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What is Contamination?

By Kendra KostelecKy

W

e all know that oil and water don’t mix. recycling and trash don’t mix well either.

With all residents in Washoe county now given the opportunity to participate in single-stream recycling it’s more important than ever for everyone to make sure they are placing the right items in the right cart.

When the wrong item gets placed in a recycling cart, the entire load can become contaminated turning what could have been a reusable item into trash that is sent to the landfill. sometimes people with the best intention of making the most of our recycling program include items that aren’t recyclable. those items are considered contamination when they get mixed in with recyclables. In reno, the contamination rate is greater than 30%.

We’re here to help. some common items that end up in recycling but shouldn’t include: diapers, hoses, and greasy paper. diapers cannot be recycled or composted, they must go in the trash.

Hoses, cords and wires get tangled in the sorting machines causing damage and downtime.

Please put these items in the trash.

Greasy paper like pizza boxes and paper towels might seem like a natural fit for single-stream, but don’t be fooled. once these items come in contact with food they are contaminated. the fibers become too weak for recycling. recycle only the clean parts of the pizza box, and put everything else in the trash. so, what’s the big deal? It all gets sorted out at the Materials recovery Facility (MrF), right? that’s true but contamination damages the recyclability of other material, poses a risk to recycling workers and harms the environment. reducing contamination is easy. check the decal on the lid of your single-stream recycling cart. It lists items that can be recycled in our area. or, go to Washoecounty.wm.com to download a handy guide that you can keep in your kitchen.

Watch out for our next column when we’ll talk about how you can recycle plastic bags and other loose plastic films. Until then, email your recycling questions to: renorecycling@WM.com

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Roll over Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

What should we talk about? The weather? Even after the winter-long cavalcade of wild cats, this is the March that came in like a lion and is leaving like one too.

Music? R.I.P. Chuck Berry. I can’t pretend I was a huge fan— among early rock ’n’ rollers, I prefer Bo Diddley and Little Richard, among others—and Berry was definitely one of those people where you have to separate the art from the artist, but his influence on popular music is incalculable.

It’s almost always a mistake to say someone was the “inventor” or the “first,” and I won’t credit Berry with anything like that, but musicians all around the around the world are still writing books with the musical vocabulary he conjured some 60 years ago. And he could write a great song. “Memphis, Tennessee” is my favorite—a poignant little story with a good beat, and you can dance to it.

Movies? Go see Get Out. Our movie guy, Bob Grimm, reviewed it a couple of weeks ago, and his piece is pretty spot on—although I think I liked it even more than Bob did. I love how it uses classic horror movie storytelling techniques to examine some hard truths about race relations in this country. It’s not preachy or anything. It’s actually really funny— and the humor never undercuts the horror. There are neat allusions to classic, socially minded horror flicks like Night of the Living Dead and Rosemary’s Baby, but it’s a totally original creation. One neat twist is that it actually gives a little heroism to the most universally disparaged law enforcement agency in this country.

Politics? Yep, Trump is still a liar.

That tweet about Obama wiretapping him was straight-up BS. His budget and policies are great for defense contractors and oil companies, and bad for poor people, artists, scientists, immigrants, the sick, the elderly, the environment, Muppets, historians and the future.

But FBI director James Comey confirmed that his ties to Russia are the subject of an official investigation.

It’s only a matter of time.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne ws r ev i ew . com

In the drink Assembly Bill 193 would force Truckee Meadows Water Authority to fluoridate drinking water. Both your columnists Senator Leslie and Brendan Trainor should inveigh against this proposed legislation.

Environmentally, it is disastrous to add a toxic metal to water. It ultimately returns to the Truckee River and thence to Pyramid Lake in a closed watershed. It was the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service together with the Paiute Indian tribe who nixed fluoridation the last time it was proposed. Fluoride does not evaporate, so the concentrations in the lake—a closed sink into which the river drains—would build up to levels lethal to fish.

Mass medication with a proven neurotoxin, known corrosive, and suspected carcinogen violates core libertarian principles. Who is the Legislature to make the trade-off sacrificing the health of individual water consumers for questionable improvements to the community’s dental hygiene? Fluoridation defies logic. How can a substance toxic enough to kill oral bacteria via momentary exposure not ultimately be harmful to our minds and bodies as it is absorbed into vital organs?

Reno-Sparks voters were wise to have turned down fluoridation in the 2002 referendum, as was the Authority in its unanimous vote against the current bill.

Bill Stremmel Pahrump

One man’s perjury At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Jeff Sessions stated: “I did not have communications with the Russians.” In January, in response to a written inquiry from Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) in which he was asked, “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?” Sessions responded with one word: “No.” Senator Sessions lied under oath to Congress and then again in writing to a senatorial colleague. As our representatives from Nevada, Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei should call for Attorney General Sessions to resign. As the top law enforcement officer of the United States, his perjury makes him unfit to serve as attorney general of the United States.

William Fraser Reno

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in his “Separate the powers” opinion piece in the March 9-15, 2017 issue of RN&R. A republic (lower case “r”) form of government is one in which power is vested in the people who exercise it via elected representatives. A Republican (upper case “R”) form of government is the kind Donald Trump and some of his cronies would like to force on the citizens of the U.S. Clarence Basso Reno

Fifteen questions All the talk about health care reform has me thinking: why do humans require so much health care? Did evolution screw up, or what?

Do giraffes get stiff necks? Any owls with glaucoma? Kangaroos that fall and break their hip? Do three toed sloths get morning sickness?

What about childhood cancers in seal pups or zebra foals? Can you imagine squirrels with Lou Gehrig’s disease? Lizards with diabetes?

Hawks in need of corrective lenses? Breast cancer in hippos, asthma in cheetahs, snakes with back pain? Do dolphins need health insurance?

I realize wild animals get diseases. (Domestic animals don’t count here; they’ve been weakened by domestication.) But we get many more maladies than they do. Is there a cold and flu season amongst rabbits?

Deer with allergies? Bears with hemorrhoids?

April Pedersen Reno

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You say Republican, I say republic Re “Separate the powers” (Let Freedom Ring, March 9): Contributor Brendan Trainor helped perpetuate a common mistake

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By JERI CHADWELL-SINGLEY

Federal spending you would cut? askeD aT reDroCk Bar, 241 s. sierra sT. Chris Winzen Truck driver

While I was injured, I was the commander of an ROTC training aid shop. We “demilitarized” about $3 million worth of lumber … to make plaques. And we literally chopped millions of dollars of lumber up and dumped it. … I would figure out the [military] budgetary process.

Dallin T yner Nonprofit staff member

Salaries of politicians, on every level—you know, like, all the way from state, local, all the way up to, you know, senators and congressmen. … Just like their base salary.

You’ve got people that are professional politicians that make a lot more than I do, and they work a hell of a lot less than I do. angel a hansen Assistant manager

By TREvoR ALT

The other side Brendan Trainor’s March 2, 2017 “Time for Pension Changes” is so riddled with inaccuracies, falsehoods and half-truths that one would think he is describing California’s troubled public pension plan rather than Nevada’s extremely well-managed Public Employee Pension System.

Mr. Trainor objects to Nevada PERS’s legal opposition to disclosure of its members’ personal information, implying that a “secretive PERS” has something to hide.

In fact, PERS publishes comprehensive investment and performance data on a regular basis, which can be found at www.nvpers.org/public/. PERS merely sees no good reason to publish retiree names along with the amount of the benefit received by each retiree, and I challenge Mr. Trainor to provide such a valid reason.

In fact, PERS is Nevada’s greatest asset and provides Nevada taxpayers a tremendous bang for their buck.

Approximately 80 percent of PERS retirement benefits are provided by investment returns, the remaining 20 percent is funded by contributions split between public employers and employees. That means Nevada public employers are able to fund $10 in retirement benefits for every $1 they contribute to PERS. Mr. Trainor falsely suggests that PERS investments are too risky and raises the tired bugaboo that PERS liabilities are “dangerously high.” He makes the absurd suggestion that it would be prudent for PERS to rely on the “safest” “30-year government bonds.” Any competent investment professional would advise Mr. Trainor that the actual “risk” to the fund would rise with the proportion of its

assets invested in these low-yielding 30-year bonds—the perceived “safety” of government bonds is misleading since to choose them is to guarantee low returns. PERS invests about 28 percent of its assets in bonds, which provides a measure of stability without sacrificing the superior returns provided by stocks, which represent about 62.5 percent of fund assets. The keys to long term investment success are broad diversification and even more importantly, minimizing costs such as management fees, both of which PERS does with spectacular success. As of June 30, 2016, Nevada PERS was 74.1 percent funded and is working toward 100 percent funding status over approximately 15 years. This can be likened to a homeowner purchasing a home with a mortgage and is no cause for alarm. In fact, the PERS “fund’s annualized rate of return is 9.4 percent since inception (32 years) versus the long-term actuarial funding objective of 8.2 percent.” (http://bit.ly/2nHaxVh) Mr. Trainor makes the irresponsible suggestion that “the ideal would be to convert the pension system from defined benefits to defined contributions like most ordinary citizens have.” In fact, such a conversion would be a tragic disaster.

Nothing is more directly responsible for the widespread poverty among elders and the looming American retirement crisis than the unfortunate replacement of defined benefit pensions with 401Ks in corporate America. Nevada PERS is not part of the problem but rather part of the solution and Nevadans should zealously protect PERS in its present form as their greatest asset. Ω

I think we’re spending way too much money on fucking Trump’s Secret fucking Service right now.

He spends between $10,000 to $1.1 million on his personal security because Melania and his son, Barron, refuse to move [into the White House]. … I get that he wants to finish his school year. r anDie Jaeger Barista

I would cut the president. … But I give him six months, tops. …

Yeah, the president’s spending on anything. Literally take away all of his power to spend money. He’s literally hoping to take away everything—Planned Parenthood, education. Oh my god, he attacked PBS, too.

Wes riDenour Administrative assistant

Government contracts that don’t deliver on time—that don’t meet their deadlines. They won’t meet the deadlines, but the government still keeps the contracts.

Trevor Alt is a veteran Nevada firefighter.

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by Sheila leSlie

There’s plenty who’ll do it free The Republicans’ obsession with the myth of the paid protester has been very puzzling to me since it’s so easily proven false. It surfaced during the 2016 campaign in the form of rumors of busloads of paid provocateurs being transported over state lines to disrupt Trump events, a trope quickly dismantled by Snopes, the “urban legends” website that investigates internet rumors and “other stories of unknown or questionable origin.”

The myth has been circulating more strongly in recent weeks as thousands of people across the country fill congressional town halls to denounce Trump and the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare.

When I read a fake news story circulating among far-right political commentators about an organization called Demand Protest that supposedly is paying people $2,500 a month to work as protesters, I laughed out loud, knowing it was a hoax even before I confirmed it on Snopes.

Anyone who has attended a hometown protest this year would know it was false,

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too. That’s because the events are jammed with neighbors, friends and family, and lots of new acquaintances eager to share their views on the outrageous Muslim bans, the unqualified cabinet appointees, the influence of Russia in our elections, the rolling back of LGBTQ equality, and the Republican plan to destroy the Affordable Care Act. Many of the protests are loosely organized by local groups with paid staff and volunteers who publicize the details primarily over social media. That’s not a money-fueled plot, though. It’s just good community organizing. The protests have the organic feel of a nascent movement with creative homemade signs and chants.

Many of the protesters are “first timers” or haven’t been to a protest since the ’60s, a fact easily uncovered with a simple conversation. And they are certainly not being paid by anyone to be there.

Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller, one of the primary targets of people hoping to topple Republicans from at least one point of the power triangle in D.C., doesn’t seem to

appreciate the hostile crowd that protests his private appearances since he has refused to schedule an in-person town hall. He prefers “tele-town hall” events where angry calls can be squelched more effectively and he says he doesn’t like applause or booing.

What Republicans can’t see or don’t want to admit is the frequent organic protests reflect the resentment and anger of a multitude of Americans whose ranks will surely grow in coming months if millions lose their health care. As the public digests the new American Health Care Act (AHCA), cleverly named to mimic Obama’s ACA, the protests are bound to explode since the individual math doesn’t pencil out, especially for older, sicker and poorer people. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that under the new plan 24 million people will be uninsured by 2026, much higher than even the pre-ACA days.

Speaker Paul Ryan’s defense of the plan seems to rely on the point that people will be able to “choose” if and how they want to be covered under Trumpcare. But virtually

no one would prefer a plan that only covers catastrophes, especially as premiums go up when younger Americans, freed from the individual mandate, decline to enter the marketplace.

Even more offensive is the notion pushed by Republicans that everyone will still be covered because they can go to the emergency room for their health care, the most expensive care on the planet, intended for serious trauma, not primary health care.

Heads will roll as people figure out who will pay for that.

The White House is actively soliciting Obamacare “disaster” stories. They need to hear from Nevadans who have had positive experiences, too. You can share your story at www.whitehouse.gov/ obamacare-share-your-story. Ω

At the Nevada Legislature, Sheila Leslie is a registered lobbyist for Washoe County Social Services. She does not write about that agency or its requests to the legislators.

by Brendan Trainor

Submit health care to the market New Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Dr. Tom Price and Clinton News Network (CNN) anchors Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash held a televised Town Hall on March 15.

Blitzer and Bash obviously struggled to understand Price’s free-market, patient-centered ideas. The Republican Health Care plan, according to Price, was “about the carrot, not the stick.” When Blitzer stated only the individual mandate can keep young people buying insurance so the exchanges won’t collapse, Price’s response was one of the best I have heard on a corporate news show. “What I hear you saying, Wolf, is you want to force young people into buying a product they don’t want, correct?” Price went on to say that young people should be able to buy or not buy the health insurance of their choice.

When Blitzer kept pointing out that under the plan Medicaid would be cut by billions, Price told him patiently that he should not measure the effectiveness

of a program by how many tax dollars are spent on it, but whether it works for people. Numerous studies have shown that Medicaid does not produce positive health benefits. Its main benefit can be mental, in that it removes fear of medical bankruptcy. That goal can be accomplished outside of Medicaid itself.

When Price suggested that the Republican plan would incentivize more community health clinics to spring up, Bash asked incredulously, “How would they just pop up?” Bash, how does any new business just pop up? It’s called free market capitalism, Bash. Remove government obstacles, and supply will meet demand. It has already begun with basic health clinics at Walmart and Walgreens.

The left believes that health care is a right, but the Republicans correctly understand it is a service. Once you demystify its essential nature, it becomes easier to analyze using standard economic tools. Price understands that insurance coverage does not equal health

care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is failing because it lost sight of basic principles like freedom of contract. The left as usual focused on equality of outcome, which cannot be attained, even with state coercion. In fact, the coercion built into the program only made their centrally planned and bureaucratically controlled plan even more unstable.

Price wants to bend the cost curve down and increase the supply of health care services by political angioplasty— removing the regulatory cholesterol clogging the arteries of commerce. The ACA gives an enormous amount of power to the HHS secretary to examine regulations and remove those that do not work.

If Price is serious about regulatory reform, he will have to look at his own profession. American doctors earn on average $250,000 a year, more than twice the world average. A good deal of the disparity is due to the Progressive era crony capitalist government privileges they enjoy. The American Medical

Association has actively lobbied for laws that limit the supply of health care providers since they kept Florence Nightingale and her nurses from ministering to the poor in America’s immigrant ghettoes. Occupational licensure laws, hospital residency requirements, obstacles to medical school admissions and barriers to immigrant doctors artificially inflate the cost of health care by restricting the supply of doctors.

The new Republican administration needs to cut the regulatory barriers to entry that keeps health care demand outpacing the supply of providers. There is talk of draining the precautionary principle swamp at the FDA to lower the approval cost of prescription drugs.

Free markets always do the best job of matching supply with demand. The Republicans have the power, and they have the ideas. Let’s get ’er done! Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Casinos: aCa yes, yuCCa no Gambling industry lobby groups have called on Congress to leave intact provisions in the Affordable Care Act dealing with treatment of addicted gambling.

“We would be concerned with any paring back of essential health benefits that eliminates ‘gambling disorders,’” said a letter from the groups to congressional leaders and the secretary of Health and Human Services. “Inclusion of behavioral health is critical to ensuring integrated and comprehensive health care in the United States, and this approach has increased access to treatment for gambling disorders. While research shows that the majority of patrons set a budget of under $200 when they visit a casino, those who struggle with a gambling disorder deserve access to treatment.”

The letter was signed by represenYUCCA MOUNTAIN tatives of the National Indian Gaming Association, National Council on Problem Gambling, Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacture, and the American Gaming Association.

A few days later, the American Gaming Association came out against any revival of plans for a dump for high level nuclear wastes at Yucca Mountain in Nye County.

“AGA opposes any effort to revive Yucca Mountain as a repository and will work tirelessly with the many concerned citizens, small-business operators and members of Congress to ensure that radioactive waste is never stored anywhere near the world’s premier tourist, convention and entertainment destination,” a statement by the group said.

Then why The Candy danCe? A website called gobankingrates.com says 89411 is the most expensive zip code in Nevada. As usual, the information’s not original, it’s recycled from at least one other website (Zillow Real Estate), but we’re not going to track it back.

“Genoa lies south of Carson City and near the tourist hot spot of Lake Tahoe,” the site describes the western Nevada zip. “According to Zillow, home values in this zip code increased 15.3 percent over the last year. With housing costs that are more than three times the national average—and a higher than average overall cost of living—you’ll need to make sure you have enough savings to buy a house in this zip code.”

According to Zillow, the median home value in Genoa is $732,600.

Minus one Even before the internet started the decline of newspapers, a two-newspaper community was a rarity. It was especially rare in small towns.

On March 3, the Comstock Chronicle and the Virginia City News began appearing as one newspaper bearing both names. The design of the Chronicle will reportedly dominate in the new publication.

–Dennis Myers

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Former Nevada lieutenant governor and state legislator Sue Wagner, who broke her pick trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment approved in the 1970s, watched this week as the ERA finally passed.

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Equality How the failed Equal Rights Amendment changed Nevada in 1973, the nevada Legislature rejected the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have guaranteed equality of rights under the law no matter a person’s gender.

After languishing in Congress since 1923, the amendment—known as the Equal Rights Amendment— was finally approved and sent to the states for ratification in 1972.

Twenty-two states ratified that year.

When more state legislatures went into session in 1973, small Western states—Wyoming, South Dakota, Oregon and New Mexico—were among the first to approve it.

But a backfire had been building.

Right-wing women, evangelicals and other groups that would become more influential in the years ahead got organized and slowed the ratifications to a trickle. After the Nevada Assembly approved it and the Nevada Senate rejected it in 1973 and 1975,

the Nevada Senate approved it in 1977 only to see the Assembly reject it. A 1978 advisory ballot measure put an end to the ERA in Nevada when it lost in a massive landslide, 67 to 33 percent.

Meanwhile, at the national level, by the end of the seven-year ratification period, the Amendment stopped three states short of ratification, 35 of 38. A three-year extension

by Congress—opposed by some women’s rights organizations—did not result in any more ratifications.

There was an occasion during the ratification fight when the U.S. Supreme Court came close to ruling that the intent of the Equal Rights Amendment was already in the law.

In their book, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong revealed that the justices nearly ruled that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—which says no state can “abridge the privileges or immunities

of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”—applied to women.

But the justices were unable to agree on a pace at which to apply the change, and it never happened. Years later, it did happen.

In Nevada, on March 1, one Republican, 11 Democrats and one Independent voted for the ERA in the Senate by a 13-8 vote. On March 20, the Nevada Assembly approved Senate Joint Resolution 2 as well, on a 28-14 vote. The two votes have no legal effect, but were seen as a gesture toward equality 35 years after the ERA expired.

“If it is only a symbol, it is a good one,” said former Nevada lieutenant governor Sue Wagner, who as an assemblymember fought hard to pass the ERA. She was on hand for the Assembly vote this week.

What few of the younger legislators supporting the ERA knew is that Nevada did benefit from the impact of the ERA. Because of it, numerous sexually discriminatory laws were cleaned up and corrected.

They included, for instance, a law that treated widows and widowers differently in state pension matters, prompting one legislator—Carl Dodge of Churchill County—to refuse to support the ERA for fear he would be cutting widows off from their support, though other legislators pointed out that the same treatment could be accorded both widow and widower.

Another measure dealt with a bar on women being bartenders. As late as 1973, Republican Assm. Randy Capurro said he had supported the measure on grounds that it would subject women to “moral” difficulties. He did not explain why men were not similarly challenged by barroom climates.

In the early Nevada battles, opponents said that the states could do the job better than a federal amendment.

After a couple of ERA defeats, by some accounts, Republican U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt—who had run for Senate as an ERA supporter, then switched to an opponent after taking office— advised opponents to get to work and start reforming state laws.

A legislative staffer, Audys Dodge, It was a major sea-change, a sweeping was assigned to identify the discriminacorrective in one state’s laws. tory laws in Nevada Revised Statutes, the Today Wagner says while she was state’s body of statutory law, from agripleased the project got done, it did not culture to zoning. She produced a report redeem the claim that the ERA was naming many laws that needed correcting. unneeded. Other states did not undertake The initial corrective measure was similar projects, she said, and Nevada has sponsored by Assm. Karen Hayes, a had many laws written since the 1970s that right wing Democrat from Clark may not have been written with the County who served from 1974 same sensibility. to 1982 and who opposed “Every state has not the ERA. cleaned up their statutes,” But it didn’t happen she said. “There are quickly, or in a single things now that are not legislature. There equal and that need were numerous to be changed. You bills over the years. really need a national Steadily, methodistandard. You can’t cally, the legislators have pay equity in Sue Wagner cleaned up one statute Nevada and not in New Former lieutenant governor after another. Within Mexico.” about a decade every It is reminiscent of an statute but one had been encounter between Nevada corrected. It’s not clear what suffrage leader Anne Martin and that last one was, but some rememPresident Woodrow Wilson in 1914. ber it as applying to firefighters. Wagner A month after Nevada voted for women’s does remember complaints from spouses suffrage, Wilson told Martin, “That is of firefighters—“Those damn women are the way suffrage should be won, by the going to become firefighters and sleep states.” She told him that doing it state by in the station house with my husband.” state is burdensome.

Whatever that last law was, it may finally Even more burdensome is correcting have been corrected. every state’s whole body of laws. Ω

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hen Donald Trump was appointed president, no one considered it good news for science.

Trump has a habit of saying things like, “You know the hottest day ever was in 1890-something. Ninety-eight.”

There was also concern that under cover of Trump, the war on Rachel Carson’s legacy might be stepped up. In fact, attacks on Carson soon came in Forbes, the Daily Beast and Range Magazine, published in Washoe Valley.

An early warning came on Feb. 5 from blogger Erik Loomis: “I see people are once again going down the ‘Rachel Carson is a mass murderer’ road.”

The next day, Michael Miltzik in the Los Angeles Times wrote that “the promotion of pesticides with little regard to their harmful effects is on the verge of seeing a revival. Consider the attempt by House Republicans last year to tie the fight against the Zika virus to a loosening of pesticide regulations.”

A marine biologist and a gifted writer, Carson already had a couple of bestsellers to her credit in 1962. But that year’s Silent Spring was different.

While The Sea Around Us was a lilting Hallmark card, Silent Spring was an urgent get-well message.

Carson wrote that pesticides were being used indiscriminately to deal with farm insects and malaria. More than that, she instructed her readers on ecology, a word that was little known at the time.

Nature is systems, she wrote, interconnected and interdependent. Injure one, and others will eventually feel the wound. “We poison the caddis flies in a stream, and the salmon runs dwindle and die,” she said. “We poison the gnats in a lake, and the poison travels from link to link of the food chain, and soon the birds of the lake margins become its victims.”

She used Nevada’s state flower and the thencurrent, years-long federal sagebrush eradication effort underway in the West to make the point—removing the shelter and food the sagebrush provides to the sage grouse meant one day “the grouse will disappear along with the sage.”

At the time, pesticides—usually dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT—were being used as a public health tool across the United States, sprayed in great billows on the natural landscape but also on crowds at public places, schools, swimming pools, residential neighborhoods. Nevada attorney Jeff Menicucci recalls seeing it in Sparks. “They used to come through with fog trucks,” he said. “It was really foggy.” Of the scent, he said, “It was actually rather pleasant. It wasn’t acrid.”

He doesn’t know if it was DDT, but it probably was. That’s because DDT had a reputation for going after pests while leaving humans alone. This was more sales pitch than proven fact (Lancet medical journal: “DDT has had mixed success in Africa”), but it has lingered for decades.

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DDT, not just a little. Its DDT content is even higher than government specifications.” This heavy use accelerated the development of insect immunity because tougher survivors mate with tougher survivors. Then later flare-ups come on with a vengeance.

Carson was writing what many scientists had been saying all along. She gave voice to their concerns, but she became the target of the chemical companies.

Silent Spring was a huge bestseller, serialized in the New Yorker, selected by the Book of the Month Club, and covered on CBS Reports.

Pesticide firms went ballistic. “Meetings have been held in Washington and New York,” the New York Times reported. “Statements are being drafted and counter-attacks plotted. A drowsy midsummer has suddenly been enlivened by the greatest uproar in the pesticides industry since the cranberry scare of 1959.” It was the beginning of a war now in its 55th year.

President Kennedy asked a White House scientific advisory panel to look at the issue. After a second and third presidential administration continued studies, DDT was not banned, though Carson critics keep saying it was. Rather, it was limited to public health uses. No limit was put on its overseas use. The reason for limiting its use in the U.S. was its threat to the environment.

If anything, industry attacks increased, though the author had died two years after her book was published. Rent-a-scientists were trotted out to say what the corporations wanted said.

Doctrinaire conservatives, arguing that a mythical ban on DDT killed millions in underdeveloped countries, started accusing Carson of being a mass murderer on the scale of Stalin and Hitler.

Their tactics were often tawdry.

In the Sept. 28, 1962 number of Science Magazine, a book review—sometimes misrepresented as a scientific study—by agricultural bacteriologist I. L. Baldwin appeared. It has been quoted against Carson often, including by New York Times reporter John Tierney, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Newsbusters, which claimed Baldwin “clinically tore [Silent Spring] apart.” Here is how Alston Chase in Range describes Baldwin’s article: “I.L. Baldwin, former chair of a National Academy of Sciences committee on the effects of DDT on wildlife and professor of agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin writing in the journal Science, suggested that Silent Spring, rather than being scientific, was ‘a prosecuting attorney’s impassioned plea for action. Rather than a ‘chemical death rain’ spreading across the country, as Carson claimed, he added, ‘actually less than five percent of all the area of the United States is annually treated with insecticides’.”

To provide a fuller, more nuanced view of the Baldwin article, here are additional excerpts so the reader can judge: Baldwin: “Many of the new materials have been used without adequate testing, or they have been used under improper conditions. Sometimes lives have been lost or health has been destroyed. At other times our economy has suffered when shoddy materials have been used in clothing, equipment, and structures.

Often men have lost their means of livelihood. ... The author’s mode of approach to the use of pesticides will undoubtedly result in wider recognition of the fact that these chemicals are poisons and in a more careful and

The first widespread use of DDT was in World War II, when it was used against mosquito larvae in various theatres of the war to combat malaria and typhus, by most accounts doing a terrific job of protecting troops from disease. (The developer of its pesticide use won a Nobel Prize.) But that did not nullify the possibility that there were other, less benign effects.

Indiscriminate spraying was encouraged by the manufacturers, eager to sell more. In typical U.S. fashion, the corporations preached that if a little is good, a lot is better. Pestroy, an arm of Sherwin “iDeNtity theFt” Williams, had a commercial whose narrator said, continued on page 12 “For this new insect destroyer contains a lot of 03.23.17 | RN&R | 11

Nevada’s Range Magazine published an article attacking Rachel Carson in the same issue with “climate racketeering” and “global warming fraud.”

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rigorous control of every step in the pathway that pesticide must travel, from the research laboratory, through the process of obtaining government approval, to use in the field.

Perhaps the tremendous improvements in public health and welfare that have resulted from the use of these materials have caused us to become careless in our control and use of them.”

Baldwin’s concern about Carson’s book seems to have been a public relations one, that she accentuated the negative instead of the positive about U.S. technology. It was a common view that fit into the cold war era when the U.S. was trying to project an image of technical superiority over the Soviet Union. (It is also useful to note that Baldwin in 1967 wrote a defense of biological weapons research.)

It is true that Carson did not write in Silent Spring like many scientists do, but she was part of a wave that had not been seen since the early 20th century muckrakers.

The post-World War II romance of unquestioning regard for U.S. technology and know-how was fading. In Vietnam, a few weeks before Silent Spring appeared, New York Times reporter Homer Bigart wrote a classic lead on a story challenging that know-how: “American antimalarial spray killed the cats that ate the rats that devoured the crops that were the main props against agitation in the central lowlands of South Vietnam. The result: a hungry, embittered rural population tending to support the Viet Cong insurgents.”

Many threats to the public were dealt with in book-length exposés like Carson’s—The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (public relations), The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford (the funeral industry), Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader (vehicle engineering), The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (sexism).

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This frame from a CBS report on Silent Spring shows schoolchildren eating lunch while billows of DDT were fired at them.

“We spray our elms and the following springs are silent of robin song.”

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Challenging the superiority of U.S. expertise did not sit well with everyone. “Miss Rachel Carson’s reference to the selfishness of insecticide manufacturers probably reflects her Communist sympathies, like a lot of our writers these days,” read a letter to the editor of the New Yorker.

There is a limited number of mainstream critics of Carson, with the result that the same ones keep being quoted again and again— John Tierney, Aaron Wildavsky, Thomas Sowell. Few of them are scientists.

Baldwin’s point about pesticides being distributed on only five percent of the land area of the United States, incidentally, might well prompt informed citizens to wish it were more. According to Canadian biologist Bridget Stutchbury of York University, “An estimated 1.4 billion pounds of DDT were applied in the U.S. before it was banned, and decades later the chemical and its breakdown product, DDE, linger in the environment.” Dissipating that amount across more land might have reduced the damage it could do.

Carson’s critics have a way of treating DDT as a silver bullet to deal with malaria. It is not. DDT alone cannot solve the problem of malaria. Other techniques with or without DDT can. Getting rid of standing pools of water, swamps and other breeding grounds, good nutrition, and health care do the trick. University of Maryland entomologist Raymond John St. Leger was recently quoted by the New York Times, “The solution isn’t going to be relying on any single technology

as the silver bullet.” But that doesn’t mean there is no other way than DDT.

A d e p t A dA p t e r s Henry I. Miller in Forbes: “No study has ever linked DDT environmental exposure to harm to human health.”

Chase in Range: “There is no evidence DDT caused cancer in humans.”

In an incredibly labor-intensive 2015 study headed by epidemiologist Barbara A. Cohn, women in Alameda County, California, who received obstetric care from 1959 to 1967— years of heavy DDT use in the U.S.—and their adult daughters were located. Among the 9,300 daughters, there was a four-fold increased risk for breast cancer if they were exposed to one form of the insecticide in utero. The study’s conclusion: “Findings support classification of DDT as an endocrine disruptor, a predictor of breast cancer, and a marker of high risk.”

As science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway put it after reading the massive study, “DDT does cause cancer, it does affect human health, and it does cost human lives.

Rachel Carson was not wrong.”

The world’s premier medical journal, Lancet, reported in 2005 that “DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning, abrogating the benefit of reducing infant mortality from malaria.” That wasn’t the most chilling part.

It was that there is no current way to know if it does more harm than good: “DDT might be useful in controlling malaria, but the evidence of its adverse effects on human health needs appropriate research on whether it achieves a favourable balance of risk versus benefit.”

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Last month the Times of India reported that at a medical conference in Saharsa, Dr. R. K. Sinha of Patna Science College said a cancer/DDT link had been shown “by intensive researches conducted at the Mahavir Cancer Hospital where the number of cancer patients from Kosi region and north Bihar was much larger because of extensive use of DDT to prevent kala-azar and malaria.”

Carson critics are reluctant to mention DDT’s limited lifespan of effectiveness. When married to the adeptness of mosquitoes in adapting rapidly, it renders DDT far less effective than the endless claims both from manufacturers and political critics. The critics are given to blaming Carson for the product’s failings. In the Daily Beast article, Paul Offit wrote, “In Sri Lanka, before the use of DDT, 2.8 million people suffered from malaria. When the spraying stopped, only 17 people suffered from the disease. Then, no longer able to use DDT, Sri Lanka suffered a massive malaria epidemic: 1.5 million people were infected by the parasite.”

Note the phrase we italicized. Why would Sri Lanka “not be able to use DDT”? It was legal to buy. It was available for sale. The fact is, Sri Lanka did keep buying DDT, did keep using it—and it stopped working.

Oreskes and Conway, in their book Merchants of Doubt: “In 1968, malaria flared up again, and DDT couldn’t control it. Still, the Sri Lankans persisted, using even more DDT over larger areas at more frequent intervals. Still, it didn’t work. … So Sri Lanka didn’t stop using DDT because of what the United States did, or for any other reason. DDT stopped working, but they kept using it anyway.”

Offit does not give his source. Oreskes and Conway do—the World Health Organization.

Hyperbole works, too. Offit also wrote in the Daily Beast piece, “An influential author can’t, on the one hand, claim that DDT causes leukemia (which, in 1962, was a death sentence) and then, on the other hand, expect that anything less than that a total ban of the chemical would result.” Of course she can. After all, that’s exactly what happened—Carson issued her

chemicals that are carcinogenic or neurotoxic to humans and other animals. Scientists have unprecedented ability to objectively measure our impacts on our own health and the health of ecosystems that sustain human well being. What is not scary about the fact that today 17 percent of the world’s birds and 41 percent of amphibians are currently threatened with extinction?”

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When the Postal Service announced in 1981 that Rachel Carson’s image would be on a stamp, this proposed art was released.

warnings and a partial, hole-filled limit on DDT resulted a decade later.

Some scientists say the Rachel Carson critics are holding her to science that did not exist in her lifetime. Biologist Stutchbury, who writes articles with titles like “Tracking mated pairs in a long-distance migratory songbird,” and also wrote the book Silence of the Songbirds, told us that “we have learned exponentially more about environmental contaminants in the past 50 years (not surprisingly) and also the underlying

mechanisms for linking the chemicals to poor human health. In Rachel Carson’s day, the double-helix structure of DNA had only been discovered 10 years earlier!”

After reading the Range Magazine article, Stutchbury wrote, “I wonder if Mr. Chase would happily consume an apple laced with aldrin or chlordane, both of which were heavily used in the 1970s but are so toxic they are now banned in most countries. Modern ecotoxicologists have discovered countless examples of man-made

Recently, the Salt Lake Tribune published a letter to the editor that recalled Mormon leader Gordon Hinckley had in 1989 held Rachel Carson up as a model for women. Hinckley, later president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told LDS woman and girls she “alerted the nation and the world to the hazards of toxic chemicals. She was criticized and denounced for what she wrote but people read and began to realize the dangers that were being created around them.”

In 2012, endocrine chemicals pioneer Theo Colborn told the New York Times, “If Rachel had lived, we might have actually found out about endocrine disruption two generations ago.”

Near the end of the century, Silent Spring was named by a jury of journalists and journalism faculty convened by New York University as number two on a list of the 100 best works of journalism of the 1900s, by Discover magazine as one of the 25 greatest science books of all time, and by William F. Buckley’s National Review as number 78 on a list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 1900s.

Why, then, did she become the target of freelance political slanderers and scientific amateurs?

There is, of course, the effectiveness of the book. Carson wrote almost lyrically. This even came across in interviews. When she spoke with CBS, she said, “We spray our elms and the following springs are silent of robin song, not because we sprayed the robins directly but because the poison traveled, step by step, through the now familiar elm leaf-earthwormrobin cycle. These are matters of record, observable, part of the visible world around us.

They reflect the web of life—or death—that scientists know as ecology.”

The second was that Carson was a woman, and in 1962, it was easy to portray professional women as silly and out of their depth. The Feminine Mystique, after all, was still a few months away and the new women’s movement emerged in the late 1960s. Women were easy marks in 1962. “As for insects, isn’t it just like a woman to be scared to death of a few little bugs!” read that letter to the editor of the New Yorker. Something similar continues today— portraying Carson as a dilettante, as Chase did by making reference to “her wealthy and wellconnected Long Island birder neighbors” and Miller did by suggesting she sacrificed children “for the possibility of slightly improved fertility in raptors.”

Rachel Carson is useful as a bad example. If her work is discredited, she will speak against all government regulation. It will work, to the extent that the slanders are believed. Ω

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The idea of a makerspace in Truckee is not new. The folks behind Truckee Roundhouse—which has been in the works for two years and opened to the public in December 2016—realized that the communities of techs, artists, hobbyists and artisans in the area didn’t know each other. They figured if they could build a big enough space, they could get all of that energy under one roof.

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One of the goals of the space is to give people access to equipment and resources.

Recently, as Truckee Mayor Morgan Goodwin, one of the founding members, was preparing to teach a class on the laser cutter, the building smelled of fresh-cut wood, and sparks were flying in the metal shop.

“The maker movement in general is trying to say, ‘If you give access, people will figure out how to make what they want to make,” said Goodwin.

“It’s an opportunity to learn, rubbing up against other makers,” added board chair Karin Johnson. “It’s a way to open up other styles of learning.” Her interest in the project started with her background in architecture.

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She missed doing hands-on work and so commuted to Rocklin, California, to learn metalworking at the community college.

As part of a streetscape project in downtown Truckee in the summer of 2016, a chess board was built into the sidewalk. There was no plan for getting chess pieces there, so Truckee Roundhouse took over. Makers designed a simple set, cut from plywood on the laser cutter. As soon as the set was placed, the space became animated and was in almost consistent use. Remarkably, none of the pieces went missing over the threemonth period they were out.

“I think it’s about quality of life,” said Goodwin. “Truckee is a very unique place

because of the culture and the physical location of the town. It’s homegrown. We can keep making public art and keep making meaningful objects and inventions from this place.”

Truckee Roundhouse is currently an allvolunteer operation, and the board is looking to hire its first paid employee, a general manager.

It’s open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. Daily classes include 3-D Printer Introduction, Woodshop 101, Basic Welding and Fabrication Skills and in-depth, multi-day workshops.

Well supplied On a recent First Friday, downtown Truckee’s monthly art and shoppping stroll, the main street was starting to fill up with diners, locals, and crowds coming in from the slopes. A few shops stayed open late and held special events featuring art and open studios. Atelier, a workshop space and specialty art store, was hosting Social Sketch—an event created by Bay Area artist Courtney Cerruti with chapters around the country. At Atelier, a different artist hosts each event, and supplies are provided for anyone who wants to drop in and draw, sketch or collaborate.

At the front of the shop sits a Heidelberg press, used for occasional letterpress invites made on commission.

The main section of Atelier has various high-end art supplies ranging from quality paper to hand-dyed yarn and specialty scissors.

At the back of the shop, behind a macramé wall, there is a cozy workshop space and gallery.

Kelly Wallis, the workshop and event manager, said that most of the classes are beginner level.

“We really want people to leave with something they made,” she said.

Brian Hess, Workshops include a weekly knitting group, fabric collage, loom weaving, spoon carving, acrylic painting, cheese making and smart phone photography.

Instructors come from Truckee, Reno and the Bay Area.

Husband-and-wife team Brian Hess and Heather River opened Atelier two years ago as an extension of their then three-year-old store Bespoke, where they sell things made and designed in the community. Originally, they wanted it to include a workspace to offer classes and workshops so that people could learn skills, create and come together.

“This area is known for outdoor recreation,” Hess said. “Truckee and Tahoe is growing, and there is a need for something else. A need and a want for a creative outlet.”

Growth spurt A few doors down on commercial row, Riverside Studios’ First Friday event drew live music and a lively crowd. The front is packed with work from the five memberowners and over 30 local artists. In the back, there is a small, more formal gallery. The story of the collective goes back more than 15 years.

“In 2001, it was just three of us,” said Alanna Hughes, an original member of Riverside Studios—so called because of its location in an old, dilapidated house that was falling down on Riverside Drive. “It began because there were a lot of people here doing art, but they didn’t have a space to showcase their work.

Most of the galleries in town were showing more typical Tahoe-style art—not the kind of work that we were doing or the people we knew were doing.”

Kahlil Johnson, who works with leather, met Hughes in 2003. They moved into the space next door, and the collective started a quarterly exhibition.

They grew into a new location, a warehouse for 23 artists with studios and a small show space. Johnson co-owner of Atelier sees Riverside as an incubator for many of the artists who now have their own studios and galleries.

Riverside Studios moved into its current space two years ago in April. They were an all-female collective until Pat Blide, a metal sculptor, joined a few years ago. Jeweler Sondrea Larsen, another member-owner, said that Riverside brought a more femalecentered and empowered aspect to the local art community.

“We took little steps to create what we have here,” said Johnson, describing the early years working multiple jobs and the many moves to get where the studio is now. “It’s not about how did we get our own and take care of ourselves, but about transforming downtown and the community.” Ω

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week, the CGI creation blends in nicely with his totally human, organic cast member.

The cast and crew labor to make musical numbers like “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest” pop with the creative energy of the animated version, Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s wonderful animated but they don’t quite reach those heights. They musical from 1991, becomes part of the Disney are nicely rendered, for sure, but not on the Live Redo of a Beloved Animated Movie assemmasterpiece level that was the ’91 film. As for bly line with a big-budget effort starring Emma the romance between Belle and the Beast, it has Watson as the iconic Belle and Ewan McGregor a nice emotional payoff. In a way, the movie is a as a CGI candelabra. sweet tribute to the animated movie, rather than You are asking yourself, “Is this absolutely being a movie that stands on its own. necessary?”

Where does Beauty and the Beast stack up The answer: No. No it is not. with the other, recent redos of animated Disney After hearing this answer, you take a walk classics? I would put it well above Pete’s with a nice cup of tea and your thoughts. You sit Dragon, but below Cinderella and The Jungle in the shade under your favorite tree and contemBook, which were more solid efforts and felt a plate the plight of American movies today, for little more on the original side. you like to crowd your mind There are worse things to with trivial things while drinking do in cinemas right now than herbal mixtures. watch a good enough retake on a Then, you ask yourself, “OK, Disney movie starring one of your if it isn’t necessary, is it at least favorite members of the Potter an enjoyable pastime, for I like universe. Beauty and the Beast is enjoyable pastimes? They help good-tasting yet ultimately disposdistract me from all of this trivial Director: Bill Condon able fluff. Let’s face it, Disney shit in my head.”

Starring: Emma Watson, Ewan has the money to throw away on The answer: Why, yes, it is McGregor, Dan Stevens ventures such as this and, given an enjoyable movie, even if it is their box office takes, this train is completely unnecessary. going to keep on rolling.

The movie isn’t a shot for shot remake of the If you like Disney redo fluff, there’s more original like, say, Gus Van Sant’s time-wasting coming. The Lion King, Aladdin, Dumbo, Peter Psycho effort. However, it does follow a lot of Pan and Mulan are just a few of the remakes in the same plot points and incorporates enough of the pipeline. Actually, pretty much everything the musical numbers to give you that sense of they’ve done up until now is being remade. déjà vu while watching it.

Universal has a Little Mermaid movie on the Thankfully, Watson makes it worthwhile. way, yet Disney still has plans to release its Hermione makes for a strong Belle. Since direcown live version of the animated gem. Winnie tor Bill Condon retains the music from the origithe Pooh and Cruella, the villain from 101 nal animated movie, Watson is asked to sing, and Dalmatians, are also current projects. it’s pretty evident that Auto-Tune is her friend.

In short, with this juggernaut, Star Wars She has a Kanye West thing going. and Marvel all under their dome, Disney is so As the Beast, Dan Stevens gives a decent big, they will be governing the planet soon. enough performance through motion-capture.

Stay tuned for Disney Health Care, a Disney The original intent was to have Stevens wearing Missile Defense System, and Mickey Mouse for prosthetics only, but he probably looked like Mr. President.

Snuffleupagus in dailies, so they called upon the Oh, wait … that last one has happened already. Ω help of beloved computers. Like King Kong last

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The Belko Experiment

If this schlocky horror offering suffers from anything, it’s that it thinks it is deeper and cleverer than it actually is. Penned

by James Gunn, this silly movie pits a bunch of office staff workers against one another after a voice comes over their intercom telling them to start killing each other off or everybody dies. The building is sealed, the “experiment” is put into motion, and the likes of Tony Goldwyn and John C. McGingley start acting like real homicidal assholes. Directed by Greg McLean, the film is fun on a very base level. (If you like movies where lots of heads blow up, this one’s for you!) There’s a definite terror involved in not knowing whose head is going to blow up next, and the folks handling the gore factor do a pretty good job. It’s when the big reveal comes at the end, a big reveal that offers absolutely nothing in the surprise category, that the movie loses a few points. John Gallagher, Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane) is good as the protagonist, a guy who does his darndest to not join in on the inter-office carnage. You could look at this as deep satire, or a resonating meditation on the current state of mind control when it comes to government and employers in an increasingly paranoid society. I like to look at it as a film where brains go flying in a fairly convincing, somewhat entertaining manner.

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Get Out

Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young AfricanAmerican man, is a little nervous. He’s going to visit the parents of Rose Armitage (Allison Williams), his white girlfriend. Rose is relaxed about the trip, but Chris is anxious. His anxiety proves justified shortly into the trip.

Upon arrival at her large estate, her parents like Chris. They really, really like Chris. Actually, parents Missy and Dean (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) like Chris at a level that’s a bit unsettling. Chris shrugs it off at first, as does Allison, but strange things start happening. Writer-director Jordan Peele, the comedic performer from TV’s Key & Peele, and the adorable, funny cat movie Keanu, delivers a huge cinematic surprise with Get Out, a twisted, darkly satiric, nasty little horror film that pulls no punches when it comes to race relations and dating. Peele has cited Night of the Living Dead and The Stepford Wives as inspiration for this journey to the dark side of his creative soul. Those films’ influences are detectable, and I’d say you could throw in a pinch of Rosemary’s Baby with a side of Being John Malkovich as well. Two of the hardest things to accomplish with a movie are to make people laugh and get them legitimately scared.

Get Out manages to do both for its entire running time.

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Kong: Skull Island

The King Kong cinematic machine gets cranking again with Kong: Skull Island, an entertaining enough new take on the big ape that delivers the gorilla action but lags a bit when he isn’t on screen smashing things.

Among Kong incarnations, this one has the most in common with the 1976 take on the classic story, basically because it’s set just a few years earlier in ’73. While there is a beautiful girl the big guy does get a small crush on (Brie Larson as a photographer), the story eschews the usual “beauty and the beast” Kong angle for more straight-up monster vs. monster action. Unlike the past American Kong films, this one never makes it overseas to Manhattan, opting to stay on Kong’s island—thus, the title of the film. Kong himself is portrayed by motion-capture CGI, and he’s a badass. He’s also tall enough to be a formidable foe for Godzilla, a mash-up already announced for 2020. In the few scenes where he interacts with humans, Kong plays like an organic creature rather than a bunch of gigabytes. He blends well with his human counterparts. That’s right, there hasn’t been much mention of those human counterparts yet. That’s because, with the exception of John C. Reilly as a fighter pilot stranded on the island during World War II, most of the humans are bland. Tom Hiddleston might make a decent James Bond someday, and he’s a lot of fun as Loki, but he just doesn’t play here as a rugged tracker/action hero. Reilly,

on the other hand, gives the film the bursts of humor it needs. His castaway is a wild card, like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. Actually, the whole movie, with its post-Vietnam setup and Nixon-era themes, plays like Apocalypse Now meets King Kong. When Reilly is on screen, it plays like Apocalypse Now meets King Kong meets Talladega Nights.

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Logan

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Split

This is the great Batman story that Batman v Superman failed to be. Even better, it has Will Arnett voicing Batman with a new, super amped, still dark, but amazingly well rounded and sometimes humorous incarnation.

After all these years of dark—and admittedly sometimes brilliant—Batman movies, it’s nice to have a vehicle where we can just have fun with the character. Director Chris McKay, along with a long list of writers, has come up with a story that will please adult Batman fans as much as the kids who will most assuredly be dropped off at the local Cineplex to watch a movie while parents catch a break from the little mayhem makers. Arnett’s Batman not only faces off against the Joker (a very funny Zach Galifianakis), but finds himself in a scenario where he’s battling a smorgasbord of movie villains including King Kong, the Gremlins, Dracula, evil British robots and Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), to name just a few. It’s a nutty plot element that also allows for Batman mainstays like Bane, Two-Face (Billy Dee Williams, who was Harvey Dent in Tim Burton’s Batman) and the Riddler (Conan O’Brien!) to get in on the act.

It’s a geek fest, a movie lover’s delight that has a funny little trivia bit at nearly every turn and an emotional center.

Hugh Jackman—allegedly—says goodbye to Wolverine with Logan, a total shocker of a superhero movie that lays waste to the X-Men and standalone Wolverine movies that came before it. Director James Mangold, who piloted the decent The Wolverine, revamps the character’s mythos, and pulls along Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) for the gritty, bloody, nasty, awesome ride. It’s the future, and the X-Men are gone. A mutant hasn’t been born in a quarter of a century, and Logan isn’t looking too hot. He’s driving a limo to make ends meet, coughing up blood, and basically not aging well. He’s doing a lot better than Xavier, the mutant formally known as Professor X, who’s prone to seizures and suffering from some sort of degenerative brain disease. In short, the days of X-Men glory are way, way over, with Logan and Xavier having a shit time in their autumn years. Just when it seems as if the pair will waste away in their miserable existence, along comes Laura (a dynamite Dafne Keen). She’s a genetically engineered mutant equipped with the same retractable claws and viciously bad temper as Logan. When her life becomes endangered, Logan throws her and Xavier in the back of his vehicle, and they are off on one wild, dark road trip. To say this movie is violent would be an understatement.

Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has finally made his first good movie since Signs (2002) with Split, a down-to-thebasics, creepy thriller propelled by excellent performances from James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch). The film reminds us that Shyamalan can be a capable director and writer when he’s not getting too carried away.

Taylor-Joy plays Casey, a high school outcast who attends a birthday party but soon finds herself and two classmates imprisoned by a strange man with multiple personalities (McAvoy). In addition to the angry man who kidnaps them, he’s also a stately, mannered woman, a 9-year-old child and, well, a few others. One of those other personalities plays a big part in taking the film into other realms beyond psychological thriller. McAvoy goes nuts with the role, and Shyamalan takes things into supernatural territories in a chilling climax.

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They were essentially inedible to me. But if you love the chips, you’ll go wild for those fries. I can only hope they skip that seasoning on their fish and chips. The Although Q’s has been around for years, I steak suffered a bit from its seasonings— only recently made its acquaintance. It’s a really nice cut of meat blunted by a decent-sized joint with plenty of booth flavors that made my tongue a little sad. seating, daily lunch specials, and a heavSince the steak was grilled so well, I’d enly reek of woodsmoke that permeated order this again with a request for the my clothes and stayed with me the rest of meat and spuds to be left au naturel. the day.

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Everything on this plate was done right, and The salad bar is maybe my favorite the steak was straight-forward beefy goodaspect of the place. Once common on the ness. Huge squares of cornbread and a trip American foodscape, I miss its former through the salad bar completed the meals. prominence. Q’s has a decent selection of The 12-ounce, half-inch rib-eye goodies and mixed greens, though I found was also done to a tender medium rare, some of the dressings to be a bit too sweet seasoned with Cajun spices and garlic and/or tangy. Still, the daily tortilla soup, butter and served with sides of steamed salad and cornbread combo ($7.79) is a veggies and fries. I hadn’t seen mention satisfying way to spend a lunch break. Ω of “seasoned fries” on the menu, nor did

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Stage frights Qarin In front of a four-piece band—two guitarists, a bassist and a drummer—a man growls into a microphone. He wears only a diaper and a pair of angel wings. Across his chest the word “slut” is scrawled.

The scene, from a year-old video of a show by metal band Qarin, may be the key to understanding the band.

“I like to be in a diaper or a thong when I’m on stage, just because it adds to the horror,” said vocalist Divah.

The band has also performed wearing prom dresses and dressed as zombies.

One show climaxed with Divah smashing a pumpkin filled with stage blood.

While not every Qarin show features bizarre stage gimmicks—those are just for special occasions—these examples do bear out bassist Adam Weisshar’s proclamation that “there’s no point in lighting up a stage unless it’s going to be completely engulfed in fire.”

He means “fire” metaphorically, I think.

In the band’s bio on ReverbNation, they make the bold assertion that they intend “to bring the passion and party back into metal.” The claim seems like easily dismissible self-promotion—the sort of pabulum musicians resort to when they have to say something about themselves. But it turns out they really mean it. When asked when exactly the “passion and party” left, they actually have some answers.

“When every metal song you hear on the radio screams about ‘my girlfriend left me, and I lost my shoes’,” said Weisshar.

Divah claimed the fun left when metal splintered into endless subgenres.

“We all decided that our subgenre— thrash or death or black metal or nu metal or post-hardcore or whatever—is the best one. So the fun’s gone.”

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heavy metal, the makeup of Qarin is itself a response to this problem.

Drummer Theadore Poundcake and guitarist Aaron Canon were formerly in Ethereal Reaping, whose three-guitar, twovocalist—one male, one female—configuration created a grandiose, epic sound.

Guitarist Justin Martinez was a member of Dr. Mengele, a band he described as gritty “slasher metal.”

“Lots of blood,” Poundcake elaborated.

Weisshar and Divah were both in Miscreated, which Divah claimed was an alternative rock band that incorporated elements of nu metal.

“I grew up on the East Coast, so I was very influenced by the East Coast hard core and metalcore scene,” said Divah. So somehow we find a way to bring all those pieces into one orgasmic sound.”

These pieces aren’t really disparate.

Still, Qarin easily moves from a slow tempo section with soaring melodies to fast thrash with growling vocals.

“When it’s melodic, we want to take you up to the apex of heaven, and when it’s brutal, we want to take you to the depths of hell, kind of like a roller coaster,” said Divah. Roller coasters don’t build themselves, however. Likewise, the kind of exhilaration the members of Qarin want to experience and share with their audiences can only occur through a disciplined approach to their music.

“If I can’t play a show, I want to record,” Weisshar explained. If I can’t record, I want to practice. If I can’t practice, I want to play a show.”

“Music is something I do beyond the menial, pissant job I do,” said Canon. When I go in the studio, when I go on stage, all that goes away, and I can just have that release of having a good time.”

“And helping other people who are listening do the same thing,” said Divah. Ω Qarin plays at Davidson’s Distillery March 30, 9 p.m., at Jub Jub’s April 14, 9 p.m., and as part of the Spring Meltdown Festival at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Stateline April 21.

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SATURDAY 3/25

SUNDAY 3/26

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

Tim Tucker Band, 9pm, no cover

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

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Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633

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Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $19-$37

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $19-$37

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DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

Musicole, 8pm, no cover

1021 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe; (530) 523-8024

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

MillenniuM nighTClub

2100 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 772-6637

Moody’s bisTRo, baR & beaTs 10007 Bridge St., Truckee; (530) 587-8688

Jenni Charles & Jesse Dunn, 8pm, no cover

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $19-$37

Band Los Sebastianes, 11pm, $20 before 11pm

Club Sexy Movimiento with Muzik Junkies, 10pm, $20-$25

Sam Ravena Group, 8:30pm, no cover

Sam Ravena Group, 8:30pm, no cover

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 409-3754 906-A Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-5484

Acoustic Wonderland Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 8pm, no cover

PigniC Pub & PaTio 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

A Lizano Luau with One Dollar Check, 7pm, no cover

Polo lounge

DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Red dog saloon

Fillmore Zone, 8pm, no cover

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864 76 N. C St., Virginia City; (775) 847-7474

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Cliff Porter’s Full Blast Band, 9pm, $5

Spirit Award, DJ Coop Da Loop, 9pm, no cover

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Couches, Corner/Store, Minivan, 9pm, $5

Vampirates, Acid Teeth, The Fabulous Miss Wendy, Grimedog, 9pm, $7

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Tony G’s Blues Etc. Jam, 8:30pm, no cover

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445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484

Growler, Basha, Mag Nico Synth Association, 9pm, no cover

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The Floor, 9pm, no cover

761 S. Virginia St., (775) 221-7451 715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774 1237 Baring Blvd., Sparks; (775) 409-3340

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Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $19-$37

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $19-$37 Baker Street Band, 8pm, W, no cover

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Silver State Vertical Drop After Party with Coburn Station, 8pm, $15-$20 American Pinup, Boss’ Daughter, Prince Robot, 9pm, $5

Tavern Trivia Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover One Man Jam, 5:30pm, M, no cover Open Jazz Jam, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover Thom Yeoman and The New Harvesters, 9pm, $5

March 27, 8 p.m.

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Music Industry Night, 9pm, W, no cover

Tom Bennett, 9pm, $7

Leftover Crack March 29, 6 p.m.

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2) Reckless Envy, 4pm, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 10pm, no cover

2) Reckless Envy, 4pm, no cover 2) Two Way Street, 10pm, no cover

2) Two Way Street, 8pm, no cover

2) EVR, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jason King Band, 6pm, no cover

2) Greg Austin, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase, 9pm, no cover

2) Greg Austin, 5pm, no cover Rebekah Chase, 9pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover The Robeys, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

2) Roger That!, Mr Smeaggs, 10pm, no cover

2) Sneaky Creatures, 10pm, no cover

1) A Benefit for Lori with Taking Root, 8pm, Tu, $10 donation TAUK, 10pm, W, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Privileged: A Speakeasy Experience, 7:30pm, $27.95, DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) Garage Boys, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Privileged: A Speakeasy Experience, 7:30 pm, $27.95, DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

2) French Montana, 10pm, $20 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Colbie Caillat, 9pm, $32.11-$68.81 2) DJ Clutch, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights, 10pm, no cover

2) Live Band Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2) Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers: A Tribute to ZZ Top, 10pm, $10

1) Indigo Girls, 7:30pm, $44-$296 2) DJ JB, DJ JosBeatz, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

2) DJ Scene, DJ Rick Gee, 10pm, $20 3) Arty the Party, 9pm, no cover

1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27.06 - $37.15

1) The Rat Pack Is Back, 7:30pm, $27.06 - $37.15

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, Buddy Emmer 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-3300 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Grand Ballroom Band, 9pm, no cover 3) Gilley’s

3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

1) Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, 8pm, $45-$85 3) DJ/dancing, 6pm, Buddy Emmer Band, 9pm, no cover

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2) Mike Mains & The Branches, 8pm, no cover 3) Latin Dance Social, 7:30pm, $10-$20

2) Mike Mains & The Branches, 8pm, no cover 3) Konflikt, 10pm, $20

2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 6pm, no cover

4) Punktematrix, 9pm, no cover

2) Apple Z, DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover 3) Fashion Fridays, 9pm, no cover 4) Arizona Jones, 9pm, no cover

2) Apple Z, DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Arizona Jones, 9pm, no cover

3) Sunday Funday Industry Night, 10pm, no cover 4) DJ Kronik, 9pm, no cover

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Karaoke O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Dr., Ste. 250, Sparks, (775) 359-1209: Bobby Dee Karaoke/Dance Party, Th, 6pm, no cover West Second Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, M-Su, 8pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: Karaoke, Th-Sa, 7pm, no cover 5 Star Saloon, 132 West St., (775) 3292878: Karaoke, Th, Tu, W, 9pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste. 103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, F-Sa, 9pm, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 23, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

THE TRUCKEE MEADOWS IRRIGATION DITCHES: Speaker Dana Munkelt will talk about the history of local water channels and how they have survived today. 3/26, 1pm. Free. Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 747-4478.

WATERSHEDS AND SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM: The symposium will focus on watersheds and sustainability and how to find a balance. There will be a guest speaker reception at 5pm, followed by the symposium at 6:15pm in the Sierra Building, Room 108. 3/28, 5pm. Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 636-3760.

ART 2017 SCHOLASTIC ART EXHIBIT: In partnership

Kahulanui

3/25:

Known as Hawaii’s “Kings of Swing,” the Grammy Awardnominated group blends traditional island music with the Big Band swing brought to the Aloha State by United States servicemen during World War II. The nine-piece ensemble—which includes four horns, guitar, bass, ukulele, drums and steel guitar—crafts new arrangements of vintage mid-century songs, utterly contemporary yet steeped in tradition. The show begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon. Tickets are $17 for Churchill Arts Council members and $20 for non-members. There will be a free conversation with the band starting at 3 p.m., prior to the show. Call (775) 423-1440 or visit www.churchillarts.org.

EVENTS

PET ADOPTION DAY AT NEVADA FINE ARTS: Adopt homeless dogs and cats from the Nevada Humane Society. All pets are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. 3/25, 11am. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

AMSOIL ARENACROSS: The motorcycle racing event consists of a 14-round battle for the Ricky Carmichael Cup. Motocross athletes will compete on man-made dirt battlegrounds built inside arenas for high-speed, high-flying and fierce racing competition. 3/24-3/26. $10-$40. RenoSparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave., (775) (775) 688-5752.

RENO BEER CRAWL: The monthly crawl offers $1 refills of six-ounce samples at multiple downtown Reno locations with purchase of the wristband and map. 3/25, 2pm. $5.

5 Star Saloon, 132 West St., (775) 322-7373, http://renobeercrawl.com.

BILINGUAL STORY TIME: The group offers stories and activities to encourage a love of books, stimulate thinking and promote feelings of self-assurance in English and other languages. 3/25, 1:30pm. Free.

North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Boulevard, (775) 972-0281.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Reno Coin Club presents “Russian Coins.” David Elliott will talk about the history of Russian coinage from its beginnings to the present. The meeting includes a display of new U.S. coins such as the Native American dollar and Effigy Mounds quarter, early bird prizes, quarter pot and raffle. 3/28, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 815-8622.

DEMONSTRATION OF COIN PRESS NO. 1: Presented by chief coiner Ken Hopple in the Historic Carson City Mint building. 3/24, 10am. Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-4810 x 245, http://nvdtca.org.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack

GARDENING IN NEVADA: University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and their certified master gardeners offer this free series in partnership with Washoe County Regional Parks and Open Space.

This series is for anyone who wants to garden. 3/28, 6pm. Free. Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 784-4848.

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C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. 3/25, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

with the Nevada Museum of Art, the Holland Project Gallery hosts the 2017 Scholastic Art Exhibit, showcasing Northern Nevada’s up-and-coming teen artists. 3/23-29, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

A VIEW WITHIN: Karen Rips & Paula Chung’s exhibition focuses on interpretations, responses and relationships to medical images. 3/23-29. Free. Sierra Arts, 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-2787.

ART FROM WNC: The exhibition features a wide variety of art including graphic design, drawing, photography and book arts pieces that show the diversity of Western Nevada College art students’ creativity. 3/23-29. 8am-noon, 1pm4pm. Free. Business Resource Innovation Center (The BRIC), 108 E. Proctor St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

EVERY IMAGE HAS A STORY: Photographer Dotty Molt’s work is focused on an exploratory journey she underwent starting early last year, traveling across the country in her car and solely focusing on her art. 3/23-29, 10am. Free.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

FROM THE GROUND UP: The Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI) presents artwork

by Gil Martin. 3/23-29, 8am. Free. CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

GREAT BASIN NATIVE ARTISTS: Featured artists are Ben Aleck, Topaz Jones, Jack Malotte, Melissa Melero-Moose and Topah Spoonhunter. 3/23-29, 9am. Free.

Carson City Visitors Bureau, 716 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-7410.

MIROSLAV ANTIC AND ROGER BERRY: Antic’s large-scale paintings and installations aim to make the most fleeting and nostalgic parts of American culture tangible. Berry creates metal sculptures with arching shapes, evoking loosely intertwined knots. 3/23-29. Free.

Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558.

NATURE IN BLACK & WHITE: Lake Tahoearea photographer Barbie Crawford creates detailed macro-photography portraits of the natural world around her. 3/23-3/29, 8am. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-2417.

PAINT & METAL: Using abstract imagery, the works by Mahsan Ghazianzad and Grant Miller deal with ideas of truth and exploration of emotions. 3/23-29, 8am. Free. Metro Gallery, Reno City Hall, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-4636.

NOT HERE, NOR THERE: Master of fine arts student Quynh Tran’s series of multiroom installations incorporate printed wallpapers, sculptural structures, light and sound effects to transform viewers’ experiences as they transition in between the gallery. An opening reception will be held from 6-8pm on March 30 in the exhibition space. 3/27-29, noon4pm. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada Reno, 1164 N. Virginia St., www.unr.edu/art.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS REFLECTIONS: The Sparks Museum & Cultural Center presents this exhibition detailing historical water usage in the region. In conjunction with the show, Latimer Art Club presents work by their members in the museum Cultural Center. Artists from Latimer explore the theme of water in their artwork, which showcases a wide variety of mediums. 3/23-3/25. Free.

Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks. (775) 355-1144.

MUSEUMS ANATOMY OF A PHENOMENON: New Zealand artist Peter Stichbury paints historical UFO sightings, as well as portraits of the people who purportedly saw them.

Stichbury’s subjects are caught in an alternate reality—forever changed by their sighting experience, but also influenced by the myths, disinformation and conspiracy theories society imparts on such experiences. 3/23-29, 10am. $1$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

THE ALTERED LANDSCAPE: In these images, artists reveal the ways that individuals and industries have marked, mined, toured, tested, developed, occupied and exploited landscapes over the last 50 years. 3/23-29, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY: This exhibition presents a concise selection of paintings

by Aboriginal Australian female artists, drawn from the collection of Martha Hesse Dolan and Robert E. Dolan. 3/2329, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

ARCHITECTURES: Kristin Posehn repositions architecture in the physical world so we can consider the relationships between built and natural environments, between art and architecture, between the real and the fictional. 3/23-29, 10am. $1-$10.

NMA, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

THE JOHN AND MARY LOU PAXTON COLLECTION: The collection includes important pieces by artists ranging from minimalist compositions and quiet landscapes to Native American art of the Southwest. 3/23-29, 10am. $1-$10.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org

MAYNARD DIXON: Drawn from the collections of Bruce C. Paltenghi and Dr. Richard Paltenghi, this exhibition features drawings and paintings by American artist Maynard Dixon. 3/23-29, 10am. $1-$10.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

MIRADAS: The exhibition examines and celebrates work by artists on both sides of the border—American and Mexican-American—to reveal a variety of cultural aspects as they emerged in the years after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) to the present day. 3/23-29, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

SPINIFEX: This exhibition of Aboriginal paintings made by the Spinifex People of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia is drawn from the private collection of Seattle-based couple Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi. The Spinifex Arts Project was established in 1996 as a way for the Spinifex people to record and document land ownership following their forced expulsion from the Great Victoria Desert due to the Australian government’s atomic testing program in the 1950s. 3/23-28, 10am. $1$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. (775) 329-3333.

SCIENCE UNDERGROUND: Located on the museum’s lower level, Science Underground features an eclectic, subterranean collection of exhibits from The Discovery’s first five years including big, blue building blocks, Electrosketch, Nano Science, an oversized Nevada puzzle, the Tube-o-Phone, a walking piano and more. 3/23-29. $9-$10. The Discovery— Terry Lee Wells Discovery Museum, 490 S. Center St., http://nvdm.org.

TOYTOPIA: This exhibition is an immersive and hands-on adventure through 100 years of classic toys, games, dolls and more. Visitors will learn about the origins of toys, who made them and why they are fun or dear to us. Discover why some toys succeeded and some failed, which toys have become collectors’ items and why. 3/23-29. $8-$9. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

FILM BEFORE THE FLOOD: Watch Fisher Stevens’ 2016 documentary film about climate change and stay for a discussion after the film. This event is part of the Faculty for Radical Education and Enlightenment event week. 3/29, 6pm. Free. Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 636-3760.

IT’S A GIFT: Artemisia MovieHouse presents a showing of the 1934 comedy directed

by Norman McLeod. W.C. Fields plays a New Jersey grocer who, despite his family’s protests, declares it’s time to pack it in and go plant an orange grove in California. 3/26, 6pm. $5-$7. Artemisia MovieHouse at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, http://artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

OPERA & LUNCH METROPOLITAN LIVE IN HD:

LEON FLEISHER: The Argenta Concert Series presents a concert by pianist Leon Fleisher. In a program featuring works

by Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Debussy and Ravel, he will be joined in piano duo by Katherine Jacobson. At 6:30pm, Fleisher will give an introduction to the performance and discuss his memoirs in a free pre-concert talk. 3/28, 7:30pm. $5$40. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

Kellie Carter, a professor in the Veterinary Technology Department at Truckee Meadows Community College, will present a talk about the bats that live in Nevada. Some of the 23 species of bats native to Nevada prefer the desert while others like the forest.

Some of them eat insects while others enjoy nectar. Carter will discuss what makes each of these bats perfect for their environment, as well as how people can help with the bats’ survival. The talk begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, at Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway.

Admission is free, although donations are welcome. Call (775) 849-4948 or visit www. galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

PIPES ON THE RIVER: A free 30-minute

organ concert open to the public. 3/24, noon. Free. Trinity Episcopal Church, 200 Island Ave., (775) 329-4279.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Kat & Dave perform at music and brunch event presented by chez louie. The menu features artful dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar. The performance is free, but admission fees apply to the galleries. 3/26, 10am2pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921, www.nevadaart.org.

ONSTAGE HAND TO GOD: Good Luck Macbeth presents Robert Askins’ dark comedy that explores the fragile nature of faith, morality and the ties that bind us. 3/24-25, 7:30pm; 3/26, 2pm. $15. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 713 S. Virginia St. (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

MOTHER HICKS: Susan Zeder’s play is about three outsiders—a foundling girl known only as Girl, a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence, and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch. The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles the journeys of these three to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time. 3/23-25, 7:30pm; 3/26, 2pm. $12-$22. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, http://renolittletheater.org.

PINOCCHIO: Laughing Owl Productions

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

club takes on Orange County SC. 3/25, 7pm. $11-$27. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., www.reno1868fc.com.

RENO BIGHORNS: The NBA development league team takes on the Los Angeles D-Fenders. 3/29, 7pm. $10-$70. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800, http://reno.dleague.nba.com.

TRUCKEE MEADOWS TRAIL CHALLENGE: On this 2.25-mile walk, explore sections of the May Arboretum and the wetlands area near Herman’s Pond on the way to the Nature Trail. 3/25, 9am. Free. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 453-0698.

CLASSES C@PITAL CODERS: Learn how to code or improve coding skills at Carson City Library’s new club. 3/28, 4pm. Free. 900 N. Roop St, Carson City, (775) 887-2244.

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Bennett’s one-woman show based on the works and life of 1920s writer, wit and critic Dorothy Parker. 3/23-25, 8pm. $18$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

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Your desire to tell isn’t noble or wonderful. In fact, it’s pretty much the psychological cousin of an intense need to pee. To get why that is, it helps to understand, as evolutionary psychologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides explain, that the emotions driving our behavior today motivate us to behave in ways that would have given our ancestors the best shot at surviving, mating and passing on their genes.

Unfortunately, solutions for recurring challenges in the ancestral environment aren’t always a perfect fit for the modern office environment.

Consider our basic biological needs—like for food, water and sex. When we feel the urge to satisfy these, our emotions kick into gear, pushing us into a motivated state, a state of tension. That’s an uncomfortable state to be in, so we look for the quickest, easiest way out—like “To hell with my job and my marriage!”—which conflates a powerful evolved urge with a wise modern course of action.

Understanding this need to reduce emotional tension should help you realize that what’s driving your obsession is more mechanical than magical. But there’s another problem. Our motivational system comes up a little short in the brakes department. We have a “go!” system to push us to do things, but we lack a comparable “stop, you idiot!” system.

This makes inhibiting a feeling terribly hard and uncomfortable work. And as social psychologists Daniel Wegner and James J. Gross have

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Wegner suspects the mind sweeps around to see that we aren’t thinking of the thing—which means we’re thinking of the thing in the process.

Considering all of this, when you’re looking to keep yourself from doing something, it helps to take the approach aikido practitioners use. When a powerful blow is coming at them, instead of meeting it head on and taking the full force of it, they divert it—push it off in another direction. Following this principle, your goal shouldn’t be stopping yourself from telling your co-worker but redirecting the energy you’ve been putting into your crush into your marriage.

Tell your wife you love her and discuss what might be missing in your marriage—for each of you.

Explain the ways you show your love for her, and then tell her what would make you feel loved. In case loving feelings have given way to hard feelings, there’s good news from a relatively new area of psychology called “embodied cognition”—the finding that taking action leads to corresponding feelings.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

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strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to party hardy and rowdy and strong and often. I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to party hardy and rowdy and strong at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are on the verge

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Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian!

I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

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Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late?

Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink?

I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds. I’m thinking about breaking the taboos. Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to.

Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly.

Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring!

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I was 24,

I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pickup trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves.

Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m not sug-

gesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest. You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The empty

space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank. The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy. Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just shut up and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think—or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you won’t

feel the need to say any of these things: (1) “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.” (2) “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” (3) “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: (1) “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” (This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) (2) “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) (3) “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you fantasizing

more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself?

If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent. (Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects.

(Ninety percent is better.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word

for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much no becomes yes, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate.

I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S. The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect.

But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

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from her imagination. … So it was really fun to work together as old friends and previous collaborators because we were doing something new and exciting.

But she really drove so much of what makes this book special. It would be nothing without her illustrations.

Jessica Reeder, a local writer, published a new book last month. I Lived This: A Workbook for Writing Your Life Story is on amazon.com.

I read that you’re an editor and ghostwriter. How did you become interested in helping people tell their own stories?

It was actually a little bit of a circuitous route. I have been freelance writing for a long time, and I’ve always done non-fiction, but I mostly was doing arts writing and some environment, and I fell in with Christine Whitmarsh, who is the owner of the Ink Agency here in Reno. And I started working with her, and she specializes in ghostwriting and biography, and so I started taking on some of these projects and realized how amazing it was. So I just kept on doing it.

Any idea how many things you’ve ghostwritten now? Or is that none of my business?

Well, I don’t talk about it too much. But I have done quite a lot, and I have a ghostwriting project that I am currently in process on.

So the book is formatted like a workbook, right?

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list of questions, and you can choose the questions you want to answer—and then there are several blank pages you can fill in. But, ultimately, it is designed to guide you through a couple of different thought processes, causing you to look at your memories from a historical perspective or even a sensory perspective. My hope is that this will spark some creative urges in people that will help them to tell their stories in more than just a factual way.

Talk to me about Christina Atkins’ artwork in the book.

Oh my gosh, isn’t it incredible? Christina Atkins and I have been friends for years, and I never knew what an amazing illustrator she was until this project.

The things that she came up with are gorgeous. They just have so much character. She did it all by hand—some of them from reference—but it’s all

I kind of created this with my parents in mind. When I was a kid, my parents gave my grandparents these books to fill out. They’re similar to this. And my grandparents wrote the stories of their lives in these books, and I still have those books on my bookshelf, and I look at them all the time. And I’m going to look at them for the rest of my life. So I wanted to go through the same process with my own parents, but when I looked back at the workbooks that my grandparents had done, they are just old-fashioned. They’re from another time. And so I wanted to make something that would appeal more to the Boomer generation. So my hope is that this is something that other people want to do with their parents as well.

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The real enemy Remember who the real enemy is. The Real Enemy of America is, more than ever, the Republican Party. Once you accept this notion, which at first probably runs counter to the way you were brought up, you see it all with crystal clarity. We were treated to a fresh display of the GOP enmity towards Uncle Sam on Monday at the Comey hearing in the House of Representatives. There, in full view of any who cared to look, the Republicans showed their true concern, and interestingly, it was not for the cyber attack by Russia and its team of computer demons.

(Read Malcolm Nance’s book on the hack. Good stuff!) No, what the Republicans on that House Intelligence Committee really wanted to know was (1) are those big bad leakers who are finking them out to the New York Times and Washington Post breaking the law, and (2) how exactly might we be able

to fuck with them? Let that sink in for a sec. They don’t wanna piss off their Russian masters/partners/overlords. Not a chance. They wanna bitch slap the reporters who are pulling their pants down and bringing us the truth. How impressively patriotic.

What GOP ass-sux like Peter King and Trey Gowdy truly give a shit about is how to bring hell upon those who keep bothering them with this pesky Russian story—those who tell us exactly who the players were in the operation that, amazingly enough, was successful in getting a pitiful lummox of a shithead elected as president. Remember that, and let that sink in. This is the essence of Party Before Country, which is precisely what Republicans are now about: “Yes, our side committed treason, but your side had the audacity to leak it. We’re coming after you, bitches.”

Oh, and Comey also made it official. Trump’s tweets about Obama wiretaps—total bullshit.

Another Trump fantasy. Another Trump lie. Another Twitler Tweet Tantrum.

You can’t get tired. You can’t glaze over, fade out, get weary.

You have to be a citizen now, a real citizen, an informed citizen.

Get the Times. Get the Post. The Resistance is now. We have a president who, in two months—in all of two months—has incinerated every last shred of his credibility. All of it. Quoting the New York Times editorial from March 20: “Our president is a liar, and we need to find out how serious his latest lies are.” Again—our president is a liar. The End is near. The end of this horrific joke perped upon us by the goons, idiots and vulgarians of America. It can’t come soon enough. Ω

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