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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Happy April Fools’ Day! It’s one of our favorite holidays around here. The Weekly World Reno News & Review, our tabloid spoof issue, is one of my favorite annual issues.

We got hate mail for weeks following our April Fools’ Day issues the last couple of years. Two years ago featured perennial local rightwing candidate Sharron Angle depicted as a demon, and then last year, our cover model was a cave troll sporting a “MAGA” hat. On both occasions, people were pissed.

It’s a fun opportunity for us to vent some steam writing Onion-style satire pieces, or just ridiculous over-the-top stuff. It’s also a great opportunity for us to pull some actual honest-to-goodness pranks, which is why—at the risk of ruining the joke by explaining it—we decided to print the cover sidewise this week. If just one person picks up the paper the wrong way, and tries to open it, only to have all the pages spill out, it’ll be worth it. If this happens to you or a member of your family, please send us a pic.

Also, just to be clear: the newspaper isn’t now made of “100% recycled marijuana.”

I’m not even sure what that means (and I wrote it). It’s a joke. However, I do think this is a great marketing bit.

People regularly use our paper to wrap fish, line birdcages, practice drawing goatees and eye patches, wrap presents, and so forth. Why not roll it up and smoke it? Actually, come to think of it, I’m sure somebody somewhere in our fine burg has rolled us into a joint before, but, I’ve never seen it happen.

Once again, if just one person sees this week’s cover, and thinks it’s for real, and tries to light it up—totally worth it.

Send us pics.

Re “What Van Dyke guy?” (letters, March 1): I was disappointed to read the negative attack on Bruce Van Dyke and Notes from Neon Babylon. I have been following Bruce for over 25 years. I loved him on the X and I love him in print.

Bruce is a great writer, and I can hear his radio voice when I read his Notes from Neon Babylon. I love the RN&R, but sometimes I pick it up only to see what Bruce has to say!

It is always the first item I read in the RN&R. Thank you, Bruce, for your years of service to Northern Nevada. If I ever get a chance, I am buying you a beer!

Lots of love, my brother!

Jack Hawkins Reno

Re “Back on the horse” (news, March 15) and “Horse tales” (Upfront, March 15): Thank you so much for the succinct and informative update on the laws and issues impacting both our local wild horses and horses managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

I want to remind everyone that the group called Friends of Animals is no friend of wild horses. If they were “friends” to the horses, they would not have filed a suit to end the birth control program being used on the horses in the Pine Nut Range. I am happy to hear the program is on again, and I hope we can start a similar program with our beloved Virginia Range horses.

Valerie Williams Carson City

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Juror distress Once in a while I’ll see someone on the street who was on the Washoe County grand jury with me. We’ll just look at each other and not say a word, and then turn around and walk away, like two former concentration camp guards hiding a disgusting secret.

Much of the superficial rhetoric we’re being fed in this election year reminds me of the dark side of our community which very few people know anything about. The child murder rate, the suicides, drug overdoses, gang violence, and political and corporate corruption are conveniently glossed over by the local news sources.

Unless a story has enormous sensational value and doesn’t seriously disturb the status quo, the media seems to feel that the public doesn’t need to know about these unpleasantries.

The last I heard, Nevada was 35th in population but fifth in terms of prison population in the U.S. It’s time to wake up.

Mike Beesley Reno

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White knight Re “White riot” (Let Freedom Ring, March 15): As an older white male, I would like to point out that every month is “It’s OK to be White Month.”

All of my life I have been in two privileged positions in our society. As a white man, I have always had access to good schools, good jobs with competitive pay, good relations with law enforcement officials, and favorable treatment by banks and loan officers. In my youth, the schools I attended were for whites only. Other students received an education in older, run-down facilities with aged and outdated textbooks.

For most of my life, I have been competitively employed while women and minorities struggled to gain or hold decent jobs. In the not too distant past, my wife, at the time, could not buy a car without my signing on the loan, even though being temporarily disabled, I did not have a job, and she was supporting me.

I can drive my vehicle in any city or state in this country and not worry about

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being pulled over unless I break the law. Our country, founded by progressive, enlightened individuals, has always had the potential to be the greatest society on Earth but has struggled with fulfilling its promise. Slavery, mass extermination of indigenous populations, and rank male chauvinism have all been stumbling blocks in our progress toward a truly free society. Why do I need a month that tells me “It’s OK to be white”?

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What makes you laugh? asked at tHe eddy, 16 s. sierra st.

Cassandr a Lit tLe Life coach

I laugh a lot, usually with friends—silly jokes. Kids really make me laugh, because they’re so open-hearted, free, say what’s on their minds, uncensored, authentic.

a xeL Heekin Student/server

Probably the biggest one would just be word play, honestly. And not so clever word play, too— that can be good, just like stupid puns and stuff. You know what I mean?

Merrit t WiLburn Student/server

Start early A few years ago a small boy of our acquaintance started eating Total cereal for breakfast because there were these television commercials that told him that one bowl of Total equaled X-number bowls of other cereals.

The poor kid choked down a bowl of the stuff each day (“like chewing a vitamin pill rather than cereal,” as one website describes it).

What the boy did not know at the time was that the commercials were of dubious credibility. In one case, a challenge from Quaker Oats and questions by the American Broadcasting Company forced Total to change one of those commercials.

If these kinds of things can be disillusioning for children, they are also occasions for learning. This is a world in which the claims of toy companies and presidential candidates should be policed. At one time, the State of Nevada published a comparison of insurance policies that was so valuable to consumers that insurance lobbyists got it stopped. Today, factchecking sites scrutinize the claims of politicians and other public figures. Last week, the urban myth site Snopes answered the unbelievable question, “Did A GOP Lawmaker Report a High School Student for Cursing Over Gun Safety?”

There is an additional and essential way. At a gathering of local independent media in Reno on March 15, there was considerable discussion of media literacy classes, which teach students to approach information skeptically and to scrutinize claims of people and entities. Northern Nevada Business Press publisher Kirsten

McGregor, among others, emphasized the importance of starting media literacy classes early.

In 2007, we quoted author Douglas Rushkoff, who as a media consultant practiced some of the techniques of manipulation. “The United States is the only developed nation in the world that does not mandate media literacy as part of its public-school curriculum,” he wrote. Those techniques, he wrote, “are rapidly spreading from the sales floor and the television screen to almost every other aspect of our daily experience.”

At that time, the Washoe County School District told us media literacy was not taught until middle and high schools. That has not changed, according to the WCSD. Nor is media literacy taught in a standalone class. Rather, it is slipped in during things like computer instruction, library briefings and languages.

That’s fine—in fact, ideal—as demonstrations of the problem, but it is not a substitute for an early standalone class.

In an editorial 11 years ago, we said, “Manipulation is aimed at small children by … comic books, video arcades and a whole host of other influences. By middle school, patterns of thought may already be set.”

We still think that is the case.

Public relations techniques are dangerous, and the public needs a defense from them. They are used to manipulate, cheat, even kill, as the second Bush administration’s WMD campaign for war showed. They become more refined and dangerous all the time, and the schools system needs to stay ahead of them. Ω

For me, number one is definitely watching people fail—like those fail videos. That’s the numberone thing that just kills me.

Watching someone, like, fall off of a bike and knowing that they’re OK is pretty funny. I don’t know why.

MiCHeLLe GLipa State worker

People singing the wrong song lyrics, like, very wrong song lyrics. “Hold me closer, Tony Danza.”

CHris Zanardi Educator

I think it’s really inappropriate, but I think when little kids quote adults—in an adult context—but they’re saying it, and it’s actually being used in the correct context.

When they’re using it, if their delivery and their timing is so perfect, and you’re just like, “Oh, my god, that is so funny.”

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Thoughts and prayers and rocks There has been an ongoing debate in the progressive community about whether our current moment of resistance and activism will turn into a movement or fizzle away into apathy and cynicism about the ability to create change in our country. After all, recent polling showed 45 percent of Nevadans still support President Trump, an unfathomable percentage for progressives to comprehend. Among people who admit to voting for Trump, a huge number—95 percent—still think he’s doing a wonderful job. It makes you wonder how much attention they’re paying to the gridlock in Washington, Trump’s ongoing scandalous behavior, or our reputation on the world stage, but it seems nothing will dissuade them from supporting their President.

But after the March for Our Lives this past weekend, progressives might be allowed a moment of joy, watching the movement arrive in the form of millions of young people and their allies taking to the streets to peacefully protest the lack of action in Congress and state

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legislatures in altering our nation’s gun laws to keep us safer.

The students on the national stage were truly inspiring, especially the survivors of school shootings. The public presence of the Parkland students in Washington, D.C., seems destined to change the conversation, although the death grip of the NRA on Congress cannot be underestimated. These young people, most still under 18, are incredibly impressive, and their activism and political will to force change will reverberate across our nation well beyond the March for Our Lives.

Reno hosted its own celebrity student at the local march, Noah Christiansen, who was suspended from McQueen High School for two days after he used profanity in a phone call to U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei’s office during the March 14 school walkouts, urging Congress to “get off their fucking asses and do something” about gun violence. The offended staffer contacted the high school to report the conversation and Christiansen was subsequently punished

for his remarks. After a week of negative national attention and a huge outpouring of local support for Christiansen, the threat of a lawsuit from the ACLU convinced the school district to cancel the suspension while righteously maintaining its right to censure political speech by students as a way to teach decorum, respect and civility.

Amodei refused to apologize for the overreaction of his office which led to the suspension and managed to completely ignore the retaliatory nature of the staffer’s actions by suggesting the staffer’s first amendment rights were somehow breached, a red herring that added little to the community conversation. Amodei also ignored his own penchant to use profanity in his public interactions—unprofessional speech it’s likely the long-term staffer has heard repeatedly throughout his career.

Amodei’s inconsistency and absurd remarks were typical of the Republican viewpoint on guns. The most common response of the NRA-led GOP to the gun violence protests was to belittle the

students, and offer insulting and ridiculous alternatives to combat school shooters, such as placing buckets of rocks in every classroom for students to disable the seemingly inevitable shooter. Former senator Rick Santorum suggested that students learn CPR instead of proposing changes in gun laws. He accused students of “ignoring those problems and saying they’re not going to come to me and saying some phony gun law is gonna solve it. Phony gun laws don’t solve these problems.” And buckets of rocks will?

Young people led the national and local marches and spoke eloquently about their cause. Across the nation, thousands of youth registered to vote and committed to working against candidates who refuse to do anything meaningful about gun violence. Republicans ignore this activism at their peril as the Never Again movement leads emphatically toward November 6.

The GOP may be in for a huge mid-term wake-up call. Ω

by Brendan Trainor

More creeping common sense on drugs While opioid use in America has reached crisis proportions, and black market cocaine and amphetamines are as easily accessible and cheap as ever, there is another category of drugs that few notice is having a renaissance. The use of psychedelic drugs for medicinal purposes could be legal by 2021. Personal use is trending upwards as well, although with a different lifestyle purpose than in the notorious decade of the tune in, turn on, drop out ’60s.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is now accepting volunteers for a phase III study of the effectiveness of MDMA for treatment of Post Traumatice Stress Disorder (PTSD). Phase III is the final stage before legalization. The Food and Drug Administration has already reviewed the first two phases, and in its opinion MDMA—known on the street as molly or ecstacy—“may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant

endpoints, such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development” (benchmark language in the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act).

Phase II tested MDMA on female rape victims and Afghanistan war veterans who suffered from severe PTSD. Eighty percent of subjects recovered dramatically, so that their PTSD no longer was severe.

The placebo therapy had a 25 percent recovery expectation. Follow-up studies showed the healing was long term.

Nigel McCourry, a former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq, was amazed at the dramatic effects of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. After years of insomnia and nightmares, he was suddenly able to sleep through the night, and within two years, he felt like this “huge healing event had taken place” because he finally “had this sense of separation from the experiences of Marine combat.” MDMA in a clinical setting increases trust and reduces the fear of re-living traumatic events. The

FDA also noted the drug was only administered a few times to each patient, and so had life-changing properties. They called MDMA a “breakthrough therapy.”

Molly the street drug has long been associated with all-night dance parties to electronic dance music (raves). The street drug purity is generally low, only averaging 35 percent in America. Because it increases empathy and euphoria people can dance for hours on a single dose. This can cause severe dehydration and in rare cases even death. The very simple cure, mandated by law in Amsterdam, where the dosage level of MDMA is twice as high as in America, is to require rave organizers to provide a cooling off area with plenty of water. Regulated legal use of MDMA would also reduce negative dehydration effects in America.

While MAPS has also finished phase II studies in LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) therapy, the more interesting new use of the drug is its burgeoning popularity among young professionals as a

nootropic drug rather than a hallucinogen.

Nootropic or “smart drugs” are used to increase brain power—that is, cognitive ability and memory function. Extreme sports enthusiasts and some Silicon Valley executives have microdosed LSD for years. A Timothy Leary-style dose of LSD could reach 200 micrograms, but a psycholitic dose is only 6-25 micrograms.

The object is not a complete immersion in the subconscious self, but to function with enhanced concentration and stamina in normal creative work environments or increase unity with nature and body in extreme sports.

Groups like the Third Wave are now organizing three-day retreats in Amsterdam where new users learn how to microdose for professional success.

The retreat goals are quite corporate, emphasizing leadership and communication skills. Will the three-martini business lunch be replaced by the psylocybin mushroom salad? Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Bloat redux Under the War Powers Resolution, the Department of “Defense” is required to report on where U.S. troops have been sent into “hostilities or into situations whose imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances.”

Note that the language does not stop at “hostilities.” Rather, it then adds a 12-word qualifier beginning with “situations” that make it a judgment call by the Pentagon whether to report on all places where troops are in hostilities.

In this year’s war powers report, the Pentagon has reported on Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, Somalia, Libya, and Niger—but nowhere else.

For instance, U.S. troops have been in the Philippines since the second Bush administration, which sent them there on an alleged anti-terrorism mission, though it is described by other sources as an internal insurgency. Kerry Firth of Nevada is among U.S. soldiers who have since died in the Philippines, but the new war powers report contains no reference to those hostilities.

On June 14 last year, the New York Times reported from Mindanao, “American troops are on the ground in the embattled southern Philippine city of Marawi, where the Philippine military is battling Islamic State-linked militants for control, a Philippine military spokesman said on Wednesday.” At that time, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he was unaware of U.S. forces being in Marawi.

Agence France-Presse reported, “U.S. troops are on the ground helping local soldiers battle terrorists in a Philippine city, a Filipino military spokesman said on Wednesday, June 14, giving the most detailed account of their role. The small number of U.S. soldiers are providing vital surveillance assistance and, although they do not have a combat role, are allowed to open fire on the militants if attacked first, spokesman Brigadier-General Restituto Padilla said.”

Reuters reported besides those troops in Marawi, Pentagon officials said there were “an additional 300 to 500 troops in the country to support regular training and activities, without giving further details.”

This year, Australia’s Sydney Herald reported, “The United States will upgrade and build facilities on Philippine military bases this year, Manila’s defence minister said, bolstering an alliance strained by President Rodrigo Duterte’s opposition to a U.S. troop presence.”

Although the law requires that there be an unclassified summary of the war powers report, the Trump administration made it as difficult as possible for the public to read the unclassified portion. It was not released publicly. Instead, it was sent out to Congress and had to be viewed there.

LawFare, a national security blog, reported that “the White House has limited public disclosure of the report to a cover letter indicating that the document has been transmitted to Congress. But, over the course of the day on Tuesday, the congressional committees began to receive copies of the unclassified report. So, curious as to what it said, we decided to head down to Capitol Hill to review it in person, an underappreciated option for many congressional reports.

While relevant committee rules did not allow us to make copies or take pictures of the report, we were able to spend a few hours with a hard copy.” Fortunately, Slate, the New York Times and other publications obtained copies and posted them online.

And although the Pentagon has world class technical facilities, the report is put out in primitive fashion, akin to mimeograph, including a format in which text cannot be highlighted and lifted out but must be copied word by word.

The war powers report can be read here: tinyurl.com/ ybwh3ayd

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Temporary workers gather signatures in downtown Reno for an initiative petition sponsored by Tom Steyer.

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Petition A billionaire invests in Nevada renewable energy the streets of downtown reno on March 24 were filled with people, and to two men seeking signatures on a petition, they were the right kind of people. The March for Our Lives had taken place that morning in downtown, and, afterward, participants scattered to coffee shops, stores and movies. It was outside the downtown movie theaters that the two men set up, gesturing with clipboards containing the petitions.

The petition is headed, “Renewable energy promotion initiative” and if it gets the required number of signatures and is enacted by voters, it would require increased reliance by state utilities on renewable sources “such as solar, geothermal and wind” to 50 percent. It would happen on a sliding scale—at least 26 percent in 20222033, 34 percent in 2024-2026, 42 percent in 2027-2029, and 50 percent in 2030 and thereafter.

The Nevada initiative petition is sponsored by Tom Steyer, a former

hedge fund manager worth more than $1.6 billion who has pledged to spend half his fortune on good works. The petition was filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on Feb. 6.

There was a time when renewables were considered so impractical that someone—Ralph Nader is often credited—said that solar energy would be impractical “until the oil companies get a franchise on the sun.” That time is long past, in part because oil and other energy companies did buy up small energy research firms. Today, renewables are not only practical but have become economically competitive.

Still, the pace of switching over to renewables has not satisfied its supporters—some of whom have a financial stake in that switch. Right now, Nevada requires that 25 percent of electricity sales be derived from renewables by 2025. In 2016, the state reached 21.6 from biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind.

Steyer is trying to hurry that process along in at least three states— Michigan, where his initiative seeks 30 percent of renewables by 2030 and Arizona and Nevada, where 50 percent by 2030 is the goal.

But his Nevada and Arizona initiatives both have a feature that has made critics out of even some supporters of renewables. Both his initiative petitions for the states seek to write the thresholds into the state constitutions instead of state statutes.

Jon Wellinghoff, former federal and Nevada energy official and now CEO of Grid Policy Inc., said he supports the objectives of the measure but believes statutory legislation would be a better way of achieving it.

In Arizona, Democratic state legislators Robert Meza and César Chávez of Phoenix wrote in an essay in the Arizona Republic, “Arizonans should be careful. If voters approve this initiative, it will be locked into the Arizona Constitution and virtually impossible for policymakers to make corrections or account for changes in technology or the marketplace.”

In Nevada, if the Steyer petition were approved by voters and turned out to contain flaws, state legislators would be unable to make corrections in it for at least three years. The Arizona petition reportedly excludes nuclear as a renewable, but the Nevada petition seems to leave the definition of what is a renewable energy source up to the legislature.

The Nevada Constitution is more than 49,000 words long and contains many provisions that are not generally thought of as the stuff of constitutions.

When including 27 amendments, the U.S. Constitution contains 7,591 words.

legislative games There could also be other problems ahead for Steyer’s initiative, if his experience in Arizona is any indication.

The Arizona Legislature is known for its provocative stances, as when in 1996, after Arizona and California voters approved the nation’s first medical marijuana initiatives, Arizona lawmakers promptly repealed it. Then, of course, there are its anti-immigrant measures.

After Steyer’s petition was filed, Wellinghoff said, the Arizona Legislature “smoked” it.

“What they did was say, OK, you can set the energy standards anywhere you want, but we’re going to say the penalty is just $5,000,” he said.

In fact, that is the top penalty. Fines could fall as low as $100—chump change to utilities. It would essentially make it painless for utilities to ignore the law. Or, to put it another way, breaking the law would become just another cost of doing business.

Could something similar happen in Nevada?

In the closing days of two consecutive Nevada Legislatures with Democratic majorities—2011 and 2013—NVEnergy lobbyists suddenly produced measures that they dared not produce earlier, when scrutiny would have been heavy. Legislators jumped to break house rules to accommodate them. One of the measures—an amendment to Senate Bill 123 in 2013—would have circumvented the regulatory process. “Never before has a bill been introduced that has such guarantees to [utility] shareholders,” said former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa.

Later, under a Republican majority, the 2015 Nevada Legislature enacted Senate Bill 374, which the Public Utilities Commission later used to shut down the state net metering

program, which caused Nevada solar firms to close down and even leave the state.

In other words, history shows the Nevada Legislature is susceptible to doing the bidding of power utilities.

Steyer’s initiative comes at a time when Western utilities are changing. While they may not be moving as quickly as their critics want, they are embracing renewables.

Nevada now has 16 solar plants, including two opened in December by NVEnergy.

A coal plant in Nevada with a reputation as a particularly dirty facility that caused health problems—Reid Gardner, in southern Nevada—has been shut down. Coal-fired Valmy in northern Nevada remains open and is the subject of a tug-of-war between its two owners—Idaho Power, which wants the plant shut down as soon as possible, and NVEnergy, which wants to keep it open through 2025.

As Utility Dive reported last year, “Western states are slowly weaning off their reliance on coal-fired generation as economic and political pressure to shut down the carbon-intensive plans builds.”

On the other hand, NVEnergy seemed to assign less urgency to closing Valmy after Harry Reid left office and the coal-hating senator was no longer looking over the utility’s shoulder. Ω

How fast is fast enough?

Sign of the times

A young woman held aloft a sign she made for the March for Our Lives protest, which—according to the Reno Police Department—brought at least 3,000 people to downtown Reno on March 24. Protestors marched down South Virginia Street from the Bruce R. Thompson Federal Building to the Reno City Plaza. The event was one of many that took place across the globe in response to the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which claimed the lives of 17 students and members of the school’s staff.

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April Fools! The stories in this week’s feature package contain satire, exaggeration and outright misinformation … or do they?

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This newspaper now made of 100% recycled marijuana! It’s totally smokable! (Also edible!)

Will get you so high that the world turns sideways!

The Weekly World News & Review is pleased to announce that this newspaper is now printed on rolling papers and that we’ve partnered with fictional local cannabis grower Bäkd to develop special inks that are laced with cannabis oil.

That’s right! Smoking this newspaper will now get you hella high!

And here’s what’s more: We understand that it’s a consumer’s market, so we’ve developed

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different blends for different colors. We use a four-color “CMYK” printing process. Feeling like getting a little wild? Choose pages with a lot of magenta (M) or black (K), because those inks contain Newsbud, a sativa-dominant blend.

Feeling more like you need to mellow out? Opt for a page with more cyan (C) or yellow (Y), because those inks contain Reviewweed, an indica-dominant blend.

Sure, you can find new stories and local arts coverage online, but can those online outlets offer this? No way.

In a related announcement, the Weekly World News & Review is changing its slogan. “Think free!” has grown a little stale in the internet age because everyone expects everything to be free nowadays. Our new slogan: “Read it! Roll it!

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City of Reno approved plan to demolish classic Reno recordings Fashion victims!

Local man relieved that he no longer needs to pretend to care about college basketball Don’t call it a comeback!

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Fashion victims!

Having discovered “vintage is in,” Reno City Council regrets demolition of old motels Having recently discovered that “vintage is in again,” the Reno City Council issued a statement saying it now regrets the decision to allow developers to move forward with the demolition of several mid-century motels in city’s downtown district, despite outcry from many residents and historic preservation activists.

“When the new season of Rehab or Raze came on Friday night, I knew we’d jumped the gun,” said Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, referring to the hit HGTV series, a new season of which premiered Friday night. “The very first property they showed was this ugly mid-century place. I thought they’d tear it down, for sure, but they rehabbed it.”

The council’s statement on the matter acknowledged that the destruction of several old motels in recent years could backfire and hurt the hip reputation the city has sought to develop for itself—especially if a trend of featuring mid-century modern and other retro architectural styles appears in more popular shows like This Slightly Outdated House or Heritage Hustlers.

“We’ve been on a lot of ‘most popular’ and ‘best city’ lists in recent years,” said City Councilmember Neoma Jardon. “I swear, last year, all of the hipsters were into industrial design—you know, like the new Virginia Street Bridge? How is Reno supposed to keep reinventing itself if it can’t keep up with these trends?”

The development company, which prior to demolishing the old hotels issued a statement saying there were no immediate plans for redevelopment, has indicated that—should mid-century modern aesthetics continue to gain traction as a prevailing trend—new development on the sites could end up echoing the design influences of the very buildings it bulldozed. Ω 10 | RN&R | 03.29.18

City of Reno approved plan to demolish classic Reno recordings The Reno City Council recently approved plans by Colorado-based record label Jacobs Recorded Entertainment to destroy every known vinyl copy of Johnny Cash’s recording of his song “Folsom Prison Blues.”

The song, first recorded by Cash in 1955, contains the classic lyric, “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

The City Council also recently approved similar demolition plans for the Grateful Dead song “Friend of the Devil,” which also mentions the city, and the entire discography of iconic Reno punk band 7Seconds.

“Those songs are just incredibly old-fashioned—it’s time for a fresh coat of musical paint!” said Jacobs representative Slick Tinears.

He added that he’d like “reassure music fans” that those songs will be replaced by new recordings by Las Vegas-based “alternative rock” band Imagine Dragons.

“We’re really excited about that,” Tinears said. “Imagine Dragons are just incredibly innocuous. It’s the kind of music that you wouldn’t even notice unless you were ready to turn it off.”

Mid-Century Musical Modernists, a coalition of local activists, music fans and historians, have expressed concern that the destruction of all those records is totally pointless.

“Well, I don’t know what people are complaining about,” Tinears said. “We’re just going to destroy every known version on vinyl. Those recordings will still be available in highly compressed digital transfers on YouTube. We wouldn’t be able to track down all the digital copies of those recordings for demolition. Although God knows we wish we could.”

At a press conference announcing the planned demolition, a reporter asked Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve if she thought the demolition was “disrespectful to our city’s cultural legacy.”

“Our what?” Mayor Schieve replied. “Our cultural legacy? I’m sorry—I don’t know what that means.” Ω

“our cultural legacy?

I’m sorry—I don’t know what that means.”

Local man relieved that he no longer needs to pretend to care about college basketball During an interview on Friday, March 23, Geoff Derbyhat, front-of-house manager of fictional local brewpub Sage & Hops, expressed relief that the University of Nevada, Reno men’s basketball team lost their game against Loyola University Chicago and were thus eliminated from the NCAA tournament.

“Every customer who’s come in here the last week or two has wanted to talk about it,” Derbyhat said. “Especially after they won against Cleveland or whatever, coming back from behind by 30 points or whatever.”

The Nevada Wolf Pack defeated the University of Cincinnati Bearcats in the second round of the tournament, coming back from a 22-point deficit to win 75-73 on March 18.

“We’ve had the games on here at the pub, so it’s been pretty unavoidable,” Derbyhat said. “But it’s been the same everywhere I go. It was all the guys wanted to talk about at my Wednesday night poker night. I can’t even tell those twins apart.”

Twin brothers Caleb and Cody Martin were big contributors to the Wolf Pack’s tournament victories.

Derbyhat had to cut the interview short to help a customer.

“Did you watch the game last night?” the customer asked.

“Just one point short! But I guess that’s March Madness, amirite? There’s always next year.”

“I can’t wait,” Derbyhat replied. Ω

McQueen cracks down McQueen High School principal Amy Marable today suspended a student for expressing anger at fate while hospitalized at St. Mary’s Hospital.

“Why is this fucking happening to me?” said student Luther Christiansen Theodore Cleaver while being rolled into surgery for an appendectomy yesterday.

Marable heard about the outcry from the boy’s mother, who called McQueen to explain why he was not in school.

Marable gave the student a threeday suspension, which when linked

to the upcoming weekend means the boy could be back in school as early as fucking Monday.

“The student’s comment was made during school hours, and so is actionable under the new Noah Christiansen rule, which allows me to penalize students for things they say out of school,” Marable said.

Noah Christiansen is a student who was marked tardy for being out of school in a political protest on March 14—and then was suspended

for vulgar language in a telephone call to his U.S. House member’s office during the period of tardiness.

“We have been empowered to penalize students for their conduct outside the school environment,” Marable said, explaining why she has also suspended a student who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday. “This gives us the latitude we need to vent our frustrations with these kids.” Ω

Firearms industry puts on a friendly face for young liberals

Don’t call it a comeback!

Former Nevada governor Jim Gibbons plots a return to public life

Hip, local, urban branding firm develops hip, local, urban image for gunsmiths According to a Pew Research Center study from 2017, about 40 percent of Americans say they own a gun or live in a household with one. The same study also noted, “For most gun owners, owning a firearm is tied to their sense of personal freedom.”

“It stands to reason, therefore, that more guns in America equals more personal freedom,” said Chase Emdown, senior brand development strategist at Brandmyne.

During a fiscal year that’s had firearms makers struggling—Smith & Wesson saw profits sink by 65 percent, and 200-year-old industry stalwart Remington declared bankruptcy in February—the Reno-based firm has achieved what many though tto be impossible. In March, Emdown’s branding team reached a group that the NRA had written off as being “so deeply against personal liberties, they’re not even worth trying to market to”—young, urban liberals.

This week, Emdown gave the WWN&R’s Business Desk an exclusive interview to explain how his team did it.

The whole process started on Feb. 26, after Emdown read a blog post by Josh Clafin from the Tennessee-based marketing firm Garrison Everest, which specializes in branding firearms: “It’s 2018, and it’s harder than ever to get your message out to law-abiding customers,” Clafin wrote. He advised five strategies, including native advertising and marketing to women.

NRATV, the National Rifle Association’s television network, had already helped make guns and gun accessories more appealing to women, touting products such as chic, concealed-carry handbags. Emdown figured there wasn’t much use marketing to a recently saturated demographic, so his team would need to find one that remained untapped.

On Feb. 26, Emdown began his team’s Monday morning “think sesh” by doing what he always does. Dry-erase

Local dad admits even he’s kinda sick of Fox News Retired father of two Ted Durby was overheard last Sunday admitting to his adult children over brunch at Shenanigan’s Olde English Pub that even he is “kind of sick of Fox News.”

Sources familiar with the Durby family’s brunch conversation claim the elder Durby fondly recalled when Fox News host Sean Hannity made salient points.

“Back in ’07 when Hannity exposed Halloween for the liberal holiday it is—that’s when the network was at its peak,” he said. “The good old days were when Hannity called liberals out for teaching their kids to knock on other people’s doors looking for handouts.”

Durby also opined the days when Fox hosts like Glenn Beck called out Obama for being a “guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

“Or how about the time Hannity called Obama out for putting that fancy Dijon mustard on his burger?” Durby asked. “But now they can’t focus on the important issues. They’ve lost touch.”

When Durby’s children reportedly asked their father to explain, sources say it became clear that Fox News’ increasing attacks on children’s pop culture in recent years is behind his increasing frustration with the television news network, which has criticized such movies as Disney’s Frozen for threatening masculinity, and the television show SpongeBob SquarePants for pushing a global warming agenda.

“Now, when they said The Lorax is selling green energy policies, they went too far,” Durby allegedly said. “I love that movie.” Ω

The baristas at Unique Bespoke Roastery are great foam artists.

marker in hand, ready to scribble any and all ideas on a whiteboard, he put his hands on his hips like a cheerleader, bounced on the balls of his feet twice and prodded his team with a loud, cheerful “So, what do we dooooo?”

“We change the woooooorld!” replied most of the team in unison.

But Brittany Benarjee—a promising junior strategist who had provided the brain, the brawn and the humor that were the trinity of the “God said it’s fine now” campaign, which increased sales of caffeinated beverages in Mormon communities by 14,700 percent in 2017—did not share the group’s earlymorning enthusiasm.

“We go for coffee,” mumbled Banarjee, not looking up from her phone.

“In your grandpa’s office, she would have been fired,” said Emdown, who is 36 and remembers, from his days as a teenage intern, a time when people still wore shirts with sleeves in offices. “But that’s not how things work anymore,” he said. “Brittany hungover in last night’s tank top and eye makeup is smarter than the rest of us put together on Adderall.

So, when Brittany starts snarking, we take that seriously. Most of the time, it’s the start of a real solution.”

The team walked together to Unique Bespoke Roastery for some some sixdollar macchiatos.

“The barista was a great foam artist,” recalled Brandmyne intern Justin Sweet.

“Each macchiato took about seven minutes to handcraft—and then another five minutes, so that she could draw a leaf or a heart or a hashtag with a lot of serifs in the foam.”

The barista, Jeweley Front, had been on a Tindr date with Sweet a week before. They’d gone for poke bowls, then to the acrobat dog show at the Carnival Midway at Circus Circus Hotel Casino.

“So, she put, like, an eight-minute drawing on his macchiato,” said Emdown. “It was a German shepherd puppy playing with a little stuffed mouse toy. It was meticulously detailed.”

The group assembled at one of Unique Bespoke’s unique, bespoke, charred-top tables, which are made from reclaimed apartment-fire beams that the Portland, Oregon, Fire Department sells on its Etsy shop and edged with copper dots made from reclaimed antique dental fillings.

As soon as the two-ounce coffees were assembled on the table, Banarjee looked at the puppy drawing on Sweet’s coffee, looked at the swirly-serif hashtag on Emdown’s coffee, rolled her eyes, and huffed audibly.

“We all know that huff,” said Emdown. “It means she had the brand strategy figured out.”

Benarjee spelled it out for her colleagues: “We put hand-knitted doggie heads and kitty heads on the end of the gun barrels. You know, so when a bullet comes out, it looks like they’re barfing up a cute little metal hairball. We contract with a sustainable, ethical fair trade knitter from the Andes to make little cat outfits and dog outfits for the guns.”

“It’s almost perfect,” Emdown said to the team. “We just have to figure out how to disassociate guns with the idea of violence, then we’ve got this.” Ω

Former Nevada governor Jim Gibbons is being wooed to run for office again.

Republican political consultant Toony Loon said Gibbons, who also served in the Nevada Assembly and U.S. House, is ripe for revival in the age of Donald Trump. He noted that Gibbons had once been accused of attacking a cocktail waitress in a parking garage. “He walked on that as easily as Trump has slid on all his assaults.”

“Jim’s image has been rehabilitated after a year of the Trump administration,” he said. “In the era of MeToo, Jim Gibbons fits right in.”

Gov. Brian Sandoval, asked for comment, agreed. “Jim looks almost normal these days,” he said.

As governor, Gibbons was noted for long absences from the governor’s capitol office and heavy use of emails.

“It’s not the same thing as watching TV in the White House all the time, or flurries of nutty tweets, but this is Nevada,” said political analyst Fred Lokken. “We always run a little behind.”

As a federal and state legislator, Gibbons had a record nearly devoid of accomplishment, which is seen as a strength. “You can’t make 30-second spots attacking his legislation,” said fellow former state legislator Goosy Loose. “He didn’t have any.”

It is not yet certain what office Gibbons might seek. He will likely wait until after Trump tweets his preference for which office Gibbons should seek. Whichever office he pursues, proposed slogans have been bandied about among local Republican workers, with “I was insane before insane was cool” a favorite.

Democrats had no comment, but several local Democratic leaders were observed with smiles so wide they appeared to have coat hangers in their mouths. Ω

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by Kris Vag ner

krisv@newsreview.com

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n art, there’s a long tradition of Europeans and Americans borrowing images from other cultures. In two well-known examples, Paul Gauguin sold paintings in Paris in the 1890s of women and religious symbols from Tahiti, and, early in the 20th century, many of the faces on Picasso’s paintings borrowed their look directly from African masks.

Those artists adopted imagery from cultures considered more “primitive” than their own, and the same thing has been done by countless others. Frank Lloyd Wright, for one, borrowed from the Mayans.

Enrique Chagoya—a San Francisco artist who grew up in Mexico and is a professor at Stanford University—has based a long, successful career on turning the tables on that arrangement.

Here’s the idea in his own words. In 2016, he told an interviewer for online arts magazine Hyperallergic, “I thought, ‘What would happen if ‘primitive’ artists appropriated European art in the opposite direction, and perhaps with the same reverence?”

In his exhibition Reimagining the New World on display at the Nevada Museum of Art, Chagoya imagines just that.

It’s easy to picture what kinds of scenarios an artist might come up with after posing that question: maybe serene, utopian communities, unmolested by disease, violence or social upheaval. And it’s easy to picture a string of smug oneliners making the simple pronouncement, “colonialism is wrong.”

But Chagoya does not deal in one-liners or nice, neat utopias.

“What I’m trying to do is put a mirror on humankind, on ourselves,” he said in a phone interview. “I’m not pointing fingers.

I think we are all responsible for whatever is wrong in the world, and also whatever is right in the world, so it’s not a black or white. We are a very complex species.”

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To explore this, he presents multitudes of symbols and pictures, mismatched as if he’d landed in the U.S. from outer space one day and, with no contextual clues to go on, he’d sifted through every form of 2-D expression our large, pluralistic culture produces—from dollar bills to comic-book heroes, from high art to Mickey Mouse—and tried to sort them and make sense of them.

The resulting paintings and prints have a deeply rich, frantic energy. Some pieces take the form of unfolded informational pamphlets, each several feet long, with titles like “An Illegal Alien’s Survival Guide,” crammed with intentionally misunderstood mixed metaphors.

The entire presentation, which only takes up one modest-sized gallery room, offers so much detail it’s hard to chew on in one—or even two—visits. Here are just a couple of snapshots of the hundreds of groupings of images in this show: In one print, a disembodied head rises from toxic waste sludge. Its face has an opulent number of features—including at least nine noses, some of them dripping. Some of the features are easily recognizable—Bart Simpson’s eyeball, Goofy’s snout, an Illuminati eyeball from the back of a $1 bill. Beneath the head, a giant hypodermic syringe threatens a stunned-looking Waldo, and a yellow road sign signifies a crossing area for pedestrians—who are armed with rifles.

In another print, girls with ’60s-era bouffant bob cuts and lanky, Barbie-like height-to-weight proportions wear A-line dresses with the primary colors, white squares and black borders of a Mondrian painting. A figure with a cautious expression looks over at the girls from inside a small frame. He could just as easily be a Renaissance painting come to life or a migrant leaning out of a train window.

Each of those two examples, packed to the breaking point with referents and

Enrique Chagoya is a San Francisco artist who grew up in Mexico and teaches at Stanford University.

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contradictions, is just a small part of one piece “a self portrait of the stereotypes from Chagoya piece. different ethnic groups.”

And it gets even more complex from “For me, stereotypes are a dehumanthere. While working to process and izing element in almost every culture,” catalog all of these cultural signifiers, he said. “It’s usually something done to Chagoya seems to always keep in mind dehumanize people outside of a tribe, of that visual artwork is an inherently messy, a nation, a group of people. What I would imperfect, chronically unfinished busisay is, where humankind, in spite of our ness. Any given symbol might mean one differences in religion, languages, cultures, thing in one culture and another thing in nationalities, social classes, gender, gender the next. Any given image might mean preferences, identity, you name it, a lot of one thing inside the academic art world differences—but in spite of all those differand another thing outside of it. He ences, we’re all the same genome.” critiques the entirety of this can Chagoya had his DNA tested of worms, sometimes by recently and found that he placing flying insects or has ancestry from just comic book characabout everywhere: ters here and there Native American, to act as skeptical East Asian, art theorists.

Mideastern. “I They utter have some Jewish fragments in background speech bubbles. and even a tiny A one-inch-high bit of northern Batman points European, and out, “So highly my oldest ancestor personal as to is from northern exclude the viewer.”

Africa, like 250,000 Enrique Chagoya, “It’s a matter of years ago,” he said. artist how much you recognize “We are all the same and how much you could species,” he added. “And in read,” Chagoya said. that, we are all humans, just as valuHis recurring Popeye and Olive Oyl able as each other.” characters, for example, might land on He’s not trying to be didactic about it, some viewers as ever-present images though—or conclusive. from childhood, on others as strange “I’m not trying to convince anybody characters from a distant past, and, on with my work,” he said. “I’m basically just others, not at all. expressing my own personal anxieties— hopefully with some sense of humor. But it’s not about convincing anybody of my ideas. I don’t hold the monopoly of truth, and I just express as honestly as I can what I feel and, hopefully, in the best cases, we In the first piece that’s visible at the entrance get some kind of dialogue.” Ω to the exhibition, a lithograph called “Aliens Sans Frontièrs,” a grid of Chagoyas stand in for people of six different cultures, including Enrique Chagoya’s Reimagining the New World is on exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty a blond European royal and an African St., through July 8. Chagoya will give a talk at 6 p.m. mother carrying a toddler. He called the

“Stereotypes are a dehumanizing element in almost every culture.”

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Sculptor Mischell “Phoenix” Riley sits with a miniature version of her sculpture “Maya’s Mind.” The full-sized version is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. through January 2019 as part of the exhibition No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man. PHOTO/HOLLY HUTCHINGS

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In her youth, Mischell “Phoenix” Riley dreamed of becoming a combination of Michelangelo and Bruce Jenner. While training for the Junior Olympics, she opted out of parties and sat in the corner of the library studying. Dyslexia plagued her, and that made it hard to maintain her grades, but she had to do so in order to keep her scholarship and remain eligible for sports. She did keep them up, and she earned multiple gold medals in the high jump. Then, a back injury left her in a wheelchair for a year, sidelining her athletic pursuits and leaving her solely to her artwork.

Having given her soul to Olympic training, Riley was unsure if she could do anything else. After talking with her coaches, she knew she would need to channel her passion into something new.

She began dedicating the same time and discipline that she had as an athlete to becoming an artist.

“Sacrificing for the end goal was all I knew,” she said. “As a new artist, I was homeless for four years, bathing out of a bucket in a warehouse space to do my art.

I could’ve had a car. I could’ve had nice clothes. But I bought art supplies.”

Riley got an apprenticeship with Snell Johnson, the late Arizona sculptor known for large public artworks and casino commissions. She helped him create huge pieces, including the MGM Grand’s “Grand Lion” in Las Vegas. Each day after her mentor finished working, Riley would scrape the excess clay that had fallen to the floor, to have materials to use for her own creations.

“I still have some of that clay,” she said. “I take a little piece of clay and put

it in the heart of each monument that I do. It’s a little piece of being humble and remembering where I came from and how far I’ve gone.”

Riley said her job can get daunting. She works long into the night, applies for grant money, and fields complaints from studio mates about her her colossal messes.

She’s created an estimated 900 sculptures, some of which have become widely known. Her bust of Leonardo da Vinci laid on a lawn at the University of Nevada, Reno for months and is now in Carson City. Her latest work, “Maya’s Mind,” a towering sculpture of Maya Angelou—21 feet high high—premiered at Burning Man last year and is now at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., through January 2019.

Riley intends to make a series of monuments that pay tribute to women she admires from history. She hopes to inspire girls and boys who can see bits of themselves in the heroines. The disparity between male monuments and females is stark, Riley said, and she wants to even out the balance. Jane Goodall will be her next subject, followed by Amelia Earhart and Camille Claudel, a 19th-century French sculptor.

Maya Angelou pushed past a childhood rape and muteness, then used her art and poetry to come out of her pain and speak again. Riley, too, feels she has found her voice in art. When the challenges of her past creep into her mind, she thinks of Angelou as her muse. The sentiment from Angelou’s famous poem “Still I Rise” brings Riley comfort.

“You can either be crippled by things, or you can rise,” she said. Ω

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“if a robot does the robot, is it still considered the robot? or is it just dancing?”

Robots in disgust While the original Pacific Rim had some definite problems, its sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising is a big, stupid, worthless, son-of-a-bitching waste of time.

Uprising takes an original idea—big Kaiju monsters fighting man-made robots—from director/ creator Guillermo del Toro. That Del Toro idea resulted in an OK first movie in Pacific Rim, with great elements but troublesome issues (robots/ monsters, good … people, bad). Uprising takes that original idea and turns it into something akin to, or perhaps even worse than, the average Transformers movie. It’s a watered-down, cheap joke of a film that obliterates anything good del Toro started.

Without del Toro directing—he dumped out a few years back to assume a producer’s role—the film loses all sense of style and artistic direction. Steven S. DeKnight, who has directed such TV shows as Smallville and Daredevil, makes his feature-filmdirecting debut with something that screams “Maybe I should’ve stuck with the TV gigs!”

Replacing Charlie Hunnam as the original franchise star, John Boyega jumps headlong into this mess as Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, played by Idris Elba in the first movie. Jake is a former Jaeger (Giant Robot) pilot who, after the death of his dad and a bad Jaeger experience, has taken to partying and trading black market hot sauce in a post-Kaiju world.

While Elba’s character supposedly closed off the monsters from our world, they find a way back (of course). I won’t give away how they come back, but I will tell you that it does involve a shit performance from Charlie Day returning as Newt, one of the few characters from the original who remains. Others include Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) and Dr. Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman), and they all would’ve been better off doing Dancing with the Stars.

During a deal gone wrong, Jake comes across Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a scrappy kid who has managed to refurbish a mini-Jaeger (Almost Giant

Robot) all by herself, so you know it will eventually be her “drifting” with Jake as they pilot a big robot against new monsters and other bad giant robots (traitorous dickhead Jaegers).

Like the original, the movie is bad when people stand around talking. Unlike the original, the action gets even lousier when the slick CGI monsters show up. Del Toro lent a strain of realism to his monster battles. That is, they were as real as a fantasy movie can be, with robots that lumbered along and monster haymakers that had some real weight behind them.

Now the monster battles have a cheap, halfbaked, way-too-fluid look to them. They glide around in quick-cut, super-fast battles that look more like Saturday morning cartoons than big-budget, big-screen fare. Del Toro’s Kaiju battles were actually kind of scary, as a monster movie should be.

DeKnight’s smackdowns play as if Mark Wahlberg should be nearby, waiting for his glistening, slowmotion close up. Actually, Spaeny does get the slowmotion, 360 treatment at one point; it’s as if Michael Bay chloroformed DeKnight and directed the scene.

So, if crappy special effects aren’t enough to keep you away, let it be known that this movie contains what will surely stand as one of the year’s worst performances from Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, as Nate Lambert, Jake’s former military mate and sometime Jaeger co-pilot. Whenever Eastwood spoke, I thought I was watching a derivative Starship Troopers sequel. Oh, wait, we have some of those already.

Maybe he was in one of them. Let me check. [Bob goes to internet.] No, he was not.

Honestly, after the subpar performance of the first movie at the box office, I’m surprised Pacific Rim: Uprising even exists. If the saga continues, I have to think it will be via Netflix or something like that.

Whatever they do, I hope I never have to watch John Boyega eat ice cream again.

Seriously, he makes really gross sounds when he eats ice cream. Ω

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Black Panther

Scoring director Ryan Coogler to helm Marvel’s latest proves to be a major triumph. His entry into the Marvel universe is a majestic, full-bodied, exhilarating treatment of the African king title character with the crazy cool suit (Chadwick Boseman). This is Coogler’s third collaboration with actor Michael B. Jordan, who brings a fully fleshed, complicated villain to the screen in Erik Killmonger.

Man, you just have to be bad with that last name. The pre-opening credit scene involves Black Panther’s predecessor father having a confrontation in 1992 Oakland, California. A major event takes place as some kids playing basketball look on. It turns out to be one of the more brilliant and heart-wrenching setups for a Marvel movie character yet. The action cuts to present day, where Black Panther/T’Challa is dealing with the passing of his father due to an event that took place in Captain America: Civil War (massive credit to the producers and screenwriters who interlink these films together so well). He’s to become king but must pass through a ritual with some risk involved.

He overcomes the obstacles, gets his throne and prepares for his rule. His kingdom doesn’t get a moment to breathe before trouble ensues. In London, Killmonger comes across an ancient weapon forged in Wakanda, Black Panther’s homeland. It’s made from Vibranium, a precious resource that fuels much of Wakanda’s advanced technology, including the Black Panther suits. With the help of Wakanda enemy Klaue (Andy Serkis acting with his real face as opposed to a motion-capture suit), Killmonger obtains the weapon, threatening world stability. The story is told with a stunning level of social relevance for a superhero film, especially when it comes to Killmonger’s motives. He’s got some big reasons for having gone bad, and they make him a far more sympathetic character than, say, Loki from Thor.

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Death Wish

Bruce Willis sleepwalks through this listless remake of the Charles Bronson vigilante movie that made a bunch of dollars back in 1974, the year before Jaws was released. (I measure most things in the ’70s by the year Jaws was released. It’s a thing.)

Remaking the film with Eli Roth at the helm and Willis in the Bronson role actually seemed like potential nasty fun. Sadly, Willis is phoning it in here, and too many horribly acted scenes reveal that Willis and Roth probably weren’t gelling as an actor/director combo. Willis often seems tone deaf in some of the movie’s more dramatic scenes, and just plain bored for the remainder. When Willis gives a shit about the movie he’s making, it shows. When he doesn’t care, and that seems quite often in many of his recent projects, he’s zombie-like.

The original Death Wish (1974) is a hard watch these days. Apart from its racist depictions of criminals and extremely dated Herbie Hancock soundtrack, it’s also poorly acted by Bronson.

It is, however, worth seeing for cameos by Christopher Guest as a police officer and, most horrifically, Jeff Goldblum as Freak No. 1. This time out, Paul Kersey (Willis) is a doctor set on revenge after his wife is killed and daughter winds up in a coma. Unlike the original, Kersey doesn’t just go after random criminals, but conducts a vendetta on the people who attacked his family. It all adds up to nothing.

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Love, Simon

Nick Robinson delivers a breakthrough performance as the title character in Love, Simon, a sweet throwback high school comedy about a gay teen who, thanks to email and social networking, might have to come out in a way that doesn’t jibe with his personal schedule. The film feels a bit generic at times, but, by the time the movie plays out, some of the formulaic plot mechanics are mostly forgivable because, well, this movie is pretty damned adorable in the end. Based on the Becky Albertalli novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—which, in my opinion, would’ve been a much better movie title—the screenplay by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker scores enough original and sincere notes to earn smiles and tears. Simon finds out that

somebody at his high school is closeted gay thanks to a social media post. Because he’s in the same predicament, Simon creates a Gmail account, contacts the student, and begins a virtual pen pal relationship. Over the course of the emails, Simon falls in love—or, you know, the high school version of love—with the other anonymous student, constantly scanning his classmates for clues to his identity. Those classmates include best friend Leah (Katherine Langford), who may or may not have a crush on him, new girl in school Abby (Alexandra Shipp), who is the crush of other buddy Nick (Jorge Lendeborg, Jr.), and Martin (Logan Miller), the resident class clown/annoying guy.

All of these characters are enjoyable with the exception of Miller’s, who plays the “annoying guy” role so well that he becomes genuinely, unappealingly annoying. Director Greg Berlanti balances Simon’s school life with a heartwarming, beautifully depicted family life. Jennifer Garner, an underrated actress, is awesome as The Best Mom … Ever, while Josh Duhamel is equally terrific as Simon’s goofy, trying-to-becool dad. Talitha Bateman rounds out the family as the little sister who wants to be a cook.

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Duncan Jones, director of the classic Moon and so-good Source Code, continues his slump that started with Warcraft: The Beginning. Actually, this mess qualifies as a total disaster, a film so bad Jones might find himself looking for sitcom TV gigs in the near future. Alexander Skarsgard plays Leo, an Amish bartender in future Germany (you read that right) who lost his ability to speak in a boat propeller accident as a kid. His girlfriend (Seyneb Saleh) disappears, sending him on a wild search that involves him hitting bad guys with big wooden sticks like Joe Don Baker in Walking Tall. In what seems to be another movie, Paul Rudd plays Cactus Bill, a crooked doctor trying to get back to the U.S. with his daughter. Cactus Bill hangs around with a pedophile doctor (Justin Theroux, saddled with a goofy wig) and, again, this part of the movie feels like a complete other film. Let me again point out that none of the parts of this film occupied by Skarsgard, Rudd or Theroux are any good. Skarsgard just runs around a lot looking all helpless, while the usually reliable Rudd resorts to a big, meaty mustache and lots of gum-chewing to look tough. (God dammit, I hate that!)

Theroux relies far too heavily on the word “Babe!” to distinguish his character in what amounts to his worst role to date. You have to really be screwing up to make the likes of Rudd and Theroux look bad, and Jones makes them look awful. (Streaming on Netflix.)

A beloved novel gets absolutely slaughtered with A Wrinkle in Time, a sure contender for one of 2018’s worst movies, and an embarrassment for the great talents involved. Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel was adapted by Disney once before with an also lousy TV movie back in 2003. The book has been bouncing around Hollywood for decades, with many attempts to bring it to the big screen being aborted. It’s a sad, sad thing that Disney finally took the plunge, dropped over $100 million and came up with this mess. Compounding the sadness is that it’s directed by Ava DuVernay, who made the excellent Martin Luther King, Jr., biopic Selma. While that film had a cohesive vision, excellent technical credits and powerhouse acting all around, her new film has none of these things. It’s total chaos on screen.

Crackpot-yet-dreamy scientist Mr. Murry (Chris Pine) is obsessed with interstellar travel, and believes that wrinkles in time could be used to travel light years through space. It’s never really established what he wants to achieve through such travel, but his obsession eventually leads to his disappearance for four years.

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There’s plenty of seating at both pub-style and lower tables, a full bar, occasional low-key live music, and a Sunday brunch menu.

Upon being seated, my group and I were served water in a swing-top, old-timey bottle with complimentary house-fried potato chips and parmesan garlic aioli. The chips were inconsistent—some crispy, others chewy—and a little over-seasoned to be served alongside the flavorful aioli dip.

A good Tampa-style Cuban sandwich ($12) is one of my favorite things, and though the variant we tasted was a decent, tasty meal, it didn’t quite ring true as a “sandwich Cubano.” Made with house-smoked pork, prosciutto, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and garlic aioli on a French roll, it lacked the crispy, pressed texture of the real deal.

The meats and cheese were fine, but the bread and butter pickle chips and garlic aioli were no substitute for strong dill pickles and mustard. A side of tomato bisque tasted mostly of dried herbs and salt, strangely lacking in tomato flavor.

The big bird sandwich ($11) featured grilled chicken breast, bacon, melted jack cheese, lettuce, tomato and chipotle aioli on a French roll. Everything about this sandwich was on point, with moist chicken and crispy bacon accented by a fair amount of chipotle spice.

A side of beef vegetable soup included fresh veggies and mushrooms, with big chunks of beef that tasted of being cooked in sherry or some other fortified wine.

Sometimes less is more, though the “Fun Guy” burger ($13) was made by someone who could care less. The one-third pound patty was ordered medium rare and arrived a solid

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medium, topped with crimini mushroom, truffled caramelized onion, arugula and house barbecue sauce on a brioche bun. Though slightly overdone, the meat was moist and well seasoned, and the mushrooms and arugula provided a nice contrast of earthy and spicy notes.

Fish and chips ($13) with house tartar sauce and battered steak fries included small, moist and flaky pieces of fish enrobed in a suitably crispy fried batter. The sauce was just right. The flavor of the chips was pretty good, though they were surprisingly on the limp and floppy side.

The day’s special was a turkey melt ($11) with sliced roast turkey, avocado, brie and garlic aioli on grilled sourdough. It was creamy, crispy, savory and looked pretty on the plate, though the bottom slices of bread were overdone and quite black. Sure, I flip the burned side to the bottom at home, but this was almost dark enough to warrant a do-over. The side salad of cherry tomato, crouton and spring mix with wild berry vinaigrette was fresh and inviting.

A steak salad ($14) ordered medium rare with red onion, gorgonzola, cherry tomato, spring mix and black garlic vinaigrette won the day on both execution and simplicity. The steak was tender and cooked to a perfect medium rare, and the dressing was dynamite. I can’t recall the last time I had a steak salad this well executed, and it gave me hope that the few missteps were simply due to the growing pains of transitioning from caterer to restaurateur. Ω

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Joe Bernardo managed the University of Nevada, Reno’s vineyard for two decades.

There will be wine Now that Reno’s craft beer and craft spirits industries are in full swing, have you ever wondered why a local wine industry hasn’t developed alongside them?

It’s not the climate or the elevation.

Wine producing regions in Germany and the Italian Alps have similar elevations to ours, and the Yakima Valley in Washington, with a similar climate, has over 100 wineries.

And it’s not the quality of the grapes that can be grown here. Biologists at the University of Nevada, Reno’s research vineyard have been developing grape varieties since 1995.

“We figured out some excellent wine grapes that people didn’t even know would grow here, like pinot noir,” said Joe Bernardo, former UNR vineyard manager.

He helped develop 13 varieties.

Nor is it the lack of an eager community of growers and winemakers. Bernardo is one of them. He’s a California transplant and a former financial planner whose dad made dandelion wine when he was a child.

“I grew up on a 2,000-acre dairy farm, so I’m a farmer at heart,” he said. He found himself bored after moving to town, so he looked at UNR’s schedule and happened upon a winemaking class. At the end of the class, each student received a grape vine.

“I took it home and I planted it, and it grew, and it grew, and it grew,” Bernardo said. “A couple years later, I thought, ‘Well, I’ve got these grapes. Maybe I’ll make some wine.’ I didn’t have a clue how to do it. I just started on my own.”

He ended up managing UNR’s vineyard for 20 years. Now, he grows grapes on seven acres in Minden and a half an acre in

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Mogul. He’s one of about a dozen directors of Nevada Vines & Wines, a local nonprofit that promotes winemaking. He teaches a year-long wine academy, with monthly lectures and hands-on vineyard training.

The reason it’s taken the wine industry a while to get going is a legal one. Until recently, Nevada law prohibited making or selling wine in counties with 100,000 or more residents. (Only Clark and Washoe counties have populations that large.)

A mission of Nevada Vines & Wines has been to get that law changed. In March 2017, the legislature reworded the law, AB 431, to allow urban wineries. Bernardo and business partner, Wade Johnson, formed Basin and Range Wineries. Two other wineries formed, too, Nevada Sunset Winery and Great Basin Winery. They share a location, equipment and a tasting room in a storefront on East Fourth Street.

“We started producing our wine when we could legally,” Bernardo said. But it took a while to get all the licensing required to bottle and sell it, so, for a year, they stored the new wine by freezing it.

So far, Basin and Range has bottled over 1,000 cases of whites. Plans to bottle the reds were set for last weekend, but a winter storm caused the driver who was bringing portable bottling equipment from California to reschedule. But the reds should be bottled in April, and Bernardo hopes Basin and Range’s grand opening will be in May. “Almost every one of my students last year ended up planting their own vines for small wineries,” Bernardo said when asked about the industry’s future.

“Six years ago when Nevada Vines & Wines first started, there were fewer than 5,000 grape vines in the whole state. Now, there’s over 30,000.” Ω Basin and Range Wineries, Nevada Sunset Winery and Great Basin Winery share a storefront and a tasting room at 415 E. Fourth St.

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Branching out Nico’s Mystery For the past three years, local band Nico’s Mystery has worked to add some performative flourishes to its eclectic jazz and futuristic world beats—half a dozen musicians dressed as futuristic spacepriests, for example.

Trumpeter Domenico Lacala started the band after graduating from the University of Nevada, Reno and brought on drummer Miguel Jimenez-Cruz and a host of other young, local musicians. The band features a full brass section, electric guitar and bass, keyboard and synthesizer, bongos, and a full drum kit.

Without any traditional vocals, the band’s instrumental qualities layer brassy jazz solos with hard-rock grooves. The expanded percussion section also draws from Latin and tribal rhythms, often switching time signatures. Digital effects provide psychedelic vocal samples and a trance-like depth to the higher register of the sound.

“There’s a sense of spontaneity because we are improvisers,” said Lacala.

He writes most of the music before bringing it to the other band members. In live sessions, Jimenez-Cruz said, they workshop the pacing and arrangement of their originals based on the crowd’s reaction.

The band members incorporate skits and poems into their shows, and percussionist Ronaldo de Glymes sometimes performs interpretative dances and expressive poses.

“I’m very inspired by performance art and seeing very heavy stuff,” Lacala said. “I want to make people cry. I want to make people dance and laugh and leave after the night and be like, ‘What just happened? I feel like something has happened to me.’”

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A recent Nico’s Mystery show featured Eric Johnson, Domenico Lacala, Nicholas Mills, Noah Andrews, Luxora Major (Jena Boehm), Miguel Jimenez-Cruz and Ronaldo De Glymes.

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know,” said Lacala. “Maybe it’s what we always wanted church to be.”

While Nico’s Mystery found its identity in Reno, two of its members are planning to move to bigger markets, Lacala to Italy and Jimenez-Cruz to Los Angeles.

“In my opinion, you’ve got to be versatile to get work, but if you’re in a band, and that’s all you do, it’s hard to make it in Reno because there’s not a lot of people who really look at Reno like a music town,” said Jimenez-Cruz. “I usually describe Reno—musically and personally—as a glass ceiling. You can see through it, but you just can’t break it.”

But both he and Lacala maintain that the growth of Reno’s music community over the past decade has been valuable.

“I feel like where I’m coming from is a really good place for what I’m doing,” said Lacala. “It’s much more competitive now.” He said he appreciates the influences of UNR music instructors and other musicians in town.

Lacala already has Italian citizenship and relationships with musicians in Europe, and he hopes to play there as Nico’s Mystery. And Jimenez-Cruz sounds like he’s ready for adventure.

“When I move to L.A., I will be able to take any type of work in any style or genre,” he said. “Why? Because in Reno, being such a small town, I’ve played in Nico’s Mystery, which is creative, world music; The Novelists, where I’m singing, you know pop-rock. I’ve done the jazz thing. All these things I’ve built, I come to L.A., and I’m like, ‘Here are all my weapons.’”

The band members plan to keep playing together on the first Friday of the month at Pignic Pub & Patio through May. They’re also planning a farewell show. Ω

Nico’s Mystery plays at 10 p.m. April 6 and May 4 at Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint St.

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2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) Race & Sports Bar

2) Comedy Night at LEX, 8pm, $15 3) Grand County Nights with DJ Jeremy, 10pm, no cover

HARd RoCk Hotel And CAsino 50 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (844) 588-7625 1) Vinyl 2) Center Bar

HARRAH’s Reno

219 N. Center St, (775) 786-3232 1) Showroom 2) Sapphire Lounge

1) Simply the Best—A Tribute to the Music of Tina Turner, 7:30pm, $27-$37

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1) 13th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, 3pm, 7pm, $0-$7 2) Vokab Kompany, 10pm, $10

55 Hwy. 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Showroom 2) Blu 3) Opal Ultra Lounge

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2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-2121 1) Terrace Lounge 2) EDGE Nightclub

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

tAHoe BiltmoRe lodGe & CAsino 5 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay, (800) 245-8667

2) Big Iron, 7pm, no cover 3) Edge Thursday Ladies Night with DJs Enfo & Twyman, 10pm, $0-$20

2) Big Iron, 8pm, no cover

2) Big Iron, 7pm, no cover 3) Yo Yolie, 10pm, $20

2) DJ R3volver, 9pm, no cover 4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

1) Boz Scaggs, 8pm, $45-$65 2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Reno Jazz Syndicate, 9pm, no cover

2) Rock ’N’ Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5

1) BANFF Mountain Film Festival, 7pm, M, Tu, $17-$32 2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 6pm, no cover

2) Bogg Jazz Ensemble, 6pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

4) DJ Mo Funk, 9pm, no cover

1) Psychedelic Rodeo: Mat the Alien, The Gaff, 9:30pm, $15-$20

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EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL: The fifth annual festival is a creative culinary celebration of the book. Prizes will be awarded for most creative and best tasting in youth and adult categories. Register online to attend. Mon, 4/2, 5:30-7pm. Free. Incline Village Library, 845 Alder Ave., Incline Village, www.washoecountylibrary.us.

EGG-STRA SPECIAL EXPRESS: Enjoy a ride aboard the 1926 Edwards Motor Car from 10am-4pm (motor car fares sold separately). There will also be storytimes, crafts and coloring and egg hunts starting at 11am. Sat, 3/31-Sun, 4/1, 10am-4pm. $6 adults, free for children under age 18. Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, 2180 S. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 687-6953.

KWNK COMMUNITY RADIO’S SPRING FLING:

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Start the Easter festivities a day early by heading up Geiger Grade to see the annual parade. Arrive early to pick a viewing spot to watch the procession or you can dress up your furry friend or wear a festive bonnet to enter the parade. There will be fun prizes for best bonnet, best children’s entry, best pet and best overall entry. Free entry forms are available at the Virginia City Visitors Center or online at www.visitvirginiacitynv.com. The lineup will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Virginia City Jerky Company, 204 C St. The parade begins at noon and travels along Virginia City’s main drag, C Street. Call 847-7500.

EVENTS

THE EASTER EGG DASH: The Bridge and The Boys and Girls Club presents its annual Easter event for kids in preschool through sixth grade. There will be games, prizes, bounce houses, face painting, 50,000 candy-filled Easter Eggs and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Sat, 3/31, 11am. Free. Idlewild Park, 1900 Cowan Drive, (775) 323-7141, thebridgereno.com.

3.8 MILLION-YEAR-OLD MUMMIFIED FORESTS OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC: Paleoclimatologist and paleoecologist Adam Csank explains his research and his contributions to the PoLAR-FIT (Pliocene Landscape and Arctic Remains—Frozen in Time) scientific approach to determine how the Arctic landscape was once much warmer than it is today. This research contributes to a long-term project to study Pliocene Arctic paleo-environments and landscape evolution to help prepare northern community planners and residents for the changes we may expect in a much hotter Arctic. Sat, 3/31, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

EASTER BRUNCH AND EGG HUNT: Celebrate Easter at PlumpJack Cafe with a brunch and Easter egg hunt at 11:15am on the patio. The brunch menu features gourmet entrees, sweet and savory sides and spring cocktails. Sun, 4/1, 11am. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

EASTER EGG HUNT AT DIAMOND PEAK: Eggs are hidden all over the mountain, including golden eggs with special prizes in them.

Participants must have a valid lift ticket for the day of event or a season pass.

Purchase lift tickets online in advance and save $5 per ticket. At 2pm, there will be Easter service at the top of Lakeview Chair, led by Tahoe Resort Ministries. Sun, 4/1, 9am. Diamond Peak Ski Resort, 1210 Ski Way, Incline Village, (775) 832-1177.

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holiday event features crafts, an egg hunt, pictures with the Easter Bunny and a showing of the movie Easter Parade. Thu, 3/29, 6:30pm. Free. Bob McFadden Plaza, Third Street Stage, 223 W. Third St., Carson City, (775) 687-7410, visitcarsoncity.com.

KWNK celebrates its first membership drive with a block party-style event featuring DJs spinning tracks at Magpie Coffee Roasters, live music, food and drinks from Nom Eats and Mr. Margarita Truck, a photo booth and workshops presented by Laika Press. Sat, 3/31, 3-7pm. Free. KWNK Community Radio, 1717 S. Wells Ave., www.kwnkradio.org.

NEW COINS AND DISPLAYS: The Reno Coin Club and Nevada State Museum will have the new coins of 2018—the Pictured Rock quarter and the Jim Thorpe dollar.

The old coin press is up and running, minting the new half dollar-size coins.

All the new U.S. coins will be available at cost. There will also be presidential and Native American dollars and national park quarters on display, including the San Francisco mint quarters, as well as old and obsolete U.S. coins. Fri, 3/30, 10am. $8 adults, free for kids under 18.

Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St., Carson City, www.renocoinclub.org.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ERIN GENERAL MEETING: The non-profit, Irish heritage organization is open to all people with an interest in promoting Irish heritage and culture, enjoying camaraderie and serving those less fortunate in our community. Grab some dinner and drinks, enjoy the topic of the month, keep up to date on Irish news both local and abroad at SADOE’s next general meeting.

Membership not required. Tue, 4/3, 6pm. Free. O’Cleary’s Pub, 1330 Scheels Drive, Ste. 250, Sparks, (775) 378-0931, irishnevada.org.

SPRING FLING: Stop by the library for some fun, spring break activities. Sat, 3/31, 1:30pm. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Blvd., Ste. 340, Golden Valley, (775) 972-0281.

SPRING ROUNDUP FAMILY EVENT: The Kiwanis Club of Reno Sunrisers and Kiwanis Sparks co-host this activity-filled family day featuring a barbecue lunch, games, activities, a photo booth, an Easter parade with prizes for best costumes, raffle prizes and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Proceeds will directly benefit The Children’s Cabinet and its mission of keeping children safe and families together. Sat, 3/31, noon-2:30pm. $10 per person. Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 856-0356, www.childrenscabinet.org.

aRT ARTISTS CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Photo Fandango XII. The 12th annual invitational show features work by more than 20 local photographers. The exhibition runs through March 31. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, 11am-4pm. Free. Artists Co-Op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA: Youth Art Month Exhibit. Arts for All Nevada celebrates the creativity of local youth as part of the national celebration of Youth Art Month. The artwork on display was created during workshops conducted

by Arts for All Nevada in over 50 local elementary through high school special education classrooms in 30 different schools. The show runs through April 27. Thu 3/29-Fri, 3/30, Mon, 4/2-Wed, 4/4, 10am. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH MIDTOWN RENO: Artist showing and wine tasting. Thu, 3/29, 6pm. Free. Fountain of Youth Midtown

Reno, 724 S. Virginia St., (775) 964-4888.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT MICRO GALLERY, BIBO COFFEE CO.: Sandwich Meat Not Obsolete.

Local photographer Chris Carnel’s show features both color and black and white film photographs made exclusively with inexpensive plastic cameras and includes some of Chris’s own work alongside work by Antonius “Toad” Dintcho and Liz Peto. Thu, 3/29-Fri, 3/30, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project Micro Gallery, Bibo Coffee Co., 945 Record St., (775) 742-1858.

NORTH VALLEYS LIBRARY: Celebrating Reno’s 150th Birthday. Sierra Watercolor Society celebrates Reno’s 150th birthday with new, original watercolor paintings by local artists. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, Tue, 4/3-Wed, 4/4, 10am. Free. North Valleys Library, 1075 North Hills Blvd., (775) 7504636, www.sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

SHEPPARD CONTEMPORARY, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: Faig Ahmed. Ahmed is wellknown for his conceptual works that use the traditional decorative craft and the visual language of carpets to create contemporary sculptural works of art; Mwangi Hutter: Time Zone and Equinox.

Working with video, sound, photography, installation, sculpture painting and performance, Mwangi Hutter reflects on changing societal realities, creating an aesthetic of self-knowledge and interrelationship; Only Light Can Do That: Remembering MLK, Jr. Including work from a half dozen contemporary artists and also new additions to the collection by artists Elizabeth Catlett and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Only Light Can Do That explores the visual cultures of Black America inspired by the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Gallery hours are noon to 4pm on Tuesday-Wednesday, noon to 8pm on Thursday-Friday, 10am to 8pm on Saturday. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, Tue, 4/3Wed, 4/4. Free. Sheppard Contemporary, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

STREMMEL GALLERY: Arnoldi: Works on Paper. Known for his brightly-colored, abstract paintings that incorporate the use of wood as an expressive medium, Charles Arnoldi’s pieces are held in the collections of the Chicago Art Institute, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many other significant collections. The show runs through March 31. Thu, 3/29Sat, 3/31. Free. Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558.

STUDENT GALLERIES SOUTH, JOT TRAVIS BUILDING: BFA Thesis Exhibitions. A thesis exhibition by current bachelor of fine arts students Henry MacDiarmid and Nicholas Minor. Mon, 4/2-Wed, 4/4, noon-4pm. Free. Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

THE POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: Existence: you therefore I am. The Potentialist Workshop’s March Gallery Exhibition is a video and sculpture installation by contemporary artist Mahedi Anjuman. Thu, 3/29, 6-9pm. $5. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., (775) 686-8201.

MUSEUMS NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl. On view through Dec. 31; Art of the Greater West. On view through Jan. 6; The Body of a House: Paintings

by Robert Beckmann. On view through April 1; Enrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World. On view through July 8; Hans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada.

On view through Sept. 2; History of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg. On view through Jan. 6; Marking the Infinite. On view through May 13; The Nuclear Landscape. On view through Jan. 6; Randolph Sims: On the Spur of the Moment. On view through July 8; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector. On view through Sept. 30. Thu, 3/29-Sun, 4/1, Wed, 4/4, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

THE TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: 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 at The Discovery through May 13. Museum hours are 10am to 5pm on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 10am to 8pm on Wednesday, 10am to 2pm on Thursday and noon to 5pm on Sunday. Thu, 3/29-Wed, 4/4. $10-$12. The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

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, Iron Man, Batman, Superman and more. Discover your own super abilities at interactive challenge stations that test agility, memory, reflexes, endurance, strength, speed and mental power. The show runs through April 15. Museum hours are 10am-4pm on Wednesday-Saturday, noon-4pm on Sunday. Thu, 3/29-Sun, 4/1, Wed, 4/4. $8$9. Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

FILM BEETLEJUICE’S DIRTY THIRTY: Tim Burton’s 1988 film Beetlejuice is turning 30 and Pignic Pub & Patio is throwing a party for the undead. Films on Tap will be on hand to screen the movie at 7pm, followed by a goth dance party featuring dark wave hits from DJ Tigerbunny. Costumes are encouraged but not required. Sat, 3/31, 7pm. Free. Pignic Pub & Patio, 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948, www.facebook.com/ pignicpub.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: The Carson City Classic Cinema Club present screenings of pre-1970 films every month as a means to raise funds in support of its mission to help local youth discover the arts. This month’s feature is the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O’Toole. Tue, 4/3, 5:30pm. $5 general admission, $3 students, free for members. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 315-8495, ccclassiccinema.org.

LOVING VINCENT: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of the 2017 animated, biographical drama film about the life of painter Vincent van Gogh and the circumstances of his death. More than a hundred artists collaborated on the creation of Loving Vincent. Each of the film’s 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 125 painters. Sun, 4/1, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

WILD & SCENIC FILM ON TOUR: The 13th annual film festival combines awardwinning environmental and adventure films with the energy of local activism.

This year’s event will include the Wild Child Children’s Film Festival. The event benefits the Sierra Nevada Alliance and its Sierra Nevada Americorps partnership. Sat, 3/31, 3pm & 7pm. $5-$7, free for children age 4 and younger.

MontBleu Resort, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, sierranevadaalliance.com.

MUSIC COME IN FROM THE COLD: The winter family entertainment series concludes with a performance by Reno Swing Set. Sat, 3/31, 7pm. $3 suggested donation.

Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 828-6612.

HARP PLUS: The 10th annual concert

HIGH SIERRA WRITERS: Bring your written

features harp showpieces and chamber music involving harps and other instruments performed by harpist and University of Nevada, Reno faculty member Marina Roznitovsky Oster with guest artists. The event culminates with a large harp ensemble performance. Sat, 3/31, 7pm. $10; free for children and UNR students with ID. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

work to share and critique with published

and unpublished writers. Wed, 4/4, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-8882, www.highsierrawriters.org.

KNITTING & CROCHET CIRCLE: All levels are invited to join this group. Learn the techniques to start your masterpiece.

Thu, 3/29, 4-6pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

RENO SWINGS!: Learn 1940s-style swing

L-CUBED LOOK, LUNCH, LISTEN CONCERT SERIES: The free, weekly BYO lunch jazz and classical music series features music performances by students and faculty in a laid-back lunchtime setting. Wed, 4/4, noon. Free. Frank & Joan Randall Rotunda, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

NA YING: The pop singer is considered one of China’s best female singers and was a judge on The Voice of China. Sat, 3/31, 8pm. $68-$188. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8815.

NEVADA TUBA DAY: The University of Nevada, Reno Tuba-Euphonium Studio invites all tuba, euphonium and baritone players to gather for a day of music making.

Bring your instrument and join the Tuba Day Mass Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble to rehearse and perform or just come to listen. Sat, 3/31, noon. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 682-9033.

SONGS OF LOVE AND JUSTICE— REVERBERATIONS OF 1968: This recital will be given in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The event features tenor Albert R. Lee, violinist David France, pianists John Etsell and Isadora Pastragus, the Nightingale String Quartet and conductor William L. Lake Jr. Wed, 4/4, 7:30pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

ONSTAGE A TACO TRUCK ON EVERY CORNER GOES TO PRAGUE: Local playwright Sandra Brunell Neace has been invited to take her play A Taco Truck on Every Corner...

Or Dreaming in English to the Prague Fringe Festival. Reno Little Theater hosts a one-night-only benefit performance where all proceeds will go toward the campaign to bring the play to the world stage. Wed, 4/4, 7:30pm. $20. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents this play by Simon Stephens based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. Fifteen-yearold Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptionally intelligent but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life.

When he falls under suspicion for killing his neighbors dog, he sets out to identify the true culprit, which leads to an earthshattering discovery and a journey that will change his life forever. Performances are Thursday-Sunday through April 7. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, 7:30pm; Wed, 4/4, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

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The University of Nevada, Reno’s Performing Arts Series continues with a concert by the Québec, Montréal folk-electronic act. Drawing from a rich heritage of traditional francophone songs, Mélisande unearths rare treasures that she adapts and presents with a feminist perspective and the distinctly modern sound of the band. Mélisande [électrotrad] offers an energetic blend of traditional music, pop and electro with a mix of acoustic and electric instruments, vocal harmonies and programming. Led by Mélisande and her husband Alexandre “Moulin” de Grosbois-Garand, the group offers a fresh artistic proposal to the folk-worldtrad music scene. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, at the Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St. Tickets are $5-$35. Call 784-4278 or visit www.unr.edu/pas.

dancing every week at the American Legion Hall. No partner or experience necessary. Wed, 4/4, 7pm. $7-$10 for lessons, $5 for dance only. American Legion Hall, 877 Ralston St.,

www.renoswings.com.

WEST COAST SWING SOCIAL DANCE, BEGINNER AND INTERMEDIATE LESSONS: High Sierra Swing Dance Club offers beginner and intermediate dance classes every Monday, followed by a free social dance at 7:30pm. No partner necessary. Mon, 4/2, 5:30pm. $8 per lesson. 11th Frame Lounge, Carson Lanes Family Fun Center, 4600 Snyder Ave., Carson City, hssdc.org.

CLASSES AROMA YOGA: Enjoy 50 minutes of Hatha

NATION OF TWO: Brüka Theatre presents Tom Burmester’s contemporary family war drama. Nation of Two follows the lives of the Harper family as they prepare to scatter the ashes of 24-year-old Lt. Michael Harper on the anniversary of his combat-related death in the Iraq War. A surprise visit from a soldier who served with Michael at the time of his death ignites a powder keg of emotion and throws the family into crisis as they strive to preserve their memories of Michael while learning to let go. The show runs Thursday-Sunday through April 7. The play is suggested for people age 12 and older. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, Wed, 4/4, 8pm. $18-$25, $10 for all tickets on Artist Night, April 4. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

THE TANGLED SKIRT: Restless Artists Theatre Company presents this mystery/thriller written by Steve Braunstein. Two strangers await the last bus out of town, as small talk turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse and both seek advantage, trapped in their own secrets and lies, to be the last one standing. As the bus barrels toward the station, Bailey and Rhonda, torn by passion and greed, must confront each other, and themselves, as fate closes in. Thu, 3/29-Sat, 3/31, 7:30pm; Sun 4/1, 2pm. $12-$20. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, www.facebook.com/ RestlessArtistsTheatreCompany.

INTERPRETIVE SKI TOURS: In partnership with the Incline Village General Improvement District’s Waste Not conservation staff, Diamond Peak will offer a guided interpretive ski/ snowboard tour of the mountain.

Program participants will meet at the Base Lodge with a guide before touring the mountain to discuss the unique plant and animal life that flourishes within the ski area’s boundaries, as well as the history of the resort, Incline Village and the Lake Tahoe region as a whole.

Meet on the snow behind the base lodge (near the ski racks and large trail map sign). Must be an intermediate skier or snowboarder and have a valid lift ticket or season pass to participate, unless otherwise noted. Sat, 3/31. 11am.

Diamond Peak Ski Resort, 1210 Ski Way, Incline Village, www.diamondpeak.com.

LUGGI FOEGER UPHILL/DOWNHILL FESTIVAL: Race to the top of the mountain using whatever human-powered method you prefer—skins, snowshoes, running shoes, etc. Then ski, snowboard, snowshoe or run back down to the finish line. For those less competitive, a recreational course will be available.

Prizes will be awarded for both categories. The weekend will also include backcountry workshops, avalanche education and guided tours, among other activities. Fri, 3/30-Sun, 4/1, 9am.

Diamond Peak Ski Resort, 1210 Ski Way, Incline Village, www.diamondpeak.com.

yoga with the use of essential oils. The last 10 minutes of class will be a semiguided meditation. Thu, 3/29, 9am. $12 suggested fee. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976.

DRINK & DRAW: An avant-garde figure drawing class with limited formal instruction and maximum visual stimulation from an assortment of the following—nude models, dancers, performers, musicians, staged still lifes, running films and projected images. Basic drawing supplies are offered or bring your own supplies. Wed, 4/4, 7pm. $10. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.potentialistworkshop.com.

THRIVE YOGA: Pinocchio’s Moms on the Run sponsors this series of free yoga classes for breast or gynecological cancer fighters and survivors. This gentle yoga class aims to stimulate muscles, increase blood flow, balance the glands and enhance the lymphatic flow in the body. Wed, 4/4, 6pm. Free. Midtown Community Yoga, 600-A S. Virginia St., (775) 772-3892.

WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. There is no formal instruction. Fri, 3/30, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

COMMUNITY CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Meet with Saint

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

If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 3/31, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

LIFESTYLE CROCHET CONNECTION: Crochet enthusiasts of all levels are invited join this group, which meets every Thursday. Bring your own project or start a new one. Thu, 3/29, 3pm. Free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 424-1800.

Mary’s team of social workers and educators and other cancer survivors to discuss survivorship. Call to register. Mon, 4/2, 4pm. Free. Tumor Board Conference Room, Saint Mary’s Center for Health, 645 N. Arlington Ave., Suite 120, (775) 770-6029.

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This meant that reputation and status mattered—in a life-or-death way. Take the drive for female status competition that’s gnawing at you. It has a long history in both human and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, etc.).

Primatologist and anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy explains, “Access to resources—the key to successful gestation and lactation—and the ability to protect one’s family from members of one’s own species are so nearly correlated with status that female status has become very nearly an end in itself.”

Well, guess what? In our modern world, you have access to resources—at the grocery store you drive to in your climate-controlled comfortable car. If there’s a problem with lactation, you hit a number on your phone, and some nice nurse at your obstetrician’s office gets right on it. And—because you are not, say, a chimp—if you need to protect your family from members of your own species, you dial 911.

Understanding how starkly mismatched our evolved emotions can be with our modern lives may put your longing to join the wedspend olympiad into perspective.

Ironically, you and your fiance might do more to signal that you’re

high-status through a sort of reverse conspicuous consumption—for example, loudly and proudly throwing a backyard wedding with a barbecue lunch buffet—scooped onto the finest 250-count disposable Chinet $14.99 can buy.

Your guests will cry just the same as you say “I do” in a dress you picked up for $9 at Goodwill.

Best of all, after your frugally fabulous nuptials, you can go straight off on your honeymoon.

Wall of me I’m a single woman struggling with maintaining boundaries. I find myself going along in the moment with things men do or want—saying “sure, that’s cool” even when it’s not. I’m pretty assertive in other areas, so it’s confusing that I’d be such a wimp with men.

There’s this myth of the self as a single, stable entity—like one of those Easter Island statues but with lip gloss and an iPhone. However, evolutionary psychologist Lee A. Kirkpatrick and his colleagues find that our self-evaluations and the behavior that follows evolved to be “domain-specific”—different in different areas of our lives.

“Situational variables” matter— like the value to us of a potential relationship. So you might march around like some warrior princess of the work world yet want a boyfriend so badly that you show guys you’re dating that there’s no amount of backward that’s too far for you to bend over.

The good news is, your emotions are not your factory foreman. You will not be fired and end up sleeping on cardboard in a doorway if you refuse to obey them. Reflect on possible boundary-challenging scenarios and preplan what you’ll say—and then just say it. State your limits, despite any inner squeals of protest from your fears. Expect this to feel uncomfortable, but do it anyway. In time, you should see that it’s self-respect, not compliance, that earns you respect from others. Ω

ERIK HOLLAND

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave., No. 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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For the week oF March 29, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago, a New Zealander named Bruce Simpson announced plans to build a cruise missile at his home using parts he bought legally from eBay and other online stores. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you initiate a comparable project. For example, you could arrange a do-it-yourself space flight by tying a thousand helium balloons to your lawn chair.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. Please don’t try lunatic schemes like the helium balloon space flight.

Here’s the truth: Now is a favorable time to initiate big, bold projects, but not foolish, big, bold projects. The point is to be both visionary and practical.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Finnish word kal-

sarikännit means getting drunk at home alone in your underwear and binging on guilty pleasures.

It’s a perfect time for you to do just that. The Fates are whispering, “Chill out. Vegetate. Be ambitionless.” APRIL FOOL! I told a half-truth. In fact, now is a perfect time to excuse yourself from trying too hard and doing too much. You can accomplish wonders and marvels by staying home and binging on guilty pleasures in your underwear. But there’s no need to get drunk.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actor Gary Busey is

very sure there are no mirrors in heaven. He has other specific ideas about the place, as well. This became a problem when he was filming the movie Quigley, in which his character Archie visits heaven. Busey was so enraged at the director’s mistaken rendering of paradise that he got into a fist fight with another actor. I hope you will show an equally feisty fussiness in the coming weeks, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. On the one hand, I do hope you’ll be forceful as you insist on expressing your high standards. Don’t back down! But on the other hand, refrain from pummeling anyone who asks you to compromise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Scots language

still spoken in parts of Scotland, eedle-doddles are people who can’t summon initiative when it’s crunch time. They are so consumed in trivial or irrelevant concerns that they lose all instinct for being in the right place at the right time. I regret to inform you that you are now at risk of being an eedle-doddle. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, the truth is just the opposite. I have rarely seen you so well-primed to respond vigorously and bravely to Big Magic Moments. For the foreseeable future, you are King or Queen of Carpe Diem.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Paul McCartney likes to

periodically act like a regular person who’s not a famous musician. He goes grocery shopping without bodyguards. He rides on public transportation and strikes up conversations with random strangers. I think you may need to engage in similar behavior yourself, Leo. You’ve become a bit too enamored with your own beauty and magnificence. You really do need to come down to Earth and hang out more with us little people. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is prime time to hone your power and glory, to indulge your urge to shine and dazzle, to be as conspicuously marvelous as you dare to be.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming days will be

an excellent time to concoct an alchemical potion that will heal your oldest wounds. For best results, mix and sip a gallon of potion using the following magic ingredients: absinthe, chocolate syrup, cough medicine, dandelion tea, cobra venom, and worm’s blood. APRIL FOOL! I mixed a lie in with a truth. It is a fact that now is a fine time to seek remedies for your ancient wounds.

But the potion I recommended is bogus. Go on a quest for the real cure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you will soon

receive a wealth of exotic and expensive gifts.

For example, a benefactor may finance your vacation to a gorgeous sacred site or give you the deed to an enchanted waterfall. I won’t be surprised if you’re blessed with a solid gold bathtub or a year’s supply of luxury cupcakes.

It’s even possible that a sugar daddy or sugar momma will fork over $500,000 to rent an auditorium for a party in your honor. APRIL FOOL! I distorted the truth. I do suspect you’ll get more goodies than usual in the coming weeks, but they’re likely to come in the form of love and appreciation, not flashy material goods.

(For best results, don’t just wait around for the goodies to stream in; ask for them!)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a narrow

waterway between Asia and Europe. In the fifth century B.C., Persian King Xerxes had two bridges built across it so he could invade Greece with his army. But a great storm swept through and smashed his handiwork. Xerxes was royally peeved. He ordered his men to whip the uncooperative sea and brand it with hot irons, all the while shouting curses at it, like “You are a turbid and briny river.” I recommend that you do something similar, Scorpio. Has Nature done anything to inconvenience you?

Show it who’s the supreme boss! APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is an excellent time for you to become more attuned and in love with a Higher Power, however you define that. What’s greater than you and bigger than your life and wilder than you can imagine? Refine your practice of the art of surrender.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fifteenth-century

Italian painter Filippo Lippi was such a lustful womanizer that he sometimes found it tough to focus on making art. At one point, his wealthy and politically powerful patron Cosimo de’ Medici, frustrated by his extracurricular activities, imprisoned him in his studio to ensure he wouldn’t get diverted. Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suspect you need similar constraints. APRIL FOOL! I fibbed a little. I am indeed worried you’ll get so caught up in the pursuit of pleasure that you’ll neglect your duties. But I won’t go so far as to suggest you should be locked up for your own good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to slap a lawsuit on your mom in an effort to make her pay for the mistakes she made while raising you. You could also post an exposé on social media in which you reveal her shortcomings, or organize a protest rally outside her house with your friends holding signs demanding she apologize for how she messed you up. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was ridiculous and false. The truth is, now is a perfect moment to meditate on the gifts and blessings your mother gave you. If she is still alive, express your gratitude to her. If she has passed on, do a ritual to honor and celebrate her.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author

Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also published 33 other books and built a large audience. But some of her ideas are not exactly mainstream.

For example, she says that one of her favorite authors is David Icke, who asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial reptiles have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of our planet’s governments. I bring this to your attention, because I think it’s time that you, too, reveal the full extent of how crazy you really are. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. While it’s true that now is a favorable time to show more of your unconventional and eccentric sides, I don’t advise you to go full-on whacko.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning! Danger! You

are at risk of contracting a virulent case of cherophobia! And what exactly is cherophobia?

It’s a fear of happiness. It’s an inclination to dodge and shun joyful experiences because of the suspicion that they will disappoint you or cause bad luck. Please do something to stop this insidious development. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is that you are currently more receptive to positive emotions and delightful events than you’ve been in a log time. There’s less than a 1 percent chance you will fall victim to cherophobia.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

by BRAD BYNUm

Searcher

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“What’s D. Brian Burghart doing now?” is a question we RN&R staffers hear a lot. The long-time editor of the RN&R left the company two years ago to focus on Fatal Encounters, the database of people killed by law enforcement that he started partly to accompany an award-winning series of stories in the paper.

What are you doing now?

Well, I’m doing a combination of things. I’m preparing for a trip on the Pan-American Highway, and I’m working for [the University of Southern California] as a researcher, basically furthering the work of Fatal Encounters.

Let’s start with USC. I was contacted by [Brian Finch at USC Dornsife] who ... had a couple of grants in mind—NIH, which is the National Institute of Health, and NSF, National Science Foundation, I think. So, he got me on board, primarily because I know the data so well, and we submitted—I don’t know how many times. ... Basically, the way these giant grants work is you go to one committee that just decides if your grant is worth looking at by the second committee. And we were getting in the high 80s and 90s, which sometimes would be enough to get you funded, but they kept sending it back, wanting us to do more stuff or modify the grant application, so finally this last time—last year in July, I think, they gave us 100 percent. And

[Finch], who submitted the grant, had never seen a 100 percent, and that’s what he does for a living. … Due to the change in administration, and the difficulty in getting a budget passed, we were sort of put off. We expected to have the money in September, and we didn’t get it ’til January. And I’ve been working with them since January 7. … Part of it is just continuing my work, compiling, keeping it up to date on a weekly basis. But then they have specialized research that I spend the rest of my time doing. For example, coding all the police departments in the United States onto our data, which is really kind of boring, to be honest. But each agency in the United States has its own number, and they’ve got a bunch of different ways to define them. We’re using two—so I’ve got to go through 18,000 agencies, and make sure they’re all consistent with our data and correct, and supply USC with

the data. That’s what I’m doing now. ... It’s a four-year project, and the first three years, they own all the work I do outside of Fatal Encounters. But the fourth year, it all becomes completely public. ... The first academic paper—we’ve been passing it around among the team. This is a pretty high-powered team, actually. It’s some of the nation’s best-known researchers involved in this—best-known police violence researchers, like David Klinger from the University of Missouri [St. Louis].

Are you still keeping Fatal Encounters?

Yeah. The stuff that I did—the 17 data points that I collected on—that’s still 100 percent open-source. Everybody gets to use it.

And the Pan-American trip?

All my life I’ve tried to work my way to get to the point where I could do my job from anywhere. ... I’m working remotely for USC, so that means I can work from anywhere—anywhere there’s an internet connection, as long as I can put in the hours. And that’s what I want to do. The Pan-American Highway runs from the north end of Alaska all the way down to …

Patagonia. … That’s about 19,000 miles. My intention is to do that trip, and I’ll probably be leaving in about a month. I bought this thing called an Astro Tiger, which is basically a converted Astro van from 1987. … I plan on doing a travel blog [www. astrotigertales.com], so people will be able to keep up with me, and they’ll know if I disappear. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Lessons It was a beautiful, powerful day.

Saturday, March 24, when a new generation of kids became people, became people with a message, and a very uncomfortable message it is—“So what is up with you old bastards, and why are you so feeble, incompetent and wretched?”

It’s an uncomfortable question, because everybody knows there is no good answer, that the answer is, at its heart, corrupt.

Corrupt beyond redemption.

Corrupt beyond salvage. They look at our Congress, at our politics, and they see an endless pie fight that is very often beyond belief with cruel, bizarre idiocy. They look at this absurd mess—subsidies for Big Oil? death to Health Care? fetish love for ammosexuals and their insane guns?—and ask, “What the hell are you people on? How can this bullshit be so common, so

prevalent, so acceptable?” And the answer, of course, is money.

Follow the fuckin’ money.

It was a day for The Kids to stand up, grab the mic, and say something. This they did, with style, intelligence and moxie. The students have been released, and not for the first time. It was students who bravely went into the redneck South in the early ’60s on behalf of black voting rights, and some of them got killed for doing so. It was students who marched against the insanity of Vietnam and yanked this country’s head out of its ass. Those sure weren’t our fucking parents who were out there getting clubbed and gassed.

It was us. And, now, the wheel turns. The students, once again, are ready to hit the streets. And then, hopefully—they’re ready to vote.

Here are four of the many brilliant, clever, funny, poignant signs

from March 24: “When I said I’d rather die than go to math class, that was hyperbole, assholes.”

“Honey, your gun doesn’t make your dick look bigger. It makes you look like a bigger dick.”

“Next massacre will be the GOP in midterm elections.” “What if these kids are the answer to your thoughts and prayers?”

Amen, indeed, right on, and let’s hope.

55 years ago, our boy Bobby D sang.

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it’s ragin’.

It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a changin’. Ω

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