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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

All right, everyone. It is officially time for our annual 95Word Fiction Contest. The goal is to write a short story that is exactly 95 words long—not 96 or 94. It has to be exact. It’s an exercise in creative writing under pressure.

Here’s an example: “I Want a New Drug,” he said.

“I Can’t Go for That,” I countered.

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” he shot back.

“I Just Want to Be Your Everything,” I replied.

“I Want to Hold Your Hand,” he retorted.

“Where Did Our Love Go?” I asked.

“What’s Love Got to do with It?” he exclaimed “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” I said.

To which he replied, “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.”

Choosing our roadtrip playlists is always a chore.

There you go. It’s an all right story, but I bet you can do better. We want 95 words—as counted by LibreOffice, Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Email submissions to renofiction@ newsreview.com and include the subject line “Fiction 2017.”

You’ll need to put each story you submit in the body of an email, because we definitely won’t open strange attachments. We require the author’s name, email address and phone number listed above each story. (That stuff won’t count toward your word count, and will be removed before judging.) Titles are acceptable—but not required—and don’t affect word count.

Stories must be received before 9:01 a.m. on Jan. 11. We’ll publish the outstanding stories and award prizes to the very best. Need some inspiration?

Look at last year’s winners here: http://bit.ly/2hXyvG6.

Re “Don’t use art as troll bait” (editorial, Nov. 30) and “In transit” (Art of the State, Nov. 30): I just wanted to express my gratitude for your two articles on my new Transition Portal sculpture that was just unveiled at the TRI center.

Josie Glassberg’s was well written except for the comment about the “waiting for the light” was really my referring to the sky being not dark enough to show off the lights yet, it had nothing to do with the lights not working! So I said we should wait a bit.

Unfortunately, she characterized it as a faulty sculpture, which was definitely not the case.

When we did hit the switch and turn on the lights, it was a great moment! I was also a bit dismayed that she compared my sculpture to a phallus. It’s pretty clear my intent was for it to look inspiring like futuristic gothic arches, or an emerging cathedral doorway. But as Georgia O’Keefe said about her paintings of flowers: “People see what they want to see;” Roger Norman thought it looked “too feminine!” Anyhow, the rest of Josie’s article was great.

Your recent editorial about not using art for troll bait was incredibly thoughtful and intelligent. Although I didn’t witness the so-called “reporter’s” ignorant screed about something he knew nothing about, his lack of curiosity about the sculpture’s real meaning reveals him to be a hack, desperate for any kind of media attention. That’s pretty pathetic. You communicated that elegantly in your editorial, and I so appreciate that.

I do wish there was someplace I could actually share the meaning of the sculpture, and why public art is important to society, and take the guess work out of this artwork. I think many of us take for granted the beauty and sanity that creativity adds to our communities and to our identities—let alone the joy that it gives to see something beautiful.

Kate Raudenbush New York

Our Constitution protects us from government including our financial freedom by preventing “direct taxation”. The Founding Fathers of our Constitution recognized the evil nature of taxing productivity and specifically forbade direct taxation in Article I Sections 2, 8 and 9. It all changed in February 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment that enables direct taxation and without limits.

Six months late came the first legal income tax, then the IRS, payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare and tax withholding.

The 16th Amendment gave the federal government huge new taxing power and we lost freedom, liberty and civil rights. The 16th Amendment enables a graduated income tax, the second requirement for a communist state per The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.

The 16th Amendment makes us all slaves to our government.

The big issues of tax reform are tax evasion, moving the tax base from production to consumption, and ending direct taxation with the repeal of the 16th Amendment. The Ways and Means Committee is ignoring these three problems. The FAIRtax bill HR25/S18 solves these problems plus the 31 reasons presented by the Ways and Means Committee.

Paul Livingston Jacksonville, Fl.

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Public jerks To all males living in this country I issue a collective statement: enough already! Who are you to impose your sexual desires on someone because they did not give you their consent? Once again we are witnessing those in authority positions taking advantage of the situation. Resignation is the least you can do. Prosecution is the best we can do.

And we will. What did you expect to gain from making sexual advances on a human being? If this isn’t an indication of the failure to grow up, I don’t know what is. Those men

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who have permeated this transgression must seek counseling before they destroy more lives executing their perverted conquest.

Otherwise time spent in prison will allow them to dwell on their evil actions while trying to survive an environment which is the closest equivalent to hell on earth.

Perhaps I had the advantage of growing up with four sisters in my family which some say predispositions males to be kinder to females throughout all stages of their life.

Frankly I remember times when I was embarrassed for making incidental contact with a female followed by an immediate apology.

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The snow and the mountains. I mean, I always enjoy the mountains. That’s why I live here, but I feel like in the winter, there’s a different magic to it. The snow in the mountains is the reason I stay here. I snowboard a lot. I love the adventure aspect of it.

Br andon Longmire Bartender

Snowboarding brings out the best in all of the people who go up there. It definitely brings friends together who haven’t been together, to share the love of the sport. I can’t stop smiling when I’m on the mountain.

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Heller’s awful tax bill It often seems as though, if Republicans had legislation before them dealing with vehicle liens, dental assistants or beekeeping, they would find a way to include subsidies for the rich. Every time we turn around, the GOP is pitching a new way to give unearned money to the one percent.

It’s hard to believe that this is the party that once attacked George McGovern for supposedly supporting income redistribution to benefit the working poor.

Republicans don’t talk about income redistribution much anymore, since it would invite comparisons with GOP income redistribution subsidizing the rich at the expense of workers. Redistributing income upward nearly defines the GOP now.

It is one of the features of the Republican tax bill in Congress. The right wing Tax Foundation has analyzed the Republican Senate measure and concluded the lower 80 percent of taxpayers would keep 1.1 to 1.9 percent more of their income—at first. The wealthiest one percent of taxpayers would keep about 7.5 percent more of their income. But as time passes, the foundation said most of us at the bottom will keep only 0.3 to 0.4 percent more. Ah, but those folks at the top? They would then keep 4.5 percent more.

While it may seem like just another way for the Trumps to enrich themselves from the presidency, it doesn’t stop there. According to the conservative U.S. News and World Report, the Republican tax bill would also make college less affordable, allow fetuses to be beneficiaries of tax free investments, remove the ban on tax-exempt religious groups being involved in politics,

allow drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and slash Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. Do these sound like tax reform to you?

Make college less affordable? What sanitychallenged legislator came up with that? Dean Heller has written a tweet reading, “I was asked earlier today if I read the tax bill. Read it? I helped write it!”

This country has a stake in education, to keep the United States competitive.

“Specifically, it rescinds the interest deduction for student loans; eliminates the $2,500 tax credit available to parents; taxes tuition waivers as income for graduate students; and places a tax on college endowments, reducing the funds more than 150 colleges across the country have for scholarships for students in need of financial aid …” U.S. News reports. “Proceeds from college endowments support students from lowerincome families, enabling students from all backgrounds to graduate with less debt. Its elimination therefore will limit the number of students colleges can subsidize, creating an educational disparity between people of different economic backgrounds.”

At a time when the State of Nevada is ladling out corporate welfare for high tech firms, government’s federal hand is taking away small ways of helping parents and students.

Heller really should not brag about writing this bill, but parents and students should keep it in mind next year when he asks for their votes. What was in his mind when he made life more difficult for them? Ω

I hate winter. What are the best things about winter? Warm beds and hot toddies. But roads are bad. People are terrible.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

A tax bill minus any reforms Have we ever lived in such a leaderless time, when the lack of integrity is so glaringly obvious and contributes so easily to the disillusionment and apathy of our voters? Hypocrisy defined by Webster’s is “a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one’s real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.”

You don’t have to look far in politics to observe the hypocrites, beginning with Washoe County’s Republican state senators who continue to support bogus recalls of three of their female nonpartisan and Democratic colleagues with their complicit silence. Someone recently excused Sen. Heidi Gansert to me, saying Gansert endorses the recalls out of political necessity related to her caucus membership, but I disagree. If she is feigning a position she doesn’t truly hold for political gain, she’s simply a hypocrite, and I think much less of her for it.

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National Republicans continue their hypocrisy in promoting tax cuts for the rich that will add $1.4 trillion to the national deficit over the next 10 years while raising taxes on millions of middle class families. We all know the trickle down theory of tax cuts for the rich is a huge lie, just like the myth that eliminating the estate tax will protect the family farm.

In fact, the Des Moines Register in the farm state of Iowa points out that a very small number of Iowa taxpayers owe estate taxes each year, and those who do are probably “not farmers or small business owners.” That didn’t stop their U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley from justifying his support for eliminating the estate tax in order to keep family farms in business. He then revealed his utter contempt for anyone who isn’t affected by this tax, which is only applied to those with assets above $5.5 million for individuals and $11 million for couples.

Grassley said “I think not having the

estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.” At least he’s being honest about his beliefs while he insults the nation’s workers.

Republicans often pretend to be serving their constituents, even though it’s blatantly obvious the real beneficiaries of their actions are themselves.

For example, Sen. Tim Johnson, the Republican who first raised doubts about the tax bill, was concerned that it would benefit corporations more than his family business. Once adjustments were made to increase his personal income, he couldn’t wait to jump on board.

The Republican modus operandi these days is to avoid public hearings at all cost and ram and jam their donorrequested bills through the fastest way possible. That way opposition can’t be effectively mobilized, and there’s no need to endure opinion pieces or

public discussion. And, conveniently, Republicans don’t have to actually interact with their constituents.

On Thanksgiving morning, a handful of protesters drove out to Smith Valley to let Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller know they are watching his actions on a number of critical issues. Instead of walking to the road from his ranch house to chat with the protestors, or perhaps bring them a slice of pumpkin pie, Heller chose to amplify the protest with a snide tweet, accompanied by a picture of the protestors with their Trump chicken.

Hundreds of people responded to Heller on Twitter. The vast majority of them took him to account for not listening to his constituents and supporting tax cuts for millionaires who’ve never been near a family farm and companies with foreign earnings, but it was clear he had no intention of listening. The only way to get his attention is to vote him out. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

The capitalist view of net neutrality The new Republican-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, announced on Nov. 21 the commission would soon vote to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order (OIO) net neutrality regulations imposed by the former Democratic-appointed chair, Tom Wheeler. Pai called net neutrality “a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist.”

Net neutrality, or the regulation of Internet Service Providers under the rules in Title II governing telephones, is supposed to keep the internet “open” and “equal.”

Only, the most important thing is to keep the internet free. Pai’s resolution is named Restoring Internet Freedom.

The long-term trend of the world wide web is innovation and creativity. The internet is only a few decades old, and it has changed the world. So why has net neutrality inspired such passions by both proponents and opponents who otherwise would be happily liking each other’s posts and tweets?

At bottom, net neutrality is a debate over capitalism. Net neutrality advocates are terrified that the freedom enjoyed by the commercial internet will create that old progressive nightmare—monopoly power used to generate obscene profits while consumers are forced to pay more.

The specter of monopoly power arising in a relatively free market where new entrepreneurs can enter without artificial barriers is nothing more than a bad dream caused by a bit of undigested meat.

Private market monopolies are extremely hard to sustain against new competition.

Net neutralists cannot point to real-world examples.

What exactly is wrong with paying more for services you desire, or, for that matter, paying less for what is adequate for you? People pay for first class, economy, extra leg room seats, early boarding and other ancillary services every time they take a plane trip. Why shouldn’t Necromancer holed up in his parents’ basement playing Forge of Empires not

be able to pay extra for the extreme bandwidth he wants? Someone who only logs into social media and streams some movies would happily pay less for what is adequate for his needs.

The anti-capitalist mentality is morbidly static and pessimistic. It sees a world where everyone is looking out for their own self interests as a world without a conscience. Competition is portrayed as a zero sum game like sports contests when in fact firms are competing to serve the public in a dynamic win/ win process. Profit is not the theft of the surplus value of the working class. Profit is the reward for efficiently satisfying the needs of the masses.

Those who favor government regulation because of fear of commercial monopoly power have an exaggerated opinion of the competence of the state.

It is government regulatory power that often is the source of monopoly power.

Pai has accused social media giants (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) of a

kind of regulatory capture, claiming they filter far more content than ISPs can under the OIO regime while loudly telling users they favor an open internet.

Commissioner Pai believes internet competition violations should be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission instead of the FCC. Even more important, large government agencies should not be able to have the power to institute contradictory regulatory frameworks every few years. Markets need stability to encourage long term investments.

Our elected representatives in Congress should step up and assume responsibility to clearly define internet property rights and procedures.

On the other hand, Congress is busy attacking social media and internet service providers over political and sexual content this session. I am not confident the serial gropers on Capitol Hill should have much power over the internet, either. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

race run from nevada

On Oct. 4, Donald Trump visited Natalie Vanderstay of Santa Clara at University Medical Center in Las Vegas. Vanderstay is one of the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. Trump does not have cordial relations with all Nevada patients.

Former Massey Energy Company Chair and CEO Don Blankenship has filed his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia, but he must run from Nevada. The former coal exec, who retired with a $27.2 million golden parachute, was indicted for conspiracy to violate federal mine safety and health standards over an incident in which 30 workers died.

He was convicted on a minor charge and served a year in prison. Blankenship is currently prohibited from leaving Nevada.

The Charleston Gazette Mail reports, “Since his indictment, Nov. 14, 2014, Blankenship and his criminal justice lawyers repeatedly said he had moved to Las Vegas ... and that the Nevada city was his home. ... More recently, Blankenship sought and received court approval to have his supervised release transferred to federal officials in Las Vegas because that is where he lives.”

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reno citizen of the year Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Sports Illustrated: “I have never been prouder to be an American. … Since Colin first declined to stand for the national anthem on Aug. 14, 2016, to call attention to the astounding number of unarmed African-Americans killed by police, the citizens have responded with both praise and condemnation, just as they always have whenever anyone exercises their right to free speech on a contentious topic. This is the same treatment bold Americans of conscience have always received.

People rarely want to hear the truth when that truth reveals problems they don’t want to face. It’s easier to blame the messenger and ignore the message. He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem.

That’s why Colin has been vilified and glorified, ostracized and memorialized, demonized and idolized.

“Though supporters have come and gone, Colin has never wavered in his commitment. This selfless courage has inspired other athletes—from high school to professional ranks—across all sports, races and genders to make their voices heard. He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem. Sports Illustrated’s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award was created to honor individuals whose career in athletics has directly or indirectly impacted the world. On Nov. 30, it was reported that a group of about 40 NFL players and league officials had reached an agreement for the league to provide approximately $90 million between now and 2023 for activism endeavors important to African-American communities. Clearly, this is the result of Colin’s one-knee revolution and of the many players and coaches he inspired to join him.

That is some serious impact. Upon hearing about the establishment of the award in his honor, Ali said, ‘I know there will be a great tradition of champions to receive this award in the future, and I look forward to celebrating their spirit and accomplishments.’

Were my old friend still alive, I know he would be proud that Colin Kaepernick is continuing Ali’s tradition of being a selfless warrior for social justice.”

—Dennis Myers

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Now you see it New devices create new court tests of public records on Sept. 20, donald trump sent out a tweet signaling his support for the latest version of a Republican health care plan, this one called the Graham-Cassidy bill.

“I hope Republican Senators will vote for Graham-Cassidy and fulfill their promise to Repeal & Replace ObamaCare. Money direct to States!” he wrote.

But before Trump posted that message, his account blocked Nevadan Laura Packard, a patient with stage four cancer. When she tried to go to his Twitter feed, she read, “@realDonaldTrump blocked you.”

She posted her own tweet: “Omg. The President of the United States just personally blocked me.”

It wasn’t all that surprising that the volatile Trump would take such action.

Packard had written a June 27 article for U.S. News & World Report, “Save Obamacare, Save My Life,” that read in part, “The kind of cancer I have, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, can be cured— even in stage four, which is the worst of

the worst. My oncologist says there’s a 90 percent cure rate. Obamacare is going to help save me—if I can keep my health insurance.”

She had also been tweeting at Trump for months, usually on health care. And last week, Packard was ejected from a Libre Forum with U.S. Sen. Dean Heller at Palace Station in Las Vegas. (Heller’s office said it was Palace Station security who removed Packard and nine other participants, but Heller saw it happen and did not intervene.)

And her own tweets were headed “Laura Packard (P.S. Pls ban the nazis already).”

Nevertheless, Trump had no business blocking unclassified public records from U.S. citizens, whatever he may think of their opinions.

“The president is the president of the United States, so they’re considered official statements by the president of the United States,” said former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer on June

6, describing Trump’s tweets. In one lawsuit before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Justice Department took the same position, that Trump’s tweets are official documents.

“We don’t think the president should block any American citizen on social media—period,” said Alex Howard of the Sunlight Foundation of the Packard case. The foundation works for transparency in government.

Nevertheless, many officials at various levels of government follow Trump’s example—doing things with public records until someone, usually a court, tells them they can’t. And new forms of communicating records give them the opportunity to try new ways of putting up obstacles to access.

A few days ago, ProPublica reported that after making public records requests to all governors and 22 federal agencies for their lists of blocked citizens, they found that at least 1,298 accounts are being blocked by various governors and agencies. Nevada’s governor was not mentioned as a problem.

In Missouri, the Kansas City Star last week reported that Gov. Eric Greitens and his personal staffers are using an app—Confide—that erases messages after they’re read.

In Nevada, the blocking government Twitter feeds is not usually a problem.

Nevada’s governor, Brian Sandoval, is not usually the kind of figure who attracts much in the way of harsh attacks.

His own tweets tend to be on fairly safe subjects. As this is written, his latest tweet reads, “The timeless words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the day following the #PearlHarbor attacks have been etched into our nation’s collective memory, when he declared December 7, 1941 as a ‘date which will live in infamy.’” As a result, there is seldom reason for blocking. “I wouldn’t know how to do that,” Sandoval’s chief of staff Mike Willden told us.

But the use of email does cause some disputes. There have been some Nevada Supreme Court rulings that have been generally supportive of public access to emails by public officials. Indeed, he thinks the court has more or less settled the issue of new forms of communication and their place in the public records law—but officials keep bringing such issues to the court.

“The court has been good and fairly consistent, but in each of those cases

officials find something that lets them try During arguments before the Nevada again,” said Nevada Press Association director Supreme Court, questions from justices Barry Smith. He pointed to a current case suggested they saw the use of private devices before the court between Lyon County and the as a way of circumventing the law.

Comstock Residents Association. The residents Smith said of the justices, “If they rule the suspect county officials of being too cozy with wrong way, it could be a disaster,” but that Comstock Mining Inc., which has an open pit if they rule in line with their previous cases, mine operation in Silver City. Under the state public access should be protected. A ruling by public records law, the residents sought all a lower state district court said communications contacts between county and corporate between the commissioners and the officials on both public and private corporation were not public. devices. The residents’ lawyer, Smith said one item that is John Marshall, compared fertile ground for officials who using private devices to keep trying to block access avoid compliance with to records is the “balancing disclosure with someone test” in Nevada. This is not in past years taking a a legislative enactment. It personal typewriter to was created by the Nevada work and writing official Supreme Court in 1990 documents on it. in a case called Donrey With some governof Nevada v. Bradshaw. It Barry Smith ment entities, elected created several categories Nevada Press Association officials are supplied with of records the courts can keep government-issued laptops closed although the law says they and cell phones and advised to are open. use those for their official business.

Smith also said the Nevada State That is not the case with the Lyon County Library and Archives has done a good job of Commission, though commissioners are given keeping state records policies up to date on official email addresses and advised to limit what is and is not a record. their official emails to those addresses.

“They’ve spent a good deal of time Lyon County District Attorney Steve Rye on that issue and topic, and I have talked said communications generated by commisto them on it a number of times, on court sioners on their private devices are not in the records more than anything else,” he said. “custody” of the county, so the county cannot “I’ve quibbled with them on a few things, supply them. but they are pretty good at it.” Ω

“The court has been good and fairly consistent.”

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THE SHEEP SHOW: The Wild Sheep Foundation

2ND ANNUAL RENO RUN 4 LOVE: The race through downtown Reno features an after party in the Reno Ballroom with champagne, chocolate, music and more. Run solo or form a two-person team. All ages and abilities are welcome. This year’s race is part of the Truckee River Triple series and benefits Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada. Sun 2/11, 8:30am. $20-$40. Reno Ballroom, 401 S. Center St., renorun4love.com.

ALPENGLOW LAKE TAHOE BACKCOUNTRY DEMO DAY: Alpenglow Sports partners with Alpine Meadows to provide its annual Lake Tahoe Backcountry Demo Event. Participating vendors include DPS, Black Crows, Dynafit, Tecnica, Blizzard, G3, Scarpa, NTN, Salomon, Scott, Marker, Volkl, Twenty-Two Designs, La Sportiva, Voile, Moment, Julbo, Fly Low, and Jones Snowboards. The event is free, but participants must possess a valid lift ticket or season pass along with a drivers license and credit card to participate. Sat, 1/9, 9am-3pm. Free entry with ski lift ticket.

Alpine Meadows, 2600 Alpine Meadows Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com. most skilled cyclocross competitors in America are tested in the high altitudes and difficult terrain of Rancho San Rafael Park during the 44th annual event. Competitor classes include men and women in elite, U-23, masters, juniors and collegiate. Mon, 1/8-Mon 1/15. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., legacy.usacycling. org/2018/cxnationals.

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Event featuring fire trucks, snowplows and grooming machines, as well as street parties and kids’ concerts, an all-kid game and craft room and other events. Sat, 2/17-Sat, 2/24, 5pm. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.

MARDI GRAS DANCE PARTY: The Reno Blues Society’s annual dance party and fundraiser features a silent auction and performances by the Blues Monsters and Maxx Cabello Jr. Sat, 2/17, 7:30pm. $17-$22. Center Court Grille, 6000 Plumas St., www.renoblues.org.

NEVADA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Reno Chamber Orchestra’s annual festival features 11 concerts showcasing worldclass musicians and the best in classical music, culminating with a New Year’s Day celebration. Concerts take place at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Nightingale Concert Hall on the UNR campus and the South Reno United Methodist Church. Tue, 12/26-Mon, 1/1. $5-$250. Nightingale Concert Hall, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413.

RENO LATIN DANCE FEST: The 10th annual

TThanks for grabbing a copy of our annual Winter Guide. I can’t believe that as I’m writing this, the first day of winter is only about a week away.

To be honest, though, I’m already counting the days until spring.

Winter’s really not my thing. But I know lots of local folks love it, and I do really enjoy this little guide, which is full of fun things you can do—outdoors and in—during the next few months. Here’s what we’ve got for you.

On page 14, there’s a story from writer and photographer Shaun Hunter about winter photography. He also took the photo on the cover. If you’ve ever wanted to take your camera into the great outdoors to get great snowy shots, I recommend giving this story a read.

If, like me, you’re not a big fan of the cold, check out Bailey Mecey’s story on page 17. He put together a guide to some of the ways you can stay active this winter without freezing your butt off. If you’r a fan of the cold, check out the ski resort directory on page 16.

And over on page 15, you can read a Q&A I did with Kathy Oakes of the Lahontan Audubon Society about its annual Christmas Bird Count—a citizen science initiative that’s happened every winter in the Truckee Meadows since 1963.

I hope your holidays are wonderful and warm.

Stay safe out there!

Regards, Jeri Chadwell RN&R Special Projects Editor jeric@newsreview.com

SIREN SONG MASQUERADE: Note-Able Music Therapy’s 14th annual event includes music by the Reno Jazz Orchestra and The NoteAbles, desserts, champagne, auctions and surprise performances. Sat, 2/10, 8pm. $2$20. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 324-5521, note-ables.org.

SNOWGLOBE FESTIVAL: The three-day music festival features performances by dozens of electronic dance music acts and DJs, including Dillon Francis, Porter Robison, Travis Scott, Zedd, Kalid, Tycho, E-40, Alison Wonderland, Louis Futon, Luca Lush and Brasstracks. Fri, 12/29-Sun, 12/31. $109-$499. Lake Tahoe Community College, 1 College Way, South Lake Tahoe, snowglobemusicfestival.com.

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Convention and Sporting Expo’s outdoor and mountain hunting expo features more than 400 exhibits of the finest guides and outfitters from North America and around the globe, plus retailers selling gear, guns, art, taxidermy, jewelry, furs and other outdoor items. Thu, 1/18-Sat, 1/20. Reno Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., www.wildsheepfoundation.org.

dance festival offers workshops taught by professional instructors, night parties with hours of social dancing with some of the best Latin DJs and an evening dance showcase. Thu, 1/4-Sun, 1/8. $34.99-$300.

Silver Legacy Casino Resort, 407 N. Virginia St., www.renolatindancefest.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sat, 12/23-Sat, 2/24, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

SHEEP DIP 2018: The 54th annual fundraiser show is dedicated to exposing the foibles and follies of the Truckee Meadows (and, sometimes, the whole USA) with laughter, skits, songs and dance. The show is performed every year by locals, members of the media and a few politicians. Sheep Dip raises funds that support charities in the Reno/Sparks area. Fri. 1/12-Sat, 1/13, 8pm.

Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., sheepdipshow.org.

collectibles and crafts show features vendors from Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington. Sat, 1/27-Sun, 1/28, 9am. $4-$5, free admission for kids age 16 and younger.

Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave., www.tannersreno.com.

TAKE FIVE—MAKING ART IN RENO: To celebrate the Biggest Little City’s transformation to an internationally recognized arts destination, Brüka Theatre invited 36 artists to show in just five minutes how they make their magic. Artists include “Space Whale” creator Matt Schultz, Burning Man founder Michael “Danger Ranger” Mikel, musician Cami Thompson, muralist Joe C. Rock, found objects artist Philo Northrup and Campo Executive Chef David Holman, as well as poets, painters, actors, musicians, dancers and improv comics. Proceeds from the event benefit Brüka Theatre’s programming and operating costs for its 25th season. Fri, 1/12-Sat, 1/13, 7pm. $25-$40. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., www.bruka.org.

TEAM USA WINTERFEST: This 13-stop tour stops in Squaw Valley on Jan. 13—bringing the excitement of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018 to Team USA fans around the globe. The multi-stop interactive festival features athlete meet and greets, a Team USA Social Media Truck, Curling Challenge and more. Sat, 1/13, 10am-5pm. Free entry with ski lift ticket.

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com.

WINTERFEST: The holiday event returns with the Holiday Express Train, a custom, narrated journey around the inside of the stadium taking riders on a trip from Reno to the North Pole to deliver Santa’s Naughty and Nice List. Other highlights include pictures with Jolly Old St. Nick in Santa’s Village and ice skating at the outdoor ice rink. Hours are 5-9pm on Friday-Saturday and 4-7pm on Sundays. Fri, 12/22-Sun 12/24; Fri, 12/29-Sun, 12/31. $6-$15. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

ART ART SOURCE GALLERY: Yuyu Yang 20th Anniversary Celebration. This exhibition celebrates the work of Chinese artist, environmental designer and architect Yuyu Yang.

There are over 40 of his world-renowned images on display. Thu, 12/21, 12/28, 1/4, 10:30am. Free. Art Source Gallery, 2195 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525.

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BLUE WHALE COFFEE COMPANY: Midtown Mural Tour. A docent-led tour of more than 40 of the 70 murals Midtown District Reno has to offer. Learn about the artists, their process and how this form of public art improves the life and culture of a neighborhood. Local, national and international artists are represented. Tickets are available at the door. Sat, 1/13, Sat, 2/10, 11am. $10. Blue Whale Coffee Company, 32 Cheney St., artspotreno.com.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: pressplay—Recent Works. Ceramic artwork by Karl Schwiesow. Gallery walkthrough reception for the artist on Jan. 20, 5-7pm. Thu, 12/21-Sat, 3/24. Free.

Classroom Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

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N Northern Nevada’s explosive autumn colors—particularly the golds and crimsons painting the Truckee and Carson River valleys— make for some incredibly picturesque scenes, and, during the season, it’s pretty common to see everyone from professional landscape photographers set up waiting for the perfect shot to cell phone carrying parents photographing their kids along leaf-covered sidewalks.

Fall has given way to the cold, long nights of winter—but with a little extra effort, you can see that the cold season possesses its own photogenic scenes—snowcovered mountains, icy creek cascades.

Some of them you can get to without even leaving city limits!

Interested in learning some tips and ideas to shoot more dynamic winter photographs, I tagged along with Reno News & Review

RN&R contributor Andrea Heerdt takes a photo of a bird that has landed in her hand at Chickadee Ridge near Lake Tahoe.

Craig Moore of Action Camera discusses winter photography with Andrea Heerdt.

contributor Andrea Heerdt on an afternoon outing that ended in the snow at the top of Mt. Rose pass.

Reno just got its second camera shop—Action Camera, 5890 S. Virginia St. Between it and Gordon’s Photo Service, 5890 S. Virginia St., locals have good choices when seeking photography classes or just expert advice. We decided to stop by Action Camera, where we questioned staff about what to keep in mind when shooting in the snowy winter landscape.

“I would recommend tripods to beginners, intermediates and professionals,” Craig Moore, the friendly face behind Action Camera’s counter, told us. “With a tripod, you tend to pick your head up away from

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Contingent Lands —Place in the Contemporary West. Paintings of The New American West by Kevin Bell. Artist’s talk, March 10, 5-7pm. Thu, 12/21-Sat, 3/24. Free.

E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH MIDTOWN RENO: Artist Showing and Wine Tasting. Meet the artist of the month and learn what inspires them. Thu, 12/28, Thu, 1/25, Thu, 2/22, 6pm. Free. Fountain of Youth Midtown Reno, 724 S. Virginia St., (775) 964-4888.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Empty Frontier—Narrative Drawings by Jessica Gengenbach. Artist reception on Jan. 4, 5-7pm. Thu, 12/21-Fri, 1/26, 9am-5pm. Free.

McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264.

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the camera and take in the whole scene. It lets you notice more, gives you more time to compose, and lets you use the slower speeds built into your camera to make water and clouds appear smooth.”

Moore held up Andrea’s DSLR camera and pointed out the settings menu on the back.

“When you’re in the bright snow, the camera is going to make things darker, so you have to over-expose,” Moore said. “The button I’m talking about is the plus-minus.

If we’re out snowboarding, and you take a picture of me, I’m going to be dark. If you press the plus button, you can put the light back on your subject.”

As far as gear to improve winter photography is concerned, Moore mentioned a circular polarizer—a filter that you can easily screw onto the front of your camera lens.

“A circular polarizer is the main filter to give you more contrast, to make the blue sky bluer and the greens greener,” Moore explained. “You get more richness of your colors, and it controls glare if you’re shooting in the snow where there’s a lot of light bouncing all over the place.”

Finally, Moore mentioned that cell phones also have the option for apps that can

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Joan Arrizabalaga— Reflexions. See new work by University of Nevada, Reno alumna Joan Arrizabalaga and treasures from Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries’ permanent collection. Gallery hours are noon-4pm, Tuesday-Wednesday; noon-8pm, ThursdayFriday; and 10am-8pm, Saturday. Thu, 12/21-Fri, 2/23. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658.

SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: Lady Jill’s 40 Years of Art Anniversary Exhibition. This collection features transparent watercolors, etchings, pencil drawings and more. Sat, 12/30, 11am. Free. Sparks Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144.

improve winter images taken on the phones.

“You can download apps for iPhone and Android that give you the ability to change F stops, change depth of field, change shutter speed, or change ISO,” Moore said.

Apps like VSCO or Camera+ Lite are available for free and let users have more control over the images they take, giving their phones some of the features of a DSLR camera.

With some of the ideas that Moore had told us in mind, we headed up to Tahoe Meadows at the top of Mt. Rose pass, then strapped on some snowshoes and headed into the white, wintry wonderland overlooking Lake Tahoe. We decided that the photogenic birds at Chickadee Ridge would be our test subjects, so, with granola in hand, we each stood atop the crest of the ridge trying to capture the chickadees while they darted around.

Heerdt, primarily a photojournalist, laughed while holding her camera in one hand and trying to shoot photos of the birds eating from her other hand. The clear blue Tahoe skies were surpassed in richness only by the deep blue water of the lake stretching out far beneath us. Luckily, what we may have lacked in skill was more than compensated for by the easy and epic beauty of the scenes that surrounded us. And those hungry birds stuck around long enough for us to figure out how to get the images we were hoping for.

Eventually we hiked back down to the car, walking through flawless virgin powder as the afternoon shadows stretched farther across the meadows. Driving down from the mountain, I thought that if the pictures turned out better than past attempts at winter shooting, it would be a win. Among the tips that I picked up inside the camera store, another lesson that stuck with me was that winter photography was just as good an excuse as any to bundle up, head outside and spend some time in the beautiful places around the region. Ω

WEST ST. MARKET: Art Walk Reno. The evening will highlight public art and murals and stops at galleries and alternative venues along the way, including Sierra Arts Gallery, Art Indeed Gallery and La Terre Verte. Thu, 1/4, Thu, 2/1, 6pm. $10. West St. Market, 148 West St., (415) 596-4987, artspotreno.com.

MUSEUMS NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: City of Dust—The

Evolution of Burning Man. Thu, 12/21Sun, 1/7; Unsettled. Thu, 12/21-Sun, 1/21; Scholastic Art Awards 2018. Fri, 2/2-Sun, 3/4; Marking the Infinite. Sat, 2/17-Sun, 5/13; Hans Meyer-Kassel—Artist of Nevada. Sat, 2/24-Sun, 9/2. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., www.nevadaart.org.

THE 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 blockbuster exhibition that also features digital and hands-on interactive exhibits that help you uncover Sue’s past and explore the field of paleontology. A T. rex Named Sue will be on exhibit through Jan. 15. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am to 8pm on Wednesday, 10am to 2pm on Thursday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. Thu, 12/21-Mon, 1/15. $10-$12. The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

For the birds Christmas Bird Counts

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Kathy Oakes has been a member of the Audubon Society since 1982.

The T National Audubon Society offers educational programs and lobbies on behalf of bird conservation. It also coordinates the Christmas Bird Count, an annual citizen science project that brings together Audubon Society members and the general public to count birds in places across the U.S. and Canada.

Kathy Oakes, a field biologist, has been a member of the society’s local chapter since 1982. The Lahontan Audubon Society has been organizing Christmas Bird Counts in the Truckee Meadows for more than half a century.

The Audubon Society has been doing these Christmas Bird Counts for many years, right?

This will be our one hundred and eighteenth Christmas Bird Count. So, they’re going into their second century. It all started right around 1900. … It was proposed by Frank Chapman, as an alternative to something they called the Christmas Side Hunt, where people went out and shot birds and small mammals and kind of piled them up. So he suggested that instead of that, people go out and count birds. And 27 people actually participated, and they counted birds on Christmas Day in 25 places throughout the U.S. and into Canada. So it started there, and it’s been running ever since. It’s become much more standardized since around 1960, so that the information can be used reliably. I won’t get into a lot of the details, but we know

WILBUR D. MAY CENTER: Hall of Heroes. Learn about the history of superheroes with props and memorabilia from comics, movies and television. See a recreation of the iconic 1960s Batmobile and Batcave, a life-size replica of the TARDIS from Dr. Who, life-size statues of the Incredible Hulk, Ironman, Batman, Superman and more.

Discover your own super abilities at interactive challenge stations that test agility, memory, reflexes, endurance, strength and speed. Fri, 1/26-Sun, 4/1. $8-$9. Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

how much effort was involved in the number of people and the number of hours for each count. So, you can be sure when you’re looking at a count, if you got a lot more species on one count year, it might be because you had 10 more people involved in looking for the birds. And also we collect information on weather. And last year, there were huge winter storms—and so the number of birds counted in the U.S. and Canada were less than the year before, mostly because of terrible weather conditions.

People weren’t out, or the birds weren’t there last year? I read somewhere, maybe on the Audubon website, that birds, unlike members of Congress, aren’t climate change deniers. Have there been more because the migrators aren’t leaving?

Well, not necessarily that. They are able to track movements of birds—because since the’60s, we have a much more standardized way of looking at it. So, we’ve been able to track movements of individual species. And just to give you an example, data from the 2013 CBC looked back four decades, and they found that 58 percent of the species counted in the U.S. and Canada—so that’s about 117 species out of 305—moved significantly northward. And 60 species moved more than 100 miles northward. So, in the first part of winter, they would find birds that four decades before that, had been found considerably farther south. … Interestingly, species that have moved northward include ones that we might be familiar with. Northern Mockingbird, which didn’t used to be found in the Reno area much at all, is now found fairly regularly in

FILM ALAN RUDOLPH—THE 1980s: Churchill Arts Council presents this film series focusing on the films of Alan Rudolph, including Choose Me on Feb. 2, Trouble in Mind on Feb. 9 and The Moderns on Feb. 16. Fri, 2/2, Fri, 2/9, Fri, 2/16, 7pm. $10-$12. Barkley Theater, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, www.churchillarts.org.

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Christmas Bird Counts here. The mourning dove, since the 1970s, has moved considerably north. And then a couple of other species that we don’t see here, but they do back East—the northern cardinal has expanded its range northward for the winter.

This is revealing important information. I think it’s an interesting chance for nonscientists to get involved.

It’s a great opportunity for that, because we really need people. It’s an all-volunteer effort.

It’s not supported by anything but donations from people who are interested in it. I was looking back on our records, and this is from the National Audubon Society, but from the 2006 CBC, they did a calculation of the value of volunteers, and it came out to be almost five and half million dollars’ worth of volunteer effort and miles driven that contributed to science.

They would not be able to get that kind of effort, if we didn’t have a lot of people coming out for the counts. If people are interested in doing a count, our webpage has all of the current Christmas Bird Counts throughout this area.

And if people want to volunteer, they don’t need to worry if they’re not an experienced birder—because they will be paired by the count leader with somebody who is. ... They just need to contact the count leader—and the leader for each count is listed on the website—and it’s fun.

Can you give me an idea of what a newbie might expect on that day?

Each count circle is 15 miles in diameter, and I think our website has a link to where you can zero-in on the count circles. You can see that the Reno count circle—within which we’ve been counting birds since 1964—is centered right around Windy Hill. It’s actually centered on a reservoir that became part of the Lakeridge Golf Course. From there, that includes most of Reno, a good part of Sparks, all the way down to the Damonte wetlands, over to Hidden Valley. It’s a huge area, but within that area, different parties get assigned to different sections. So, if you show up, you may go with the party that’s going to come out to west Reno, the Caughlin Ranch area. You might go to Sparks. … Within each area—the party that’s assigned—they actually census it such that they can cover much of that area within the day, and they count every bird seen. And they keep a tally of how many people are involved, whether they do it on foot or bike.

There are counts all over the place. I saw one at the Sheldon National Refuge. It says they’re offering lodging and kitchens for volunteers at that one.

Yes, because it’s so remote. And then at the one in Minden is now going to run out of the Nature Conservancy’s Riverfork Ranch.

And many of them include what they call a tally rally—so a dinner where everybody gets together and compiles the data. And so you get some idea right away, really, what species were seen in all. So, anyway, it’s a great way to meet people and to get interested in birds. Ω

Christmas Bird Counts in the region take place between Dec. 15 and Jan. 1. To see locations and dates, visit https://www.nevadaaudubon.org/2017-christmasbird-counts.html.

A Canadian goose rests near the Truckee River in downtown Reno.

CHRISTMAS COUNTRY WITH LACY J. DALTON: The country artist performs holiday favorites and Americana songs. Fri, 12/22, 8pm. $30.

Red Dog Saloon, 76 N. C St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7474, www.reddogvc.rocks.

CLASSIX FOUR—STAR WARS THE MUSIC: Reno Philharmonic continues its 2017-2018 Classix season with a program featuring music from the Star Wars films and Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Music Director Laura Jackson conducts the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus and offers a preconcert talk one hour before the concert on Sunday and one half-hour before the concert on Tuesday. Sun, 2/11, 4pm; Tue, 2/13, 7:30pm. $29-$89. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

CLASSIX THREE—BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR CONCERTO: The Reno Philharmonic

PAVLO IN CONCERT: The award-winning

continues its 2017-2018 Classix season with a program featuring the overture from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Pierre Jalbert’s In Aeternam and Beethoven’s “Emperor” piano concerto. Music Director Laura Jackson conducts the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus and offers a preconcert talk one hour before the concert on Sunday and one half-hour before the concert on Tuesday. Sun, 1/14, 4pm; Tue, 1/16, 7:30pm. $29-$89. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

GERMAN LOPEZ: The master timple player (a five-stringed instrument from the Canary Islands) plays songs from his latest album Canela y Limón. Fri, 1/26, 7pm. North Lake Events Center, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, www.artsfortheschools.org.

recording artist, performer and songwriter performs his brand of “Mediterranean music”—a blend of Greek, flamenco, Latin and Balkan flavors, wrapped in contemporary pop. Wed, 1/24, 8pm. $45.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

PERFORMING ARTS SERIES—THE HOT SARDINES: The New York-based jazz ensemble transports listeners to a different era with brassy horn arrangements, rollicking piano melodies and cool vocals. Tue, 2/6, 7:30pm. $5-$35. Nightingale Concert Hall, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/pas.

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Ski ReSoRt DiRectoRy Are you ready to shred on some powder or take a crosscountry trip through the woods? Check out this guide to the area’s ski resorts.

CROSS-COUNTRY RESORTS

TRAILS (KM)

DESCRIPTION

SKI TERRAIN

ABILITY LEVEL

LIFTS

TRAILS

ACRES

SUMMIT ELEVATION

VERTICAL DROP

BEGINNING

INTER.

ADVANCED

Alpine Meadows www.skialpine.com (800) 403-0206

13

100+

2,400

8,637

1,800

25%

40%

35%

Boreal Mountain Playground www.rideboreal.com (530) 426-3666

8

41

480

7,700

500

30%

55%

15%

Diamond Peak www.diamondpeak.com (775) 832-1177

6

30

655

8,540

1,840

18%

46%

36%

Donner Ski Ranch www.donnerskiranch.com (530) 426-3635

8

52

505

7,781

750

25%

50%

25%

Granlibakken www.granlibakken.com (877) 552-6301

2

1

10

6,700

400

90%

10%

0%

Heavenly Lake Tahoe www.skiheavenly.com (800) 432-8365

28

97

4,800

10,067

3,500

20%

40%

45%

Homewood Mountain www.skihomewood.com (530) 525-2992

8

64

1,260

7,880

1,650

15%

40%

45%

Kirkwood www.kirkwood.com (209) 258-6000

15

86

2,300

9,800

2,000

12%

30%

58%

Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe www.skirose.com (775) 849-0704

8

60+

1,200+

9,700

1,800

20%

30%

50%

ALPINE RESORTS

Kirkwood www.kirkwood.com (209) 258-6000

80

Lessons, rentals, all resort amenities

Northstar California Resort www.skinorthstar.com (800) 466-6784

20

100

3,170

8,610

2,280

13%

60%

27%

Northstar California Resort www.skinorthstar.com (800) 466-6784

35+

Lessons, rentals, groomed trails

Sierra-at-Tahoe www.sierraattahoe.com (530) 659-7453

14

59

2,000

8,852

2,212

25%

50%

25%

Royal Gorge Cross Country www.royalgorge.com (530) 426-3871

200

Groomed trails, lessons, rentals, retail shop, cafes, lodges

Soda Springs www.skisodasprings.com (530) 426-3901

4

13

200

7,300

625

30%

40%

30%

Squaw Creek Nordic www.squawcreek.com (530) 583-6300

18

Lessons, rentals, snowshoeing allowed

Squaw Valley USA www.squaw.com (800) 403-0206

30

170

3,600

9,050

2,850

25%

45%

30%

Tahoe Cross Country Ski www.tahoexc.org (530) 583-5475

65

Lessons, rentals, dog trails, groomed trails

Sugar Bowl www.sugarbowl.com (530) 426-9000

13

103

1,500

8,383

1,650

17%

45%

38%

Tahoe Donner www.tahoedonner.com (530) 587-9400

100+

Lessons, rentals

Tahoe Donner www.tahoedonner.com (530) 587-9400

4

32

120

7,350

600

40%

60%

0%

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RAHIM ALHAJ TRIO: The virtuoso oud

KINKY BOOTS: The Tony Award-winning

musician and composer performs.

Visit website for ticket info. Fri, 2/2, 7pm. Truckee Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St., Truckee, (530) 582-7720, www.artsfortheschools.org.

RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: Cellist Clive Greensmith is featured in the Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky, as well as short compositions by Alexander Glazunov and Lukas Foss. The program also features works by Mozart and Bizet. Sat, 2/17, 7:30pm, Sun, 2/18, 2pm. $5$55. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413.

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musical follows a struggling shoe factory owner who works to turn his business around with help from Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos. Together, this unlikely pair finds that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible—proving that when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world. Fri. 1/26, 8pm; Sat, 1/27, 2pm & 8pm; Sun, 1/28, 2pm & 7pm. $50-$95.

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

THE LION IN WINTER: Brüka Theatre presents James Goldman’s play depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their children and their guests during Christmas, 1183. Fri, 1/26-Sat, 1/27,

8pm; Thu, 2/1-Sat, 2/3, 8pm; Wed, 2/7-Sat, 2/10, 8pm; Sun, 2/11, 2pm; Thu, 2/15-Sat, 2/17, 8pm. $18-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., www.bruka.org.

THE NUTCRACKER: Escape to a land of holiday fantasy with The Reno Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker. Fri, 12/22, 8pm; Sat, 12/23, 3pm & 8pm; Sun, 12/24, 2pm. $19.95$36.95. Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.nuggetcasinoresort.com.

THE OPEN HOUSE: Restless Artists Theatre present Will Eno’s award-winning play about family dysfunction. Fri, 2/9-Sat,

2/10, 7:30pm; Sun 2/11, 2pm; Thu, 2/15-Sat, 2/17, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/18, 2pm; Thu, 2/22-Sat, 2/24, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/25, 2pm. $12-$15.

Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, rattheatre.org.

SMALL ENGINE REPAIR: Restless Artists Theatre Company presents John Pollono’s comic thriller in which a meeting between three former high school buddies takes a dark turn. Fri,

1/5-Sat, 1/6, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/7, 2pm; Thu, 1/11-Sat 1/13, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/14, 2pm; Thu, 1/18 -Sat, 1/20, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/21, 2pm. $12-

$15. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, rattheatre.org.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: Reno Little Theater presents Robert Harling’s play centering on six women as they deal with life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. Fri,1/19-Sat, 1/20, 7:30pm; Sun,

1/21, 2pm; Thu, 1/25-Sat, 1/27, 7:30pm; Sun, 1/28, 2pm; Thu, 2/1-Sat, 2/3, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/4, 2pm; Thu, 2/8-Sat, 2/10, 7:30pm; Sun, 2/11, 2pm. $15-$25. Reno Little

Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

STOMP: The eight-member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments—matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps—to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. Fri, 2/23, 8pm; Sat, 2/24, 2pm & 8pm. $44. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

BRing iT in

of all ages, with many options depending on the mood of the night. Whether you are feeling a bit limber and want to take on the laser maze, or your dad wants to prove his marksmanship in the 3-D zombie shooter arcade ride—Coconut Bowl has something for everybody.

You don’t have to venture into the great outdoors to stay active this winter

To find out more, check out www. wildisland.com/coconut-bowl/

Basecamp

by Bailey Mecey

A winter sets in, many people are As looking forward to spending chilly evenings by an open fire. Winter sports aren’t for everyone—but prolonged idleness can lead to a serious sense of cabin fever. In Reno, you can find a variety of activities to work your body and mind, without strapping on a set of skies or a snowboard.

Coconut Bow l Those hoping for an all-in-one option can find it at Wild Island Coconut Bowl, next to Legends at Sparks. The 40-lane bowling complex also features glow-inthe-dark miniature golf. What makes Coconut Bowl so great is the how well it fits for a family

If your muscles have been feeling deflated by the lack of outdoor activity, Basecamp at Whitney Peak Hotel in downtown Reno features an intensive fitness center with indoor rock climbing walls.

The award-winning rock climbing facility features inexpensive day passes and discounts for students, as well as group fitness classes to work off those holiday pounds.

Cool parents can also host their children’s birthday parties, which includes two hours of climbing and staff supervision.

To find out more, check out httpwhitneypeakhotel.com/climbing/

Break Thr o u g h R eno If you and your friends are in the mood to solve some puzzles and become mildly annoyed with one another, Break Through Reno offers a variety of “escape rooms” to test your mental faculties.

The rooms range from trying to break out of an old West jail to infiltrating a shadowy organization—and there are only only 60 minutes to solve the challenges. Phones and other electronic devices are prohibited while in the room, so those seeking a night off from distractions will be more than pleased. With a $60 minimum, the rooms can be a little tough on the wallet, but its an experience like no other.

To find out more, check out www.breakthroughreno.com

Bund ox B o c c e Want to spruce up date night or add a twist to the company holiday party? Bundox Bocce at the Renaissance Hotel in

downtown Reno has what your looking for. You can challenge yourself to the intense and exotic sport of bocce ball.

What makes this space so unique is how many people can get involved with the action, with up to 72 people being able to play together at once. In addition to bocce ball, the space features ping pong, skee-ball and a full bar.

To find out more, check out www.bundoxbocce.com

Any thi ng V i r tu al Tired with spending long hours slumped on the sofa playing video games but still need that artificial rush? Anything Virtual allows patrons to play virtual reality video games for a fraction of the cost of a VR setup.

Currently, Anything Virtual has a variety of VR games, including high intensity shooter Super Hot VR and quirky sandbox Job Simulator.

To find out more, check out https://anything-virtual.com

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Garrett Barmore surveys some of the Keck Museum’s paleontological collection, stored in the musuem’s vintage display cases.

PHOTO/JERI CHADWELL

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by Jeri Chadwell | j e ri c @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

The Discovery Museum on Center Street was hectic on a Thursday morning in November. Three school buses sat parked in a line outside. Inside, peals of laughter from their young passengers echoed down the corridor.

In the atrium, Patrick Turner, the museum’s vice president of marketing and communications, looked up at the enormous skeletal cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex—the centerpiece of the Discovery’s current temporary exhibition.

The skeleton is one of two replicas of a fossil specimen known as “Sue.” These casts are the property of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, which also owns the real thing. In the nearly 18 years since the real Sue was unveiled in Chicago, the replicas have made the rounds of museums across the globe.

With constituent parts ranging from mechanical models of different T. rex anatomy to bone casts and text materials, the A. T. rex Named Sue exhibition takes up a lot of space. Work with the Field Museum began in October 2016 for Sue’s May debut in Reno.

Some of this time was spent waiting on the exhibition to finish a turn in Boise, Idaho. Another part was spent on the logistics of fitting the 42-foot-long Sue cast and its accompanying materials into the Discovery’s space.

A T. rex Named Sue is the second traveling exhibition the Discovery has hosted. Turner considers it a coup for the museum— something, he said, that wasn’t fathomable back in the museum’s planning phase, when a community board was moving forward before there were even experienced museum professionals involved.

Turner pointed out that the traveling exhibition before this one— Monster Fish—was actually larger. But Sue, it seems, is making the bigger impression.

“We are projecting to be over 210,000 visitors this year—largely because of Sue,” he said. That’s 30,000 more visitors than the museum reported in 2016.

Sue, according to the Field Museum, is the largest, best preserved and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found. The documentary Dinosaur 13 documents Sue’s discovery and an ensuing battle over ownership of her remains. Long story short, she’s a very famous example of the world’s most famous dinosaur species.

However, she’s just one of many fossils kept in museums across the country. In fact, many of these pieces of natural history have been all but forgotten after being pulled from the earth and stored in more traditional repositories.

Even in Reno, there is a wealth of paleontological resources.

Bare Bones

The W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum has sat on the north side of the University of Nevada, Reno quad since it opened in 1908. It houses a collection of objects ranging from minerals and ores to historical mining artifacts and fossils. Only some of it is from Nevada.

“A lot of it really spans the globe,” said museum curator Garrett Barmore. Around the turn of the 20th century, it was common for museums to take a more encyclopedic approach, whereas, said Barmore, “Today, we’re more focused on what we’re good at, which are the Nevada aspects.”

He estimates the museum has about 100,000 objects in total—and he’s in charge of all of them.

“The last time the Keck Museum had a full-time employee was 1936,” Barmore said.

After that, he explained, the museum was only staffed intermittently, when professors on campus took an interest in it. Barmore got the job in 2013 and is the first trained museum professional to ever hold it. He’s also the museum’s only employee. The result, he said, is many, many decades’ worth of catch-up work to do.

“This is something that a lot of museums struggle with—because records keeping and cataloging and collections management takes a lot of resources, to follow best practices,” Barmore said.

In most museums, he said, “record keeping is very hit-and-miss the further back you go. And, also, in a place like this, where there’s really only one professional employee, when there’s turnover, things can get lost. For example, pretty much all the records I have for the paleontology collection is what is on labels on the objects and a card catalog that has a lot of gaps.”

Barmore has spent a great deal of time in the last four years attempting to address this. With the help of volunteer graduate students, he’s been going drawer by drawer through the museum’s collections, recording the available information on each object in a digital database. And he’s getting a better idea of what the museum has.

At least a few of the pieces likely belong to bureaus of the Department of the Interior, whose museum collections are second in size only to those of the Smithsonian Institute. Objects like these were, at some point, left in trust at non-DOI institutions like the Keck Museum. But the DOI’s Office of the Inspector General released a report in 2009 saying that its respective departments had largely failed over the years to keep track of what they’d sent to different museums.

“The majority of our collection is mineralogical and geological,” Barmore said. “I don’t have an exact number for the size, but to kind of give you an idea of the scale, [paleontology] makes up about six cabinets of the entire museum. We have about 60 in the museum.”

According to Barmore, most of the paleontology collection is “comprised of small invertebrates, like trilobites and ammonites,” but in his cataloging quest, he has run across some significant pieces, too.

Among them is the jaw of a Helicoprion, a shark species that swam the Permian seas about 290 million years ago and was unique for the shape of its jaw—an arresting Fibonacci spiral housing rows of buzzsaw teeth. It was discovered in Nevada’s Humboldt Range in 1937 by Dr. Harry Wheeler of the university’s department of geology but, according to Barmore, was thought to be lost for some time. Now, it’s on display.

And Barmore said the museum is doing more than back cataloging.

A new exhibit opened recently, featuring original stock certificates signed by Western figures like William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Nevada political boss George Wingfield. For Barmore, the exhibition has more than historical significance. It’s a reflection of museum curation done right, using the best practices of the American Alliance of Museums. That means future generations won’t find these exhibit materials and wonder what they are and where they came from. Ω

Guitar Plaza | 9PM | Free Enjoy live music by DJ Rizzo.

Alpine Union Patio | 9PM | $59 Includes VIP access to Alpine Union Patio next to the firepits & an LED bracelet that syncs with the music on Guitar Plaza.

80s Dance Party Featuring Glam Cobra Vinyl | 10PM | $89 Includes an LED bracelet that syncs to the show & champagne toast.

Revolution Ballroom | 9PM | $189 presale, $249 Indulge in a gourmet buffet & open champagne bar while enjoying the variety act show featuring our Electrify burlesque girls.

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A T. rex Named Sue is on display through Jan. 15 at the Discovery Musuem, 490 S. Center St. The Keck Musuem is located in the Mackay School of Mines Building at the University of Nevada, Reno. Visit nvdm.org and www.unr.edu/keck.

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by KRIS VAGNER

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Joan Arrizabalaga’s slot machine sculpture has six arms, just like the drawing that inspired it.

In response Reflexions

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Joan Arrizabalaga has been making ceramic wall sculptures of slot machines since the early 1960s, but this is the first time she’s ever made one with six arms.

The piece came about as kind of a homework assignment. Arrizabalaga is not enrolled in any classes, though. She’s been a full-fledged member of the Reno art community for decades, making sculptures influenced by Nevada tropes such as gambling tables and slot machines.

The “homework assignment” was an invitation by University of Nevada, Reno galleries curator Paul Baker-Prindle.

“He asked me to pick out pieces from the permanent collection and have a response to them,” Arrizabalaga said. She spent about a day sifting through drawers and files, considering the approximately 5,000 pieces owned by UNR. She selected a few pieces to study, including a screen print of shiny, day-glo hundred dollar bills made by the Warhol studio and a couple of lithographs of architectural interiors by the late Jim McCormick, who was a long-time UNR professor and a friend.

She also picked a drawing by an artist from Tucson named Kathryn Polk. It’s a paper-doll-like picture of a woman with six busy arms and a faded, red dress that looks like an anatomical drawing of the woman’s musculature.

At first, Arrizabalaga wasn’t sure what to make in response to these images, especially the six-armed woman.

“I got home with that and I thought, ‘What on earth?’” she said. “I was going to take it back.”

Instead, she contemplated her selection for a while, then made a fresh body of work. Now, the pieces from the gallery’s collection and Arrizabalaga’s new works hang together in UNR’s Sheppard Gallery.

PHOTO/KRIS VAGNER

Interior drawings of her own living room hang next to McCormick’s lithos. A large, fabric hundred dollar bill with intricate, black, lace-like edging hangs next to the Warhol piece, and the Shiva-inspired slot machine shares a wall with Polk’s drawing.

The new work has Arrizabalaga’s hallmark style—and also some new elements that she said she never would have thought of without the assignment.

This kind of experiment—asking artists to respond to work by other artists—is common in undergraduate art classrooms.

It’s less common among professional artists, but it works wonderfully as an exhibitin premise. The show is a thoughtful, accessible assertion of the ongoing production of one community over time, and it presents something of a shared local canon.

And Arrizabalaga said she has fresh fodder for ideas that will likely last a while.

She’s seriously considered making more multi-limbed machines or figures.

The “homework” experiment—which had been assigned twice before in recent months, to former gallery employee Austin Pratt and to husband-and-wife team Walt McNamara and Linda Yuroff—wasn’t just conducted on behalf of the artists, however.

It was meant to engage the public, as well.

“Our philosophy is that we hold this collection in stewardship for all Nevadans,” said Baker-Prindle. “Right now, we’re thinking, ‘How do we make this accessible?’” Part of the idea was to make the permanent art collection better known in the community, and the series of exhibits was timed to precede a new campus arts facility, slated to open in 2019.

“In the new building, the works-onpaper study room is available to high schoolers, scholars, regular old Nevadans, everybody,” Baker-Prindle said, for example. Ω

Joan Arrizabalaga: Reflexions is on view at the Sheppard Contemporary Gallery in UNR’s Church Fine Arts building through Feb. 23.

by BoB Grimm

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SHORT TAKES

1

“Popcorn, soda and some Junior mints came to $85?”

Room at the top If you love all kinds of movies, and you haven’t seen The Room, your life has been incomplete.

Written, directed by and starring the legendary Tommy Wiseau, it’s the greatest bad movie ever made.

This is how great its badness is: The Rifftrax (the movie-bashing bastard stepchild of Mystery Science Theater 3000) for the movie, where people yell insults at the screen as it plays, is actually annoying. You just want Mike Nelson and friends to shut up and let the pure experience of The Room wash over you. No riff is funnier than what is happening in the actual movie.

James Franco does Tommy Wiseau a cinematic honor with The Disaster Artist in much the same way Tim Burton glorified shlockmeister Ed Wood over 20 years ago. Franco directs and stars as Tommy, complete with the awesome long vampire black hair and chipmunk cheeks that comprise “the Wiseau.”

He also nails the Wiseau mystery accent. (While his IMDB profile says he was born in 1955 and comes from Poland, nobody seems to really know Wiseau’s true background).

For the first time in a movie, Franco costars with brother Dave, who gets one of his best roles yet as the also legendarily bad Greg Sestero, friend to Tommy and costar in The Room. The film starts in San Francisco, with Greg struggling to remember lines in a savagely bad acting class attempt at Waiting for Godot. Strange classmate Tommy lumbers onto the stage to butcher a scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, and a friendship is born. The two agree to work on scenes together, bond in their lousiness and, thanks to Wiseau’s strange and unexplained apparent wealth, move to Los Angeles to fulfill their dreams to become actors.

After a stretch of unsuccessful auditions, the pair decide to make their own movie, and this is where the film really takes off. Fans of The Room will rejoice in hilarious recreations of such iconic moments as “You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!” and “Oh, hi Mark!”

The supporting cast includes Franco pal Seth Rogen as cranky script supervisor Sandy, Zac Efron as the actor who portrayed the oddly named Chris

R in The Room, and Ari Graynor as the actress who brought the majestic Lisa, Tommy’s onscreen sweetheart, to life. Josh Hutcherson plays the actor who would be Denny, perhaps the most unintentionally frightening character in Wiseau’s movie. Sharon Stone, Hannibal Buress, Melanie Griffith and Randall Park also appear.

The Disaster Artist—which is actually based on the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made co-written by Sestero—is heartwarming for multiple reasons. It’s fun to see a misfit make it, even though it’s in a roundabout sort of way, and it’s fun to see that accomplishment depicted by the Franco brothers. It’s about time these guys did something together. May it be the first of many future collaborations.

When Franco’s Wiseau watches the final cut of The Room with a rambunctious crowd that loves/ hates his movie, James Franco delivers some of the best acting of his career on multiple levels. Onscreen, he’s doing a spot-on impersonation of Wiseau—odd accent, bizarre facial expressions, and horrific writhing naked ass during an exquisitely bad sex scene.

In the audience, Wiseau sheds tears as everybody around him mocks his movie. Franco succeeds in making us feel terrible for the guy.

That sadness disappears quickly, replaced by euphoria as the crowd cheers his trash masterpiece, and Wiseau embraces the notoriety. By the time the film wraps, it hits you that Franco has somehow made one of the better feel-good movies of the year.

Make sure to stay for the credits, where Franco plays his recreations of scenes from The Room next to Wiseau’s originals. The scenes sync up almost perfectly, and are so good I often found myself confused as to which was which. Wiseau himself shows up after the credits for what turns out to be the movie’s best cameo. Ω

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the evils of selfishness, and perhaps less about the joys of Christmas and redemption.

As Dickens gets further into his book—and his own psyche—the theme changes to one of hope, and his classic is born. Director Bharat Nalluri, working from a screenplay

by Susan Coyne, based on the book by Les Standiford, gets the unique opportunity to tell the making of A Christmas Carol while, in some ways, making yet another version of the famed story itself. The film features Dickens conferring with the fictional characters in his story as he creates them, so we get an Ebenezer Scrooge, this time played by the great Christopher Plummer. Of course, he winds up being perfect for the role.

Justice League is a full-blown, expensive mess where our favorite superheroes battle an apocalyptic force while two seriously different directors, Zack Snyder and Joss Weldon, battle with their filmmaking styles. It’s no big secret that Zack Snyder (who created two execrable duds with Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) had to leave late in production. Joss Whedon (The Avengers) stepped in for post-production and major reshoots. The result is a catastrophe. The action picks up after the death of Superman (Henry Cavill), with Batman (Ben Affleck) still brooding while observing Gotham being invaded by bug-like alien creatures. It turns out they’re the envoys of Steppenwolf, the worst special effects/CGI bad guy you will see ever in a blockbuster. To do battle with the otherworldly forces, Batman calls upon the likes of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and a resurrected Superman. Gadot still rocks as Wonder Woman in her every moment on screen, and Miller makes for a fun Flash. Affleck seems a bit tired of the Batman role. Momoa is just a wisecracker Aquaman, and Fisher is dreary as Cyborg. Cavill’s Superman is marred by some bad digital work involving the removal of a mustache he had during filming. His face is all messed up. It’s time to scrap everything but Gadot and Miller, and start the whole thing over.

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Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with a semi-autobiographical look at her life growing up in Sacramento, California and she immediately establishes herself as a directing force to be reckoned with. Saoirise Ronan, who should’ve won an Oscar for Brooklyn, will likely get another chance for her turn as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a Sacramento youth with an artistic yearning for the East Coast and some distance between her and her domineering mom (Laurie Metcalf). This is a coming-of-age story like no other thanks to the insightful writing and brisk directorial style of Gerwig, who makes Lady Bird’s story a consistently surprising one. Ronan’s Lady Bird is a rebel with a good heart, a theater geek who stinks at math, and an emotional rollercoaster. She also gets a lot of laughs, especially in her showdowns with Metcalf, who has never been better. Lucas Hedges, on a roll after Manchester By the Sea and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is funny and sad as one of Lady Bird’s young love interests, while Odeya Rush is golden as Lady Bird’s best friend, Jenna. Tracy Letts is perfect as the nice dad dealing with warring factions in the household, while Timothy Chalamet (currently racking up awards for Call Me By Your Name) gets perhaps the biggest laughs as aloof other love interest, Kyle. This one is a triumph for Ronan and Gerwig, and, while it would never happen, I’d love to see a sequel about Lady Bird’s college years.

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

In 1843, when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol, folks were just getting into that thing we call the holidays, with stuff like Christmas trees and gift giving. Dickens’s novel about a miserable miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, who transforms from an evil, greedy monster to a kind philanthropist throughout its five chapters, helped take the celebration of Christmas to a new level of tradition. The boldly titled The Man Who Invented Christmas spins an entertaining and clever take on how and why Dickens got the idea for the story that would change the world. Coming off a couple of flops after the success of his Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) is doing clumsy book tours to pay the bills. Desperate for a “hit,” he gets an idea for a Christmas book, one in which a greedy man is haunted by ghosts of the past, present and future. The story is meant to be a cautionary yarn about

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Thor: Ragnarok

This marks the third film—and the third masterpiece—for writer-director Martin McDonagh. It also marks another astonishing film achievement for Frances McDormand, who will bore into your chest cavity and do all kinds of crazy shit to your heart as Mildred, a justifiably pissed off mother who has a few issues with the cops in her town. It’s been five years since Mildred’s young daughter was raped and killed by unknown murderers, who finished their awful deed by burning her body. Mildred, who isn’t even close to getting over the tragedy, spies some old, dilapidated billboards on the way home and gets an idea. One meeting with a sloppy advertising agent (Caleb Landry Jones) later, and some guys are commissioned to put some alarmingly provocative signs up on those billboards. Woody Harrelson is first rate as the man being called out in those billboards for not finding the killers. Harrelson’s 2017 has been astoundingly good. Sam Rockwell gets the high-profile acting showcase he deserves as racist deputy Dixon. Rockwell’s Dixon, the town drunk and racist homophobe who has a thing for throwing people out of windows, undergoes a transformation that is a kind of movie miracle. McDonagh knows how to write a script that keeps you in it for every line. While the film is somewhat a murder mystery, the solving of the crime takes a back seat to watching these folks play off each other. There are scenes in this movie that will knock you on the floor. The whole cast is incredible; McDormand and Rockwell will both destroy you.

Somebody was smoking some laced wild shit and licking frogs when they put together Thor: Ragnarok, a film so nutty it easily surpasses the Guardians of the Galaxy films as the screwiest offering in the Marvel universe. When you hand the keys to the Thor franchise over to a director like Taika Waititi, you know you are going to get something bizarre. Waititi is the New Zealand comic actor/director responsible for the hilarious vampire faux documentary What We Do in the Shadows and the funny family drama Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Borrowing from a host of Marvel comics, including the famed “Planet Hulk” storyline, the hallucinogenic plot drops Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a crazy garbage planet bent on roundthe-clock, violent entertainment and led by Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, finally getting a high-profile role worthy of him outside of a Wes Anderson film). The Grandmaster cuts Thor’s hair, dresses him in gladiator gear, and throws him into the ring for a weaponized bout with his prized competitor. That prized competitor is the Hulk, held captive on the planet for the past couple of years.

He’s been nothing but the Hulk the whole time, with Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) trapped inside him. Thor and Hulk have a battle royale for the ages, followed by some great scenes where the Hulk actually speaks.

There’s a whole other apocalyptic subplot going on, where Thor’s long-lost sister Hela (a striking and devilish Cate Blanchett decked out in black) is causing major havoc on his home planet of Asgard. Blanchett immediately sets herself high in the ranking of Marvel movie villains. She’s played a baddie before, but never this entertainingly.

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by MATT BieKer

Shawn Tamborini, Bryan Daines, Alexander Korostinsky and Aaron Chiazza are Dainesly, a band that sounds different than each one’s past projects.

Under the influences Dainesly If musicians are architects, then the members of Dainesly are building a house for themselves—with room for whoever wants in. They’ve crafted a sound that’s different from their respective past projects for their free album, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory, slated for release in February.

With most of the members involved in other projects and tours throughout the year, they prefer to focus on the music and not sweat the details—even when it comes to the band name.

“With touring, Alex and I would always do coffee dates,” said guitarist and frontman Bryan Daines. “He would always go, ‘Well cheers, Dainesly,’ as his little joke or whatever.” The name stuck.

In 2015, Daines, formerly of the Dead Winter Carpenters, met with bassist Alexander Korostinsky to record tracks for a planned EP that was put on hold until Daines formally left the band earlier last year. Those songs, recorded to eighth-inch cassette tape and mixed by Korostinsky, would eventually make up one half of Dainesly’s debut album.

“I kind of wasn’t getting all the songs I wanted to play with Dead Winter Carpenters and the ones I was getting through—it’s just a different style of band, so it was first just an outlet to go in a different direction,” Daines said.

After completing the lineup with Aaron Chiazza on drums and Shawn Tamborini on pedal steel last year, Dainesly recorded the rest of the tracks to four-track, quarter-inch tape with mixing input from local musician Mark Sexton. The band played its first show

PHOTO/MATT BIEKER

as a band at the album release party earlier this year.

“I think there’s like two big benefits to it,” Chiazza said of the decision to record to tape. “One is like the quality of it. It’s cool sounding. It’s gritty. It’s a sound that a lot of people want. And there’s a part of it too that it simplifies the process because we’re engineering our own album.”

The band’s sound is an amalgam of tastes and influences. Daines was raised on the likes of Greatful Dead and Pink Floyd and is inspired by bands like Wilco.

Korostisnky and Chiazza draw more from the funk and soul realms. They hesitantly subscribe to the genre of “alt-alt-country,” but even that is up for discussion.

“I’ve always liked the label ‘alt-country’ because I think I like to pull from that sonic palette of the twanginess,” Daines said. “But not necessarily have the classic country song structure and subject matter and stuff like that.”

Indeed, his country influences are evident in his rollicking guitar solos on tracks like “Bury Me Nameless” and “Streets.” Korostinsky’s boppy basslines find a steady progression against Chiazza’s rattling snare patterns, while Tamborini’s distorted pedal steel fills any gaps with a shimmery, synth-like veneer.

“I think it makes it interesting because if I’m trying to listen to stuff that sounds like Dainesly, I can’t find it because Aaron and I are so naive to the genre that we’re just pulling from our history as musicians and bringing that to the sound,” said Korostinsky. And that sound has some serious breadth. During the NYE Reno Prom, members of Dainesly plan to team up with Failure Machine for a soul-style tribute to the Misfits.

“We’re going to call it DAINEZIG,” Daines said. Ω Dainesly will play the NYE Reno Prom at 9 p.m. Dec. 31 at The Saint with Failure Machine, Team Francis and DJ the Terrible. Tickets are $10-12.

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Close to home After decades as bastions of franchised fast eats, mall food courts are courting local, independent upstarts. Meadowood Mall has added a handful of indy purveyors, including Nana and Pop’s Eatery.

There’s a selection of salads and kid bites, but it was the menu’s curious note, “all sandwiches come with cream cheese,” that caught our attention. Apparently, the word “all” was being used in a less than global sense. Mayo and mustard are available upon request.

Sandwiches are served with a dill pickle spear and choice of mustard potato or pesto macaroni salads, bagged chips, or an upgrade to steak fries for an additional $1.50. The side salads were pretty good, with the potato being my favorite. It was quite mustardy, but with enough vinegar snap for balance, plenty of egg and celery and just enough seasoning. The pesto salad was very light, with just a hint of garlic and Italian herbs—nothing fancy, but suitable.

Boosting the side action was an order of steak fries ($4) with cheese sauce, chili and sliced jalapeño. There were plenty of peppers, chili and cheese. In fact, there were more toppings than fries. The sauce and chili both tasted canned, but I don’t order a guilty pleasure and expect it to be gourmet. It certainly did the trick, though I wished for a few more fries to sop up the pool of spicy, leftover goo.

We ordered a Philly cheesesteak ($9.99) with smoked beef, provolone cheese, grilled onion, bell pepper and horseradish mustard sauce on a hoagie roll. The toasty roll had a nice bit of chew to it, and though the smoke and horseradish were a nice combo, the texture of the meat was inconsistent. Some bites were chewy and dry, while others were tender and downright delicious.

As with the cheesesteak, the pastrami is smoked in-house. We chose to try both a pastrami reuben ($8.99) with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and thousand island dressing, and a hot pastrami ($8.99) with provolone, lettuce, tomato and red onion. We ordered both on light rye bread. The flavor of the pastrami really stood out, but the texture was dry and chewy. Think thick cut, slightly underdone bacon in texture. The reuben was greasy to the touch. If it weren’t for the extra effort required to chew through these, the flavors in both sandwiches would make them hands-down winners.

A roll stuffed with thin sliced turkey ($8.99), avocado, bacon, lettuce, tomato and red onion with mayo and mustard was quite good, with decent turkey and crispy bacon. Also good was a chicken salad sandwich ($8.99) on white bread with chopped chicken, red onion, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo, topped with bacon, lettuce and tomato. This deli staple can, so often, be terribly bland, but I’d order this nicely seasoned version again.

Last up was a chicken melt ($8.99) featuring grilled chicken breast, pepper jack, green onion cream cheese, lettuce, tomato and red onion on rye. The chicken appeared to have been marinated, then served hot off the grill. It was quite moist, and the combination of flavors and textures really worked well together—way beyond average for a grilled chicken sandwich and maybe the overall winner of our meal. Ω

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Nana and Pop’s Eatery is open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday.

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I’ve never liked the name Our Bar. Besides sounding like a “Who’s on First?” dad joke, it’s hard to say. I feel like I’m saying “Are Bar” unless I overenunciate to make it clear, then it sounds like I’m saying “Hour Bar.” Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

Despite my feelings about the name, I haven’t intentionally avoided the place.

I’d heard the burgers are great but never had anyone invite me to join them, never heard about the beer selection—just nothing to get me there. My wife and I wanted beers and a little something to eat last Sunday, so we decided to wrap up our weekend at Our Bar. I hadn’t set foot in the historical brick building on West First Street since Port of Subs closed a few years ago. The neighborhood is still populated with some cool little businesses, but it seems like some of its fun character has faded. You wouldn’t know it after walking into Our Bar, though. For a Sunday night, the bar itself was pretty full, and most tables were occupied or needing bussing. Unfortunately, from the empty table we found near the pool table we couldn’t see the beer taps, just a good view of multiple TVs broadcasting football games. A counter fronting the kitchen indicated we could order food and drinks there, so I helped myself to a menu, and a friendly chap said he’d be right over to take our order.

The problem with a good beer selection is the sheer number of choices, frequently changing with seasonal releases, that servers are expected to know and recite to their customers.

Our server said there were 17 taps and asked what we liked but struggled to come up with many suggestions without running over to the bar. A printed beer

list would help when that many beers are available for table service. Based on his suggestions and the ubiquitous Corona propaganda, I decided this wasn’t a fancy beer bar and ordered a perfectly acceptable 805 and a Deschutes IPA for my wife. He kindly offered a taste to be sure we would enjoy what we were ordering, a great customer service gesture I really appreciate. A closer look at the taps later confirmed a decent selection of wellknown craft beer and the usual major label choices. Of course, a full array of spirits is also available.

The food menu was borderline astonishing for a bar that doesn’t include “and Grill” in the name. In addition to the acclaimed burgers, the choices include various sandwiches, delicious-sounding tacos and some appetizing small plates.

Unfortunately, our first choice—avocado fries—was unavailable but, we made do with chicken wings.

The small crowd nearby was raucous, enjoying drinks, the pool table and each others’ company. The acoustics of the brick and wood interior made waiting for wings tiresome, but no other tables were available.

I wandered around a bit and found darts as a possibly quieter pastime but wasn’t feeling up to throwing sharp objects.

We enjoyed our wings and beers and headed home before it got too late or the pool players got any louder. I could easily see Our Bar—I still don’t like using the possessive pronoun; it isn’t mine—as a great spot for drinks with friends or late night post-drinking grub. Starting the night quietly with the $12 burger-beer-and-a-shot special might be the way to go. Ω

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DG Kicks Big Band Jazz Orchestra, 8pm, Tu, no cover Dance party, 10pm, $5

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KOWTA, JLEON, TYMK, Dubwol, 10pm, $5

Evan Casey, Tobin Ellsworth, James Houdini, 9pm, $15

Reel Rock 12, 7pm, $15

Jazz for the Holidays—A Gospel Christmas, 7:30pm, $35-$45

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Plastic Paddy, 9pm, no cover

A Ceol Caroling Christmas, 9pm, no cover

Jam session, 7pm, M, no cover Irish session, 7pm, Tu, no cover

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Metalbilly Trucker, Hellbound Glory, 9:30pm, no cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, 8pm, W, no cover

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Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 15 Highway 50 Stateline (800) 427-7274

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Figure and Midnight Tyrannosaurus, Ray Volpe, 8pm, $20-$25

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Comedy

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3rd Street Bar, 125 W. Third St. (775) 323-5005: Open Mic Comedy Competition with host Pat Shillito, Wed, 9pm, no cover The Improv at Harveys Lake Tahoe, 15 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 5886611: Bob Zany, Larry “Bubbles” Brown, Thu-Fri, Sun, 9pm, $25; Sat, 9pm, $30 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Louis Ramey, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45 LEX Nightclub, Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: Kirk McHenry, Thu, 8pm, $14.99

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Karaoke Night, 9pm, no cover

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Classical Open Mic Night, 7pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 9pm, Tu, no cover Erika Paul, 7pm, no cover

Apothic, 7pm, no cover

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Make ’Em Smile Toy Drive w/DJ Yacub, Eli McCoy, dARTh Tone, $5 or new toy

Drake Night w/DJ Atey Ate, Heidalicious, 10pm, no cover

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A Very Cassie Ramone Xmas: Colleen Green, Stirr Lightly, 7pm, $7

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Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

Shannel & Kenneth Blake, 10pm, $10

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Sunday Takeover, 8pm, no cover

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Open Mic, 7pm, Tu, no cover Karaoke Night, 7pm, W, no cover

Karaoke Contest, 9pm, W, no cover

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The Loving Cup

Jazz Night, 8:30pm, no cover

MidTown wine Bar

DJ Trivia, 6:30pm, no cover

1001 Heavenly Village Way, S. L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024 188 California Ave., (775) 322-2480 1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

FRIDAY 12/15

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MON-WED 12/18-12/20

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

All Good Funk Alliance with Roger That!, 10pm, $10

Magic Fusion, 4:30pm, 7pm, $15-$45

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

Wunderlust, 8:30pm, no cover

Alias Smith, 8pm, no cover

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Internacional Sonora Dinamita, Mario B, Aurturo Flores, 10pm, $20

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Moody’s BisTro, Bar & BeaTs

The Sam Chase, 8:30pm, no cover

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John Dawson Band, 9pm, no cover

Soul Persuaders, 8pm, no cover

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906 Victorian Ave., Ste. B, Sparks, (775) 409-3754

paddy & irene’s irish puB

906 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 359-1594

Acoustic Wonderland, 8pm, no cover

The poLo Lounge

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Big Water, 8pm, W, no cover

Ladies Night with DJ Bobby G, 9pm, no cover

Sessions, 8pm, M, no cover Steve DiNicola, 7pm, W, no cover Road Daddy, 8pm, no cover

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Open mic, 7pm, W, no cover

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Songwriters In The Round, 6:30pm, no cover

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December Birthdays Have Feelings Too with a surprise DJ, 9pm, no cover

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

The Last Kings, 9pm, no cover

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Lex White Music Video Release Show, 8pm, $5

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Live blues, 8pm, W, no cover

Trivia Night, 8pm, no cover

Radio Relapse, Fate Awaits, 8pm, no cover

Nigel’s Acoustic Madness Jam, 8pm, Tu, Electric Spark Jam, 8pm, W, no cover

Saturday Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Tuesday Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover Open Mic Clinic, 8pm, W, no cover

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Karaoke Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 358-6700: Karaoke with DJ Toni Tunez, Tue, 8pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Sat, 9:30pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 3223001: 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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2) Trey Stone, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

2) Mike Furlong, 5pm, no cover The Starliters, 9pm, no cover

2) Stephen Lord, 5pm, no cover The Starliters, 9pm, no cover

2) New Wave Unplugged, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Wally Thompson, 6pm, Tu, no cover Keith Allen, 6pm, W, no cover

2) Greg Austin, 7pm, no cover

2) Greg Austin, 8pm, no cover

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1) The California Honeydrops, The Coffis Brothers, 9pm, $25-$30

2) The Timesplitters, 10pm, no cover

1) Big Head Todd & the Monsters, SIMO, 8pm, $28-$33

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FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 14, 2017 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

HOLIDAY BOOK SIGNING: Sundance Books and Music holds its annual book signing and meet and greet with Guy Clifton, author of You Know You’re a Nevadan If ..., and Brian Crane, creator of the Pickles comic strip. Sat, 12/16, 11am-12:30pm. Free.

Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

ICE GARDEN & TRAIN RIDES: Kids can take a ride on the mini-rail Polar Express around the Ice Garden at Merry Wonderland (Olympic Village Lodge). Each day there will be special appearances

by Santa Claus. Professional ice carvers will create works of art in the Ice Garden. Sun, 12/17-Sun, 12/24, 2-5pm. Free.

Olympic Village Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic Valley, (800) 403-0206.

LET’S TALK GUN VIOLENCE—SANDY HOOK FIVE YEARS LATER: Watch the documentary film Newtown, which looks at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history. The showing will be followed by a talk about how our community can come together to address gun violence and a moment to honor the lives that were lost during the Dec. 14, 2012, Sandy Hook and the Oct. 1, 2017, Route 91 shootings. Fri, 12/15, 6pm. Free. Northern Nevada HOPES, 580 W. Fifth St., www.facebook.com/ NVgunsafety.

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Squaw Valley Resort holds its second annual holiday celebration, which kicks off this weekend with a parade led by Santa Claus in a one-horse, open sleigh through Squaw’s “Ye Olde Christmas Village” en route to the KT Base Bar. The Glowstick Parade will begin at the KT Deck and proceed to Merry Wonderland (a.k.a. the Olympic Village Lodge). Fire dancers will display a daring dance leading to the illumination of the Winter Walk. Santa will continue the parade to Merry Wonderland where guests can look at the ice garden, listen to music by the Truckee Tahoe Community Chorus and enjoy savory treats as part of Taste of Squaw—a complementary tasting of signature items offered by Squaw’s Village and Mountain dining establishments. The festivities begin at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, at Squaw Valley Resort, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley. Other holiday-themed events will continue through the end of December. Call (800) 403-0206 or visit squawalpine.com.

Born in Tampico, Mexico and residing and working today in San Francisco, performance artist and painter Ana Teresa Fernandez’s work addresses issues of place, identity and community.

Nevada Museum of Art will host a presentation and panel discussion inspired by her installation in the Unsettled exhibition, “Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera),” a documentation of her performance piece based at the U.S./Mexico border. Thu, 12/14, 6pm. $5-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

PAWS 2 READ: A reading program for children of all ages presented by Paws 4 Love. Friendly dogs lend a loving, nonjudgmental ear to beginning readers.

After reading to a gentle dog, children receive a free book. The event takes place on the second Thursday of the month. Thu, 12/14, 4pm. Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, (775) 832-4130.

POLAR EXPRESS TRAIN: The themed train

EVENTS

DINOSAUR TIME TREK—SHARK EDITION:

16TH ANNUAL TOMMO CRAFT FAIR: Craft vendors will sell their handmade beaded items, jewelry, artwork, baked goods, quilts and many more one-of-a-kind items. Indian tacos will be sold as well.

Please bring new or gently used winter jackets, including mittens, scarves and hats, to be distributed to those in need.

Fri, 12/15-Sat, 12/16, 10am. Free. RenoSparks Indian Colony, 34 Reservation Road, (775) 424-4126.

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This interactive dinosaur exhibit will transport you through a special Time Lab where you can observe enormous prehistoric dinosaurs, track modern day sharks in real-time or glimpse mythological, magical dragons. Sat, 12/16-Sun, 12/17, 9am-7pm. $31, free admission for children under age 3.

Reno-Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., www.dinosaurtimetrek.com.

ride brings the characters of the story to life, with a souvenir silver sleigh bell to remember the journey. The one-hour long rides are fun for the whole family.

The evening rides are at 5pm, 6:30pm and 8pm, Thursday-Sunday through Dec. 30. Thu, 12/14-Sun, 12/17, 6pm. $36$82. Carson City Eastgate Depot, 4650 Eastgate Siding Road, Carson City, (775) 291-0208, www.vtrailway.com.

THE RADICAL SELF (IR)REVERENCE OF PERFORMANCE ART AT BURNING MAN: Artist, performers and community organizer $teven Ra$pa serves as Burning Man Project’s Associate Director of Community Events, and his work has appeared in film, print and television. He will offer an intimate look into performance art at Burning Man. Sat, 12/16, 2pm. $8-$12. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SATURDAY NIGHT STAR PARTY: The Jack C. Davis Observatory hosts free star parties every Saturday night year round, starting at sunset (except when there is snow on the roads). The evening starts with a lecture on one of numerous topics and then concludes with guided star viewing by one of the observatory’s astronomers. Sat 12/16, 6pm. Free. Jack C. Davis Observatory, 2699 Van Patten Drive, Carson City, (775) 857-3033.

UGLY SWEATER WINE WALK: The Riverwalk Merchants Association hosts the annual holiday-themed wine walk along the Truckee River and neighboring streets in downtown Reno. Visit any of the participating Riverwalk District merchants on Wine Walk. You will receive a map to the participating locations, a wine glass and an ID bracelet that allows you to sample wine at any participating merchant. You will receive one sample of wine at each location. Sat, 12/16, 2pm. $20. West Street Market, 148 West St., www.renoriver.org.

WINTERFEST: The holiday event returns with the Holiday Express Train, a custom, narrated journey around the inside of the stadium taking riders on a trip from Reno to the North Pole to deliver Santa’s Naughty and Nice Lists. Other highlights include pictures with Jolly Old St. Nick in Santa’s Village and ice skating at the outdoor ice rink. Hours are 5-9pm on Friday-Saturday and 4-7pm on Sunday, through Dec. 31. Fri, 12/15-Sun, 12/17. $6$15. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

THE WOMEN OF THE GREATER WEST: The artwork in Unsettled raises provocative questions about westward expansion, colonization and artistic experimentation. Join JoAnne Northrup, curatorial director and curator of contemporary art, in the Unsettled galleries as she explores the feminine voice and perspective of the diverse cultures and artists of the Greater West. Fri, 12/15, noon. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

ART SOURCE GALLERY: Yuyu Yang 20th Anniversary Celebration. This exhibition celebrates the work of Chinese artist, environmental designer and architect Yuyu Yang. There are over 40 of his world-renowned images on display. Thu, 12/14, 10:30am. Free. Art Source Gallery, 2195 S. Virginia St., (775) 828-3525.

ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Holiday Treasures. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno holds its holiday show offering gift and decorating items, including paintings, handmade ornaments, jewelry, pottery, gourds, scarves and holiday cards. Thu, 12/14-Wed, 12/20, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 3228896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

CLASSROOM GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: pressplay—Recent Works. Ceramic artwork by Karl Schwiesow. The show runs through March 24. Thu, 12/14-Wed, 12/20. Free. Classroom Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440, www.churchillarts.org.

E.L. WIEGAND GALLERY, OATS PARK ART CENTER: Contingent Lands—Place in the Contemporary West. Paintings of The New American West by Kevin Bell. The show runs through March 24. Thu, 12/14Wed, 12/20. Free. E.L. Wiegand Gallery, Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., Fallon, (775) 423-1440.

MCKINLEY ARTS & CULTURE CENTER: Empty Frontier—Narrative Drawings by Jessica Gengenbach. Gengenbach’s drawings wrestle with an idealized perception of the American West instilled by popular culture and the harm that was caused in its settling. She presents the dialogue between the idolized idea of the American West and its true history through a muted palette of watercolor and colored pencil. There will be artist reception on Jan. 4, 5-7pm Thu, 12/14 -Fri, 12/15, Mon, 12/18-Wed, 12/20, 9am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Joan Arrizabalaga— Reflexions. See new work by University of Nevada, Reno alumna Joan Arrizabalaga and treasures from Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries’ permanent collection. The show runs through Feb. 23. Gallery hours are noon-4pm, Tuesday-Wednesday; noon-8pm Thursday-Friday; and 10am8pm Saturday. Thu, 12/14-Sat, 12/16, Tue, 12/19-Wed, 12/20. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6658, www.unr.edu/art.

STREMMEL GALLERY: John Salminen—City

ART ART INDEED ART GALLERY: Art Indeed Sierra Memorial Art Gallery will be open during the monthly Reno Wine Walk. Sat, 12/16, 2pm. Free. Art Indeed Art Gallery, 142 Bell St., (775) 828-3798.

Life. Work by the award-winning painter is on display through Dec. 16. The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, and Saturday, 10am-3pm. Thu, 12/14-Sat, 12/16. Free. Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Bound. Holland Project Gallery closes the year with an exhibit dedicated to zines and DIY publications. Bound includes over 100 zines, new and old, covering every genre from Xeroxed punk zines, to art and lit zines, to activist and self-care zines. For this hands-on exhibit, you can get comfy and spend some time browsing through zines created and collected by local DIYers.

Learn a bit about the history and culture of zines and even make your very own zine to take home. Bound will be on display through Dec. 29 with a reception on Dec. 21, 6-8pm. Thu, 12/14-Fri, 12/15, Tue, 12/19-Wed, 12/20, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

SUNDAY MUSIC BRUNCH CAROLYN DOLAN: Enjoy live music 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, 12/17, 10am-2pm. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 284-2921.

WINTER WANDERINGS: Tintabulations Handbell Ensemble presents its holiday concert. Sun, 12/17, 1pm. Free.

Redemption Church, 1600 Snyder Ave., Carson City; Sun, 12/17, 6:30pm. Free. St. Paul’s Lutheran Family, 1201 N. Saliman Road, Carson City, (775) 750-8119, tintabulations.com.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY: Succulence. The art show features work by local Reno artist Katera Nei, a mixed media artist whose work focuses on want, temptation and the inevitability of rot. Succulence will be on view through Dec. 22. Thu, 12/14-Wed, 12/20. Free. The Holland Project Micro Gallery, 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

FILM THE RIVER: Artemisia Moviehouse presents Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama/romance film. In English and Bengali with English subtitles. Sun, 12/17, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 3379111, www.artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

MUSIC FESTIVE HOLIDAYS CONCERT: The Reno Pops Orchestra presents a holiday concert featuring special guests Sierra Nevada Children’s Chorus, Pat Esters and her gospel singers, the South Reno Baptist Church Choir and Tintabulations Handbell Ensemble. Free admission. Fri, 12/15, 7pm; Sat, 12/16, 2pm. Free. South Reno Baptist Church, 6780 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 673-1234, www.renopops.org.

JAZZ FOR THE HOLIDAYS—A GOSPEL CHRISTMAS: The spirit of Christmas comes to life as the 17-piece Reno Jazz Orchestra and the Pat Esters Gospel Choir blends Christmas favorites, jazz and soul—with a few surprises mixed in—for three performances of feel-good, holiday music and song. The Reno Youth Jazz Orchestra will also perform. The first shows are on Dec. 16-17 at Cargo Concert Hall at Whitney Peak Hotel.

Tickets start at $35. The last show starts at 7pm on Dec. 20 at the Olympic Village Inn at Squaw Valley, California. Tickets start at $40. Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm; Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $35-$45. Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, 255 N. Virginia St., (775) 372-6160, renojazzorchestra.org.

RENO WIND SYMPHONY—A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION: This annual concert features favorite holiday selections, as well as the recitation of the poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” by KOH Radio personality Ross Mitchell, accompanied by the Reno Wind Symphony. Ross also will serve as the vocal soloist on “The Grinch that Stole Christmas.” Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm; Sun, 12/17, 3pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

ONSTAGE A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER: Broadway Comes to Reno continues its 2017-2018 season with the musical comedy that tells the story of Monty, an heir to a family fortune who sets out to jump the line of succession by eliminating the eight relatives (all played by one fearless man) who stand in his way. All the while, Monty has to juggle his mistress, his fiancée and the constant threat of landing behind bars. Fri, 12/15,

8pm; Sat, 12/16, 2pm & 8pm; Sun, 12/17, 2pm & 7pm. $50-$85. Pioneer Center for the

Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

BUTTCRACKER 8—THE BIGGEST LITTLE BUTTCRACKER IN THE WORLD: Brüka Theatre presents its parody based on the holiday favorite The Nutcracker.

This new adventure has Clara and the gang time traveling into a bizarre bend on the history of Reno. Performances are Wednesday-Sunday through Dec. 23. Evening shows begin at 8pm. The Sunday matinee starts at 2pm on Dec. 17. The play is suggested for ages 8 and older. Thu, 12/14-Sat, 12/16, 8pm; Sun, 12/17, 2pm; Wed, 12/20, 8pm. $22-$30. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221.

THE EIGHT REINDEER MONOLOGUES: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents its holiday production about eight reindeer dishing the dirt on the real Santa.

Performances are on Thursday-Saturday through Dec. 23. Thu, 12/14-Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Good Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3716.

FUNTIME THEATER DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Funtime Theatre holds its monthly dinner murder mysteries. The doors open at 5 p.m. with a no host bar. The show starts at 6:30pm with dinner service starting at 7pm. Ages 10 and up are welcome to attend. Visit website for dinner selections. Sat, 12/16, 5pm. $50. Lili’s Family Restaurant, 2325 Kietzke Lane, (866) 449-7630, www.funtimetheater.com.

HEISENBERG: Restless Artist Theatre Company presents its production of Simon Stephen’s play. Amidst the bustle of a crowded London station, Georgie spots Alex, a much older man, and plants a kiss on his neck. This electric encounter thrusts these two strangers into a fascinating and life-changing game. Thu, 12/14-Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm; Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $12-$15. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, www.rattheatre.org.

THE HOOTCHY KOOTCHY GIRLS AMATEUR HOLIDAY SHOW: Join the vintage cabaret group for a night of sexy holiday fun and vaudeville humor. Guest artists The Retro Radio Dolls will help ring in the new year with some vintage holiday classics. Comedian Amy Bosch will host all shows. Fri, 12/15, 6:30pm & 9:30pm; Sat, 12/16, 6:30pm. $20-$25. Reno Tahoe Comedy at Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233.

JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL: Reno Little Theater presents its holiday production based on the classic Charles Dickens tale. The show runs through Dec. 17. Thu, 12/14, 7:30pm-Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm; Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $12-$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900.

RENO DANCE COMPANY—THE NUTCRACKER: Escape to a land of holiday fantasy with The Reno Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker featuring 20 professional dancers and 200 local children from the Reno-Sparks area. Sat, 12/16, 3pm & 8pm; Sun, 12/17, 3pm & 7pm. $19.95-$36.95. Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300, www.nuggetcasinoresort.com.

SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL: Reno Little Theater’s ACT OUT! Broadway Our Way Program presents John Olive’s stage adaptation from the novels by Louis Sachar. You can imagine the confusion at Wayside School when the builder made a terrible mistake. Instead of building 30 classrooms side by side, he built them one on top of another. Maybe that accounts for the wacky goings-on in Mrs. Jewls’ class. Where else will you find children being turned into apples, rats wearing raincoats and little girls who try to sell their toes? Fri, 12/15, 4:30pm; Sat, 12/16, 10am & 2pm; Sun, 12/17, 10am. $5$10. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

THE TWISTED NUTCRACKER AND THE TALE OF THE RAT KING: Truckee Dance Factory will perform a fun and festive twist on the timeless tradition of The Nutcracker. Mon, 12/18-Tue, 12/19, 6pm. $15-$20, free for kids age 5 and younger. Olympic Village Lodge at Squaw Valley Resort, 1901 Chamonix Place, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

WINTER WORLD FEST: This will be a showcase of local teachers, students and dance enthusiasts who specialize and study all kinds of world dance. Sat, 12/16, 6pm. $5.

The World Dance Collective, 144 West St., www.theworlddancecollective.com.

Soul Rockin Blues Fest

12/16:

The 14-hour music festival features 12 bands, including Big Heart, Dead Letter Disciple, Jason King Band, Gruve Nation and Dawn of Morgana. There will be a canned food drive, a raffle and a “Guitar Shred-Off” contest with guitar gear as prizes and a guitar as the grand prize. The all-ages event takes place from noon to 3 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, at Studio on 4th, 432 E. Fourth St. The cover charge is $5, which includes a free slice of pizza and a raffle ticket. Call 737-9776 or visit studioon4th.com.

CLASSES

RENO BIGHORNS: The NBA development league basketball team plays Sioux Falls Skyforce. Wed, 12/20, 7pm. $10-$64.

Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775)853-8220, reno.gleague.nba.com.

GENEALOGY OPEN LAB: Learn how to build your family tree, discover your ancestors and amaze your family with your research skills. Fri, 12/15, 11:30am.

Elizabeth Sturm Library, Truckee Meadows Community College, 7000 Dandini Blvd., (775) 674-7602.

RENO ICE RINK: The outdoor ice skating rink is open through Feb. 18. Visit website for schedule. Thu, 12/14-Wed, 12/20. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave, (775) 3347000, greaternevadafield.com.

PAINT & SIP WITH HOPPER: Learn basic painting techniques while having fun in a small social setting for all levels.

Paint your own 16″ x 20″ canvas acrylic painting you take home. You may bring your own alcohol/non-alcohol beverage and snacks. Wine glasses, cups, napkins and water provided. The featured painting is Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks.” This class takes place in Arts for All Nevada’s Garden Pavilion, the building adjacent to the Lake Mansion. Thu, 12/14, 6pm. $30. Garden Pavilion, 250 Court S., (775) 826-6100, www.artsforallnevada.org.

SENIOR HEALTHY WALKING PROGRAM: Center for Healthy Aging offers a free senior walking program for people 50 years of age and older. Snacks and water will be provided at the walk . Wed, 12/20, 9am. Free. Meadowood Mall, 5000 Meadowood Mall Circle, (775) 384-4324.

LIFESTYLE ADULT COLORING: No skills required for this

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

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 12/16, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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, 12/19, 10am. Free. Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation Office, Idlewild Park, 50 Cowan Drive, (775) 784-1807.

program geared towards adults. Bring your colored pencils and coloring pages or use supplies at the library. Wed, 12/20, 6-7pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650 Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 12/15, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

CROCHET CONNECTION: If you love crocheting or would like to learn how to crochet, join this group every Thursday. Bring your own project or start a new one. Thu, 12/14, 3-5pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

KNIT WITS & HOOKERS: All levels of knitters are welcome to join Sierra View Library’s new knitting club. Thu, 12/14, 1pm. Free.

Sierra View Library, 4001 South Virginia St., (775) 827-3232.

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I’m a woman, and I recently made a new professional connection— a man who’s excited about my work. We’re planning on doing a big important project together. I’m worried that he’s interested in me romantically based on a few things he’s said. I’m not interested in him in that way. What’s the right thing to say to get that across?

Informing a guy pronto that you aren’t romantically interested in him would be the right thing to do if he were just some persistent Tinder date you wanted to unload forever. But you’re hoping to have a continuing business relationship with this guy. So even if it were wildly obvious that he has the hots for you, the last thing you should do is mention that particular elephant in the room—not even while you’re pole-vaulting over steaming mountain ranges of elephant dung.

Cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker points out that “most social interaction” involves some conflicting goals—for example, when only one of two people is interested in ending the evening in the tool shed/sex dungeon.

Pinker explains that “indirect speech”—not saying exactly what you think or want—is a way two people can maintain their relationship as it is (even when both suspect or are pretty sure that their desired outcomes are in sharp conflict). The sometimes tiny measure of ambiguity—uncertainty about another person’s goals—that is fostered by indirect speech does a big job.

It allows the person who wants something the other doesn’t to save face, enabling the two to preserve their common ground.

So, your refraining from telling the guy that you aren’t interested allows him to cling to the egopreserving possibility that you might be. If he goes direct on you—tells you he wants to sex up your business relationship—that’s when you likewise get explicit: Tell him straight out that you want to keep things strictly professional. However, this may not be necessary if you act in ways that say “just business!” Avoid going flirty in communicating with him, and schedule meetings for the utterly unsexiest times and places possible. Nobody ends up doing the walk of shame because they had seconds on biscotti and one too many double espressos.

Simper fi There’s always been an attraction between this guy and me. I’ve been thinking of testing the waters with him romantically, but he recently mentioned that he freaks out when women cry. He says he just has no idea what to do. Well, I’m an emotional person—generally happy, but also a big crier. Are we a bad match, or could I teach him to soothe me?

If there’s a decoder ring for human emotion, it’s the female brain.

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen finds that men, generally speaking, just aren’t as good as women at what’s called “theory of mind”—the ability to “infer what other people might be thinking or intending.” He explains that women, from childhood on, tend to be the “empathizers” of the species, driven to identify others’ “emotions and thoughts, and to respond with the appropriate emotions”—say, by hugging a tearyeyed person instead of treating them like a statue weeping blood.

In contrast with female “empathizers,” Baron-Cohen describes men as the “systematizers” of the species. This is a fancy way of saying they’re engineeringfocused—driven, from a young age, to identify how inanimate stuff works and “derive the underlying rules that govern the behavior of a system.” However, these are “reliable” rules, like the law of gravity—“What goes up must come down”—nothing helpful for fathoming what the girlfriend’s got swirling around in her head when she suddenly goes all funeralface.

Assume most heterosexual men are sucky at emotional tea leaf reading. When you’re in boohooville or on your way, tell a man what you’re feeling and how he could help—for example, by just listening and rubbing your back. In time, this may help him avoid reacting to the welling of that very first tear by diving behind the couch and yelling, “Incoming! One o’clock! Alpha team, flank left! Ω

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For the week oF December 14, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to a Sufi

aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up!

Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I undertook a

diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages.

In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever been

wounded by a person you cared for deeply?

Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Your task is not to

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seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” So said Helen Schuman in A Course in Miracles. Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm.

But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, you

will have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of home. Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage. 1. Make plans to move into your dream home or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home. 2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways.

3. Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks.

4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5. Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. Boost and give thanks for the people, animals and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Deuces are wild.

Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse.

She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The reptilian part of

your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive and provides you with the aggressiveness and power you need to fulfill your agendas. Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful giveand-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture.

The neocortex part of your grey matter

is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you.

You may be as smart as you have ever been.

How will you use your enhanced savvy?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The classical com-

poser and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At one point in

his career, the mythical Greek hero Hercules was compelled to carry out a series of 12 strenuous labors. Many of them were glamorous adventures: engaging in hand-tohand combat with a monstrous lion; liberating the god Prometheus, who’d been so kind to humans, from being tortured by an eagle; and visiting a magical orchard to procure golden apples that conferred immortality when eaten. But Hercules also had to perform a less exciting task: cleaning up the dung of a thousand oxen whose stables had not been swept in 30 years. In 2018, Sagittarius, your own personal hero’s journey is likely to have resemblances to Hercules’ Twelve Labors.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Humans have

used petroleum as a fuel since ancient times.

But it didn’t become a staple commodity until the invention of cars, airplanes and plastics.

Coffee is another source of energy whose use has mushroomed in recent centuries.

The first European coffee shop appeared in Rome in 1645. Today there are over 25,000 Starbucks on the planet. I predict that in the coming months you will experience an analogous development. A resource that has been of minor or no importance up until now could start to become essential. Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not totally certain

that events in 2018 will lift you to the Big Time or the Major League. But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care?

In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865, England’s

Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain “Everest,” borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmāthā and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma.

I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense and the masks.

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We showed up with 48 stockings for them too, which was really cool. We read “The Night Before Christmas” and sang some Christmas carols and handed out stockings and then I went on my merry way.

D. Smitty Smith, also known as Smitty Claus, founded the nonprofit Claus with a Cause in 2010. Every year, he raises funds through Santa Claus appearances at events and private parties and spends the money on needed items and gifts for underprivileged and homeless kids and mothers in Northern Nevada.

He’ll be at Ceol Irish Pub, 538 S. Virginia St., for the bar’s charity caroling competition at 8 p.m. on Dec. 16.

Learn more at www.clause4acause. org or http://bit.ly/2AOy7mL.

Tell me a bit about Claus with a Cause.

It’s a charity that I put together, and I do different Santa appearances—whether it’s photos with Santa or office parties, house parties. Of course, Ron [McCarty, the owner] at Ceol is kind enough to host the annual Caroling with a Cause. And then I do a big fundraiser, which we did last week at Vino 100. I donate all of the monies that I make to my charity—but the main benefactor is … the Domestic Violence Resource Center. They have three shelters for the moms and the kids. I get a list of wants, needs, colors, sizes, and I go shopping for them for Christmas. My wife and I go shop, and then we wrap them, via the help of our elves. And then we actually deliver them to the shelters on Christmas Eve. It’s very cool.

I feel like you have an affinity with Saint Nick, and you do advertise that the beard is the real deal.

That is cool. What kind of stuff do you end up delivering— clothes, toys?

I get that list of wants, needs, colors— but they’re usually clothes. And then the wants are anything from Barbies to basketballs, anything a kid from one to 18 would want. We do our best to fulfill the needs. They went from one shelter to three shelters. For several years, we took care of about 35 to 40 people. Now we’re looking at 60 to 80—between the moms and the kids.

And that’s kind of how it came about.

You know, my hair kept getting whiter and whiter. And my buddy said, “Hey, you’re crazy if you don’t start taking advantage of this by being a Santa.” …

I got to thinking about it, and it’s like, “Well, as much as we all love money, the world needs a lot more love than it needs money.” I decided instead of capitalizing on it, I thought I’d take what the good Lord and Mother Nature made me look like and do some good with it.

It’s very gratifying. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Hold the phone I’m writing this on the eve of the election for the Jeff Sessions senate seat in Alabama, and it would obviously be lovely and wonderful if the very decent Doug Jones won that seat. It would be pure political gravy to steal that seat from the unrelentingly assholific Retrumplican Party. But if we lose this one, well—ho hum. Ya know? I mean, let’s slurp a hearty reality pale ale. Contrary to all the media coverage, contrary to all the fundraising phone calls, contrary to all the email come-ons, Decent Doug losing to Lechy Roy isn’t all that much of a political disaster.

In fact, it’s not a disaster at all.

If there are six seats you can write off in every session of the Senate, it’s the two senators from Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina. Rock solid redneck Refuglicans. So to win this one would be totally the superest. (I’m guessing Jones has a 20 percent

chance.) But if not, the fabric of space/time will recover quickly.

• Speaking of the phone calls, the assault has been relentless. Aagh.

It’s enough to make one seriously consider a good budget for a custom ringtone. But I keep my landline going for a good reason—because 90 percent of the calls that ring me up on that one think I’m Mr. Dyke, so the landline has turned into a valuable decoy.

Sure, I’ll pick up every once in a while and chat with the folks, but I usually just ride it out for all three rings until the machine picks up.

I do seem to remember a wacky time in the hazy swamp of yesteryear when we would actually answer every phone call! I’m serious. Every one. We were nuts back then.)

• There’s an interesting new concept beginning to float around, a

concept with a name that feels right for right now. This concept would be sado-populism. Where the sado-populist administration doesn’t actually do anything for you, or give you anything. It takes stuff away, it prevents, it suppresses, it basically delivers pain. But the trick is to make certain segments feel less pain than others, which makes the folks feeling less pain feel OK about themselves when compared to the poor slobs who are really struggling and flailing and can’t afford decent legal help.

So, yes, sado-populism, where we give you a new “health plan” that will mean death for many, where we give you “tax reform” that has rich fux fondling their monocles in twitchy delight.

(Cut to a dreamy blonde in a luxurious bubble bath. “Sadopopulism—take me away!”) Ω

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