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First of all, “white” isn’t a nation.

Disregarding the fact that any nationalism, “exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations,” per MerriamWebster, is a nasty, chauvinistic business, “white nationalism” is still a non-sequitur.

The “alt-right” is a euphemism, co-opting the word “alternative” about 25 years after commercial radio did. “Nazis” and “Confederates” are anachronisms.

None of those terms accurately describe the angry, privileged people who marched, shouted and chanted in Charlottesville last week.

Simply put, there’s just one term to describe those people.

They’re racists.

As you’ve probably heard, one of the faces at the forefront of this gathering of racists was Peter Cvjetanovic, a University of Nevada, Reno student and employee. He’s gotten a lot of local attention the last few days, with old-media interviews and social media degradations.

Many locals are justifiably upset about having a modern face of racism associated with our university, and there are several petitions circulating to get the guy fired and/ or expelled. However, the university has made it clear that they don’t see justifiable grounds for that.

But here’s the thing: That dude needs to be taught a lesson.

Several lessons, as a matter fact.

Hard lessons. Years worth of lessons. Preferably by an institution of higher learning.

But this can be a community effort. Here, I’ll start. Lesson number one: Racism is wrong. Hating people because they look different from you or because their grandparents lived somewhere different than where your grandparents lived is dumb. Taking pride in other people’s accomplishments just because they kind of look like you is dumb. Refusing to acknowledge that other people have endured unnecessary hardship because of systematic and historical disadvantages is short-sighted.

You want to be a student of history? Great. Start learning.

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

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How many of you have stopped talking to friends or family because their politics, or “facts,” don’t agree with yours? We used to be able to expect the news media to give us those facts. But in February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by a TV news affiliate, owned

by FOX, that there is no “law” against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.

People realize that there are now two widely divergent versions of the news. One version must be “fake.” Canada has a truth standard for broadcast news. And this may be one of the reasons that the conservative Canadian, Star News Network failed after four years. Unlike Fox News, Star was unable to satiate right wing viewers with a steady diet of right wing propaganda and lies that reinforced their “conservative” beliefs.

Republicans now control all three branches of our government. The only check left on this one party rule is the news media. We desperately need a standard which prohibits the deliberate distortion of our news. Or at the very least, Americans must understand that—thanks to Fox NewsFlorida Appeals Court case No. 2D01-529 opinion—none exists.

Ronald Schoenherr Reno

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Cost effectiveness In 2007, the cost of incarcerating a homeless person in the Washoe County Jail was estimated to be $84 per day. Certainly 10 years later that cost has gone up.

So if you get caught pissing on the street because there are no bathrooms available, then you are going to cost taxpayers about 100 bucks a night.

A little math shows that that works out to $3,000 a month.

If we were to retrofit motel rooms to sleep two to four, not only could we save the county and taxpayers 6-12 grand a month per room, but we would provide these homeless people with a safe place to sleep, somewhere to get out of the cold, a place to pee etcetera, and a place to shower so that perhaps when they go job hunting they have a better chance at getting employment.

It’s real easy to say “get a job,” but when you have no place to clean up and look presentable, or a place to change your clothes, it gets real hard to find work.

And, from all the help wanted signs I see in the fast food restaurants etc., there certainly is a need for people who need work.

And what is the cost of a few Porta Pottys located in spots where there are gatherings of homeless people (and other citizens visiting downtown)?

Certainly far less than a night in the pokey.

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Should Peter cvjetanovic be expelled? aSked aT bibo coffee coMPany, 945 record ST.

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I don’t know, really. But, if I want to say it in just one word— I say yes. Suspension would be the better choice, though.

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I say no. He’s an undergrad, this student, right? How old is he?

I think sometimes they don’t understand what they are doing, exactly. I think my answer is no.

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Time to do the hard work There was something about Reno’s vigil for the victims of the Charlottesville violence that spoke to our failings as a society. It was held in front of the BELIEVE sculpture on the former Mapes lot in downtown Reno.

Belief is not lacking in our society, and we wish that sculpture said THINK or REASON instead. People don’t need big iron signs to get them to believe. All too often they believe as a substitute for the hard work of reasoning.

White supremacists and fascists at Charlottesville were loaded with faith and belief, as were other players in the drama.

“I believe in protecting historical monuments,” said Republican candidate for Virginia governor Corey Stewart.

“I believe that cultures are being threatened,” said Reno white nationalist Peter Cvjetanovic. “Everyone is melding together and I personally believe that with immigration, some cultures are being threatened and that includes whites, European culture. I do not hate other cultures.”

“I believe in the president’s agenda,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in trying to make sense of Donald Trump’s inability to plainly and clearly denounce racism.

Belief is easy to come by. It relies on faith, and various people in our society have faith in Santa, God, Gods, human decency, guns, celebrity, dreams, hard work, vitamin C, creationism, ghosts or angels, Bigfoot, ESP, reincarnation, and the Great Pumpkin.

None of these beliefs require very much thought or work or reasoning. There’s nothing wrong with having faith, but humans were built for more, and some great crimes of history were committed in the name of faith.

Belief without reasoning often becomes zealotry.

One of the reasons we do not believe in hate crimes— aside from the danger of criminalizing opinion—is that when we drive hatred underground, it is not where scrutiny and examination can take place and good people can work their will to stigmatize it. Sunlight is a disinfectant.

In a 2011 Harvard study, religious believers and nonbelievers were given math problems. The Washington Post described the outcome: “The people who got the answers wrong were likelier to believe in God. They used intuition to try to solve the problems. Those who got the answers right were likelier not to. They used reason.”

From this, some people may draw the wrong conclusion—that faith has no value. We don’t believe that. To take an example suggested by a current film, faith drove those who piloted their little boats to Dunkirk. Faith doesn’t move mountains, but it motivates those who do. Faith holds families together. It can also hold a society together, particularly when our leadership falters.

But belief gets us only so far. A parent’s beliefs must be backed up by skills and reasoning. From Warren Harding to Donald Trump, inspiring but hollow words were not backed up with sincere belief or true reasoning. How, for example, was it even possible to botch a denunciation of white nationalism? We don’t know, but Trump—lacking both conviction and intellect—managed it.

The United States is recognized both inside and outside of our borders as an anti-intellectual society. It’s not a quality we can afford any more. Faith gets us only so far. Ω

You’re entitled to your own opinions and to practice whatever you think is appropriate. It’s part of our civil liberties. At the same time, the KKK is a terrorist group. … If we had a Muslim student who was participating in ISIS, they would be expelled, probably deported— immediately.

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Yes. But it’s symptomatic of a greater problem. I was just telling [friends] the Mackay statue at UNR, which is a focal point, was sculpted by a hooded clansman—not a lot of people know that. This shit goes deep around here. Reno’s got a fairly rich, gross history with this problem.

Shannon SwiM Research technician

So, I actually don’t think he should be expelled, because I think that college is something he clearly needs—because it broadens your horizons and opens your mind. … I think expelling him would just exacerbate his feelings and make it worse.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

The election year ahead It’s that time of year when political ambition confronts the reality of the looming Labor Day weekend and the symbolic start of the 2018 campaigns. Conventional wisdom dictates that candidates make their final decisions by the end of the summer season so lobbyists and donors can identify their choices and start writing campaign checks.

Unfortunately, 2018 doesn’t boast a presidential election, even though most of the nation is ready to boot the Donald from the White House, or the “dump,” as he refers to it, but it does offer the nation’s marquee U.S. Senate race in Nevada along with six other statewide contests that will determine the state’s direction over the next four years.

Approval ratings for Nevada’s U.S. Senator Dean Heller hit an all-time low of 22 percent after the health care debacle where his wishy-washy, two-faced opinions satisfied no one. His inexplicable votes earned him a primary opponent, perennial candidate Danny Tarkanian, who

signaled he’s on the Trump train when he announced his candidacy last week on Fox and Friends, declaring, “We’re never going to make America great again unless we have senators in office that fully support President Trump and his America First agenda.”

It’s going to be a particularly nasty primary funded by dark money on both sides, but there’s still the potential for a post-Labor Day bombshell if Heller decides to retire rather than face his furious constituents. But could desperate Republicans implore Gov. Brian Sandoval to rescue the party from implosion and save the seat?

Don’t rule it out; he’s done it before.

Sandoval is constrained from running for re-election due to term limits, leaving Nevada’s gubernatorial primary voters with a choice of moving sharply right or decidedly left. Although Republicans have held the governor’s office since 1998 when moderate Republican Kenny Guinn took the reins from Democrat Bob Miller, and managed to hold on through the

disastrous administration of Jim Gibbons to eight years of Sandoval, anti-Trump sentiment may tilt the electorate back to the Democrats in 2018.

Presumptive Republican candidate Adam Laxalt has neatly cleared his primary field, pushing aside Heller and U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei with barely a whimper even though both had previously expressed interest in being governor. Treasurer Dan Schwartz has said he may run, but is likely to have less appeal and certainly much less money and may opt for re-election instead.

Democrats will likely choose between two Clark County commissioners for their party’s gubernatorial nomination. Steve Sisolak is a former Regent and businessfirst Democrat who seems to delight in denying he’s a progressive. His leadership role in giving away taxpayer funds to the new Raiders stadium won’t earn him many votes in Washoe County in any event.

The other commissioner itching to run is Chris Giunchigliani who served 14 years in the state Assembly before joining the

commission and is widely known and appreciated by progressives at both ends of the state. Sisolack will have more campaign cash from his business friends, but Chris G., as she is known, will likely prevail, setting up a progressive versus “Trumpster” contest with Laxalt next November.

The attorney general’s race is rumored to feature an ally of Laxalt’s, Wes Duncan, a one-term former assemblymember, versus Senate Democratic leader Aaron Ford, a moderate Democrat who has served in the state Senate since 2012. Both are respected attorneys with elective experience, but in an anti-Trump year, the edge goes to Ford.

Other constitutional offices will be less competitive thanks to a weak bench on the Democratic side, although there may be some surprise announcements after Labor Day. Progressives are going to have some clear choices in 2018 and an opportunity to increase their power if they actively engage. Ω

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by Brendan Trainor

A bigger war-on-drugs industry?

There has been an increase in opioid overdose deaths, often in white, blue collar states. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is calling for a declaration of a national emergency.

The prohibition of consensual activities of adults is never about concern for a victim or even punishing a supplier. It is always about using state police power, i.e. the courts, the jails and zealous prosecutors, to prevent individuals from falling into moral turpitude and thereby corrupting the “moral fiber” of society. Any more humanitarian motives are a pure fig leaf.

In April 2016, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an arch prohibitionist, said that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

Liberals have succeeded in partially re-branding prohibition in medical rather than moral terms. We are told that drug addiction is a disease. Treatment is the answer.

The Zicka and Ebola viruses are recent diseases. In these cases the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published good

medical information and for the most part reasonable steps were taken to reduce the dangers of the disease spreading in the US. They never reached epidemic proportions.

It has never been recorded that an insect bite will cause drug addiction. There are no heroin germs to be detected on a microscope slide. Drug dealers are not disease carriers.

The use of addictive drugs is a choice. The discontinuation of the use of addictive drugs is also a choice. In this respect, libertarians agree with the core argument of prohibitionists. We disagree with them completely over whether this choice should be understood as a moral failing and what role the state should play in addressing the issue.

That is no role, except to enforce the individual property rights of those involved in any transaction, and through decriminalization eliminating the need for black markets. Black markets cause nearly all the unnecessary violence and death surrounding drugs, both legal and illegal.

Law enforcement tells us addicts are irresponsible thrill-seekers who seek out

fentanyl because they want a bigger high.

Recent studies show most addicts actually want to avoid heroin cut with synthetics because they understand the dangers involved. They buy heroin cut with fentanyl because government created black markets are their only source.

Addicts do not suffer from a disease, but rather a dis-ease. They are not at ease with themselves. They are cut off from their bearings. Their souls are not at peace.

They suffer a desperation that transcends normal bounds. They choose to cope with this psychic angst through the use of dreams induced by ingestion of plants nature put on this planet for us.

Many who self-dose opioids can live otherwise productive lives. We saw this in England when doctors were able to prescribe heroin. We see it now in European countries like Holland and Portugal where hard drug use is decriminalized. We are beginning to see it in America, where recently Seattle legalized safe injection rooms under doctor supervision. Far from being a gateway drug,

states with legalized marijuana are seeing a drop in heroin use. The iron law of prohibition dictates that government created black markets, causing illegal drugs to become more potent than what addicts otherwise demand.

Doctors can only legally prescribe methadone, an opioid just as addictive as heroin, but favored by prohibitionists because it does not bring euphoric dreams.

It is pleasure that prohibitionists hate. The over prescription of fentanyl and other synthetics is a result of the prohibition on prescriptive heroin.

The recent “epidemic” of opioid use will only get worse if the state becomes more involved in the doctor patient relationship.

Doctors should be able to prescribe opioids for physical and psychic pain without fear of government prosecution. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Pot distribution limited

Websites of western Balkans interest spotlighted Peter Cvjetanovic after it became known he is a member of Croatian nationalist groups.

After the state Taxation Department said it was going to start issuing marijuana distribution licenses to businesses other than alcohol wholesalers, Nevada District Judge James Russell said no, it would not.

The ballot measure approved by voters in November gave liquor wholesalers an 18-month monopoly on marijuana distribution. The Taxation Department reached a finding that the wholesalers are unable to keep up with demand and threw licensure open to others.

But Russell, acting at the request of Independent Alcohol Distributors of Nevada, found that the meeting at which Taxation acted had been stacked against the wholesalers, so he issued an order stopping the expanded licensure.

“On August 7, 2017, the [Taxation] Department posted an agenda and notice that it would hold a meeting on sufficiency on August 10, 2017 at 1:00 pm in the afternoon,” Russell wrote in his order. “No supporting materials were provided prior to the meeting, nor was it disclosed that the Department would present four witnesses all representatives of the marijuana establish[ments], and all of whom would advocate for finding that alcohol distributors are insufficient to serve the market. … The meeting did not provide any opportunity for anyone to ask questions of the witnesses or to review the data and information the Department relied upon when making its decision.”

This is the second time Russell has issued an order stopping Taxation from expanding distribution to other businesses. The state has treated a lack of product in marijuana shops as an “emergency.”

Heller note arrest made Sixty-two year old Richard Holley has been arrested for writing and placing a threatening note at U.S. Sen. Dean Heller’s Clark County office.

The note, placed near the door to Heller’s office on July 16, read “If I’m going to die because you voted to repeal or replace with a death bill, I will take you with me.

If I’m going to die so are you.”

Holley is diabetic, and his wife needs back surgery and also experiences several other health maladies. Charges against Holley include extortion, burglary, and intimidation of a public officer, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Democrats, who have charged Donald Trump with inspiring HELLER violence through his rhetoric, have been using strong language against Heller. Among the terms appearing in recent news releases by various Democratic or campaign organizations is some Trump-like verbiage: “Dishonest Dean Got ‘Bought Off’”; “Desperate Pandering”; “Heller betrayed Nevada”; “Dishonest Senator Dean Heller’s Lies, Broken Promises”; “Kick Millions off their Insurance”; “Another Day, Another Lie”; “Coward of The Day: Senator Dean Heller.”

—Dennis Myers

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White light UNR student thrown into glare of publicity two years ago, a young university of Nevada, Reno student named Ivy Ziedrich attracted news coverage around the world when she confronted Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush with the challenge, “Your brother created ISIS.” Last weekend, another young UNR student named Peter Cvjetanovic attracted similar attention for a very different reason— challenging racial inclusion in the Charlottesville march: “I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture.”

He did not specify who wants Euro culture removed from the U.S. Cvjetanovic further told KTVN-TV. “[White culture] is not perfect. There are flaws to it, of course. However, I do believe that the replacement of the [Lee] statue will be the slow replacement of white heritage within the U.S. and the people who fought and defended and built their homeland. Robert E. Lee is a great

example of that. He wasn’t a perfect man, but I want to honor and respect what he stood for during his time.”

One tweet, by Bailey Granberg— ostensibly a classmate—said that in history classes Cvjetanovic “always spouts fascist and racist comments.”

Another Cvjetanovic statement, from social media, dealt with the unplanned violence at Charlottesville that left three dead: “I did not go there to commit acts of violence, and that was not the goal of the rally, and no one was meant to be killed. I am sorry things turned out the way they did, and I give my condolences to the family of the victims, for whatever that’s worth. I hope the man responsible is punished to the full extent of the law, regardless of personal ideology.”

Cvjetanovic also said, “As a white nationalist, I care for all people. We all deserve a future for our children and for our culture. White nationalists aren’t all hateful; we just want to preserve what we have.”

According to Elizabeth Johnson of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that monitors the activities of those it considers hate groups, “This is our definition for white supremacist: someone who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races. This usually means the idea that whites should control government power. In certain cases, white supremacists also advocate ethnic cleansing and an all white state.”

The Reno student, a graduate of North Valleys High School, came to wide attention in a 21st century way. He was identified on social media after a photo of the rally released through the Getty agency showed Cvjetanovic with mouth open, looking angry, and holding a tiki torch. “I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo,” he said. Other photos of him selected from the same setting, such as one used by the New York Times, showed a less manic expression.

The story swept around the world and sparked petitions at UNR calling for punishing Cvjetanovic’s opinions with expulsion.

Cvjetanovic used care with his newfound celebrity, exempting others from being held responsible for him.

When a photograph of U.S. Sen. Dean Heller and a group of College Republicans who included Cvjetanovic drew attention online, he issued a statement: “The College Republicans have nothing to do with my personal ideology, and they should not be accused or attacked in any way.”

Heller responded by tweet: “I don’t know this person & condemn the outrageous racism, hatred and violence. It’s unacceptable & shameful. No room for it in this country.”

Politicians have photos taken with innumerable people, often never knowing their names. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter was once photographed with People’s Temple leader Jim Jones and George W. Bush appeared in a photo with political fixer Jack Abramoff.

It was uncertain what, if any, official role Cvjetanovic has in the CR organization. Another Charlottesville

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march participant, James Allsup, is the photo,” an Oren Segal tweeted, “Then why Washington State University College do you have a white supremacist logo on Republicans president. your shirt?” The “dragon’s eye” logo was The UNR CRs issued their own stateidentified by the Los Angeles Times as the ment: “The values expressed by participants logo of Identity Evropa, a California-based of the riots are not reflective of our white nationalist group. organizaiton. Allegations have come to A comment posted on the College the attention of the University of Nevada Republicans site by Francisco Gutierrez: College Republicans that an individual “What I see here is the left wanting to member had involvement in the demonize the actions of hateful people protests that have taken place. from an view point that let’s face We are working diligently it, most people don’t agree with the community to with but when will you guys “These address these allegations treat individuals or groups dangerous beliefs and would like to clarify that are from the left who that these dangerous do VERY MUCH of the will never have a beliefs will never have same or worse that these place in the College a place in the College people did. I’m in no way Republicans.”

Republicans or at the advocating for these people University of Nevada.” or defending them but why -UNR College Republicans The CR statement does AntiFa and the BLM had some of the direction movement get passes when and clarity that the university they loot, beat people and burn administration’s own statements whole towns? I am a man of color lacked. An initial statement was widely and strong morals who sees nothing but criticized for its vague language, and hypocrisy here while radical leftist just do a second statement—this one in UNR what they want.” He was not specific about President Marc Johnson’s name—received towns the left has burned, people they have slightly better reviews: beaten, or looting they have done.

“The University of Nevada, Reno is a Cvjetanovic was widely criticized caring and safe community of students and and occasionally supported. In Canada’s employees from a broad range of backGlobe and Mail, Denise Balkissoon grounds with differing beliefs. This commuwrote, “The idea that certain light-skinned nity will not be divided by hateful language people—currently called ‘white,’ though a and violence. Our learning environment multisyllabic name like Cvjetanovic might respects the right to freely express views not always have made the cut—deserve more and debate openly in civil discourse. There than their fair share, dates back centuries.” will be clashes of beliefs and opinions, but Brooklyn’s right wing Jewish Press called they must be peaceful. As a community, we critics of the white supremacists a “lynch abhor violence and it has no place on our mob” and quoted some of Cvjetanovic’s campus. If we are to come to greater underdefenses, then observed, “But there is scant standing of each other, it will be through room for subtleties and nuance at a lynch, open, honest, non-violent discussion and and Cvjetanovic’s argument was chewed up exploration of all ideas. Educating ourselves by the leftist mob like a white tennis shoe on the other’s point of view is the key to caught by an albino golden retriever.” understanding and peaceful co-existence.”

A group called Yes, You’re Racist and Local online messages ran the gamut at least one of the UNR petitions seek from violent to reasonable. to get Cvjetanovic not just expelled but Angie E. Saldana: “Ima fuck up Peter fired from any employment. Yes, You’re Cvjetanovic if I every see him around Racist says it contacts employers. “If you town.” recognize any of the Nazis marching in Charles T. Walker III: “Am I really #Charlottesville, send me their names/ supposed to go to school here if they allow profiles and I’ll make them famous,” said #petercvjetanovic to go here?” a Yes, You’re Racist tweet. UNR President Laura Gattis: “DO NOT LET HIM GO Johnson said at a hastily called news UNSHAMED.” conference that Cvjetanovic will not be Molly Moo: “Calling office of student penalized either by being expelled or fired conduct to report Peter Cvjetanovic.” from his campus job.

Twitter user Whitney Harper dug up a The SPLC lists two Nevada organizaitions 2011 tweet in which Cvjetanovic wrote: “I it considers hate groups: Creativity Alliance have to say getting slammed on the ground and, in Carson City, the National Alliance and being hit in the solar plex is the worst Reform and Restoration Group. Ω way to get hit in the world.”

Harper replied: “How bout getting hit by a car?”

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he day after Jake Highton’s death on Aug. 7, I ran a search for his name on the Google news page. For some reason, one of the hits was for a May 31 Reno Gazette-Journal article that made no mention of him. The article was headlined “Reno City Council violated Open Meeting Law on $3.5M subsidy decision.” I couldn’t help thinking that Jake would have been reaching for his red pen. The headline stated as fact what was only an accusation by the attorney general.

It was the kind of sloppiness of which he was often critical.

What would have pleased him more was how many people—including RG-J writers—headed for their keyboards when they heard the news of his death. He was a journalist, and he taught journalists.

TEAchEr He arrived at the University of Nevada, Reno to teach in 1981 following a career in which he worked at a dozen newspapers, including covering sports at the Baltimore Sun and writing editorials at the Detroit News.

At UNR, he carved his own distinctive profile. As best I can tell, no one was ever neutral or middle-of-the-road about him.

Lise Mousel: “He inspires me to this day.”

Student evaluation: “I would NEVER take another one of his classes … EVER.” Emily Fodor: “It’s a shame we can’t make a hologram or program of Jake so future students can benefit from his knowledge and razor wit.”

Student evaluation: “hightons standards are extremely high, too high, and his grading is a bit off base. the only person to get above an 80 on the midterm was a math major, so that proves how much you need to know in writing for his class.”

Student evaluation: “Avoid him if you want an easy A but take as many classes as you can if you really want to learn something.”

Student evaluation: “He is incomprehensible, has no grading system and if you do not write exactly in his style you are screwed.”

In case readers think I have cleaned up the prose of only Highton fans, I left all statements as they were posted.

Highton visits the RN&R’s first office, on First Street.

Photo/Dennis Myers

Unhappiness with Highton by some students was so strong and outspoken that I wondered how he did not suffer professionally from the sheer volume of it. He was tenured, and his career is a testament to the value of tenure in beating back unworthy but influential pressures. He was, of course, aware of how he was regarded by a substantial portion of his classes, and he tried to head it off with his initial instructions to classes: “Familiarize yourself with stylebook. It is essential that you always use correct style. I get awfully annoyed if in the third week you are still using the wrong style for time, the states and other frequent usages. (Discipline is a dirty word these days. But it is essential for reporters. You must learn—study if you must—everyday style usage.)”

“DO NOT USE SPELL CHECK IN THIS CLASS. Use dictionary.”

The notion that students would, on their honor, avoid spell check is revealing. Though he was hard on them, Highton had endless regard for them. It was one of the reasons he was so tough on students who aspired to a field that gets worse every year. It takes fortitude, and he wanted to help them be ready. His former student John Trent wrote, “Love him or hate him, the young people in his classes always knew that if they were to succeed, first with Jake, then in their chosen profession and then in life, the process would have to begin with the unpleasant but necessary and ultimately rewarding business of first demanding more, not less, of themselves.”

His grading was the source of much of the hostility toward him from students, and he may not have understood the grade pressure some students today must live with: “Students are too concerned about grades rather than what they get out of courses. In this class, the standard is exacting. A means excellent. Few students are excellent. B means good. C means average. Getting a C is no disgrace.”

To be sure, he was not flawless. He had a way of seeing things in black and white, and of being so certain of his own rightness that it did not allow other views. He crusaded against adjectives, seeking prose so Spartan it could be misleading because it lacked nuance. He objected to clichés so vociferously that students were sometimes denied use of terms that effectively communicated meaning to their readers or viewers.

He also saw the Associated Press Stylebook as holy writ. I once told a UNR journalism class—not his—that the AP Stylebook is where good writing goes to die. It was not a view he accepted.

Nevertheless, his best students thrived under his harsh routine and valued their successes. Amy Minor: “I did get a ‘perfect’ from him one day. And with Jake, whether it was good or bad, you knew you deserved it.”

He loved it when students performed better than himself.

WriTEr Soon after he arrived at UNR, he began working on a book about the history of Nevada newspapers. Even so dull a topic in Highton’s hands generated controversy. Although he initially expected the book publishing arm of the state higher education system, the University of Nevada Press, would take an interest in it, he learned otherwise. The UN

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Press received warnings that it might face legal action if it published the book. Highton turned to other publishers of Western history. One of them was Heritage West in Stockton, California, which soon received a letter from a prominent Nevada journalist who was also a campus figure: “I understand you are considering printing or publishing a book on Nevada journalism history by Jake Highton. A manuscript on this subject by this person, Highton, submitted to the University of Nevada Press contained serious and repeated libels against me. I do not wish to suppress any book, being dedicated to the First Amendment, however be advised that if Heritage West Books prints or publishes any libel against me by this person, Highton, or anyone else immediate legal action will be taken against Heritage West Books.”

Of course, such a threat off campus was received very differently than at the UN Press, which is dependent on public funding and favor in political circles. A commercial publisher had an opportunity to face down a threat of suppressing a book, and seized on it. HW published Nevada Newspaper Days

by Jake Highton in 1990 in both hard- and softcover editions. Paradoxically, the UN Press eventually accepted a chance to sell copies of the HW edition.

Highton also wrote the textbook Reporter (McGraw Hill 1978) and began writing a column for the Sparks Tribune and anywhere else he could find—even the People’s World, the communist newspaper.

His love of fine writing appeared in unusual places. Though he was an atheist, he adored the majestic King James translation of the Bible.

Highton certainly tested the limits of academic freedom. UNR is a campus where a professor was fired in 1953 for circulating a magazine article among his fellow faculty members. Highton publicly attacked his superiors, UNR President Joseph Crowley and chancellors John Lilley and Jim Rogers, and the articles did not deal gently with their targets. Sample: “Heads of … UNR schools and colleges are often inferior to other candidates who applied. Once installed, the mediocrities are protected by Crowley because they become his pals. However, the selection committees are often stacked with lackeys, spineless individuals who do the bidding of Crowley.”

Highton wrote a column about Rogers headlined “Manipulative Rogers disgrace to higher ed.”

When Lilley tried to prevent Highton’s fellow professor Howard Rosenberg from being seated in the elective post of Nevada Regent by hailing him before the Nevada Ethics Commission, Highton testified before the commission on Rosenberg’s behalf.

It should be noted that while he told the students in his classes, “Getting a C is no disgrace,” still he wrote of Crowley, “It is hard to quantify a university president. He has no won-loss record. But Crowley is a C President— far from good enough.” That column was a mixed message for his students.

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is evidence that in private he felt even more strongly than in his public writings. There were UNR faculty members who liked both the flair and the backbone Highton brought to campus matters, and they looked out for him. At one point, one of his colleagues told him that a journalism dean had selected a replacement for Highton. Highton wrote in his diary that the dean “has already chosen my successor, before my body is even cold. What a slimy mediocrity.

What an establishment figure. He’s been anxious to get rid of me for many years. Well, his latest intention makes me mad enuf to delay my retirement for several years.” And he did, staying long after the dean was gone. His anger even made him mad enough that he used enuf in place of enough.

Highton wrote 11 pieces for the Reno News & Review. Ten of them are cover stories. There were attacks on capitalism, Pope Francis, U.S. imperialism, Theodore Roosevelt, and journalism’s fealty to money and power. His articles advocated civil disobedience, atheism, the election of Donald Trump. One praised the first amendment and castigated those who should support it but fail to do so vigorously enough. One named the worst U.S. Supreme Court decisions—the court was one of his principal concerns and the topic of one of his books—and another gave an explanation of why he loved poetry, and it recommended verse to readers.

Activist There were other ways Highton likely brought complaints into the office of UNR’s president or its journalism deans.

He was a supporter and admirer of Israel, but he expected it, like his students, to live up to high standards. He bought a full page ad in Progressive Magazine for an essay that said Israel caused Palestinians “thousands of deaths, great suffering and immense anguish. … Israel has engaged in criminal onslaughts in Gaza. Israeli armed might has destroyed or damaged mosques, hospitals, schools, factories, police stations, a prison, parliament and ministries.” He received letters from around the country.

In 1995, he testified before the Nevada Assembly in favor of affirmative action for women and minorities: “[I]t seems to me that those opposed to affirmative action are being divisive. They are not acting in the spirit of a nation that provides opportunities for so many diverse peoples. …

It is an essential legal means to a just end—a remedy for past and continuing discrimination.”

Highton took on popular community figures, such as sometime UNR athletic director Chris Ault: “Ault is a divisive figure on Athletic Hill. His dictatorial ways provoke anger. Curses directed at him are, to quote Macbeth, ‘not loud but deep.’”

The downtown Reno daily newspaper was a constant target: “The GJ is a ‘homer.’ It boosts the home town at the expense of the truth, at the expense of its integrity, at the expense

of good news papering.” He denounced its occasional forays into civic journalism and thought employees deserved to be permitted to go to town on Reno. He must have grudgingly admired it for once finding him newsworthy, in spite of his contempt (“Highton makes a career out of battles,” RGJ, May 1, 1990).

At one point an editor at UNR’s student newspaper, the Sagebrush, asked Highton’s advice on whether she should run a Holocaust-denying advertisement. Reluctant to see unpopular views denied a forum—or driven underground where they would not be scrutinized—he urged her to run the ad.

“Unfortunately, she chose to listen to the counsels of [ACLU of Nevada official] Rich Siegel and [historian] Jim Hulse and did not run it,” he said.

As with Israel, he was harsh with those he admired, expecting them to live up to his standards, as when he criticized presidential pardons that were not accompanied by broader reform: “Criminal justice is not to be had under President Obama. As usual he talks big but acts small.”

Tribune reader John DeTar called him a Nazi. Reader H. Robinson called him a liberal.

Mensch Like most in his generation, Highton believed in old-fashioned courtesy. He opened doors for people. Anyone who sent him anything—from a gift to a news item—received a thank-you note.

Even when he fell out with people, he handled it well. At some point, Regent Howard Rosenberg, who Highton praised more than once in print, did something to upset him, and he broke off relations. But, reluctant to hurt Rosenberg’s feelings, he never said anything to him. Years later, Rosenberg was surprised to hear from someone else that there had been a breach in his friendship with Highton.

While he was rough on his students, like many faculty members he often aided them at staying in school with scholarships and personal loans. He kept track of some students when they departed. Learning that one of them was barely surviving in New York, he sent a check. The student returned it. He wrote in his diary, “He is in debt. He does need money. He certainly needs the $500 far more than I do. I don’t believe that very many people in his financial situation would have returned the check. Surely such integrity must reap its reward some day.”

While he had strong opinions, he was capable of making distinctions. Writing a friend about Richard Nixon, he said, “God, how I hated that man. And I say that because I never hated stupid Reagan.”

Just as he liked his students to do better than he did, the reporters he watched could get friendly critiques in the mail and while usually rough, sometimes they contained praise. He read voraciously and also forwarded clippings to other reporters so they could advance the same stories.

He also welcomed critiques of his own writings and did not resent criticism. After I

corrected something he wrote, he typed three lines of Walt Whitman and gave it to me: “I am the teacher of Athletes;/He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own, proves the width of my own;/ He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”

Though he seldom mentioned family, he left a wife and three daughters. On the rare occasions he spoke of them, he spoke lovingly. His granddaughter Kamryn Moloney even got a mention in one of his RN&R articles.

Toward the end of his tenure, the student government at UNR adopted a resolution praising him. Other campus politics were not so friendly.

Though he was tenured, there were ways around it, and when he received an unfavorable evaluation, he regarded it as a shot across his bow. He said he was forced out because his instruction had become less relevant to the new media. He didn’t understand that—because the things he taught, like newswriting and press law, were applicable to any medium. “I’m obsolete with the digital age,” he told one interviewer. “I don’t use PowerPoints and digital to teach.” But he accepted it so he could get emeritus status and have an office on campus, staying in touch with his colleagues and keeping a campus routine. Besides, he felt higher education was not what he entered decades earlier, with its discipline and standards.

I copy-edited his last piece for the News & Review, in which he made a leftist’s case for Donald Trump (“The Trump card,” June 30, 2016), an article that infuriated many of our readers.

(Weeks later, he ended up voting reluctantly for

Clinton.) At one point, something about a quotation in the piece bothered me, and I looked up the original. To my surprise, the two were not the same, nor even close. Highton’s version said much the same thing, but the wording was very different.

Perhaps he had written the quote from memory.

Once I encountered that problem, another staffer and I closely scrutinized the rest of the article.

We found repeated problems like that, including factual errors, one of which I regret I did not catch.

In the end, we had to make several substantive corrections.

It was a shock that the professor who had demanded such painstaking accuracy and correctness of his students had failed to live up to his own standards.

My best guess is that Highton was unhappy because of changes in his life related to campus.

He had recently stopped driving because of his age, and the lack of mobility and independence that came with the change could not have been an easy adjustment. Though he was entitled to an office on campus, he eventually gave it up to allow someone else to use the space. It put him out of touch with the colleagues, students and research facilities that had been so much a part of his life for so long.

It was upsetting to know that powerful intellect was running down. I don’t know whether he realized what was happening to him, but if he did, I know one way he would have reacted to it—by taking refuge in his beloved poetry. I know this because he actually wrote about it in one of his cover stories for the RN&R:

A luncheon gathering of Jake Highton and his colleagues, students and friends.

PHOTO/DENNIS MYERS

“The older I get, the more I like this insight from Yeats’ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’: ‘An old man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick.’

And speaking of intimations of mortality, I cherish those defiant lines of Dylan Thomas: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’” Ω

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AT THE BALLGAME Reno Aces Pride Night is new—but LGBTQ sports events in Reno are not

n Aug. 17, the Reno Aces and Our Center will host the first ever Pride Night at Greater Nevada Field, aimed at including sports fans among Reno’s LGBTQ community. The Aces are the third triple-A team in the Pacific Coast League to prioritize such an event, behind the El Paso Chihuahuas and the Sacramento River Cats—against whom the Aces will play that night.

“It was an idea we wanted to do for a while,” said Alex Strathearn, account executive with the Reno Aces. “We wanted to participate with the other minor league organizations who are doing Pride Night and really connecting with the community.”

Strathearn believes the recent efforts in the minor league are due to examples set by teams in the major league, like the San Francisco Giants, who have held pride events for the past several years.

According to national LGBTQ sports blog Outsports, this year, a third of the teams in the MLB hosted Pride Nights in June, a figure that suggests a changing cultural landscape in a sport associated with traditional American values.

“I know that sports have been a community that traditionally ... have been generally less accepting of the LGBTQ community,” Strathearn said.

“With that being said, I think that our upper management and our structure here have really nailed home the fact that this isn’t something that we’re doing because everybody else is doing this. We don’t feel that this is a duty of ours. This is a desire of ours.”

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LGBTQ-specific events have drawn the ire of some fans. One commenter posted on the Reno Aces Facebook page, “That’s one night I won’t be taking my grandkids to. Thanks for the heads up.” However, Strathearn said the Aces’ fan base has been largely supportive.

“We actually have little to no pushback from the community at large,” he said.

“We’ve seen the little Facebook comments here and there kind of bashing the night itself, but, realistically speaking, there’s been so little pushback from our fans and our community that we really haven’t had to handle any real negative situations.”

While teams continue to make headlines with overt LGBTQ acceptance at the national level, Jeff Auer—a professor at both University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College and director of the Nevada LGBT Archives—said there’s precedent for Reno being historically progressive when it comes to organized sports.

“The Reno Gay Rodeo was founded in 1976 as a way of fighting gender

stereotypes that gay men are weak,” Auer said. “They ran it like a straight rodeo, with all the competitive events, and it started small. By 1982, 20,000 people attended that year.” The event drew national and international press.

The legacy of the Reno Gay Rodeo may be unknown to younger generations and community transplants, but the event was seen as groundbreaking at a time when LGBTQ issues and culture were largely ignored. By the time the event was shuttered in the mid-’80s for funding and political reasons, it had laid the groundwork for a larger network. The International Gay Rodeo Association still credits Reno as its birthplace.

While serving as an empowering space for the athletes and attendees, the Reno Gay Rodeo was also an economic engine that many Reno businesses welcomed. The event received advertising revenue from the casinos, local vendors and powerful brands such as Budweiser.

“A lot of vendors were saying, ‘We don’t care about if these people are gay.

They are bringing money to this town when Reno is in real trouble,’” Auer said. “Reno had gone through an expansion, an over-expansion, in the late ’70s, when all these casinos were built. The rodeo was bringing in a lot of money.”

Old-West attitude Auer—who has lived in Reno for over a decade and who wrote an essay titled “Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno” for a 2015 National Parks Service theme study—believes that Northern Nevada’s Old-West attitude has a hand in its culture of acceptance.

“There are also libertarian roots that go much deeper [here] where, ‘as long as you’re not bothering me, or getting in my way, I don’t have a problem with you,’” Auer said. “I think that older Nevada view explains a lot of things.”

And while being inclusive has proven to be good business sense, the gesture of acceptance by local sports franchises can be priceless to the next generation of LGBTQ athletes.

“If I had seen a Pride Night back when I was coming to terms with who I was, it could have potentially saved a lot of sleepless nights and a lot of depression and a lot of, ‘I’m different—what’s wrong with me?’ thoughts that go into your head,” said John Mikulak, a volunteer with the LGBTQ

“If I had seen a Pride Night back when I was coming to terms with who I was, it could have potentially saved a lot of sleepless nights and a lot of depression and a lot of, ‘I’m different—what’s wrong with me?’ thoughts that go into your head.”

John Mikulak, Our Center volunteer

community center Our Center, which is coordinating with the Aces for Pride Night.

“If you see something more like that on a regular basis as a young person, it makes you feel like everyone else.”

Mikulak, who is 37, grew up in Fallon as the child of military parents. After being openly gay with his friends and coworkers for some time, he made the choice to come out to his mother three years ago and seek a more active role as an LGBTQ community organizer.

His work with Our Center over the past year led to the center’s Health and Wellness Summit last May. He coordinated with vendors—including the Aces— and local softball organization Reno Pride Sports to serve Reno’s LGBTQ athletes and interested community members who may not pursue traditional sporting opportunities due to fear of exclusion.

“When it comes to sports, a lot of LGBTQ members choose not to participate because it has the heteronormative connotation that you have to be super masculine or super butch to play,” Mikulak said. “‘You can’t like somebody of the same sex and do that at the same time,’ which is aside from fact.”

Mikulak, himself an avid basketball player, remembers the isolation he felt in his rural high school as he struggled to come to terms with his identity.

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Inclusive messages from organizations like the Aces, he said, not only provide support for younger LGBTQ players, but closeted professional athletes who fear losing community support—or even their careers—by coming out publicly.

“I think I might have come out a little earlier if what’s going on right now—with all the visibility in the media and whatnot—was happening in the ’90s,” Mikulak said. “I probably would have had a lot more strength to come to terms a lot quicker and say, ‘This is who I am, this is what I feel.’”

Sharing a space with LGBTQ members in a relaxed, apolitical atmosphere, he believes, might also impact fans who are not members of LGBTQ community.

“I believe it’s a positive step in brining different groups of people together,” he said. Ω

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Burning Man has come a long way since its counterculture roots in the early ’90s.

This is both a plain truth and the thesis for the current City of Dust exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art. What’s not so straightforward is exactly how Burning Man evolved from an 80-person beach party in San Francisco to a 70,000-resident metropolis in the Black Rock Desert. City of Dust tries—and mostly succeeds—in filling in the details.

Collaborating with early Burning Man founders, the Burning Man Project, and an archive of over 6,000 objects given to the museum in 2014, lead curator Ann Wolfe has spent the past two years putting together a historical account of the festival.

“We were interested in looking historically at that arc and telling the story through original artifacts—which is what museums do,” Wolfe explained over the phone.

It’s true. The moment you walk into the gallery is the moment you realize that the NMA knew what it was up against—a celebration that is iconic, fiercely personal, and still happening, a perfect recipe for any interpretation to be characterized as a misinterpretation. Sticking to a historical perspective was a good way to go.

Over four rooms and three decades, the exhibit takes you on a loosely chronological journey from Burning Man’s modest beginnings and middle-year growing pains to a

probable heroic conclusion that ends on the playa—and continues to have a butterfly effect all over the world.

More than 200 objects are on display, including the Cacophony Society newsletter announcing the very first gathering in the desert, a Black Rock Ranger action figure, a collection of jars containing different yearly “vintages” of burned-Man ashes, several fascinating magazines headlines from the ’90s, a 20-minute documentary and some tasteful nude photographs.

There is an entire section dedicated to city planning documents that deserves its own show. There is a case of playa jewelry you will want to steal off the wall while dressed in the 15-foot diaphanous silk gown that co-founder Crimson Rose wore more than 20 years ago, also in the exhibit. There is a display about the Fly Ranch property that co-founder Michael Mikel mysteriously described as land that will “facilitate Burning Man culture into the future.”

There are a lot of highlights.

If there is a critique to be had of the exhibit, it’s an unfair one. City of Dust does not end up telling the whole story of Burning Man. But really, how can you expect it to?

Mikel, for one, harbors no illusions about the gap between City of Dust and Black Rock City.

“You can see so much of it here [at the exhibit], and people will talk and talk, but you can’t really know what Burning Man is until you experience it.”

It’s worth noting that the very existence of a Burning Man exhibit at a museum could count as further evidence for how different—even antithetical—the festival has become in comparison to its origins. And it’s not only being shown at the NMA—in 2018 it’ll travel to the Smithsonian with the title No Spectators. “[It is] ironic perhaps,” said Mikel. “But as a scholarly exhibit, I mean, that’s important for people to see and understand stories that the objects tell about Burning Man and about Burning Man history.”

As for humble beginnings?

“I’ve seen [Burning Man] small and tiny. I could pretty much talk to everybody without yelling, and now we have a massive communication system and very large organization. But what is happening now—it’s still the most amazing thing on the planet.” Ω

City of Dust is on display at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty. St., through Jan. 7. There are 19 related events, including a talk by co-founder John Law Aug. 17 and a talk by Michael Mikel Nov. 18. For more information, visit www.nevadaart.org.

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“Why not a Teddy ruxpin?”

All dolled up Annabelle, the creepy doll from The Conjuring movies, gets her second standalone film with Annabelle: Creation, a silly movie that’s nevertheless enjoyable thanks to some deft direction and surprisingly competent acting.

The movie essentially holds together thanks to solid performances from Talitha Bateman and Lulu Wilson, the latter being the same child actress who gave incredible work in the also surprisingly good prequel/sequel to a so-so movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil. Mind you, the film is full of good performances from the likes of Miranda Otto, Anthony LaPaglia and Stephanie Sigman, but it’s Bateman and Wilson who get most of the credit for pulling this off in front of the camera.

The film is set many years before the first Annabelle movie, with orphans Janice (Bateman) and Linda (Wilson) on their way to a new home, a group of other girls and happy nun Sister Charlotte (Sigman) at their side. They arrive at the home of Samuel Mullins (LaPaglia), a doll maker who, we have learned in the film’s prologue, lost his daughter Bee in a tragic roadside accident. He’s miserable, his wife (Otto) is bedridden and ill, and he probably shouldn’t be bringing a bunch of orphans over to live in his haunted house. His attitude just isn’t right for orphan hosting.

Yes, the house is haunted with a spirit residing in that creepy doll we’ve all come to know and hate so damned much. I hate creepy dolls almost as much as I hate creepy clowns. Speaking of which, while Annabelle: Creation has some good scares, the preview scene from It that played before the flick was top-notch scary, and I can’t wait to see the whole movie. OK, I got off track a little bit.

Janice had a bout with polio, which has left her with a leg brace and a basic inability to run away from haunted, creepy, demonic dolls. One thing leads to another, and characters start getting possessed and ripped to shreds by demon forces.

While Wilson was so great in Ouija and is quite good here, it’s Bateman who is the real scene-stealer

this time out. She makes Janice genuine, and you pull for her to get out of the movie with most of herself intact. Wilson gets some sort of award for helping to make not one but two horror prequel/sequels very much worth watching after their mediocre/lousy predecessors.

Last year, director David F. Sandberg delivered a decent genre film with Lights Out, based on his terrifically scary short film. (Talitha’s younger brother, Martin Bateman, starred in that one.) Sandberg continues to show he’s good with a jolt scare; there are many moments in this movie when you expect one, and it still jolts you. He also makes good-looking movies. The authentic Southern Gothic look of this film lends to its credibility and keeps you in the story.

Does the film horrify or scare on the same level as Carpenter or vintage Romero? Absolutely not.

Will it please those of us who like a capable horror thriller low on cheese? Yes. It’s a decent, late summer, let’s-not-change-the-world-of-cinema-but-deliversomething-relatively-fun kind of film. Forgettable, but fun while you watch it.

These Annabelle movies, and the upcoming The Nun, have sprouted from The Conjuring franchise.

Give New Line Cinema some credit for doing a horror franchise right—well, mostly right—as opposed to that nonsense Universal tried to kick off earlier in the summer with The Mummy.

These stories come together nicely and don’t feel forced and silly like, for instance, Dr. Jekyll (Russell Crowe) inexplicably showing up as some sort of super monster detective. Sandberg finds satisfying ways, especially in the final scenes, to link The Conjuring universe together.

So, with a decent film in her pocket, Annabelle is giving Chucky a run for his money as best killer doll you shouldn’t have bought in the first place because it certainly looks like it intends to kill you. I’m hoping Ω for a Chucky vs. Annabelle in the future.

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Atomic Blonde

Charlize Theron goes on a tear for the ages in this fun if somewhat shallow venture, another pin on her action hero lapel after her ferocious turn as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. As Lorraine Broughton, an undercover agent on a mission in Berlin in the late ’80s as the wall begins to fall, she showcases her ability to kick people through walls with the best of them. She also shows how to use a freezer door as a weapon.

Directed by David Leitch, one of the directors of the original John Wick and future director of Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde pops with the same kind of kinetic energy as Wick when the bullets and kicks are flying. Also a legendary stuntman, Leitch knows how to make a hit look real, and the choreographed action scenes in this film stand as some of the year’s best. When Charlize lands a blow in this movie, you feel it in your face. Based on the graphic novel The Coldest City, the film does drag at times, especially when Lorraine does the standard interrogation room narrative scenes with Toby Jones and John Goodman drilling her for answers.

While it could’ve used some tightening in the edit room, the movie is very much worth wading through the shallow parts. Late ’80s playlists are sure to spike on streaming services thanks to the film’s soundtrack, which includes David Bowie, Queen, Falco, ’Til Tuesday, the Clash and, quite notably, George Michael. (His “Father Figure” is put to astonishingly good use.)

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The Dark Tower

The uncertainty and delays that plagued this production are immediately apparent in the final picture. This movie is a catastrophe, and a complete slight to fans of the Stephen King books, fans of Matthew McConaughey, and fans of science fiction/ fantasy. Oh hell, this thing slights everybody.

It looks like a low-level episode of Dr. Who, and we’re talking really schlocky, 1970s Dr. Who. You get the sense watching this that they used the same soundstage for all of their interiors and just repainted shit. The CGI is terrible, the pacing is ridiculously, unnecessarily fast, and the plot is confusing for those who haven’t read the books. I’ve never read the books and, after watching this, I don’t really care to.

The story involves some kid named Jake (Tom Taylor), a sad teenager who is gifted with “The Shine,” the psychic powers Danny had in King’s The Shining. He dreams of another world where there is a dark tower that acts as some sort of barrier between other dimensions, protecting planets like Earth from evil. He also dreams of a gunslinger (Idris Elba) who is trying to kill the Man in Black. No, it’s not Johnny Cash. It’s some sort of devil man played by McConaughey whose intention is to hunt people with the Shine because their brains harness the power to shoot laser beams into the Dark Tower, thus destroying it and releasing goofy CGI monsters upon the Earth. You can go ahead and badmouth me all you want if I got any of this wrong but, I assure you, that’s the best I could gather from this hackneyed, rushed, underwhelming production. This is just a total shame.

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Detroit

Director Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) directs this uneven yet powerful at times account of the infamous 1967 Algiers Motel incident, part of a race riot that put the city of Detroit under siege. When a man fires off a starter pistol from his hotel window during intense riots, the police and National Guard converge on the Algiers, and a terrible night ensues. It results in three men shot to death, others psychologically and physically tortured, and the sort of judicial rulings in the aftermath that have become all too commonplace. John Boyega plays Dismukes, a security guard who finds himself entangled in the bloody events perpetrated by racist policemen led by Krauss (a legitimately scary Will Pouter). The men and women held captive at the Algiers are played by a strong ensemble cast, including Jason Mitchell, Anthony Mackie, Hannah

Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, Nathan Davis, Jr. and Algee Smith. The film feels a bit too fictional in spots. In an odd move, Bigelow incorporates real stock footage along with scenes meant to look like stock footage, much in the same way Oliver Stone did in J.F.K., further confusing fact from fiction. She’s going for a documentary feel, but the script sometimes calls for cartoon caricatures with its bad policemen. No doubt, most of the policemen at the hotel that night were a bunch of monsters, but the portrayals of them (beyond Poulter’s) feel too cliché and, in some cases, aren’t well acted. There are enough strong performances to make it worth your while, and while some of the details seem manufactured, this is a true story that needed to be told, even if it seems tainted by fiction at times.

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Dunkirk

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War for the Planet of the Apes

Christopher Nolan’s ambitious film about the 1940 evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk is one of the great visual cinematic spectacles of the 21st century, and for that, he should be applauded. Unfortunately, some of his scripting and editing decisions take away from the effectiveness of his movie. In a strange way, this is one of his least successful films. We’re talking about the guy who made Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Inception, Insomnia and Memento. All of those films are better movies than Dunkirk. They are, in fact, great movies. Dunkirk is a good movie, and an occasionally astounding one if you manage to see it on an IMAX screen. Nolan shot on film, with all scenes intended for IMAX. Mixed with some incredible soundtrack work by Hans Zimmer, the movie begs to be seen in theaters. All that said, it still feels like a bit of an empty experience in some ways. I’m glad I saw it. I’m glad it exists, but it didn’t blow me away. Any Nolan fan knows that he loves to make his movies complicated in relation to time—Memento being a prime example—and the director himself has called Dunkirk his most experimental yet. Nolan is out to prove that you can cut away from a harrowing ship-sinking sequence to an also harrowing battle sequence set in the air and maintain the tension. He simply doesn’t pull off the stunt every time. There are moments when he cuts away to another timeline that are nothing short of totally frustrating and unnecessary.

The enthralling, modern Planet of the Apes trilogy comes to a close with its best chapter yet. Caesar (motion-capture Andy Serkis) is holding his own in the forest with his band of ape soldiers when a crazed colonel (Woody Harrelson) finds him and delivers a painful blow. Caesar finds himself on a revenge quest, with the likes of Rocket (Terry Notary), Maurice (Karin Konoval) and a new character named Bad Ape (a funny Steve Zahn) in tow. It all leads to a man vs. ape showdown for the ages, and the special effects that were great in the first movie are 10 times better in the third. For fans of the original Apes films, this movie is a virtual love letter to the series. It even has a mute girl named Nova (Amiah Miller), the same name as the girl who saw the Statue of Liberty with Charlton Heston in the original.

Matt Reeves, directing his second Ape film, has managed to imbue his special effectsladen adventure with genuine emotion. This is a big budget blockbuster with heart and soul. While this concludes a trilogy, it’s a safe bet it won’t be the last for the Apes. If you recall, astronauts went missing in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Events in this film seem to be leading up to the events of the original movie. We might be getting a new dude in a loin cloth barking at Lady Liberty in our cinematic future.

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A sashimi plate features salmon, yellow fin tuna, hamachi belly and Japanese garnishes.

Big fish The first thing I noticed at Kei Sushi— Reno’s latest addition to Reno’s all-youcan-eat sushi scene—was the lack of order sheets on the tables. They make up for this by having very attentive table service. My group and I were never lacking food or beverages. The cost is $18.95 for lunch and $24.95 for dinner.

For starters, we sampled gyoza (potstickers), eggrolls, baked mussels, miso soup, cucumber salad and dragon balls—tempura fried jalapeño rings stuffed with shrimp, spicy krab and cream cheese.

The potstickers and eggrolls were crispy.

The thin-sliced cucumber was doused in plenty of seasoned rice vinegar and sesame.

The mussels were nicely done with scallion, sriracha, shoyu, ponzu and kewpie mayo.

Unfortunately, the miso was barely warm and quite salty, with big slices of raw mushroom floating on top. Least effective were the battered jalapeño rings, which were raw and fell apart when picked up.

The simplicity of nigiri sushi is my favorite. It’s most often just individual bites of rice and fish. I ordered octopus, freshwater eel, seared tuna, seared scallop, smoked salmon, fresh salmon, mackerel, yellowtail, snapper and escolar. All of the fin fish was good. The fish-to-rice ratio was decent. The seared scallop was particularly good, and the mackerel—a strong, oily fish that can turn quickly—was surprisingly mild and fresh tasting. Sadly, the octopus was quite tough, and the “only one order per person” unagi slices were dwarfed by the amount of rice they were served atop.

The list of specialty nigiri sounded good, so I ordered one of each: rooster salmon with lemon, pickled jalapeño and spicy krab; Kei seared tuna with crystal mix, scallop sauce, sriracha and teriyaki; upside down shrimp with avocado, scallop

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and teriyaki; salmon lover with scallop sauce, pickled jalapeño, salmon skin and scallion; fireball tuna topped with spicy tuna, fried onion and teriyaki; and a quail egg shooter with ponzu, sriracha, sesame seed, scallion and tobiko. Although I appreciated the flavor combinations and creativity, the size of each piece was a bit daunting—even for my big mouth. Each one was nearly too large for a single bite and required manhandling lest it fall apart.

Of particular note was the shooter, which featured a sharply sour punch that was not for the faint of heart.

From the hand roll selection, a cooked scallop, tobiko and scallion Jason roll was very good, but the salmon skin roll could have actually used a bit more rice and less crispy fishiness. A little bit of salmon skin goes a long way, and I felt like I was crunching through a forest of fish chips— just not my jam, I guess.

My companions ordered a mix of fresh and baked long rolls, but I don’t know that any warrant further description. The rice ranged from gummy to chewy to wet, and none had any flavor I’d care to experience again. At least two were just plain gross.

Based on the overall quality of the nigiri, I’m willing to assume that there are better rolls on the menu.

We finished with a shared, five-piece Miami dessert roll comprised of tempura banana, cream cheese, pecans and mango, drizzled with peach, strawberry and chocolate sauces and sprinkled with coconut flakes. The sweet stuff was OK, but it suffered from the addition of too much rice. Next time I’ll stick with the green tea ice cream. Ω

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Co-owner and Will Whipple stands atop the brewing deck.

Make a name One last summer hurrah before school started meant camping. A campfire discussion about technology—or lack of it—when roughing it had me pondering an identity crisis faced by modern people: the contradiction of using modern conveniences like bottled propane and LED headlamps while otherwise mimicking Lewis and Clark, pretending no cell coverage equals primitive savagery. Why do we try to recreate a time when life was so much harder? We’ve gone through generations of innovation and progress, yet still willingly like to play Daniel Boone. I’m guilty, but I don’t understand it.

Despite plentiful beers at the campsite, I looked forward to a brewery visit upon returning home. I rewarded my post-trip unpacking labors at the newest addition to Reno’s breweries.

I had eagerly awaited the opening of Whipple Brewing and Distilling since last fall. Now, just barely two months open, it felt like beer nerd eternity. A new, local brewery and distillery is pretty exciting, but the initial limited hours just didn’t fit my drinking schedule. I’d been following along online and hearing about it from other people, but while I hadn’t heard much about the beers or spirits, the two things I had heard were how amazing the facility looked and how confused people were.

Long in the works and finally open, the name has been changed to Mill Street Still and Brew. State and city records and a handsome metal sign over the bar still proclaim the Whipple name, and our recently hired bartender made clear, Will Whipple is still the man at the helm.

Speaking of handsome metal, the facility was, as promised, a stunning place to visit. Shiny tanks filled the brewing and distilling operations, visible through

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a large viewing window near the bar.

An industrial metal-and-wood aesthetic dominated the taproom, from the oversized entry door to the giant garage door open to a side patio. A large chalkboard listed current draft choices.

According to a June Facebook post, Mill Street’s line of beers will be dubbed Micron, referring to their “unique filtering processes,” while their spirits will be marketed under the 10 Torr brand—torr is a measure of atmospheric pressure, alluding to their unusual vacuum distillation process.

I love the science of brewing and distilling, and lowering the ethanol boiling point by removing air pressure is about as science-y as it gets. The room-temperature distillation apparently stops unwanted heat-induced reactions and harshness.

For those keeping score, we have Whipple Brewing and Distilling Co. operating the Mill Street Still and Brew, which produces Micron beers and 10 Torr Spirits.

I think—even the bartender was unclear.

My wife and I enjoyed a full range of beers, hefeweizen to honey blonde, IPA to brown ale. I found each to be a fine example of its style. The lone spirit available was 10 Torr vodka, smooth to sip even neat, and a steal at $20 a bottle. Our bartender explained that gin is in progress and coming soon, but whiskey will be a few years. It’s aging in barrels now.

The quality is good, the products enjoyable, and the place is gorgeous. They have embraced modern technology. Now if Whipple/Mill Street/Micron/10 Torr can resolve the confusing identity crisis, their addition to local beer and booze is welcome. Ω

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Listening to guitarist Eric Stangeland’s new album is like flipping through an artist’s sketchbook.

Poetic notions Eric Stangeland Listening to Catching Fireflies and Other East Coast Memories, the new solo album by Reno guitarist Eric Stangeland, is a bit like flipping through a painter’s sketchbook. The music has an unpolished, unfinished quality—it’s like an artist drawing with pencil instead of painting oils on canvas. The songs are sonic miniatures—all instrumental, nothing but Stangeland’s guitar. There are overdubs—usually two or three different tracks, and sometimes as many as five or six, but all of the sounds on the album come from his guitar.

He wrote, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered the album himself, and it has the hushed, intimate appeal of good homemade music. The unfinished quality is a strength. There’s a lot of open space and silence in the songs, and listeners can imagine other instruments filling in those spaces or pick out imaginary vocal lines to complement Stangeland’s melodic playing.

Leaving room for listeners to bring something to the album gives the music a poetic quality. Like with a verse that doesn’t quite tell the whole story, the reader has to fill in some of the gaps.

Stangeland has been a fixture in the Reno music scene for decades. He moved here from his native New Jersey in 1992.

With just $300, a suitcase and a guitar, he came to Reno to attend college. He didn’t know anyone. But over the years, he’s played in a variety of bands from stoner metal groups like Dirt Communion to cover bands on the casino circuit.

Many of the songs on Catching Fireflies were born from Stangeland’s gigs performing solo—with just an acoustic guitar and looper pedal—at Wild River Grille, a

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downtown restaurant that often features live local music. Stangeland had been performing there with a vocalist, playing covers of Beatles songs and other popular tunes. One day, when the singer was sick, Stangeland performed solo and discovered he enjoyed the freedom of trying out original tunes on an audience that was only half paying attention while enjoying their meals.

Another big influence on Stangeland’s album is his career as a guitar teacher.

“In ’94, I started teaching,” he said.

“And that’s really important. My passion became teaching.”

He taught for 20 years at Maytan Music Center—a flagship Reno store that closed down a few years ago.

“That’s where I got my start, and I’m forever grateful to that store for that,” he said. “That was a great place. There were so many great musicians that came through there. There were so many great things that store did that people don’t even realize.”

Nowadays, he teaches over 40 students every week out of a private office.

“When I started teaching, I learned theory better. And theory helps with this record—knowing what I can use,” he said.

“I always tell students … you can use as little or as much theory as you want to.

It’s really up to you—so don’t shy away from it. … Understand how to phrase more and better, and go for less-is-more. That definitely comes from students. I always tell students, don’t play so much, let it breathe more, don’t be afraid for there to be silence.”

Though Stangeland is clearly a skilled guitarist, the album never sounds like he’s showing off. There’s no virtuosic showboating, but the decisions are made carefully and tastefully. He ordered a run of 100 CDs, and Wild River Grille hosted his album release show a few weeks ago.

The CDs sold out in four days. Ω

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Borgeous After Party, 10pm, no cover

3rd Street Bar

Comedy Showcase, 9pm, no cover

214 W Commercial Row, (775) 329-9444 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005

5 Star Saloon

132 West St., (775) 329-2878

Primus Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Hard Rock 50 Highway 50 Stateline (884) 588-7625

Comedy 3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Pat Shillito, Wed, 9pm, no cover Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 18 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Rocky LaPorte, Ron Morey, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25; Sat, 8:30pm, 10:30pm, $30; Rich Shydner, W, 9pm, $25 Laugh Factory at Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Steve Hofstetter, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21. 95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Nick Guerra, Tu-W, 7:30pm, $21.95 Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Ricky Del Rosario, Thu, 8pm, $10-$15; Fri, 9pm, $15-$20; Sat, 6:30pm, 9pm, $15-$20

FRIDAY 8/18

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

alturaS on the down low 1044 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-5050

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SATURDAY 8/19

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Sunday Takeover, 8pm, no cover

Monkey, 8pm, $7

Chuck Mosley, Livitz Livitz, 8pm, $12

Sunday Sunset BBQ with Leroy & Rico, 5pm, no cover

Borgeous, Bonnie X Clyde, 8pm, $25-$30

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Cloudship, 9pm, no cover

Tom Bennett, 9pm, no cover

George Souza, 6pm, no cover

George Souza, 6pm, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

Los Pistoleros, Down ’n’ Out, 9:30pm, no cover

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Daniel Kushnir, 6pm, no cover

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Hellbound Glory, 8:30pm, no cover

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3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

Paige Anderson, 7pm, no cover

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

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

Apothic, 7pm, no cover

Bourgeois Gypsies, 7:30pm, no cover

Scott Sheuerman Quintet, 7:30pm, no cover

Seth Richard, Today’s Paramount, Hourglass Flies, JABB, 9pm, $4

NNBA Hot Jam Session, 7pm, M, no cover Traditional Irish session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke with Nightsong Productions, 9pm, Tu, no cover Open Mic Jam Slam, 8pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Karaoke with DJ Brian O’Braun, 9pm, no cover Impurites Tour Kickoff, 8pm, $5

140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858

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Rick “The Saxman” Metz, 7pm, no cover

Line dancing with DJ Trey, 7pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 8:30pm, M, Blues Jam Night, 8pm, Tu, Folk & blues, 8pm, W, no cover Spacedisco vs. Fogbank: J Paul Getto, Hatiras, 10pm, W, $10

255 N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400 538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

MON-WED 8/21-8/23

DG Kicks Big Band Jazz Orchestra, 8pm, Tu, no cover

Riddim & Reason, 10pm, no cover

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Between the Lyrics 2: A Celebration of Hip Hop, 7pm, $5 Nef The Pharaoh, OMB Peezy, 7:30pm, $20

Miserable, Justus Proffit, 8pm, M, $7 Impulse, Drag Me Under, 7pm, Tu, $5 Hot August Fyrefest: Alien Boy, Perfume V, Boys, Plastic Caves, 6pm, $5

Karaoke Wednesdays with We Ain’t Saints, 8:30pm, W, no cover Outspoken Monday Open Mic, 7pm, M, no cover

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Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $20-$45

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $20-$45 Reggae Sundays, 9pm, no cover

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, M, Tu, W, $20-$45

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The Coney Dogs, 8pm, no cover

Jason King, 8:30pm, no cover

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The Lique, 8:30pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 10pm, no cover

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Acoustic Tuesdays w/Canyon White, 6:30pm, Tu, Jazz jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover

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Blues Etc. Jam with Tony G & Friends, 8:30pm, no cover

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The Soul Persuaders, 8pm, W, no cover Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

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2) Cook Book, 8pm, no cover EVR, 10pm, no cover

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2) New Wave Unplugged, 6pm, no cover

2) Stephen Lord, 5pm, no cover John Palmore, 9pm, no cover

1) Hunks The Show, 8pm, $25-$50 2) Mark Miller, 5pm, no cover Phil Prunier, 9pm, no cover

2) Crush, 6pm, Sno cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Jason King, 6pm, Tu, no cover Stephen Lord, 6pm, W, no cover

1) Michael McDonald, 8pm, $65-$75 2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Buddy Emmer Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, M, no cover Roem Baur, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover

1) Mama’s Cookin’, Mojo Green, 9pm, $10

1) Keyser Soze, Pigeon John, 9pm, no cover

1) Cirque Le Noir, 7pm, $19.95-$29.95

1) Cirque Le Noir, 8pm, $19.95-39.95 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Cirque Le Noir, 5:30pm, 8pm, $19.95-$39.95 3) DJ Roni V, 9pm, no cover

1) Comedy Night, 8pm, $15

2) Neil Jackson, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights with DJ Colt Ainsworth, 10pm, no cover

1) Young the Giant, 7:30pm, $36.50 2) DJ Peeti-V, 10pm, $15 3) Grand Country Nights, 10pm, no cover

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Karaoke O’Cleary’s Irish Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, (775) 359-1209: Karaoke, Thu, 6pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 7pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

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HOPS IN THE YARD BEER FEST: The festival features unlimited beer tastings and over 20 handles, food trucks and live entertainment. Sat 8/19, 1pm. $25.

MontBleu, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515, www.montbleuresort.com/ events/hops-yard-2017-beerfest/.

JOHN LAW ON TALES OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CACOPHONY SOCIETY: Law is a primary creator of the Cacophony Society and a co-founder of The Burning Man Festival in the early 1990s. Join the San Francisco native for a lively exploration of Bay Area cultural movements that led to the infamous Cacophony Society Zone Trip #4 to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert on Labor Day weekend 1990. Thu, 8/17, 6pm. $8$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

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Reno Greek Fest

8/18:

Get your Greek on this weekend for the annual festival featuring traditional Greek cuisine, dance, music, desserts and imports, including jewelry, clothing and specialty food items. The event takes place from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 18, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Church, 4795 Lakeside Drive. Limited advance tickets are $12, which include $10 of food. Admission at the door is $5 and does not include food purchase. Call 825-5365 or visit renogreekfest.com.

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DOWNTOWN RENO FARMERS’ MARKET: Shoppers can choose from fresh-picked produce, a variety of international food and beverage items, packaged foods, unique arts and crafts, assorted flowers and prepared foods. The market takes place on Thursday through Aug. 24. Tue, 8/22, 4-9pm. Free. Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 746-5024, www.shirleysfarmersmarkets.com.

2017 TAHOE STAR TOURS: Tahoe Star Tours will meet in Café Blue at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe, with the telescopic viewing portion of the evening taking place on the open meadow in the backyard of the property. The resort will offer coffee, hot chocolate and water and access to blankets once the tour moves outside to the meadow for telescopic viewing. Fri, 8/18, 8:15pm. $20-$40. The Ritz Carlton, Lake Tahoe, 13031 Ritz Carlton Highlands Court, Truckee, www.tahoestartours.com.

FEED THE CAMEL: The fourth annual food truck gathering features some of the best food trucks in the Truckee Meadow and local beer. The event happens every Wednesday through August. Wed, 8/23, 5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/Feed-TheCamel-256832417824677/.

BETWEEN THE LYRICS 2—CELEBRATION OF HIP HOP: This pop-up show is a celebration of all things hip hop, showcasing works by local artists and their interpretations of iconic verses from the span of hiphop history. This year, the show will focus on verses with a socio-political stance. More than 40 local artists have contributed pieces to the show with lyrics from Lauryn Hill, Run the Jewels, KRS-One and many others. DJ Peach Sprite will spin hip-hop jams. Partial proceeds from the show and artwork sales will help fund future arts and music programming at the Holland Project.

Sat, 8/19, 7pm. $5 donation. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

CARSON CITY GHOST WALKING TOUR: Hear

THE FOLK & THE LORE: This multimedia project aims to collect, archive and tell stories from Reno and throughout the region through photography, short films, and live storytelling events that will be held regularly at the Nevada Museum of Art. This month’s event features an evening of storytelling and films based on The Playa—Stories from Burning Man. Sat, 8/19, 5pm. $8-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLORS: The festival

about lingering spirits, paranormal stories and gossip from the past during this guided walking tour of downtown Carson City’s historic homes and businesses. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins. Sat, 8/19, 6:30pm. $15-$20, free for children under age 3. Corner of Third and Curry streets, Carson City, (775) 348-6279, carsoncityghostwalk.com.

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features interactive dance, live mantra bands, DJs, yoga, color throws, food and happy vibes. Sat, 8/19, 11am. $6-$37, free admission for children age 12 and younger. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (801) 787-1510, www.festivalofcolorsusa.com.

Villareal is a pioneer in the use of LEDs and custom computer software and is best known for his light sculptures and architectural, site-specific works.

He first attended Burning Man in 1994, which inspired him to begin creating immersive experiences on a larger scale.

Join Villareal as he discusses his long association with Burning Man, his San Francisco Bay Lights installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge and his recently awarded commission to illuminate 17 bridges over the Thames River in London.

Sun 8/20, 4-5pm. $8-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL: The inaugural festival celebrates ancient Chinese culture, sport and the natural wonders of the RenoSparks region. Festivities include a health and wellness village, a kids’ zone and various vendors, exhibitors, food trucks and artisans. Sat, 8/19, 8am. Free.

Sparks Marina, 300 Howard Drive, Sparks, (855) 496-2628, www.gwndragonboat.com.

RENO ART FEST ON THE RIVER: The festival celebrates local artists in downtown Reno with an outdoor, open-air art market, family-friendly entertainment, a beer garden, wine tasting by the Riverwalk Merchants Association and local food trucks. Sat, 8/19-Sun, 8/20, 10am. Free.

City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia Street, (775) 7717004, www.facebook.com/RenoArtFest.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: David Elliott will give a presentation on Jewish coins— from the end of the Babylonian captivity to Israeli coins. All ages welcome. Early bird prizes, quarter pot, raffle and more.

Tue, 8/22, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, www.renocoinclub.org.

RENO STREET FOOD: The gourmet street food event features over 30 gourmet food, craft dessert, beer, wine and mixed drink vendors and entertainment by local musicians each week through Sept. 29.

Fri, 8/18, 5pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Idlewild Drive, (775) 825-2665.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: 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. Sat, 8/19, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

TASTE & LISTEN POP-UP DINNER: Local Trails & Vistas artist Nancy Tieken Lopez and the Stella Kitchen Team led by Chef Ben Knox of The Cedar House Sport Hotel will create a pop-up dinner exhibition titled “Taste & Listen.” Chef Knox will prepare food while being inspired by the music of India, Spain and Africa. Dinner guests will enjoy a five-course meal with live music from three continents to create a musical dinner experience as art. Sat, 8/19, 6:30pm. $110 and up. The Cedar House Sport Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road, Truckee, (775) 746-0717.

TRUCKEE THURSDAYS: Historic Downtown Truckee transforms into an exciting street fair featuring local and regional artisans, food trucks, a beer garden and live music.

Thu, 8/17, 5pm. Free. Historic Downtown Truckee, 10065 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, www.truckeethursdays.com.

WASHOE READS—THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON: Washoe County Library System, in partnership with Nevada Humanities, presents a community-wide read of Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son. Book discussions will take place in three parts at several library locations through Sept. 15, culminating with the 4th Annual Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl on Sept. 16 at venues throughout the Downtown Reno Arts Corridor.

Thu, 8/17, 8pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200, nevadahumanities.org.

THE WAY IT WAS RODEO: The event features bull riders, wild broncs, kids’ mutton bustin,’ jump motorcycles and more.

Sat, 8/19-Sun, 8/20, 1pm. $10-$60. Virginia City Fairgrounds, 458 F St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7500.

WINE & RIBS: The Community Health Alliance’s sixth annual benefit includes wine from Whispering Vine & Wine and dinner by Famous Dave’s. Sat, 8/19, 5pm. $60. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 870-4356, www.chanevada.org.

ART ART INDEED: Fantastic Rubbish Locality and Progress, Fragments & Reflection.

Art Indeed Gallery is open for the Third Saturday Wine Walks on Aug. 19.

Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 5:30-7pm. Sat, 8/19, 1:30-5pm. Free. Art Indeed, 142 Bell St., (775) 846-8367.

ART SOURCE GALLERY: Moving the World— Once, Twice, Nevermore. The gallery features the permanent art installation by artist Yuyu Yang, as well as Art Source Gallery’s art collection. Thu, 8/17-Wed, 8/23, 10am. Free. Art Source Gallery, 2195 S. Virginia St., Ste. 102, (775) 828-3525.

ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY OF RENO: Open Spaces and Special Places—The Art of Conservation. This benefit art show and sale for Nevada Land Trust runs through Aug. 31. Thu, 8/17-Wed, 8/23, 11am4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

COURTHOUSE GALLERY, CARSON CITY COURTHOUSE: Industrial Art Sports Edition. Capital City Arts Initiative’s latest exhibition features the design work of five Northern Nevada sports equipment designers and manufacturers. The show runs through Sept. 28. The gallery is open Monday-Friday. Thu, 8/17-Fri, 8/18; Mon, 8/21-Wed, 8/23, 8am-5pm. Free.

Courthouse Gallery, Carson City Courthouse, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, www.arts-initiative.org.

HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: Where The Shadow Catches You. This month’s exhibition features work by Nathaniel Benjamin, Summer Orr and Rita Salt.

Consisting of printmaking, ceramic and textile pieces, Where the Shadow Catches You takes viewers on a trip through the artists’ combined memories where trauma lingers and attempts to reconcile or at least bandage the pains of the past.

The artist reception is on Aug. 17, 6-8pm.

The show is open Tuesday-Friday through Aug. 25. Thu, 8/17-Fri, 8/18; Tue, 8/22-Wed, 8/23, 3-6pm. Free. Holland Project Gallery, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

METRO GALLERY: Desert Dreams. Peter Ruprecht’s photography attempts to capture the natural spirit of people and places all across the world. Desert Dreams runs Aug. 21-Oct. 6. Gallery hours are 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday. Reception is Aug. 22, 5-7pm. Mon, 8/21-Wed, 8/23, 8am-5pm. Free. Metro Gallery, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-2417.

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: A 40-Year Collection of the Art of Lady Jill. Plein air watercolorist Lady Jill Mueller presents works from her personal collection over the last 40 years. This display will be up until Oct. 25. Library hours are 10am6pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am-7pm on Wednesday and 11am-5pm on Saturday. The library is closed on Sunday. Thu, 8/17-Sat, 8/19; Mon, 8/21-Wed, 8/23. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100.

REID HOUSE GALLERY AND STUDIO: Constructing Memories. DJD Foundation/ Art Heals War Wounds presents this show of fiber art by Lynda Yuroff and Luana Ritch. The exhibition runs through Aug. 31. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, noon6pm. Thu, 8/17, Sat, 8/19-Sun, 8/20, Tue, 8/22, noon. Free. Reid House Gallery and Studio, 515 Court St., (775) 391-2668.

RENO ART WORKS: RAW Open Studios. Meet the artists, explore the studios and buy local art. Sat, 8/19, noon. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, (775) 3910278, www.renoartworks.org.

SIERRA ROOM AT CARSON CITY COMMUNITY CENTER: Dylan Silver Tahoe Clarity. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents a photography exhibition by artist Dylan Silver. The artwork will on view in the gallery through Nov. 9. The Sierra Room is open Monday-Thursday. Thu, 8/17, Mon, 8/2-Wed, 8/23, 5-8pm. Free. Sierra Room at Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 283-7421, www.arts-initiative.org.

MUSEUMS NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: Be the Astronaut. The exhibition immerses visitors in the science and engineering of spaceflight via state-of-the-art video game technology, simulators and actual NASA reconnaissance data. Using astronaut ID swipe cards, participants launch in space capsules like the USS Roddenberry and drive on the Moon or Mars. The exhibit includes the Mars rover “Opportunity” mockup from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, space suit replicas and space memorabilia from American pop culture. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 9:30am to 5:30pm, and Sunday, 10am to 4pm. The exhibition runs through Aug. 31. Thu, 8/17Wed, 8/23. $6-$12. National Automobile Museum, 10 S. Lake St., (775) 830-5295, www.nevadachallenger.org.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl. The artwork is on view through Dec. 31; Jessica Rath: Projects.

The exhibition runs through Aug. 27; City of Dust: The Evolution of Burning Man. The show runs through Jan. 7; View From the Playa: Photographs by Eleanor Preger. The artwork is on view through Jan. 7. Museum hours are 10am-6pm, Wednesday and Friday through Sunday, and 10am-8pm on Thursday. Thu, 8/17Sun, 8/20, Wed, 8/23, 10am. $1-$10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): A T. rex Named Sue. At 42 feet long and 12 feet high at the hips, Sue is the largest, most complete and best-preserved T. rex ever discovered. A dramatic, life-sized skeleton cast of Sue is the centerpiece of this exhibition that also features hands-on and digital interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s amazing past and explore the field of paleontology. The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 15; 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. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and noon to 5pm on Sunday.

The museum is open from 10am to 8pm on Wednesday. The museum will be open on Monday from 10am to 5pm through Sept.

4. Thu, 8/17-Wed, 8/23. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 7861000, www.nvdm.org.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: Sherlock Holmes & the Clocktower Mystery. A shocking crime has been committed, and Victorian London’s most celebrated detective needs your help to find out “whodunit!”

Challenge your powers of observation and deductive reasoning as you work to solve a baffling mystery. The exhibition runs through Oct. 29. Hours are 10am to 4pm Wednesday and Thursday, 10am to 8pm on Friday and noon to 4pm on Sunday. The exhibition is closed on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. Thu, 8/17-Fri, 8/18, Sun, 8/20, Wed, 8/23. $8-$9.

Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

FILM OUTDOOR SUMMER MOVIE SERIES: Watch new releases and family classics on the big screen in the Events Plaza at The Village at Squaw Valley. A different movie shows each Thursday through Aug. 31. All movies start at 8:30pm, weather permitting.

Blankets and warm clothes are recommended. Thu, 8/17, 8:30pm. Free.

The Village at Squaw Valley, 1750 Village East Road, Tahoe City, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Mark Mackay will perform after the Reno Aces game at the Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage. Sat, 8/19, 10:30pm. Free. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH: Enjoy live music by Colin Ross and brunch every Sunday from 10am to 2pm presented by chez louie. The menu features artful dishes, mimosas and a Bloody Mary Bar. Reservations recommended. Sun, 8/20, 10am-2pm.

Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921, www.nevadaart.org.

START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME: Charles Dickens and Alexander Dumas get spoofed in this rowdy and rambunctious comedy by director Bud Yorkin. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play dual roles as twins—one pair royalty, the other peasants. Accidentally switched at birth, they eventually wind up on opposite sides during the French Revolution. Sun, 8/20, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111, artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

MUSIC HOPEFEST7: The Carson Tahoe Health Foundation presents this free outdoor concert with headliner Tyrone Wells.

All proceeds from food, drink and raffle tickets sales directly benefit local cancer patients undergoing lifesaving medical treatments. Fri, 8/18, 6pm. Free. Carson Tahoe Caner Center, 1535 Medical Parkway, Carson City, (775) 360-6101, www.carsontahoe.com/hopefest.

JAZZ AND BEYOND CARSON CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL: Mile High Jazz Band Association presents its annual music festival featuring more than 60 performances at venues across Carson City. Thu, 8/17-Mon, 8/21. Most events are free. Multiple venues throughout Carson City, Carson City, (775) 883-4154, jazzcarsoncity.com.

LISA LYNNE & ARYEH FRANKFURTER: The multi-instrumentalist duo perform traditional and original music on rare instruments, including Celtic harps, Swedish nyckelharpa, Ukrainian bandura and cittern. Wed, 8/23, 7:30pm. Valhalla Boathouse Theatre, 1 Valhalla Road, South Lake Tahoe, valhallatahoe.com.

MENTALLY SPENT: The band performs as part of the Fox Brewpub Concert Series.

The show takes place outside in the Don McFadden Plaza behind the brewpub. Fri, 8/18, 7:30pm. Free. Bob McFadden Plaza, 310 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 8831369, foxbrewpub.com.

MUSIC INDUSTRY NIGHT: Open your ears to local albums, national releases and more. Make new friends, meet other creatives and/or fans. Drink local beer, plan upcoming projects and learn about some events going on in the area. Wed, 8/23, 9pm. Free. St. James Infirmary, 445 California Ave., (775) 657-8484.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH: The series continues

with music by Big Blu Soul Revue. Fri, 8/18, 6pm. Free. Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, (530) 546-9000, northtahoebusiness.org.

P’OPERA! A-GO-GO: A showcase of music

from the 1960s and 1970s. Sun, 8/20, 5pm & 7:30pm. $30. Napa-Sonoma South, 7671 S. Virginia St., (775) 233-5105, poperanv.org.

ONSTAGE CHRIS TUCKER: The actor and comedian brings his stand up comedy tour to Reno. Sat, 8/19, 8pm. $54-$64. Reno Ballroom, 401 N. Center St., (775) 325-7333, www.silverlegacyreno.com.

FUNTIME THEATER—DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Funtime Theatre holds its monthly dinner murder mysteries. The doors open at 5pm with a no host bar.

The show starts at 6:30pm with dinner service starting at 7pm. Open to ages 10 and older. Visit the website for dinner selections. Sat, 8/19, 5pm. $50. Lili’s Family Restaurant, 2325 Kietzke Lane, (866) 449-7630, www.funtimetheater.com.

Reno Pirate Crawl

8/19:

Sea dogs, sea wenches, sea monsters and everything in between are invited to set sail for drinking adventures during the ninth annual bar crawl in downtown Reno. There will be pirate encampments, themed entertainment, free admission to 20 participating bars and clubs, food and drink specials and more for those merry mariners ages 21 and older who purchase a $5 commemorative cup and map. The crawl starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 19, at Harrah’s Plaza, 219 N. Center St. Call 624-8320 or visit crawlreno.com/event/piratecrawl.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The festival returns with Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Hound of the Baskervilles performed on alternating nights, TuesdaySunday through Aug. 27. The Monday Night Showcase includes a diverse array of live music and entertainment from a variety of genres. A different performance will be featured each week. Shows start at 7:30pm. Thu, 8/17-Wed, 8/23, 7:30pm. $15$99. Warren Edward Trepp Stage at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697.

THE MOUNTAINTOP: Katori Hall’s play is a fictional depiction of the Reverend Martin Luther King’s last night on earth set entirely in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination on April 4, 1968. Performances are ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 18-Sept. 16. Fri, 8/18-Sat, 8/19, 7:30pm. $15. Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

PINOCCHIO: Laughing Owl Productions presents an original adaptation of Pinocchio based on the story by Carlo Collodi. Thu, 8/17, 4:30pm. Free. St. Mary’s Amphitheater, 800 Victorian Square, Sparks, (775) 737-8942.

RENO IMPROV SHOW: An evening of spontaneous comedy. Every week is a new show. Sat, 8/19, 8pm. $5. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Sierra School of Performing Arts presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical. Performances are on Thursday-Sunday through Aug. 26. Thu, 8/17-Sun, 8/20, 7:30pm. $15-$40.

Hawkins Outdoor Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 852-7740.

THREE LITTLE GIRLS: Piper’s Opera House presents Makayla Rose Taylor as Lotta Crabtree, Maude Adams and Emma Nevada, three little girls who performed at Piper’s Opera House. Thu, 8/17, noon. $5-$15. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433.

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GUIDED HIKE: Enjoy a guided hike through Galena Creek Park with a local specialist.

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 8/19, 10am. Free, donations welcome. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

RENO ACES: The minor league baseball team plays the Fresno Grizzlies. Sat, 8/19, 7pm; Sun, 8/20-Tue, 8/22, 7pm. $8-$33. Greater

Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 3347000, www.renoaces.com.

for Healthy Aging offers this free senior walking program for people age 50 and older at Meadowood Mall on Wednesday.

Snacks and water will be provided. Wed, 8/23, 9am. Free. Meadowood Mall, 5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, (775) 384-4324.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND COFFEE: This group gets together every other Saturday to discuss different topics of Spanish grammar over coffee and cookies or sweet bread. You will receive a binder with content corresponding to the day’s lesson. Sat, 8/19, 11:30am. $10. Training Connexion, 4600 Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, (775) 224-6271.

RENO ACES: The team plays the Sacramento

River Cats. Thu, 8/17-Fri 8/18, 7pm. $9$34. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.renoaces.com.

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LIFESTYLE BOARDGAMERS OF RENO: Boardgamers of Reno play a variety of Euro-style board games that rely more on planning and tactics than simply rolling a die and moving. The event is open to anyone who wants to play. Tue, 8/22, 5pm. Free.

Baldini’s Casino, second floor, 865 S. Rock Blvd., Sparks, (775) 453-8406.

MYSTERY BOOK CLUB: This month’s selection is Motive by Jonathan Kellerman. Sun, 8/20, 1pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100-A Pyramid Highway, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

OUTDOOR SPANISH GROUP: Practice speaking Spanish in an outdoor setting. Sun, 8/20, 7am. Free. Training Connexion, 4600

Kietzke Lane, Bldg. B, Ste. 117, (775) 2246271, www.trainingconnexion.com.

age 16 or older, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. There are some weight and height restrictions for donors younger than 23 and parental permission is required for all 16-year-old and 17-year-old donors. Contact United Blood Services to make an appointment. Thu, 8/17-Fri, 8/18; Mon, 8/21-Wed, 8/23. Free.

United Blood Services, 1125 Terminal Way, (775) 324-6454.

HEALING HEARTS: Express emotions and relax through painting. Find solace and enjoy the company of other caregivers, family members and loved ones with memory loss. Tue, 8/22, 1pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650-A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

IDLEWILD HEALTH WALKS: These interpretative walks are a safe and supportive environment designed to offer people in all stages of Alzheimer’s and their care-partners an opportunity to get outdoors, get some exercise and socialize with their peers. Tue, 8/22, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

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Knight of the living dead When my husband comes home from a stressful day at work, he likes to play shoot-’em-up games on his phone. He says it relaxes him. I’d like to connect and talk before he goes into his mental man cave. Your advice?

It turns out that in dealing with emotional stress, men and women have some different neurochemical overlords.

If men’s had a name, it would be The Earl of Overkill, which is to say men tend to react neurochemically to social stress as they would to being chased through the woods by a maniac with a crossbow. First, there’s a surge of epinephrine and norepinephrine, neuromessengers (a.k.a. neurotransmitters) that are the bandleaders of the brain’s “fight or flight” reaction. These kick off survival-promoting changes in the body, like the heart beating faster, the release of the energy-mobilizing stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol and blood coursing to the arms and legs.

Meanwhile, systems not needed to fight back or scram—like digestion and higher reasoning—get powered down. Higher reasoning goes all lights out. So trying to “connect and talk” with a stressedout man is like trying to have a debate with a vacant warehouse.

It’s even worse from the man’s end. He’s gotten chemically and otherwise physiologically mobilized to bolt or do battle. But when there’s no crossbow-wielding dude to run from—just a bunch of social stress—there’s no use for all of these bodily resources that have been mustered up.

Psychologist John Gottman calls the effect from this “flooding,” explaining that men feel very physically uncomfortable and get extremely frustrated that their access to the brain’s departments of insight and witty bits is blocked.

Not surprisingly, what makes them feel better is mentally checking out until these uncomfortable feelings go away.

Unfortunately, the thing that makes men feel better is in direct conflict with what works for women. Psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women’s reaction to emotional stress is mediated by

oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that facilitates emotional bonding. This leads to what she calls a “tend and befriend” response—self-soothing through caring for and emotionally engaging with others. In other words, women tend to deal with emotional stress monsters by gabbing them down to size.

But, good news. You can have what you need if you just wait for your husband to have what he needs—time to calm down and reset so his brain’s higher reasoning center is no longer in “Hello, my name is Cinderblock!” mode.

Decide together how much time that needs to be—half an hour, maybe?

After that, he should put down the flamethrower and “advance to the next level”—spoken-word communication.

Little Photoshop of halos Though the guy I broke up with recently was, ultimately, a pothead with zero ambition, I can’t stop thinking about all the sweet moments. This feels better in the moment but just keeps me pining.

How can I have a more balanced mental picture?

We’ve got tons of information back in storage in our long-term memory. However, we can only bring out and reflect on a few pieces of information at a time.

Predictably, we gravitate to memories of ourselves as, say, a beloved partner who made smart choices— as opposed to one who jumped in without looking and then upcycled the growing pile of red flags into dog beds to sell on Etsy.

You need a virtual drone cam to help you see the whole landscape at once, and it’s called “an index card.” On it, list all the bummer stuff about your ex that you need to keep in mind. Maybe save a photo of it on your phone. This should help you keep those pesky upsides in perspective. Ω

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to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard.

This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion – never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life. Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Congratulations! I

expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming days

would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher.

I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your education

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may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love someone, set

them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach.

“If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1892, workers

began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-

essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them – with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many countries

has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic.

I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You know about

the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s a definition

of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’ – imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 43 cartoon

stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You temporarily

have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob.

Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings.

But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.

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How many years have you been coming to the event?

What vehicle did you bring with you?

It’s a ’57 Chevy pickup.

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Tell me about it.

I’ve owned it for 34 years.

It’s a nice-looking truck. Was it in that shape when you got it?

No. No. It was a mess. It was a basketcase. I bought it for a project.

Have you taken home any awards with it?

Why do you come here?

One is the venue: Reno—the gambling.

That, and it’s a week long. It’s a lot of fun. The cruises, I mean, there’s so many things to do—different casinos, different venues every day. You don’t get that anywhere else.

What have you seen change over the years?

You can tell when corporations get involved and it’s all about the money— but, I guess, it’s the times.

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Can you be more specific?

Well, it’s changed even in the last couple of years. When Barrett-Jackson [Auction Company] got involved with the auction, you know, it almost seemed like they were taking over a lot the things that the Hot August Nights outfit was doing themselves.

I didn’t really care for that, but I know they’re trying to raise money for charity and whatever they can get. But it makes it bad when you’re trying to count on things that normally are there—that aren’t.

And the development down here [near Victorian Square in Sparks] has taken away a lot the parking, a lot of the space

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for cars. People don’t want to come when they can’t park. It’s crowded.

It took me ages to park today. I’m like three-quarters of a mile east of here.

And I apologize to the people who live in Reno and Sparks, because we know what kind of a problem it is when they close the streets and all that stuff.

Not so much, I think. By the way, do you have a favorite venue to park your ride?

I like here, and actually downtown Reno.

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by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Unpresidented Racism has been a nasty, pernicious national bugaboo for quite some time—like, for every day there’s been a United States.

And it’s a real shitty bugaboo, at that. So it’d be nice if our National Valedictorian Jared would push “Racism Resolution” to the top of his admittedly jam-packed “Things To Do” list. Maybe tackle this thorny racist thing right after he gets the Middle East all squared away? Because all this KKK Nazi white nationalist jive really is just a pain in the ass and a public relations nightmare, and goddammit, aren’t we ready to just be over it, fercrissake? So yeah, Jared, make it a priority, wouldja?

• Like you, I was shocked at Dum Dum’s unbelievably fawning deference to his Beloved Russian Dom recently when he made the meekest of little pipsqueak remarks about how The Great

Putin was doing the U.S. a favor by kicking those 755 Americans in Moscow out of Russia. It was the most simpering snivelsnipe from this pseudo-president that Sarah Sanders keeps insisting is such a “fighter.” Oh, really? This submissive blather about how Lord Vlad was helping America by eliminating all those salaries sure didn’t sound all that feisty. And no, there wasn’t any room whatsoever for that tiredest of excuses, the old “he was making a joke” defense.

The unbelievable and undeniable truth of this bizarro moment was that Trump accepted Putin’s word without question, so much so that Dum Dum was instantly ready to accept that Vlad Daddy had fired those 755 Americans, even though any nimrod on Trump’s staff would have been able to inform our phony President that Putin can’t even fire the frigging BUS BOYS in our Embassy, and there was

certainly no reduction of payroll by even a stinking nickel. It was all revoltingly astonishing.

In the aftermath of this unpresidented scene, I was caught up. “Why is Trump such a suckup to fucking Putin? Why won’t he say even one mildly negative thing about Vlad and Russia?” It’s now blatant brown-nosing on a scale that’s just flat out weird. What in the hell is going on?

And then—light bulb moment.

Bingo. I think I got it. Check it out.

The pee pee tape is real. Of course it’s real. And Lord God Bufu Vlad has DVD copies in his desk, all packaged and ready to ship, the first two going to the NYT and WaPo. • I’ll give the Klan Nazis White Assholes credit for one thing. Last Sunday morning, after their little Goonfest in Virginia, nobody gave a poop about wacky old North Korea! Ω

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