. The tour features audio clips and photographs of present-day buildings. The app is a multimedia experience. “The tours are intended to be cinematic,” Barber says. She says contributors try to ensure that the buildings featured are still standing, as it gives users a place to visit with the app in tow. But there are stories included about sites that formally housed projects like the Coney Island Resort, which is commemorated with a state historical marker on East Fourth Street and Galletti Way. What was once a family resort, originally known as Wieland’s Park before the moniker Coney Island, is now a vacant lot with a view of the freeway. So while the current buildings are fascinating to see with their intact history, the app also reveals what is now absent. Although Barber says each tour is “very engaging,” she thinks the Historic East Fourth Street tour is especially interesting due to the area’s reclamation efforts, such as the recent Positively Fourth Street festival. This tour includes the 500 block where companies like the Reno Bike Project, Cuddleworks and Under the Rose Brewing now reside. “The Fourth Street tour gives incredible insight into that area—there are rail sites, tourism sites, industrial sites,” she says. “Businesses, like Under the Rose, are excited to learn more about their buildings. It’s great for them to incorporate that into their image.” And celebrating that heritage is all the rage now in Reno, Barber notes. “You can see that with new projects. There’s a restaurant that’s called Heritage. There’s been this shift toward embracing this history. It’s what makes Reno unique. And what’s more unique than our own heritage?” Ω For more information, or to download the app, visit www.renohistorical.org.

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Sparks Museum’s event series “Celebrating 150 years of Nevada History and Heritage” continues this summer with a special performance by Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong, performing the songs and history of the pioneer days. The performance on July 11 is a fund raising event. Ages:18 & up. F, 7/11, 6PM, $15 at the

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Bonnie Monteleone's "Plastic Ocean Project" is a centerpiece of Reused + Recycled = Art.

Reused + Recycled = Art What would you do with a huge surplus of vinyl records? by Make art with them, of course. (After Ashley picking out the good ones to keep.) Hennefer That was the original thought behind the creation of the Reused + Recycled = Art show, now on display at the University of Nevada, Reno. When the university received an “exceptionally large donation” of vinyl records a while back, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center staff member and exhibit organizer Deanna Hearn says they had to the opening come up with a way to use the records. reception for reused Now, we’re not just talking about a few + recycled = art is Sunday, July 13, from dusty crates filled with the classics—the at 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at donation contained more than 18,000 the mathewson-IGt records that needed a home. So, with the Knowledge Center donor’s permission, many were recycled on the university of nevada, reno campus. into pieces of art. “Having these records sparked having this exhibit,” Hearn says of the record collection. “We wondered, what can we do with these?” At the time, Hearn had been tasked with developing sustainable programming at UNR. The idea of a collaborative,

city-wide show came soon after the record art experiment, and the exhibit fuses unique three-dimensional creative pieces with science to help bring awareness to environmental issues. “The idea is to get people talking about the issues surrounding sustainability using plastic and plastic waste,” she says, although many of the exhibit’s pieces are made from other materials. “It’s to help create the conversation to start taking more action and as a way to highlight how much waste there really is.” As such, the exhibit is part of UNR’s “Summer of Sustainability,” which will last until September. It’s a collaborative summer-long effort coordinated by the UNR library department and the Office of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Research: Academy for the Environment. Besides the exhibit, which visitors can peruse for free by visiting the library throughout the summer, there is also a Truckee River cleanup on July 12. Collaboration is a key part of the Summer of Sustainability’s mission, Hearn says.

Reused + Recycled = Art features an array of recycled art created by children, teens, college students and professional artists and researchers in Northern Nevada. More than 200 submissions were received from the region. Getting the high schools involved was important, says Hearn. “High schoolers don’t often have places to showcase or submit their art,” she says. The work in the exhibit ranges in materials. All materials were collected by the artists; some high school artists visited the Lockwood Landfill to gather items. A dress constructed out of records is on display in the library’s main floor. A “large cardboard Stegosaurus” is a contribution from the UNR art department, according to Hearn. A statue of a man is comprised of welded bike chains and metal scraps stands tall on the

library’s bottom floor. And hanging strands of cut-up water and soda bottles transform sticky plastic into whimsical veils. As a tie in with Artown, the exhibit also showcases the work of traveling artist and scientist Bonnie Monteleone from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Monteleone is a marine plastics debris researcher and the founder of the Plastic Ocean Project, which documents the waste found in oceans. Monteleone sources the materials for her art from more than 10,000 nautical miles of oceans worldwide. Monteleone will give a presentation about her work at the exhibit’s official opening on July 13. At times, the exhibit is altogether thought-provoking, amusing, enjoyable and disheartening—especially after viewing pieces like a large jar full of broken plastic and glass, which Monteleone displays just as she found it in the ocean. Hearn hopes the art will give insight into bigger issues. “It’s a fun show for people to see,” says Hearn. “But there’s a message, too.” Ω

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Raise the bar Sonoma Soup & Salad 530 W. Plumb Lane, 828-2650 Salads have been around since folks decided dinner could involve more than “grab thing, eat thing,” but a man in by Todd South Wisconsin created the first “salad bar buffet,” circa 1950. I was surprised to learn this. I’d assumed salad bars sprung from “California Cuisine” in the ’70s. Who knew that cheeseheads love some greens with their brats? Salad bars are traditionally sidekick to a larger dining experience. The original motivation was to keep diners busy while the main courses were prepared, freeing up servers for cocktail and dessert orders. Since then, salad bars have gone through many trends and changes, occasionally becoming the destination rather than side attraction. Photo/ALLison Young

every salad topping, but suffice it to say you’ll find something you like. Yet, it’s the side salads that stand out. The rotelle pasta salad was delicate and wonderful. There was a mustard potato salad that was far better than average. And there was a vinegar rice pilaf, cactus pico de gallo, julienned mango and jicama tossed in a slightly-hot spice blend, mango salsa, and the most amazing coleslaw. Both plates and large bowls are available, with the option to either pay by weight ($8.25 per pound), or dine all-you-can-eat ($11.95) including soup and hot bar. To-go cartons are available if you like your salad portable. The hot bar consisted of an acceptable fettuccine Alfredo with grilled and herbed chicken breast on the side. The homemade soups included tomato bisque, chicken rice, black bean, chicken tortilla, and clam chowder. All soups can be purchased individually by the cup ($3.50), bowl ($5.25), or in to-go cartons ranging from 8 to 32 ounce ($3.50-$8.75). I found the tomato bisque to be a bit more useful as a dipping sauce for the grilled chicken, tasty but not amazing by itself. The chicken tortilla was fabulous with great flavor and big pieces of veg and shredded chicken. My wife said the chicken rice was good, though the rice had swollen a bit in the broth, and somehow neither of us got to the black bean. All of these faded against the clam chowder. Though made essentially in the style of classic “New England Clam Chowder,” its flavor was far from standard. Featuring a thinner broth than most chowders, the mix of flavors was complex and not entirely as clam-based as I’d expect. There were certainly plenty of clam pieces in the mix, but their essence was in competition with pepperoni and … carrot? Ultimately, we decided this wasn’t the best example of “clam chowder." However, give it a different name (Chowder Plus?) and it was one of the most flavorful and interesting soups I’ve tasted. Beverages include coffee, tea, a no-name soda fountain, bottled soft drinks and beer, and a pretty good wine selection for a lunch-only venue. The service was simple and friendly, with a single chef keeping things stocked and a server/cashier who cheerfully answered all my questions. Go hungry, because once you start you won’t want to stop. Ω

Open for about a year, Sonoma Soup & Salad is a small-yet-roomy establishment that might be the only salad bar I’ve longed for after a single visit. My only disappointment is they’re only open for lunch. How do you maintain a restaurant for just four hours a day on soup and salad? A creative chef and fresh ingredients. Start with a crisp, fresh selection of greens (iceberg, romaine, spring mix, baby spinach), then add a wide selection of veggies, fruits, meats, cheeses, nuts, and other tasty/crunchy toppings. Housemade dressings include great versions of the usual suspects, several oils and vinegars, hot sauces and spices, and sweeter fare (peach, blueberry, pineapple, poppy seed). I’d list

Sonoma Soup and Salad owner Karen Celone offers up some salad bar veggies and toppings.

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Picture puzzle Third Person It’s been 10 years since writer-director Paul Haggis, quite surprisingly, won some Oscars for Crash, a very good but perhaps overrated movie. That film had a bunch of storylines weaving together and gave some good actors decent showcases. It also seemed to set the stage for a promising directorial career. Haggis has yet to capitalize on his Oscar by triumph. He’s made a very good movie that Bob Grimm nobody saw in the U.S. (the Tommy Lee Jones starrer In the Valley of Elah) and a so-so, tepid b g ri m m @ ne w s re v i e w . c o m thriller (Russell Crowe in The Next Three Days) since then, but he’s generally fallen off the radar. His latest, the ambitious Third Person, probably won’t do much to change that. It’s a respectable but divisive effort that will confound a lot of viewers the way Cameron

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Crowe’s complex and unjustly maligned Vanilla Sky did. It tries to do a lot, and it doesn’t succeed on all fronts. Some will see it as a train wreck, whereas I see it as a flawed but reputable effort. What we get is a puzzle movie with Michael (Liam Neeson), a struggling Pulitzer Prize-winning author, as its centerpiece. The once prolific author can’t get on track with his latest novel as he struggles to produce words in a Paris hotel. His tempestuous lover Anna (Olivia Wilde) comes to visit. The two have a strange, sadomasochistic relationship that will be explained later on. The reasons are a bit preposterous, but they make sense in context. With the story of Michael and Anna, we get some connected characters that I won’t reveal because they are part of the mystery puzzle. The film also gives us two other major plot threads, one involving Adrien Brody as Scott, some sort of fashion spy in Italy, getting

involved in bad things with a troubled woman (Moran Atias). This plot thread proves to be the film’s least interesting, although Brody is quite good in his role. The final thread involves Julia (Mila Kunis), a disgraced former soap opera star barred from seeing her son. She’s accused of trying to harm him, and Rick (James Franco), the boy’s finger-painting father—yes, he’s a professional finger painter—believes she’s guilty. The locations change, in a somewhat confusing manner, between Paris, New York and Rome, with all of the characters connecting through some sense of unexplained misery or loss. The film clocks in at 137 minutes, and I confess, it frustrates at times because it takes its sweet time revealing its ultimate purpose. But that revelation is a clever one that works well enough. I’m not going to say it ties the film together perfectly, but it does result in enough clarity to make it qualify as a decent twist. Kunis, an actress who ranges from absolutely terrible to pretty damned good in almost all of her performances, leans toward her better tendencies in this film. Yes, there are moments where she delivers a line or two as if she has no sense of what the line is supposed to do. Conversely, she has moments, including her final big scene, where she is absolute dynamite. After her endearing work in Drinking Buddies, Wilde continues to show she’s an actress of exceptional power. Her Anna is her most complex character yet, alternately mean and vulnerable, completely unpredictable. Neeson gets to take off his guns for a film, and he reminds us that he knows his way around a good drama. Michael is a seemingly good man, but he has some ruthless bastard capabilities, with Neeson being astute at showing both sides of the coin. Franco, who’s in every other movie released this summer, delivers his most realized, sturdy work in years as a man struggling with his sense of obligation to his child and an unstable former lover. There’s enough solid acting for two films to go with the sporadic kookiness in Third Person, a film that winds up getting a mild recommendation. I think Haggis has yet to deliver his best film, and he’ll be able to deliver it once he calms down a bit. Ω

22 Jump Street

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, an unlikely duo if there ever was one, basically repeat the same steps of their very funny 21 Jump Street, and they do it in a way that keeps things fresh while knowingly recycling the same plot. And by knowingly, I mean this film acknowledges what it is, a run-of-the-mill sequel, for its entire running time. It’s a self-mocking technique that works well thanks to its stars and the deft comic direction of returning directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who are on a roll, having also directed this year’s The Lego Movie. This one picks up where the first film left off, with Captain Dickson (Ice Cube in serious comic overdrive) assigning Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) to college. In college, they will do exactly what they did undercover in the first movie: Infiltrate the dealers, find the supplier. They get the laughs the same way, through Hill’s self-deprecating, rat-a-tat delivery, and Tatum’s dumb lug shtick. It worked well the first time, and it works well again.

Deliver Us From Evil

A New York City policeman (Eric Bana) finds himself up against some sort of demon force that managed to come back overseas with some soldiers who were fighting the Iraq War. Apparently, some soldiers on patrol read evil writings in some sort of cave, and that resulted in possession, and the ability to pass that possession along like a virus. The premise is totally stupid, makes little to no sense, and eventually torpedoes the film in a exorcism finale that features the music of The Doors and bad, bad editing. Bana is OK in the central role, and director Scott Derrickson, who scared the crap out of me with Sinister, can create his share of eerie moments. Still, this feels like a hundred movies that came before it, and possessed humans screeching Latin through muddy makeup is more funny than scary. If you’re looking for some decent jolts, and you don’t care that a movie doesn’t make a lick of sense, this might be OK for a late night rental. Oh yeah, it’s supposedly based on actual events, which means somebody somewhere in Hollywood is lying their ass off.

Edge of Tomorrow

In the future, Earth is fighting a crazed, vicious alien force that’s shredding our armies with little effort. Tom Cruise plays Cage, an armed forces officer who serves more as a public relations man than anybody who belongs on a battlefield. After a publicity tour, he sits down with a hard-nosed general (a cold Brendan Gleeson) and finds out that he is going into battle. Cage is justifiably terrified, and his first taste of battle doesn’t go well, and he’s killed in especially gruesome fashion. For reasons I won’t give away, he instantly wakes up after his death, transported back to a moment shortly after his meeting with the general, and before the battle that will take his life. Cage is in a seriously messed up situation. He starts repeating the same day, and dying every time. He does his best to change that outcome, but he always winds up meeting a grisly death and waking up in the same place. He eventually comes into contact with Rita (Emily Blunt), the military’s poster girl for the perfect soldier. By repeating days with Rita, Cage starts to build himself up as a soldier, discover secrets about the enemy, and increasing life longevity chances for himself and mankind. The film’s handling of this situation is thrilling and even funny, thanks to Cruise’s strong performance and nice direction by Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity). It will easily stand as one of 2014’s best.

Jersey Boys

Director Clint Eastwood continues his creative slump with this drab adaptation of the Broadway musical which further proves something that Eastwood established 45 years ago with his appearance in Paint Your Wagon: Dirty Harry has no business being around a movie musical! The film tells the story of Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young, who performed the role on Broadway) and The Four Seasons, and how they went from being small time hoods in New Jersey to big time rock stars. Much of the focus of the film falls on Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) an early leader of the band and majorly bad influence on Frankie. Over the course of time, DeVito gets himself deep into debt, to the point that he has to be bailed out by a friend in the mob, represented here as Gyp DeCarlo and played by Christopher Walken in a thankless role. As they did in the musical, each member of the Four Seasons breaks the fourth wall to

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address the audience, like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. It’s a gimmick that feels forced the way Eastwood stages it. Every time somebody faced the camera and started gabbing in this movie, I found myself getting annoyed. Young gives it a good go belting out the hits with something akin to Valli’s signature falsetto, and it’s admirable that Eastwood and his performers opted to have the music performed live on set rather than lipsynching. I don’t know if it was the theater I was in, but something happened in the final mix that flattens the overall musical presentation. The songs, although competently performed, lack a certain spark. They just feel like pale copies of the originals.

Maleficent

Angelina Jolie plays the title character, the infamous horned villain from Sleeping Beauty. There’s a little bit of revisionist history here, with Maleficent portrayed as more of a fallen angel rather than a straight up baddie. The whole thing almost works because Jolie is damned good in this film, especially when the script allows for her to bellow curses and just act devilish. It gets a little sleepy at times when it deals with, well, Sleeping Beauty (Elle Fanning), the young woman who stands to have a very bad 16th birthday thanks to a Maleficent curse. Jolie has a creepy getup that I thought would bother me, but I kind of liked looking at it after a while. It’s the world surrounding her that I found a bit pedestrian. Director Robert Stromberg worked as a production designer on films like Alice in Wonderland, Avatar and Oz the Great and Powerful. I didn’t like any of those movies and, in the end, I don’t really like this one. At this point in watching Stromberg’s work, I’m just not taken by his weird visual worlds. They put me off for some reason, and have a choppy pop-up book feel to them. On the plus side, it is better than Alice and Oz, and perhaps even Avatar. On the negative side, it’s still not all that good.

Tammy

Having co-written this movie, Melissa McCarthy can take a lot of the blame for yet another bad comedy featuring her playing an uninteresting mess of a human being. She stars as the title character, a fast food worker who wrecks her car, gets fired and finds out her husband (Nat Faxon) is having an affair in the same day. She winds up hitting the road with her alcohol-swilling, diabetic grandma (Susan Sarandon), and virtually nothing works as far as laughs are concerned. McCarthy and Ben Falcone’s script (Falcone also directs) tries to mine laughs out of grandma being a trashy party girl and Tammy eating too much pie. It wastes the talents of everybody involved, including Gary Cole as a philandering barfly and Mark Duplass as Tammy’s love interest. When Tammy holds up her former burger joint employer, it’s almost funny, but most of that scene was covered in the preview trailer. McCarthy can be hilarious—her best film moment may always be the outtake during the This is 40 credits—but she can also be tedious as she is in this and last year’s Identity Thief. Her next film is St. Vincent co-starring Bill Murray, a film that will hopefully erase this one from our memories.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Director Michael Bay seems to be taunting his haters at this point, employing all of those things that sicken his detractors, and cranking everything up to despicably disgusting levels. Replacing Shia LaBeouf, who was too busy pinching ass and pouring drinks on patrons at a Battle Creek, Michigan, high school production of Fiddler on the Roof to participate, would be Mark Wahlberg. He plays Cade Yeager, a crazy robot inventor living on a farm with his smoking hot daughter, Tessa (Nicola Peltz). After inadvertently buying Optimus Prime from an old guy at an abandoned movie theater (yep!), Yeager and his daughter wind up fighting alongside the Autobots as they battle an evil race of American-made Autobot clones courtesy of a Steve Jobs-like mogul (Stanley Tucci). The movie is a billion hours long, and none of those hours are ever any good. Some of the visuals pop, but you won’t care because you will be glazed over by the time most of the big action kicks up. Bay says this is the first in a new trilogy. If you should choose to see part one, make sure all of your bills are paid, the dogs are fed, and you’ve winter-proofed your house before you sit down, because you aren’t getting out of that theater for a very long time.

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Ready and able Reno Ableton Users Group The digital audio work station Ableton Live has everything a musician would need for digital recording and sound editing, by Brad Bynum but with an interface that can be played like an instrument and used in bradb@ live performance. It’s like a recording newsreview.c om studio that can be played as an instrument. And it has an object-oriented programming language embedded in it, creating even more possibilities— it’s like a sampler, a drum machine and a full recording studio all in one that can be controlled by a keyboard, a guitar, an iPad or even just a smart phone. The Ableton company also makes the Ableton Push, a slick controller ideal for live performance by DJs and electronic musicians.

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1 recording software for three or four years now. … I can DJ in it. I can record in it. I can make installations. I can do video in it. I can drive lighting systems with it. There’s ways to run a megachurch with it.” Two years ago, Davis noticed online that Ableton user groups— informal gatherings to share knowledge, techniques and ideas—were popping up in places like San Francisco and Portland. He decided to start one here in Reno. Davis has been active in the local music scene in a variety of capacities for decades. He has played in bands, managed venues and recorded albums. He’s been involved locally with many different genres, from hardcore punk and dream pop to experimental improvisation and hip-hop. He actually first used Ableton to make real-time video art at a dance club. He’s now the Pro Audio Manager at Starsound Audio, a local company that does sound and lighting for various events around town, including various concerts, the rib cook-off, the air races and the balloon races. The Reno Ableton Users Group has a group page for discussions on Facebook, and meets the second Sunday a month at 3 p.m. at the Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., and then in the evening the following Monday for a jam at Lamppost Pizza, 1141 Steamboat Parkway. And other meetings and classes are in the works at different venues. Attendees range from older blues and jazz musicians, looking to learn about recording and real-time instrument looping, to teenage DJs looking to hone their craft. Davis recently applied to become a certified Ableton trainer, and hopes to expand his educational mission about Ableton. He’s working with the Reno Mini Maker Faire to bring Ableton workshops to area middle schools. “I see these classes as digital literacy,” he said. “Knowing how to code is more important than cursive. Fuck cursive and replace it with digital literacy.” Ω

Reno musician Christian Davis cites a few examples of musicians who are using the technology in innovative ways, including the beatbox performer and vocalist Kid Beyond, who creates as much sound as a full band simply by using his own voice, a microphone, a pedal board, and a laptop running Ableton, or the classic synth-pop band Depeche Mode, who now use Ableton during their live performances. “They’re using live drums onstage, but then they have a guy sitting off on the side, everything runs over to him, and he re-synthesizes it on the fly to sound like the drums of the recordings,” said Davis. “I can beatbox into Ableton, and Ableton will translate it into a MIDI drumbeat. I can sing into it, and Ableton will translate that into a synth.” Ableton, like the turntable before it, blurs the line between recording technology and musical instrument. A basic version of the software costs around $100. “It’s bigger than ProTools now,” according to Davis. “It’s been the No.

Christian Davis demonstrates just a little of what the software Ableton Live is capable of doing.

For more information, visit www.facebook. com/groups/reno abletonusersgroup or call 453-4221.

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125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

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

Artown Comedy Show w/John Ager, Dave Dropkikk, 9pm, no cover Mencarelli, Ethan Pickett, 9pm, no cover

DG Kicks, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

Return of the Cage: Dance Off & Drag Off, Return of the Cage: Dance Off & Drag Off, 11pm, $5 after 10pm, free for contestants 11pm, $5 after 10pm, free for contestants

Open Mic w/Steve Elegant, 7pm, Tu, Karaoke, 10pm, Tu, W, no cover

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132 West St., (775) 329-2878

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All My Fault, Stonedaddy, Dead Letter Disciple, Misfritz, Man Wolfs, Deathplant, Machine Liver Scars, Pig Farmers, Abandoned Minds, 8:30pm, no cover Gun Vendetta, Capt. Dan O, 8:30pm, $5 Reno We Have a Problem, 8pm, $5

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

816 Highway 40 West, Verdi; (775) 351-3206

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July 12, 9 p.m. Cargo 255 N. Virginia St. 398-5400

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

Bazooka Zoo, Rigorous Proof, Bluff Caller, 9pm, $5

Delhi 2 Dublin, 9pm, $10-$15

CEOL IRISH PUB

The Clarke Brothers, 9pm, no cover

Blarney Band, 9pm, no cover

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

CHAPEL TAVERN

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

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

Good Friday with rotating DJs, 10pm, no cover

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Them Kids, 7pm, no cover

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

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3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005: Comedy Night & Improv w/Patrick Shillito, W, 9pm, no cover Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N. Virginia St., 329-4777: RC Smith, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm, 10pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 10pm, $17.95; Roundboy Jimmy Graham, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $15.95 The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022: Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, Th, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25; Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30, Flip Schultz, Suli McCullough, W, 9pm, $25 Reno-Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., 686-6600: The Utility Players, Th, 7:30pm, $14, $17; Felipe Esparza, F, 9:30pm; Sa, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $17, $20

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Karaoke w/Nitesong Productions, 9pm, Tu, Open Mic/Ladies Night, 8:30pm, W, no cover

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

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235 W. Second St., (775) 324-4255

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke with Miranda Panda, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover Live flamenco guitar music, 5:30pm, no cover

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

THE GOLDEN ROSE CAFE AT WILDFLOWER VILLAGE

The Writer’s Block Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover

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

The Lincoln Highways Revue, 2pm, $10-$15, free for children

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Arnold Mitchem, 7pm, no cover

The Fantods, 8pm, no cover

Detour West, 8pm, no cover

4395 W. Fourth St., (775) 747-8848

846 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 355-7711

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, M, W, no cover karaoke with Miss Sophie, 9pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke with Lisa Lisa, 9pm, no cover

THE GRID BAR & GRILL

Wildflower Comedy Power Hour Open Mic, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke w/Andrew, 9pm, no cover

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

HARRY’S SPORTS BAR & GRILL

Marsyas Complex, 8pm, no cover

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

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Open mic, 7pm, no cover

Jerry Bowden & the Soul Rockers, 9pm, no cover

J2, 8pm, no cover

9825 S. Virginia St., (775) 622-8878

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Open Mic Night, 9pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 9pm, W, no cover

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Planes Mistaken for Stars, Silver Snakes, All Eyes West, Elephant Rifle, 8pm, $6-$8

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

JAVA JUNGLE

Outspoken: Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover

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

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Erika Paul, 6pm, no cover

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

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First Take featuring Rick Metz, 6pm, no cover

Bill Davis, 6pm, no cover

2) The Butchers, On The Ground, Supernothing, DBS, 8pm, $4

1) Hip Rock fundraiser w/Desporado, 7:45pm, $7-$10

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Avenue Q, 8pm, $25-$160

MOODY’S BISTRO BAR & BEATS

David Lockhart Trio, 8:30pm, no cover

George Souza Trio, 8:30pm, no cover

PADDY & IRENE’S IRISH PUB

Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover

POLO LOUNGE

DJ Steve Starr, 8pm, no cover

Gemini, 9pm, no cover

211 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-5648

10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484 1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

July 12, 8 p.m. Studio on 4th 432 E. Fourth St. 410-5993

1) Blazin Mics!, 10pm M, no cover 2) Gentlemen Prefer Blood, The Shames, Me Time, 8pm, W, $5

Avenue Q, 2pm, 8pm, $25-$160

Avenue Q, 8pm, 8pm Tu, W, $25-$160

Corky Bennett, 8pm, W, no cover

RED DOG SALOON

Open Mic Night, 7pm, W, no cover

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

RUBEN’S CANTINA

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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

Los Lobos

Hip Hop Open Mic, 10pm, W, no cover

RYAN’S SALOON

July 12, 8 p.m. John Ascuaga’s Nugget 1100 Nugget Ave. Sparks 356-3300

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

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

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Bluegrass/Americana Open Performance Jam, 7pm, no cover

148 West St., (775) 284-3363

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Mustache Kitty, 9:30pm, no cover

Tuesday Jam and Open Mic w/Davis Nothere, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

Dance party, 9pm, no cover

Tuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover

1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 355-1030 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

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EveryThing Hard EDM event w/Redundant Junk Parlor, Gold Star Dance Company, Protoplasm, Quad Double Oh, 8pm, $5 8pm, $15-$20

432 E. Fourth St., (775) 410-5993

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Tristan Selzler, 6:30pm, no cover

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

Milton Merlos, 6:30pm, no cover

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2) Two Way Street, 4pm, Soul Experience, 10pm, no cover

2) Soul Experience, 8pm, no cover

2) Palmore Brothers, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Midnight Express, 8pm, no cover

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

1) Naive Melodies, 10pm, no cover

2) Wake of the Dead, 10pm, no cover

1) Geechy Guy, 7:30pm, W, $10-$15

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, $25.95-$39.95 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, $25.95-$39.95 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover 4) Rock River, 10pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, 9:30pm, 1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, $25.95-$39.95 $25.95-$39.95 2) Left of Centre, 2) Left of Centre, 10:30pm, no cover 10:30pm, no cover 3) Live piano, 4:30pm, 3) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover no cover 4) Rock River, 10pm, no cover

1) Dance Inferno, 7pm, Tu, W, $25.95-$39.95 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ Chris English, 10pm, Tu, Audioboxx, 10:30pm, W, no cover 3) Live piano, 4:30pm, W, no cover

1) Masters of Magic, 8pm, $10-$20

1) Masters of Magic, 8pm, $10-$20 2) Lex Nightclub Grand Opening w/Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, DJ Rick Gee, 9pm, $50

1) Masters of Magic, 8pm, $10-$20 2) Lex Nightclub Saturdays w/DJ Enfo, 1) Masters of Magic, 8pm, $10-$20 10pm, $15-$30 3) County Social Saturdays w/DJ Jamie G, 10pm, no cover

1) Masters of Magic, 8pm, Tu, W, $10-$20

1) Spyro Gyra, 7:30pm, $44 2) DJ Rick Gee, DJ SN1, 10pm, $20

1) Caravansarai, 8:30pm, Tu, $15

2) Midnight Express, 7pm, no cover

1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-9711 3) B.J. Thomas, 7:30pm, $22-$29 1) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge 3) TJ’s Corral

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

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

GRAND SIERRA RESORT

2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theater 2) Lex Nightclub 3) Sports Book 4) Cantina 5) The Beach

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15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-6611 1) South Shore Room 2) Peek Nightclub

Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, 359-3526: Th, 7pm, no cover Hangar Bar, 10603 Stead Blvd., Stead, 677-7088: Karaoke Kat, Sa, 9pm, no cover Murphy’s Law Irish Pub, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, 823-9977: Steve Starr Karaoke, F, 9pm, no cover Ponderosa Saloon, 106 South C St., Virginia City, 847-7210: Steel Rockin’ Karaoke, F, 7:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, 356-6000: F-Sa, 9pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., 384-7976: Daily, 8pm, no cover

HARRAH’S RENO

1) Broadway Showstoppers, 219 N. Center St., (775) 788-2900 8pm, $33.40-$42.40 1) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone 3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center

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1) Los Lobos, 8pm, $49 3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, 11pm, no cover John Dawson, 7pm, no cover

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3) DJ/dancing, 5pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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

2) Beat Mosaic, 7pm, no cover

SANDS REGENCY CASINO HOTEL 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 348-2200 1) 3rd Street Lounge 2) Poolside

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407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-7401 8pm, no cover 1) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions Island Bar 3) University of Aura, 9pm, no cover 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Lounge

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1) Broadway Showstoppers, 8pm, $33.40-$42.40 3) Barbara Baxter, 8pm, no cover

2) Beat Mosaic, 8pm, no cover 2) Beat Mosaic, 8pm, no cover 3) Salsa dancing, 7:30pm, $10 after 8pm, 3) DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20 DJ Chris English, DJ ((Fredie)), 10pm, $20 1) The Deckheads, 7pm, no cover 2) DJ Ry-On, 6pm, no cover

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1) Rhythm and Wine Gala, 5pm, $30 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

2) VooDooDogz, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Recovery Sundays, 10pm, no cover 3) Industry Night, 9pm, no cover

2) Gong Show Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, Country-Rock Bingo w/Jeff Gregg, 9pm, W, no cover

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Lake Tahoe ShakeSpeare FeSTivaL The 2014 SeaSon commenceS wiTh Shakespeare’s romantic comedy As You Like It, with performances taking place Tuesday through Sunday, July 11-Aug. 24. The festival also features concerts, dance shows and other entertainment, including Sierra Nevada Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Lake and Tahoe Players’

production of Sweeney Todd, among other events, on Monday evenings. The shows begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Warren Edward Stage at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village. Tickets range from $15 to $200. Call (800) 7477467 or visit http://laketahoeshakespeare.com. —Kelley Lang

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River Lights: A World Dance and Art Festival The Artown event will feature performances by the Reno World Dance Collective and guest performances by other local dance troupes and movement artists on Friday, July 11, at the River School Farm, 777 White Fir St. Latin/rock /R&B band Drinking with Clowns will kick off the show at 7 p.m., followed by dance performances at 8 p.m. San Francisco-based tribal belly dance group Gold Star Dance Company headlines the event. The market opens at 6 p.m. featuring goods by vendors and local artists. Food and drink items will also be available for purchase. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the event. Call 747-2222 or visit www. riverschoolfarm.org. OPINION

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Avast, me hearties! Adventure awaits ye at the fifth annual pirate-theme pub crawl on Saturday, July 12. Dress up as a buccaneer, pirate wench or other raider of the high seas and enjoy $2 and $3 drink specials and no cover charge at 20 participating bars in downtown Reno. The evening also includes costume contests and a scavenger hunt. Purchase your $5 commemorative cup and map to participating venues at Junkee Clothing Exchange, 960 S. Virginia St. The fun gets underway at 8 p.m. starting at the Harrah’s Reno Plaza, 219 N. Center St. Call 342-9565 or visit http://piratecrawl.com.

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The Great Basin Costume Society presents its Wearing History Exhibit, featuring costumes and accessories spanning from 1864 to 1964. The GBCS is a local group of historical costuming enthusiasts who attend socials, dances, events, reenactments and tours. There will be an opening reception at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 11, at A an Art Gallery, 40 E. Fourth St., located in the north building of the old RTC bus depot, across from the National Bowling Stadium. The exhibit is an official NV 150 Sesquicentennial event and runs through July 22. Call 223-8396.

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Revolution on the River

Celebrating 150 years of Nevada History and Heritage Series: Sourdough Slim & Robert Armstrong

Lovers of French food and culture are invited to enjoy a picnic along the banks of the Truckee River during this Artown event. French-themed picnic baskets for two stocked with locally sourced, artisan food and drink plus utensils are available for pre-order and pick up on event day for $75. If you’d rather pack your own meal, you’re welcome to bring your own picnic. The free event will also feature strolling models in period costume, plein air painters, live music, local vendors and a “Let Them Eat Cake!” cake-decorating contest. The event begins at noon on Sunday, July 13, at Lunsford Park, 727 Riverside Drive, between Riverside Drive and Washington Street. Call 746-3299 or visit http://j.mp/revolutionontheriver.

Sparks Museum’s event series continues with a performance by the western music and storytelling duo, who will celebrate Nevada’s sesquicentennial birthday with songs and tales from Nevada. The history and songs of the pioneer days in Nevada are intertwined with old-time harmony singing, yodeling and sounds of the musical saw. The show begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 11, at the Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks. Admission is $12-$15. Call 355-1144 or visit www.sparksmuseum.org or https://www.nevada150.org.

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Is this deceit taken? I’m a 54-year-old single man. I’ve discovered a troubling and apparently rampant trend among people around my age doing online dating: women not being honest about their age. I think the women doing this include the woman I started seeing, whom I otherwise like a lot. She listed her age as 55 but recently got flustered recalling the year she graduated from high school. I got suspicious and looked her up on people finder sites, which list her age as 57. Should I tell her, “Hey, I’ve been doing a little detective work, and your numbers don’t add up”? After a certain point—the French tactfully call it “un certain age”—a woman’s birthday tends to come but once every two or three years. Sure, there are women who aren’t willing to compromise their ethics just to shave off a few years: my glamorous grandma, for example, who was 31 until the day she died—at 90. I’m always a little surprised when anybody’s surprised that somebody they met on the internet lied about something. In fact, as I advise in my new book, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck, everyone on the internet should be assumed to be lying about everything until proven otherwise. In other words, consider yourself lucky that she’s female. And a mammal. I write often about our evolutionary imperatives, like how men evolved to lust after healthy, fertile women— all the better to help them pass on their genes. The features men consider beautiful—like youth, unwrinkled

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skin and an hourglass figure—are actually indicators of a woman’s fertility. And the older and further away a woman gets from peak fertility the more these features fade and the less desirable she becomes to men. You could tell this woman you’ve caught her in a lie—if your goal is embarrassing her into liking you more. But it isn’t like she said she was 30 and turned out to be bumping up against 60. By the way, it isn’t just women who engage in attractiveness-improving fibbery. In the male camp, the lies include flashy cars beyond one’s means, liberal interpretations of 6 feet 1 inch, Rogaine and the poor man’s Rogaine, spray-on “hair.” And the reality is, whenever you think you could get serious with a person, you need to look at her character over time—comparing what she says with what she does—to figure out whether she’s trustworthy. As you’re doing that with this woman, consider taking a counterintuitive approach—calling up a little compassion for where she’s coming from. Chances are, she only lied because she figured out where all the honest women are: home alone being 57 instead of having a man like you spirit them off for a romantic weekend at Club Med Guantanamo to waterboard them about their real birthdate. Ω

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for your favorite people, businesses and things in the RN&R’s Best of Northern Nevada reader survey! As the region’s most credible and most thorough survey of its kind, we once again have lots of categories! Look through these and come up with some ideas on who you’ll vote for, then go online to www.newsreview.com/reno and click on the “Best of Northern Nevada” icon to vote!

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Best 4th of July fireworks Best animal shelter Best art gallery Best mural Best charity race or walk Best church Best day trip Best dog park Best drag queen Best independent art gallery Best kept secret Best local band Best local band album Best dance instructor Best local dance company Best local theater company Best monthly event Best neighborhood Best non-casino thing to do downtown Best place to meet gay singles Best place to meet straight singles Best place to people watch Best radio station Best talk show host Best scandal Best reason to live in Reno Most environmentally conscious company Best local farm Best non-profit group Best green event Best green store Best special event in downtown Reno Best special event in downtown Sparks

Food & drink Best cooking school Best hot dog Best frozen yogurt Best French fries Best smoothie Best chicken wings Best salad Best salad bar Best Mexican Best Italian Best Indian Best Basque Best Japanese Best Greek Best Thai Best Chinese Best Salvadoran Best sandwich shop Best French restaurant Best Vietnamese Best sushi Best vegetarian Best burger Best doughnuts/pastries Best bagel Best bakery Best fresh bread Best coffee Best coffee roaster Best seafood Best steak Best pizza parlor Best breakfast Best business lunch Best greasy spoon Best Reno restaurant Best Carson restaurant Best Truckee restaurant Best Sparks restaurant Best Tahoe restaurant Most romantic restaurant Best new restaurant Best fine dining Best wine list Best wine bar Best cheap eats Best dessert Best martini Best Margarita Best solo dining Best outdoor dining Best late-night dining Best food truck Best ambience Best restaurant view

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Why do birds

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fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food. Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat. Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: Birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 percent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 percent of the time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there an

important resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool? I’m not talking about a luxury it would be pleasant to have or a status symbol that would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day. Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived for to become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.

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do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.

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(March 21-April 19): What are the 13ARIES 13you? Where sources that heal and nourish

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Since 1981,

Chinese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favorable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate longterm growth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The weeks preceding

your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demon-banishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently, and even if it was cast by yourself. Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know what

it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown. And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone. Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul.

LIBRA (Sept. 13 23-Oct. 22): Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics. They’re doing well. The Avengers earned $1.5 billion, making it the third-highest-grossing film of all time. Iron Man 3 brought in more than a billion dollars, too, and Thor: The Dark World grossed $644 million. Now Marvel executives are on schedule to release two movies every year through 2028. I’d love to see you be inspired by their example, Libra. Sound fun? To get started, dream and scheme about what you want to be doing in both the near future and the far future. Then formulate a flexible, invigorating master plan for the next 14 years.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): While in

Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?” Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked. As amusing as 13his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should not proceed in the coming week. If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.

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

one of her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.

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

would be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and 13 will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time.

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

nothing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo? Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders—with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every year,

the U.S. government spends $25,455 per capita on programs for senior citizens. Meanwhile, it allocates $3,822 for programs to help children. That’s only 15 percent as much as what the elders receive. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I believe your priorities should be reversed. Give the majority of your energy and time and money to the young and innocent parts of your life. Devote less attention to the older and more mature aspects. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need to care intently for what’s growing most vigorously.

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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Fashion forward Brian Aranda is the executive producer of Vanity Entertainment, the host of the Reno Fashion Show. The 2014 show is this Saturday at the Eldorado Convention Center. It will feature Andrew Christian, Bossta Nation, Cicely Margo, Edward Coleman, Feral Fashions, Onward Kitty by Cat Stahl and William Furs as designers and about 110 models. You can buy tickets at renofashionshow. brownpapertickets.com.

So the Reno Fashion Show is this Saturday? Yes, this Saturday, July 12. We’re super excited. This is our third year. We think this is going to be our biggest one yet. Our pre-sales are out the roof. We limited the amount of pre-sales to about 300, and we’re about 10 tickets short from that. It’s at the Eldorado Convention Center. The doors and the red carpet starts at 8 p.m., but the show starts at 9. The box office, which is right outside the convention center, will have will call tickets available for pick up or for purchase starting at 7.

urban attire, which really targets a younger demographic with Boston Nation—urban apparel, they call it. So I really like the variety we have this year, and I’m really excited for our opening number with Grant Davis. They’ve been preparing a lot of dance choreography, and he’s a great singer.

How is Reno’s fashion scene? I think Reno is pretty up to date. We definitely have a slight style of our own. You can tell who lives here versus who’s from somewhere else. Reno has a modern mix of the current trends, a little ’60s flair and quite a big dash of country style.

What’s going to be different this year?

And how has the local fashion scene changed recently?

This year we decided to keep it local with talent and designers, as opposed to last year where we used some corporate stores, like Banana Republic. This year we’ve even gotten some screen tee designers, which we seem to have a lot of in town. A lot of local talent including Grant Davis and Jakki Ford. They’ll be performing separate songs. Last year we had Janice Dickinson, so the change is that we’re making it a lot more local.

Well, just in the few years that we’ve been doing the fashion show, we’ve seen a lot more aspiring models come forward and designers with a new platform to showcase themselves and expose themselves and try to get their name out there. I’ve had people go from attending the show the first year to now actually showing something this year. So I think we’ve created this platform that’s allowed them to expand their horizons and given them an opportunity to follow their dream, even though you may think it’s just Reno. There’s definitely talent—a lot of it—out there. A lot of the models that we use in our show have been—some are professionals, some it’s their first time in a runway show, some have been used in media and ads nationwide and other ones are, like I said, just new to the whole scene. But I think it’s expanding. Ω

What kind of clothes will there be? We’re going everywhere from men’s underwear to women’s gowns and dresses, furs. We have basically all seasons, all genres of style.

What are you most excited for? I’m really excited for the diversity of fashions that are being shown this year. We have your affordable elegance—William Furs—but we also have urban wear and

Lost Dowd in high weeds On June 3, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd blew a lot of minds when she wrote about her experience in Colorado with one of the newly legal pot-laced candy bars now available there. What made it memorable was that Maureen got rocked hard by her stony treat. “I felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. … I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours. … I was thirsty but couldn’t move to get water. ... I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me” and so on and so forth. Damn, Mo, sounds like you got hold of some real good shit! (There is controversy surrounding Dowd’s column, with Colorado folks reporting they gave her specific instructions in advance on proper dosage.) Whether or not Dowd was legitimately roasted by a really good Mr. Goodbar is not topic. What I do want to address are the very legitimate issues surrounding edible pot products. The main issue is simple—yes, pot candy bars and pastries can be terrific pain relievers, appetite stimulators and bell ringers, but woe OPINION

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to those who gobble up too much of a dose. When eaten to excess, marijuana can lay you out and make you grovel and retch for hours. My point, ultimately, is the same as Dowd’s—watch out. Proceed with caution. Gradually work your way up to the proper dose for your metabolism and your body weight. These edible goodies deserve mucho respecto, amigo. I’ve been sampling some bars from California, called Kiva bars. They are really good. Very pleasant. Yummy tasty. Lovely buzz. And the potential for bummers, disasters and fuckups is, unfortunately, very real. The basic Kiva bar comes in four rectangles, with each one packing 45 milligrams of THC. There are no recommended dosages on the label, and that needs to be corrected immediately. Because if you just assumed, “Well, OK, I guess I’ll go ahead and just eat one of these rectangles, which is not all that much chocolate,” it’s safe to say you’re gonna end up in La-La land, right there on the floor with Mo worrying if you need a diaper. Fortyfive milligrams is a monster dose that will positively kick your ass for

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a long, long time. The label needs to say, very clearly, Do not eat entire rectangle or you are going to be a fucking zombie who can’t remember his own phone number. Something along those lines. For me, the right dose of a Kiva bar is one quarter of one rectangle. That’s it. But to get that quarter, I’ve got to cut it up myself. If Nevada is going to sell these Too High Chocolate bars, the candy should be segmented by the manufacturer in doses of 5 mg apiece. Are you a big guy? Take 3. Little old lady? Start with 1. Loads of guidance and info should be on every product, whether chocolate bar or magic muffin. These goodies can be effective. They can also be bogglingly powerful. And the potential for bad boo-boos involving children are scary obvious. As it prepares for this eventual rollout, the state needs to do its utmost to prevent Nevadans from taking a one-way trip into The Mo Zone. Ω |

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