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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Sunday evening, I was driving back into Reno from my mom’s place south of town, and I looked to the west and saw what appeared to be a grotesque sciencefiction planet low on the horizon—a tomato red monstrosity. It actually took me a second to recognize that it was indeed our sun, made unfamiliar from all the haze and smoke.

It was strange, scary and beautiful—a memorable sight, but certainly not worth all the destruction it takes to fill the air with enough smoke to create that brilliant effect.

The Perry Fire south of Pyramid Lake is the closest blaze. Thousands of acres have burned, threatening the homes of dozens of our neighbors, as well as the lives of livestock and wild animals of the area.

And there are a dozen or so more fires burning all over Northern California—including the massive Carr Fire near Redding, California, which has already claimed at least half a dozen lives.

All of these fires have sent ash and smoke spewing into the air, meaning that this city, along with many others, has been buried beneath a blanket of smoky fog—smog. Gross to see, filthy on the skin, bad for the lungs. Of course, dealing with fire is much, much worse for people who encounter it directly or whose homes are threatened.

So, brush up on all your fire safety tips, folks. Stay indoors when you can. Now’s a good time to quit smoking cigarettes. Don’t flick lit matches into dried-out grass.

August is just beginning. Fire season is only going to get worse.

The new ‘developers’ at Park Lane Mall have essentially choked off most traffic to the cinema.

If I saw any concrete (?) development I would not object, but, hey, I love to bitch.

C’mon guys, don’t kill our cinema, please?

Craig Bergland Reno

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Gun crime The death of a man for the crime of parking in a handicap spot illustrates the fundamental problem with any standyour-ground law. The killer could have dealt with the issue in a variety of ways, but he chose to escalate the conflict by aggressively assuming the role of law enforcement against a private citizen. Did his concealed-carry permit embolden him to become a vigilante? Reports indicate that he created this kind of situation before at that store over that same parking space, which indicates a vigilante attitude.

What I saw in this video was a person acting as an aggressor being subdued in a non-lethal way with the aggressor re-engaging and further escalating the situation he created himself with the pull of a trigger.

If this is the new face of justice in America, then something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Michel Rottmann Virginia Highlands

Suggestion Re “Packin’ heat” (cover story, June 21): Kudos, Matt Bieker, for your refreshing, well-written, and unusually—for RN&R—open-minded essay.

May I suggest your next assignment be to attend one of the big gun shows in Reno, where you can mingle with browsers, buyers and sellers, and decide Leslie, Josie Glassberg, Eric Marks, Jessica Santina, Todd South, Luka Starmer, Bruce Van Dyke, Ashley Warren, Allison Young Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare.

To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

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for yourself what really takes place there, and dig into this evil “loophole” that’s supposedly killing so many of our children. I look forward to your honest report.

Brian Adams Reno

More bullet points Re “Bullet points” (cover story, July 12): “Guns and ammo”: Maybe create a dedicated insurance fund to pay the medical and/or funeral costs for victims of gun violence. Collect a 10 percent excise tax on retail sales of all types of ammo. Collect 10 percent excise tax on retail sales of semi-automatic weapons, too. Could we afford just 10 percent compassion for our own victims, like the Las Vegas country music fans? God, sure I hope that wouldn’t be too much to ask.

Jim Romaggi Sparks Re “Bullet points” (cover story, July 12): I found the suggestions to curb gun violence interesting and, in a few cases, actually agree, although very few cases.

“Copy the Aussies”: There is no way in hell that the people in the United States who own guns are going to give them up of their own free will.

“Background checks and tracking ammo”: California, New York, and New Jersey. Just another way that the antis— or as gun rights advocates refer to them, “Goldilocks”—are attempting to subvert our second amendment rights.

“Raise the age”: Right on; absurd.

“Surrender their weapons”: refer to my comments under Aussies.

“Require a police interview”: Refer to my comment after background checks and tracking ammo.

I do somewhat agree with “Mandatory gun-safety classes,” provided they are not extremely costly for the average citizen.

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In summary: Since mankind crawled from the dark caves they (we) have been slaying others of their (our) kind either in defense of their property, their kills in the field which fed them, themselves and family members/tribes, or in defense of their hunting grounds. The greatest difference between then and now is the instruments used for these purposes have evolved from the club to the gun.

I am an 80-year-old man and own both.

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By JERI CHADWELL

Best casino show you’ve seen? aSked at See See Motor Coffee Co., 131 Pine St.

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Let me think. Does GSR count as a casino? Do they have gambling? OK, well I saw Rodrigo y Gabriela there last year—and it was a super rad concert. And they’re coming back.

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I saw Bill Burr at the Silver Legacy. That was pretty rad.

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RGJ does not own the openness franchise On July 25, this was the lead sentence in the top front page story in the Reno Gazette Journal: “The Washoe County School District does not want you to know the findings of a $50,000 investigation of its special education department, despite a court order.”

Our business often loads the scales in our own favor.

Imagine that lead like this: “The Washoe County School District wants the privacy of people drawn into a $50,000 investigation of its special education department protected, and is appealing a court order to that end.”

Or this: “Privacy and transparency are in conflict in a dispute between the Washoe County School District and some parents over a $50,000 investigation of the district special education department.”

Openness is not an unalloyed good and it should not be considered in isolation from other factors. RGJ’s attorney Louis Bubala said, “Privacy is a concern everybody has, but that doesn’t mean government gets to hide behind some shield to prevent the public from knowing what it’s doing.”

Yes, it means exactly that. There is an array of government records that cannot be disclosed for privacy reasons.

Raw police investigative files, for instance, are full of unreliable information like rumors and are exempt from the public records law. Since this dispute involves an investigation, there may be every reason for withholding them. The Nevada public records statute reads that everything “not otherwise declared by law to be confidential” is open. But there hundreds of exceptions scattered through Nevada Revised Statutes declaring various records to be confidential. Bubala’s sweeping statement is simply inaccurate.

The RGJ was handicapped by the insufferable refusal of school district lawyer Neal Rombardo to comment, but other sources—on or off the record—could have been tapped to fairly explain the district’s view. And where does the newspaper get off mind-reading motives in this lead?

Over the years, the RGJ has devoted a lot of money to protecting public access to meetings and records. We are very grateful. But it has not always been right. In the 1970s, the Nevada Legislature accidentally enacted the toughest open meeting law in the nation. It was so severe that it created a threshold of evidence problem that made it impossible to bring a single complaint to a successful resolution. The RGJ kept opposing amending the law back to something that would work again and years went by without an effective law.

We’ve commented before of the dispute in which the RGJ created such a furor against the WCSD that Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto was too craven to stand up to the newspaper and enforce the state policy against prosecuting public officials for following their lawyer’s advice. As a result, her successor—the bumbling Adam Laxalt—built on her precedent and now public officials no longer know when they will or will not be prosecuted.

The self-righteousness that accompanies the very fallible RGJ’s openness efforts is a mistake. The late Sen. William Fulbright, a friend of journalists, once wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review that “journalists might try to be less thin-skinned. Every criticism of the press is not a fascist assault upon the first amendment.” Ω

I really love cirque shows, and typically it’s the GSR that has a rotating cirque show, like, twice a year. Really, any of those I love.

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I saw James Brown play at the GSR shortly before he died. Yes, it was, like, in 2006. Let’s see.

What year did he die? He died Dec. 25, 2006, and I think I saw him in the summertime. It was super duper cool.

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Most of the shows I’ve gone to were at Cargo or the Knitting Factory, when it was still in business. The shows I’ve gone to at casinos weren’t great. … I kind of stay away from the casinos. I mean, if you include Hot August Nights as a show, I go to those every year.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Health care fail safe could end We celebrate 53 years of Medicaid this week, the legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson who bullied doctors, hospitals and a recalcitrant Congress into providing a life-saving mechanism for millions of lowincome Americans. Today, our Republican Congress and many Republican governors continue to plot its demise, arguing that we can’t afford to provide coverage for struggling families. When one asks if we should allow people to suffer or die from lack of health care, they point to hospital emergency rooms as the fail-safe measure, ignoring the arguments of hospitals and health advocates that it’s the most expensive and inappropriate place to care for the uninsured.

Republicans often characterize those on Medicaid as lazy scofflaws, people who just don’t want to get a job, preferring that stereotype over the reality experienced by individuals like Reno’s dynamic Emily Reese. Her story is widely known in our community due to her persistent efforts to publicize how Medicaid has

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helped prolong her life as she has battled colon cancer for the last eight years. The cancer was deemed terminal two years ago, and Emily’s fight intensified, but she’s never wavered from her determination to protect Medicaid, for herself and others.

While Medicaid has enabled her to stay alive by paying for much of the life-sustaining treatment she needs, Emily still struggles. She’s been unable to return to work as a teacher since her terminal diagnosis. Her out-of-pocket prescriptions run about $800 a month and she’s had to depend on a vast network of friends and family to help her pay rent and allow her to enjoy her remaining time with three wonderful teenagers—champion debaters and kind, generous kids any mom would proudly claim.

Emily aggressively campaigns for Medicaid by creating videos, writing opinion columns, and exposing her most private feelings and fragile medical condition to the world through social media,

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sometimes attracting internet trolls and thoughtless comments. She has deeply touched the lives of many people she’ll never meet in person.

Emily traveled to Washington D.C. last winter and scored a face-to-face meeting with Senator Heller, pleading with him to protect Medicaid for the millions of Americans who desperately need it. Heller was not very receptive: “At the end of it all, I learned from his own lips that his intentions are that Medicaid is on the chopping block; in his mind, Medicaid is an ‘entitlement.’ It was officially insulting to this cancer fighter on Medicaid. I am more resolved than ever to keep fighting for myself and others. … Everyone can fall on hard times in the blink of an eye.”

Recently the frustration over the challenges of living with a terminal cancer resulted in a bad bout of depression and Emily withdrew from her one-woman campaign for a few weeks. Re-entering the social media world, she wrote, “Living

with one foot in death and one foot in life all of the time, with threats of death then sudden good news for the last few years, has finally taken its toll. I didn’t quite realize how much I was shouldering and pushing aside.”

There is a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for Emily as she copes with the stress and financial difficulties associated with her medical condition, little income and the constant worry about those who would strangle her lifeline with unmanageable work requirements and other barriers.

She perseveres, writing eloquently of her life today: “I have learned in the last eight years to balance things that matter here with things that matter in eternity.

Having extra time to thrive with terminal cancer can change your life and those around you.”

Don’t let Heller portray Medicaid recipients as the nameless, faceless, shiftless masses. This is about Emily. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

Two losses for laxalT Attorney General Adam Laxalt opposes legal marijuana, the virtual wonder drug that has applications to maladies from cholera to epilepsy.

But Laxalt is in court these days trying to force a private company to let him use one of its medications to kill.

The drug is called midazolam, and it is used to ease anxiety before surgery. Side effects include difficulty in breathing and lower blood pressure.

Ohio used it in a three-drug cocktail in a 2014 execution that went badly—it took the subject 24 minutes to die. When manufacturer Alvogen heard of Nevada’s plan to do something similar, it forbade the use, saying its drugs should be employed only “in accordance with FDA-approved indications.” It says Nevada obtained the drug illegally.

Laxalt—forgetting his supposed allegiance to private enterprise—tried to override the company’s decision but failed in U.S. District Court and is now headed for the U.S. Court of Appeals.

State district court judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled Alvogen has reasonable probability of winning the lawsuit and issued a restraining order against use of midazolam. That wasn’t Laxalt’s only loss.

Gonzalez allowed Hikma Pharmaceuticals to join the case in opposition to Nevada’ use of a second drug, fentanyl.

The state wants to use midazolam to cause an inmate to fall unconscious, then use fentanyl to slow his breathing. Then, cisatracurium would be employed to stop his breathing.

Laxalt’s courtroom and campaign styles are similar. He and his deputies throw insults at their courtroom adversaries that are in avoidance of the issues at hand. Laxalt filed a brief that said Alvogen is “scor[ing] points in the public relations arena. … Here, the District Court took the bait.”

One of Laxalt’s deputies, while he tried to win approval of the drug for a use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, attacked pharmaceutical maker Hikma as “responsible for illegal overdoses every day.”

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Ballot Question 3 campaign manager David Chase is objecting to a question asked in a Reno Gazette Journal survey done by Suffolk University.

The question reads, “This year, you will vote on a constitutional amendment, known as Question 3, which would require the state legislature to quote, ‘minimize regulations on the energy market and eliminate legal energy monopolies’ end quote. If the vote were held today, would you support or oppose Question 3?”

Chase said in a prepared statement, “Disappointingly, the pollster chose not to ask about Question 3. They asked a false question about minimizing regulations that does not resemble what voters will see in the fall. Polling ballot measures can be difficult but the place to start is asking the actual question.”

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A young sage hen looks out from among foliage.

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Grousing about Zinke Locals say secretary stirring up settled issue The elko free Press recently reprinted a news report in its this-day-in-history column: “July 10, 1918: Game warden Bachman is one busy man these days, just before the opening of the sage hen season. He has his eye on some ‘sooners’ who have made a practice of getting out a few days before the opening day, and it will go hard on them if they try to slip one over on the officer. ... From all information which has come to him from various sections of the county, the sage hen crop will be a record breaker this year and he anticipates that there will be enough for every hunter.”

That breezy assumption that sage hen would always be there for hunting was already being questioned when that article was originally published. Two years earlier, in 1916, noted zoologist William Temple Hornaday—who was instrumental in the revival of the buffalo—wrote a

piece titled, “Save the sage grouse from extinction; a demand from civilization to the western states.”

Sage grouse, known as sage hen in Nevada, covered sagebrush lands from the Pacific coast to the Dakotas. But listing it on the Endangered Species List provokes reactions from developers, mining and ranchers—and politicians tend to respond to such influential groups. Hunting, development, wildfires, grazing and other factors have reduced the bird’s numbers to perhaps 500,000 in 11 Western states.

At one point, the federal government had a deliberate policy of sagebrush eradication. Rachel Carson wrote in 1962’s Silent Spring that this policy— which reduced the sage hen’s shelter, food and nesting ground—meant that the day could come when “the grouse will disappear along with the sage.”

The striking bird has received coverage this month in entities like National Geographic, Seattle Times, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mother Jones, Popular Science, Time, High Country News, Jackson Hole News, Idaho Falls Post Register, Toronto Star, Bend Bulletin, Bismark Tribune, the Missoulian, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Ammoland, the Hill (a congressional newspaper), New York Times (at least four articles), Christian Science Monitor, ABC, NBC, CNN, and dailies in Houston, Winston-Salem, the Dalles, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay. In London, the headline over a story about the sage hen and other species reads, “These six species are about to be sacrificed for the oil and gas industry.”

The Obama administration, in 2015, rather than issue a one-size-fits-all rule for the sage hen states, worked with Westerners to develop state plans for the protection of the bird without an endangered species listing but received little credit for that achievement from critics like Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei. Heller has argued that all threats to the bird are natural, not human caused.

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Then, in 2017, Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of Montana announced plans to open sagebrush lands in 10 states to mineral extraction and grazing by reversing those Obama protections for the bird.

“I am particularly interested in assisting the states in setting sage-grouse population objectives to improve management of the species,” Zinke said.

When Zinke announced his plans, Heller and Amodei offered praise, while Gov. Brian Sandoval reserved judgment.

Heller said, “As I have consistently maintained, allowing states like Nevada to have a seat at the table as an active participant in the discussion surrounding conservation efforts is central to the viability of the sage grouse.

Moving forward, I am hopeful that the Department of the Interior will partner with Gov. Sandoval and the Nevada Sagebrush Ecosystem Council to begin targeting the real threats to sage-grouse and their habitat: invasive species, wildfire and wild horse overpopulation.”

Sandoval later said he had no objection to Zinke exploring the

KR LT PR ES EN TS issue, but the governor also joined other governors who said they were content with the state plans. In addition, Sandoval had a specific objection to Zinke’s “population objectives.”

Amodei was more concerned with procedure. In a letter to Zinke, he wrote, “Do you have a set framework in which to implement the recommendations made by the state? Will you be sharing conclusions on the feedback sent from the state? In addition, what is the timeframe. … Finally, do you have a process for more dynamic mapping as we move forward?”

Others say the dispute is a case of D.C. versus locals, and that the state plans were tailored to local needs.

In an essay published in the Elko Free Press, West Wendover Mayor Daniel Corona wrote, “In these days of devastating wildfires, often poorly planned growth, and competing land uses, there is enough uncertainty for sagebrush lands and the greater sage-grouse population, which has been on the decline for decades. That’s why it’s hard to watch the U.S. Department of the Interior walk back carefully developed management plans for the species and its habitat. Three years ago, the sage-grouse management plans were created through a bipartisan partnership of farmers and ranchers, industry representatives, conservationists, hunters and anglers, outdoor recreationists, and local and state leaders across the West. Finalized in 2015—with approval from the presidential

administration—the plans saved the grouse from an endangered species listing.”

In Colorado, zoologist Terry Riley told the Public News Service, “A lot of federal agencies, a lot of state agencies, a lot of NGOs [non-governmental organizations], a lot of public citizens, a lot of local communities and businesses all came together to pull these plans together. And making major changes now, after we went through all this work, is just not a very good plan.”

Riley told us pulling all parties back together for a unified response to Zinke is difficult: “There were many involved in the original plan amendment. They all have the opportunity to comment on this most-recent revision, but there is no way to know whether they will engage. Those that think the proposed revisions are deceptive might not react constructively.

I believe that getting the Colorado Parks and Wildlife department engaged as a partner in decisions is a good thing.”

Nevada Wildlife Federation President Robert Gaudet wrote in November, “But the sage-grouse plans don’t shut down energy development. A recent report by Backcountry Hunters & Anglers says that 79 percent of the areas with medium or high potential for energy development fall outside grouse habitat.”

As ethical scandals have piled up around Zinke, his influence has been reduced, and, last week, legislative negotiators stripped from a Pentagon funding bill language that would have banned listing the bird on the endangered species list. Ω

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by Terra Breeden

Mike Miller and his family all rented Lime scooters for the day in South Lake Tahoe.

Limes or lemons?

Lime scooters in Tahoe Since electric scooters were introduced by the Lime company to South Lake Tahoe, the debate over whether they are an asset or a headache to the community has escalated.

In May, Lime deposited a fleet of 250 e-scooters at locations around the city, and the zippy two-wheelers have been popular ever since. However, due to the ease with which users can rent one—just a couple of clicks on a cellphone and a low rental price of one dollar to ride—and the lack of supervision, Lime scooter-users are breaking laws, and many Tahoe locals are fed up.

“The company needs to find a way to keep them safe,” resident Shawn Vinze said. “I have seen at least three scooters go down in the last week, including two young girls who were on one scooter and obviously not even 16 years old, crash in the middle of the road. Luckily, there were no cars coming.”

While it’s true that locals are averse to change—when the neon-green Lime Bikes were introduced the previous year, the community uproar was equally intense— their concerns are not unfounded. California law stipulates that motorized scooters cannot be operated without a driver’s license, the user must be at least 18, and a helmet is required to ride. But few people are obeying those laws.

On any given day, it’s easy to spot numerous Lime scooter-users breaking laws. Groups of children careen down sidewalks, weaving past pedestrians. People double-up on the e-scooters, riding with one or more people dangling off the back, and helmet-wearing is virtually nonexistent.

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Vinze said he even saw one scooter-user who didn’t know how to brake shoot across an intersection.

“This is just me walking around town, so you can imagine what I don’t see,” Vinze said. “Lime needs to make sure that underage kids aren’t using the scooters because they don’t know how to drive, and they don’t understand the traffic laws.”

Keeping drunk drivers from riding the scooters is also a challenge. On June 12, an 18-year-old woman was arrested after crashing an e-scooter on Emerald Bay Road. She was arrested for driving under the influence and sustained “moderate injuries,” according to a Facebook post by the California Highway Patrol.

Lime scooters are also being abandoned all over town. They’re left on sidewalks, in front of businesses, and on walking trails.

“It bugs me when I see scooters left in the middle of the road or in the bushes,” said Erica Roach, another resident. “There should be a docking station with someone manning that point and verifying that riders are of age and can follow the rules.”

Still, tourists and locals alike have taken to the motorized scooters.

“The Lime scooters are so much fun,” said local Kat Spence. “I tried them, and they’re very cheap, and I had a really good time. Why wouldn’t anybody like them?”

“The kids love the scooters, and everyone gets to see a little bit more with them,” said Hollister, California, resident Mike Miller, who recently visited with his family.

“But it’s difficult with all of the people and traffic around. Putting these scooters in traffic isn’t safe, and riding them on the sidewalk isn’t safe for pedestrians, so it’s kind of a toss-up of where to go.”

Miller and his family took eight scooters out for the day, calling themselves a “scooter gang.” The scooters were easy for all of the family members to acquire, although one scooter they rented had to first be retrieved from a public fountain. Ω

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Author and musician Patricia Crane moved to Reno in 2001.

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A new book explores the lives of Reno’s casino showroom musicians from the ’50s to the ’90s

atricia Crane is a musician and musicologist based in Reno. Her new book, Casino Sidemen: Reno Showroom Musicians of the 1950s-1990s, dives into the working lives of the musicians who backed marquee names like Sammy Davis, Jr., during the heyday of Reno’s casino showrooms.

In the book’s introduction, Crane wrote: “Before Reno’s population exceed 200,000, the city boasted an opera, philharmonic and chamber orchestras, a music department at the university, several exceptional jazz bands, and amazing school music programs. Today, this relatively small city still offers abundant musical options, a feature that impressed me since moving to Reno in 2001. … I now credit the casino musicians with generously ‘planting seeds’ for music in Reno and nearby Lake Tahoe, and with continuing to nurture the fruits of their efforts.”

For more information about the book, visit arcadiapublishing.com.

In this abridged excerpt, Crane discusses a behind-the-scenes schism among different sections of the casinos’ musical ensembles. It’s a peek into the lives of the hard-working musicians of Reno’s casino glory days.

The greaT divide In general, musicians identified themselves based on their training and career expectations. The wind (including woodwind and brass) and percussion players in the casino bands generally set out to play swing or jazz music, training in the military or any available academic programs. Their professional role models included popular jazz and big band musicians like Harry James.

Stereotypes of jazz musicians focused on individualism, masculinity, anti-social behavior, “narcotics, murky slum-area bars, prostitutes, the criminal element, loose morals, and the renegades of society … often regarded as one of society’s deviant groups and part of its social problems,” according to Robert A. Stebbins’ 1966 article “Class, Status and Power among Jazz and Commercial Musicians.”

Meanwhile, string players usually set out to play classical music, attending academic music programs and classical festivals.

Strings lusted for solo careers like those of Jascha Heifetz or Fritz Kreisler or for careers in major orchestras. String player stereotypes suggested highbrow society, class, elegance, social restraint, and even femininity in comparison to the wind counterparts. As Ingrid Monson notes, “A player’s instrumental role is in turn viewed as having a long-term effect on his or her personality. The instrument may be cited in explanation of the player’s attitudes, modes of thinking, and musical perceptions.”

Still, musicians trained to play classical music found casino earnings attractive. A local string player, Valerie Nelson, remembered the warnings of her music professors at the University of Nevada, Reno during the flourishing casino shows: “I grew up in Reno and studied at the university with Harold Goddard, and when we were in college, Mr. Goddard really encouraged us to devote ourselves to studying the instrument and not get sidetracked by job opportunities that were out there. So, there was always this enticing element where you could play in the clubs. There came an opportunity to play, and of course, Mr. Goddard said, ‘Don’t get involved in that because you can get sidetracked, and you’ll just start making money, and you’ll forget about practicing your instrument and what the goal is.’ … I was a music major. Of course, later on when [Goddard] retired, Dom Toti got him involved in playing in a show, and he totally loved it. He said, ‘Oh, I wish I’d done this earlier.’ But for us who were in college, you know, there were a few

of us, it was during the summer time, so I said, “Sure. I’ll go ahead and do that.’ …

So, I played in lots of shows at Tahoe and sometimes there’d be employee shows during that summer, and later on, from Tahoe at 3 o’clock in the morning and then go to an 8 o’clock class—I had an 8 o’clock class. But the money was like he said. It was enticing, and you could make a—for someone in college—you could make a good amount of money in a short amount of time.”

Entertainers and bandleaders recognized a dividing line between the two sides of the orchestra, sometimes bringing attention to the division.

Violinist “Siep” recalled Sammy Davis’ acknowledgment of the orchestra: “Sammy Davis used to always introduce us like, ‘Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.’ He was talking to the string section. Then he walks over to the other side with the brass players and says, ‘Hey mothers.’”

Pearl Bailey also addressed the two sides of the stage during her act: “She’d point to the string section and say, ‘This is the hotel side of the orchestra, and this is the motel side [referring to the wind and brass players].’” Even the advertised designation of “orchestra”—versus “band”—for the casino’s ensemble suggested a difference in audience perception between a group with or without strings, and therefore class.

Besides backgrounds and perceptions, the two sides of the stage defined successful careers differently. String players tended to consider the casino gigs merely a lucrative—hopefully temporary—job, while non-string players saw the gig as an “arrival,” professional success. A violinist described the work as “prostituting” himself, selling his skills in a shameful way while he could have been playing classical music elsewhere. As a percussionist noted, “String players [played casino shows] because they never made so much money in their lives.” His string-playing wife added, “It was a job for me. … For some people, it really was an identity.” Perhaps the

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ing undercurrent between instruString mentalists: “There’s a certain amount of arrogance associplayers ated with string players, not tended to consider only in the casino bands, but in the symphony. the casino gigs merely They’re just arrogant people. I’m sorry, but a lucrative—hopefully they are. They think they’re a cut above other temporary—job, while musicians because they play classical music. non-string players saw Well, excuse me. What we play—jazz and show the gig as an “arrival,” music—is down here; it’s a couple of steps beneath professional them. And they accepted the success. job for the extra money, but

differing expectations explained why more casino string musicians than non-strings taught in school music programs during the day, seeking occupational dignity. A jazz bass player straddling the band’s divide recalled, “For the horn players, this was like playing in the San Francisco Symphony. For the string player, it wasn’t this critical thing, but for the horn player, this was really it, and the horn player was expected to be a really hot player.” A brass player concurred, saying, “There was no step up from here unless you wanted to be the star yourself.”

The disparity between musician expectations likely created the social divide.

Some people viewed the divide as more subtle, the undercurrent easily explained as when one violinist noted, “I would say there was about the same degree of mixing—that is, extent in the orchestras, which is not very much. You know, birds of a … feather flock together. … Between the horns—I mean the trumpets, the brass and the woodwinds—and the strings, there wasn’t much. … Harrah’s Christmas Party—I think the very first ones—the strings were not invited to the band party.”

that’s really all. You know, they don’t really want to admit that they might actually have played in a show band. Oh, by God, no … something other than the symphony. … They’re very clannish, I guess would be the term—very clannish, a cliquish group of individuals. The guys in the band used to make jokes about them because they were that way. Like, ‘Who do these people think they are? We’re all doing the same job.’ But it’s actually beneath them to have to play. You know, if it’s not Prokofiev, they don’t want to play it. … It was like a bring-down to them [to play casino shows], whereas for us, that was the epitome. …

They’ve never studied jazz; they don’t have an appreciation for what goes into being able to improvise, the basic knowledge you have to have to improvise takes years. But a lot of them don’t have an appreciation for that.”

Both ends of the band defined the opposite side with nicknames and quiet judgment of their differences. Non-string musicians called their string colleagues names to describe their instruments, names like “mice,” explained in an interview to mimic the high-pitched squeaks of violins; also the “strange” section and “scratches.”

One horn player said, “We all joked around together. The string players were, of course, straighter.”

String players, meanwhile, commented on the alcohol, drugs and partying from their counterparts. One violinist attributed the rowdy behavior to playing on the road prior to settling into casino jobs, saying

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about the motel side: “Many more of the partiers were on that side. I was always kind of happy to be involved with some of those creative-type personalities that I found on the other side of the band. I was always drawn to that. Yeah, but it really is true about musicians, and especially rock musicians and jazz musicians, you know—sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.

There’s a lot of truth to that. … There were people that did that for years and played on the road and that was part of their lives. That’s where they unwound.

They weren’t on the road with their families, with their wives. And that’s where they unwound, was hanging out after shows with their buddies in the bars or whatever, or having a party at their house and passing the pipe around.”

Another violinist described similar observations, “seeing some of the behavior of some guys on the other side of the orchestra. … Sometimes, even in the band room, you’d think people were mixing their alcohol and drugs not in the right combination. I can remember one night this trumpet player decided that he just wanted to get into his locker and close the door and of course those lockers were not that big, you know, like a coat locker. I guess I found it strange that I always thought about people drinking and taking drugs as being more people that would be my peers ... in my 20s, and to see guys that were in their 30s, 40s and 50s, and hitting it so heavily.”

Not all people interviewed recognized a social dichotomy within the band. A violinist, for instance, perceived no differences in career expectations. A married couple from opposite sides of the stage discussed this topic during an interview.

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people didn’t know how to relate to string players, you know.

They didn’t feel comfortable about that. … Maybe our language over on our side of the band, you know, was there again— the motel. Whatever we could do to keep everybody laughing was no holds barred.”

Despite their perceived or unperceived differences, musicians from both sides retained professional respect. After describing difference in career expectations and musicianship, a “motel” player added, “Even though we called them ‘mice,’ there was never a lack of respect. We always knew the string players were going to be good. They were the best around.”

Violinist Jody Weber remembered how several non-string band members remained on the Harrah’s Reno stage after shows to play jazz, led by Bob Barnes. Called a “kicks band,” the musicians, many with former careers in well-known jazz bands, played from favorite music charts of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Meanwhile, string players sat in audience chairs to enjoy the jam sessions. Then, band members changed roles for chamber orchestra concerts.

Weber considered the relationship between band sides to be “a mutual admiration society,” further noting that the harmoniousness “might have started because [band members] were maybe involved with one another. … People became kind of attracted to other, and they had certain things in common, and it may start with music but end up being something more personal and some of those have developed into long-term relationships or marriages that are still ongoing.” Perhaps, said Weber, George Hernandez’s decision to purposely hire female string players nurtured his orchestra’s ability to blend, to “keep it

balanced.” In contrast, Weber sensed the opposite relationship between band sides in Las Vegas showrooms, saying, “They’re like high class and low class.

They never mingle or associate with one another.”

Casino environments varied in other ways as well, even limiting the focus on the Reno area. For instance, competition for musician seats varied according to band sizes, the number of available showrooms, the atmosphere at the Musicians’ Union, entertainer trends for instrumentation, and the number of musicians vying for seats. Competitive undercurrents depended to a large extent on perceived threats to jobs and personal expectations from stage work. For instance, the unsettling threat from the Harrah’s Tahoe leadership that hired and fired musicians for the string section left camaraderie especially in that section more in an “us/them” form and disrupted job security, an atmosphere seldom seen at other local casinos. This is not to say that other jobs came with any guarantees.

A band conductor told a violinist substituting for the lead player that he wanted her to stay in the head position even when the regular player returned. She was told that if she refused the position, she could not stay in the house band. With limited options, the violinist remained in the seat, greatly relieved when the returning musician and she became good friends.

Conductors, especially in the early show years, sometimes exhausted the list of local musicians, and hired people from San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles or Las Vegas, creating different, less cohesive social dynamics in bands. A violinist explained that the better musicians rarely took Reno jobs because “if you were really working seriously [somewhere else], you can’t come to Reno. It seemed like the young ones almost always had some kind of attitude problems or something. I don’t know what it was, and they didn’t really know the business. They didn’t necessarily sight-read well. Maybe sometimes you got an older person that couldn’t play very well anymore.”

Of course, the number of substitutes who eventually became permanent fixtures in house bands proves that some very capable, albeit inexperienced, players found niches professionally and socially. Local musician lists grew, peaking in the early 1970s.

A cooperative, professional environment generally persisted among band members, described as a “family” atmosphere. Realize, however, that the band led somewhat sequestered lives, dating and marrying other band members, socializing after work hours just from the nature of their jobs—their work hours, the close quarters between shows, their musical unity on stage, and their unique skills. A violinist recalled various musicians dating, sometimes with a disparity in age, explaining, “That was just the pool you had to work with. [The job] was your whole life. … There was just this very much herd instinct, a gig would be over, and people would just start filtering back up to the bar. It was just you didn’t get that far away from your clan.”

A woodwind player described the musician community that still prevails in Reno: “Here, I find it’s like a small town camaraderie because everybody knows everybody, and it’s a small geographic [area], so you have to be nice. I like that.

I find that very pleasant about Reno.” Ω

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Jacqueline Simonds’s novel The Midsummer Wife is the first in a trilogy. The second book, The Priestess of Camelot, comes out in August.

ocal author Jacqueline Church Simonds has always loved and admired storytelling. She remembers climbing up orange trees as a child in Phoenix and hanging out in the branches all day long, making up stories. She dropped out of college at 18 and didn't attend again until her mid-30s.

She wrote her first book—Captain Mary, Buccaneer—as part of her senior thesis in college. She couldn’t get a single publisher to look at it, so she decided to self-publish—something she would later become an expert at. She even wrote a book on frequently asked questions about self-publishing.

With her knowledge of the publishing and distribution businesses, Simonds opened and

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operated her own book distribution business.

It lasted nine years. After it closed, she decided to try writing another book.

Dreams come true Simonds knew she still wanted to write, but she just didn’t know what to write about. As she tried to fall asleep one night, she began to tell herself a story to keep her mind occupied and help her drift off. This was a regular practice for her. She calls it “dream starters.”

As she lied there, she imagined a story about the mythical wizard Merlin and a woman who was the lover of King Arthur.

Words and ideas rushed out of her brain in a way that she hadn’t experienced in years.

She decided to start writing immediately and created a frame narrative—or a story within a story—by making a futuristic Britain 1,500 years after King Arthur’s time. At that point, she knew she had created an idea for a new book, The Midsummer Wife.

“It’s about a woman who is the head of the secret order that has been told that it has to protect the heirs to King Arthur and Merlin,” said Simonds. “What [the characters] don’t know is they’re all the direct reincarnations of those people, and since they’re all there, Morgaine is there challenging them, and they must defeat her to save Britain.”

Simonds said she has always been drawn to King Arthur, especially Disney films about him. She added modern twists to classic characters, an experience she said was really enjoyable.

“When I started out, Ron, who is King Arthur [reincarnated] wasn’t black, and I thought ‘Well, how can you have a goddess who cares about the universe if everybody’s white?’”

The main character of the book, Ava, is the high priestess sent by the secret order to protect the heirs of King Arthur and Merlin.

Throughout the book, Ava suffers from debilitating anxiety attacks and agoraphobia, yet she continues her journey no matter what in order to understand the world around her and the powers within her while also protecting King Arthur and Merlin, who have been reincarnated through generations.

According to Simonds, Ava’s panic attacks were influenced by Simonds’s own family members who also suffer from severe panic attacks. She said she wanted to write a book that her family could relate to, and she wanted to develop a character who keeps going even if she may be a complete train wreck.

Pinning it together One thing Simonds said she wanted was characters with depth. She said she originally started writing the book with a new-adult audience in mind. The story initially had a happily-everafter ending, and Simonds thought it was way too shallow.

She re-wrote the book 20 times, introducing darker themes like Ava’s anxiety disorder and nuclear attacks.

“You have to have an inciting incident, so it has to be bad enough to really wreck Britain,” she said. Despite all of the tragedy in British history, like the recent terrorist attacks, or the London Blitz during World War II, the incident had to be severe enough to be worse than anything Britain has seen before in order for Ava to be sent by the secret order.

Simonds said she created a storyboard for The Midsummer Wife with the help of Pinterest.

It’s composed of images that appeared in her mind when she imagined characters, houses, cars and other things to help her visualize different parts of the story. She said she would start out with a rough outline of the book, and different scenes would organically grow together as she wrote it. While writing, Simonds said she would listen to music by Irish singer/ songwriter Enya to help her get into the right head space.

After many iterations, The Midsummer Wife ends on a cliffhanger.

Simonds recently sent the second book in the series—The Priestess of Camelot— off to her publisher. She said it was quite difficult for her to write because it’s a more dystopian story, something that’s less her style. The third book in the series, Heirs of Camelot, series will be a quest.

Despite Simonds’s knowledge of selfpublishing, she still wanted the help of another publisher with this series. She said The Midsummer Wife was rejected 73 times.

Simonds suspects it’s because she had a hard time deciding on which genre to classify her book in because it has elements of science fiction, romance and Celtic culture. Eventually, she contracted with a small press called Strange Fictions Press.

When it comes to writing, she said she doesn’t ever force herself to write a certain number of words at a time. She waits until she’s in a creative flow and jumps on a moment like that to cultivate the ideas she has, something that worked with The Midsummer Wife. Ω

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Jeff Johnson’s new series of “Ptotems” sculptures are made with neon and corrugated plastic.

Light touch Jeff Johnson Jeff Johnson makes and repairs classic neon signs and original sculptures.

“They won’t pay me for my art, but they’ll pay me to fix their beer signs,” he said.

Johnson came to Reno 25 years ago after losing his job as a conductor at Western Pacific Railroad to what he calls “presidential mediation” on the part of George Bush senior and began to learn his craft from one of the many neon sign shops in town at the time.

“I worked at a cowboy sign shop for six bucks an hour, stealing everything I could in my head,” he said. “It was the last chance to learn how to do it the old-school way, and we had this old-timer that worked here that knew how to do it all, where you just kept your mouth shut and do it the way he does because there’s a reason for everything.”

Whereas automatic systems and digital design programs make most neon signs today, Johnson works by sketching schematics on paper, heating and bending delicate glass tubing with a hand torch and vaporizing liquid mercury with a powerful electric transformer at his home studio.

“You see, neon’s got three parts,” Johnson said. “The first two are artistic.

That’s the designing it and the glass blowing, and then the third part is the madscientist part—you get to light it.”

Johnson was one of the instigators of the original Dada Motel—later called Nada Dada, now called Nadaville—although he is no longer affiliated. He is responsible for many neon signs around the city, like those displayed in Brüka Theatre’s window. He also recently installed a temporary luminous blue star flag at the painted “N” on Peavine.

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For his next show, Racing in the Streets, at the Potentialist Workshop, Johnson intends to feature one of his “Ptotems.” They’re made from either single or multicolored neon glass and wrapped in corrugated plastic that he procured from a sign company.

“I’m going to have one in the gallery at the Potentialist, but it’s going to just be by itself,” Johnson said. “It would just obliterate anything next to it. It’s too much to have a room full of neon. No one wants to suffer through that. You can’t stand back and enjoy it—its angles and stuff.”

On the same night, Johnson will also participate in a multi-venue gallery show, Short Circuit, assisting artist Aric Shapiro with a sculpture inspired by the evening’s theme: “tech noir.” Melding elements of retro fashion, dystopian imagery and futuristic technology, the show’s aesthetic is inspired by the movie Blade Runner, which was a big inspiration to Johnson early on.

“I saw the movie, and I realized, ‘Look at all that neon,’” he said. “There’s a lot of neon in the future. I’m going to have to get in on this!”

The actual future of neon-making is still undecided. Mastering the craft requires long hours, and the pool of potential apprentices has dwindled. Johnson and his old boss, Ken Hines, are perhaps the only remaining neon craftsmen—or “tubebenders”—in town.

“There’s not enough demand for it, like there was,” said Johnson. He added that it’s up to the next generation to make the art.

He believes up-and-coming artists should resist the trend of defining Reno art by its relation to Burning Man. “Young people need to take up the slack and do something that is actually interesting,” he said. Ω Two events featuring Jeff Johnson’s neon sculptures will take place on Aug. 11, Racing in the Streets at the Potentialist Workshop and Short Circuit, which will be spread across three venues—Holland Project, Nevada Museum of Art and Shopper’s Square.

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Cruise missal Tom Cruise is his maniac self in Mission: Impossible - Fallout, the sixth installment in his steady franchise and proof that the actor is spectacularly certifiable. The movie is one “Wow!” moment after another—and proof that the guy shows no signs of slowing down more than half way through his fifth decade.

The movie stacks stunt after stunt featuring Cruise doing everything from jumping out of airplanes to scaling cliffs to piloting his own helicopter. It also features Cruise leaping from one rooftop to another and breaking his ankle against a building. That stunt shut down production for weeks but remains in the film in all its bonebreaking glory.

Do we really care about the plot when some of the best stunts and action scenes ever put to film are in play? Thankfully, the plot is the sort of fun, twisted story that has become the hallmark of this series, so you’ll be interested even when Cruise isn’t risking his life. Yes, there are a lot of “Hey, haven’t I seen that before?” moments—lots of masks being ripped off—but the labyrinthian hijinks still feel fresh overall. No, I’m not going to do much to explain it. That wouldn’t really do you any good.

OK, I’ll tell you a little. Ethan Hunt (Cruise) finds himself on yet another mission to save the world, this time from nuclear terrorists headed

by Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), the baddie from the franchise’s prior installment making a welcomed return. This time, Hunt is saddled with an “observer,” August Walker (Henry Cavill), tasked by CIA director Erica Sloan (a so-so Angela Bassett) with making sure Ethan and the Impossible Missions Force complete their mission with minimal funny stuff.

Cruise is sick in the head for a myriad of reasons. Thankfully, one part of his sickness provides for movie stunts like the ones mentioned above. Cruise, in reteaming with frequent Cruise director Christopher McQuarrie, now the only

director to have helmed two M:I films, pulls off his most spectacular cinematic feats yet. The skydive sequence, when Hunt works to save an unconscious co-jumper before they go splat, is a thousand strains of unbelievable. There’s a motorcycle chase through Paris streets that demands you see this thing on an IMAX screen.

Cavill, whose facial hair has gotten a lot of attention this past year, gets a chance to stretch out and play someone far more interesting than his Kryptonian dud. The guy is a multi-dimensional badass here, especially in a bathroom brawl where Walker and Hunt try to take out a worthy opponent.

Cavill shares in the glory of some of the film’s craziest stunts. That’s not him skydiving though.

Cruise, also a producer on the film, forced Cavill to watch that sequence from the ground in favor of a stunt double.

Alec Baldwin, the original Jack Ryan, takes a break from hosting Match Game to show that he can still throw some big-screen punches as Hunt’s new IMF commander. Vanessa Kirby is sinisterly terrific as White Widow, a sly arms dealer Hunt must confront. In her second go ’round, Rebecca Fergusson’s Ilsa Faust adds many elements of surprise. Simon Pegg and Ving Rhames deliver their usual competent support. And Lorne Balfe’s score deserves a big round of applause for its adrenaline-inducing contributions.

No matter how many dollars this movie makes, Cruise is going to have to slow down at some point.

In some ways, Mission: Impossible - Fallout feels like it could be the franchise capper. It’s hard to think of any way Cruise can top what he puts on screen actionwise in Fallout. Then again, I probably started saying stuff like that when the original Mission: Impossible came out. Never underestimate the chance of Cruise topping himself, yet again, in the future. Ω

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Ant Man and the Wasp

Ant-Man and the Wasp is a fun continuation of what returning director Peyton Reed started with Ant-Man three years ago. I whined a bit about the decent original, a movie that I wanted to be more subversive, having known that Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) was supposed to direct it. I’m over it. Reed kicks some Marvel ass, and his sequel is actually better than the first. After the well done but admittedly gloomy Avengers: Infinity War earlier this year, Ant-Man and the Wasp joins the likes of Thor: Ragnarok as a fun, slightly eccentric diversion from the serious Marvel shit. This one, for the most part, just wants to have a good time, and it succeeds. As the title implies, this is no longer a one-man show for the always entertaining Paul Rudd as Ant-Man. Evangeline Lilly returns as Hope Van Dyne and gets a bigger part of the limelight as the Wasp, who has decidedly better martial arts skills than professional burglar Scott Lang. The Wasp lets the kicks fly in an early scene with a crooked businessman (Walton Goggins), and she owns every moment she’s onscreen. It simply looks like a kick from The Wasp hurts more than one from Ant-Man. Well, that would make sense. She trained him. While the stakes aren’t quite as high as the usual Marvel fare—the entire universe isn’t at risk in this one—Reed and his crew make it more than compelling.

They also make it very funny, thanks mostly to Rudd, ninja master of comic timing.

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Equalizer 2

In a summer of endless sequels, Equalizer 2 has the distinction of being unoriginal and predictable. It stimulates that part of your brain that likes to see things go boom and bad guys get pummeled, while allowing the part of your brain that likes to solve things and seek intellectual depth go nappy time. It also has a little guy named Denzel Washington in it, supplying his every line with grace and punching up the quality of a rote script tenfold simply by being on screen. He and director Antoine Fuqua team up once again and make the sequel to a cinematic update of an OK TV show well worth your time. It’s fast food, but it’s good fast food.

Washington returns as Robert McCall, former special ops guy with a taste for vigilantism and tea. He’s just sort of hanging out in Boston, working as a Lyft driver and painting over graffiti at his apartment complex, when word comes in that a good friend has bit the dust at the hands of mystery killers. Robert doesn’t like it when you kill his friends. Robert doesn’t like that much at all. In fact, it’s fair to say Robert will do bad things to your body for such acts. He goes on a search for the killer/killers, and you will probably figure out who the bad people are fairly quickly.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

This is a big dummy dino joke of a movie. It’s nothing but a brainless, sloppy rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World, with a lame militaristic angle thrown in (again!). Yes, the dinosaurs look cool, and things get off to an awesome start. The prologue is scary, looks great, is well directed, and seems to be setting the tone for a film that recalls the grim tone of Michael Crichton’s original. Sadly, things degenerate badly after the title credits pop up. When a volcanic eruption on the isle of dinosaurs threatens their genetically engineered lives, Congress holds hearings on whether or not to save them. These hearings involve the return of the one and only Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm. Rather than having Goldblum around for his trademark psycho rambling and dark wit, his character just groans a couple of lines about how we shouldn’t have made the dinosaurs because it goes against nature and they have really big teeth and might bite you. Then he goes away.

Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island to save Blue, the adorable velociraptor who wants you to pet him. Eventually, the action winds up in a large mansion in the states, where a nefarious businessman is keeping dinosaurs in the

basement in order to auction them off in what amounts to a dinosaur fashion show for evil countries that want to weaponize them.

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Sorry to Bother You

First-time writer-director Boots Riley, leader of musical group the Coup, creates one of the craziest movies you will see this—or any—year with Sorry to Bother You, a hilarious, nasty and even scary showcase for the talents of Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson. Stated simply, there are tons of “what the fuck?” moments in this movie.

Cassius Green (Stanfield) is living in his uncle’s (Terry Crews) garage, looking for a better life and a job. His performance-artist girlfriend, Detroit (Thompson), encourages him to pursue whatever but not to lose his sense of self. After procuring a job at a telemarketing agency, Cassius finds himself striking out call after call. It’s here that Riley employs an ingenious visual trick, with Cassius physically showing up in the lives of the people he interrupts with his telemarketing nonsense, dropping his desk into one situation after another (people having sex, people mourning, etc.). This does a solid job of conveying the intrusiveness of that particular sales tactic. Thanks to a seasoned coworker (Danny Glover), Cassius is advised to use his white man voice (supplied by the great, and very white, David Cross). This brings immediate success and catapults Cassius up the ladder to the hallowed upstairs office where the “power callers” reside. The road to success involves him becoming more of a douchebag and, ultimately, a revolutionary.

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Skyscraper

I’m all for giving Dwayne Johnson a chance to really act and emote. I think he can do more than just run around and raise that eyebrow. (I loved him in Pain & Gain.) But asking him to be solemn and humorless in a movie about a crazy skyscraper catching fire, Towering Inferno-style, is a massive mistake.

This movie sucks the life out of Johnson as he plays Will, a high-dollar security man who lost a leg in his prior occupation. He takes a job in Hong Kong as head of security in the world’s tallest building. Shortly after getting the gig, an evil crime lord sets the building on fire, a building that is largely unoccupied save for its owner (Chin Haun), his entourage, some nasty European criminals, and Will’s wife (Neve Campbell) and children. Will, outside of the building, races to save his family’s life, which leads up to that already infamous, hilariously silly jump from a crane into the burning building. Why? Why take a serious approach to this subject matter? Why not have Johnson do his usual shtick and make this more fun?

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin show up for this nasty film plotted in such a way as to assure it would give the likes of Sean Hannity a monster boner. The timing of this movie is, shall we say, interesting. As real-life tensions build along the Mexican border, with families being separated and humanitarian water jugs being poured out, along comes a movie that shows ISIS terrorists crossing over the Mexican border and blowing up strip malls. Wait a minute, isn’t Sicario supposed to be about America’s beef with drug cartels?

This ISIS stuff feels, well, tacked on. While the terrorism element introduced near the beginning of the movie looks to be the driving force of the plot early on, it all but falls away in favor of a kidnapping subplot intended to start a war between the Mexican and U.S. governments. Brolin returns as agent Matt Graver, a nasty guy who will blow up your brother as you watch on a laptop if you don’t tell him what he needs to hear. Del Toro is also back as Alejandro, an operative once again hired by the U.S., this time to stir up trouble with the cartels and eventually kidnap Isabel (Isabela Moner), a drug kingpin’s daughter. Moner is a big star in the making. She gives the kind of performance that breaks your heart because it is something so good in service of something so mediocre.

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Homegrown Gastropub started as a food truck serving fancy classics with locally grown, organic ingredients, and plenty of options for vegans and folks with allergies.

I never got a chance to try the truck, but my friends and I were happy to find a table at the brick-and-mortar location on a busy Friday evening in midtown.

The place is open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night noshes, and though we didn’t try the pizza, we did sample some brick oven baked mac and cheese ($9) with orecchiette pasta, white cheddar, gouda and a toasted panko sprinkle. The pasta was al dente, and the plentiful cheese was both saucey and stretchy. It was as good as it sounds. We followed this with pan-seared crab cakes ($12), topped with grapefruit aioli and sprouted greens, served on a bed of arugula. The crispy crust contrasted with the smooth, crabby interior, and the tart citrus complemented the zesty greens.

When I hear “pot roast,” I think of Sunday dinners done simply, perhaps a slow-cooker meal ready to eat after church. Our plate of pot roast ($23) was anything but simple, with red wine braised, organic chuck served on a pile of garlic mashed potatoes and surrounded by green peas, and sliced carrots, swimming in a moat of sauce. The meat gave easily to the fork. The veg was good, and the sauce was rich and hearty.

Continuing in a similar vein, we tried a bone-in braised pork shank ($23) that came doused in Bloody Mary sauce and served with a dome of cheesy grits, sauteed greens and fried okra. The pork was fall-off-thebone tender, and the sauce was rich and slightly spicy. The greens were wilted just enough to maintain their texture. I didn’t see anything resembling okra, so perhaps it didn’t make it to the plate. But the grits

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made up for it with cheesy, milled hominy that was delicious dipped in sauce. I could have eaten a bowl of grits and gravy alone.

Having recently discovered chicken and waffles ($19), my hungry pal wasn’t disappointed with his serving of chicken tenderloin deep-fried in panko and served with a crispy Belgian waffle, sweet rosemary butter, real maple syrup, and Brussels sprouts with balsamic glaze. The chicken was slightly dry but ably compensated for by the rest of the dish. The sprouts were very caramelized, to the point where the occasional crispy blackened bits tasted just like a fire-roasted marshmallow.

Though other meaty items beckoned, I was lured by a portobello mushroom stack ($19) of roasted vegetables and greens layered with herbed goat cheese, oven roasted tomato basil sauce, sauteed quinoa and sprouts atop a giant inverted mushroom cap. It was savory, spicy, earthy and filling.

If I had one quibble, it would be to taste more mushroom in the stack. But then, I often crave fungi.

I was full, but I had to try the maple creme brulee with fresh berries ($8). I was a little disappointed that it was served in a standard ramekin rather than a broad and shallow brulee ramekin, lessening the surface area for torched sugar. Still, it hit the brulee spot, the cool and mild maple custard accenting the freshness of blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. Spread that out and give me some more crunch, and this would be my go-to dessert. Ω

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Antique Mall Chance Utter is a world percussionist who plays instruments from Cuba, Brazil and India.

Drum role Chance Utter Chance Utter is a sixth-generation Nevadan and longtime drummer. He started playing drums in middle school, was in marching band during his four years at Robert McQueen High School and completed a season with Drum Corps International before enrolling in the music program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

It was there he met a mentor whose musical interests would drastically alter his own.

At a gathering of percussion students early in Utter’s freshman year, thenprofessor Cody Remaklus performed with a group of advanced drummers from the program. The rhythms they played were unfamiliar to Utter—and he found them immediately appealing.

“They were playing batá, which is folkloric, Cuban drums—double-headed, goblet-shaped drums—used in what we know to be Santeria, but in Cuba it’s known as La Regla de Ocha or Lucumí. And as soon as I heard it, it was just one of those things in life where it was just meant to be.”

Before long, Utter’s fascination with batá started to shape his scholastic career.

He remembers a pivotal a trip to San Francisco he took with Remalkus and others to study with renowned batá player Michael Spiro.

“And he mentioned, ‘Well, if you really want to learn this stuff, you need to go to Cuba—and if you want to go to Cuba, you should probably speak Spanish,’” Utter recalled. He changed his major to Spanish.

“They didn’t have any world percussion at the university as far as a degree program, but Cody was there, and he kind of pushed me in a lot of directions, toward different teachers and whatnot,” he said.

Early in his studies, Utter realized the importance of understanding the cultural traditions behind his musical fascinations.

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“That’s something I try and honor but also struggle with a little bit—because I’m essentially appropriating a lot of these cultures,” he said. “Like I said, I’m a sixthgeneration Nevadan, and my family came from Europe, so I’m pretty white-washed as far as genetics go. ... But there’s just something about these particular musics that just speak to me more than anything else. I try to go in with the utmost respectful intention.”

He cited the traditions of Cuban Lucumí and La Regla de Ocha as examples.

“It’s being aware that this—religious music, is what it is—came to Cuba via the slave diaspora out of Africa. Realize this is slave worship music. And that’s nothing I will ever be able to understand in more than an academic way, if that makes sense.”

Utter graduated in 2015 and has spent the intervening time drumming and teaching others to drum. His own interests have expanded to include instruments from countries such as Brazil and India.

In January, he’ll head to the California Institute of Arts in Valencia to further study these musical traditions as a master’s student in world percussion. Utter released a solo album, New Beat Generation, in February. Its title is a reference to the Beat Generation literary movement. The tracks blend electronic sounds with traditional Indian instrumentation and lyrics. A song called “Mystic Subs,” opens with a quote from Jack Kerouac’s book Dharma Bums.

“I’m a big Kerouac fan,” Utter said.

“I read Dharma Bums last year, and I was really inspired. And I felt like the innocence in his love for Eastern traditions and cultures and religions is just something I can resonate with just based off of how he describes it making him feel.” Ω

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Karaoke with Matthew Ray, 9pm, Tu, no cover

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Ritual (gothic, industrial, EBM) with David Draven, Rusty, Endif, 9pm, $3-$5

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Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $21-$46

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Magic After Dark, 9pm, $31-$46 Dom Dolla, 10pm, $15-$20

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Village People Aug. 3, 8 p.m.

Grand Sierra Resort 2500 E. Second St. 789-2000

Farah & Sons, 1446 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 499-5799: Karaoke, Sat, 9pm, no cover Jimmy B’s Bar & Grill, 180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737: Karaoke, Fri, 9pm, no cover The Point, 1601 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-3001: Karaoke, Thu-Sat, 8:30pm, no cover Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, 1475 E. Prater Way, Ste.103, Sparks, (775) 356-6000: Karaoke, Fri-Sat, 9pm, no cover West 2nd Street Bar, 118 W. Second St., (775) 348-7976: Karaoke, Mon-Sun, 9pm, no cover

FRIDAY 8/3

SATURDAY 8/4

SUNDAY 8/5

MON-WED 8/6-8/8

2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, no cover

2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, no cover Platinum, 10pm, no cover

2) Rebekah Chase Band, 8pm, no cover Platinum, 10pm, no cover

2) Platinum, 8pm, no cover

2) Heroes of Rock and Roll, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Alex Muddy Smith, 6pm, no cover

2) John Palmore, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) John Palmore, 5pm, no cover The Look, 9pm, no cover

2) Jamie Rollins, 6pm, no cover

2) Tandymonium, 6pm, M, no cover Bob Gardner, 6pm, Tu, no cover Jason King, 6pm, W, no cover

1) ZoSo—The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, 9pm, $15-$20

2) DJ Loveknuckle & Sleeper Cell, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 5pm, 8:30pm, $19.95-$59.95 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

1) Cirque Paris, 2pm, 5pm, $19.95-$49.95

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95-$49.95

3) Village People, 8pm, $25

1) Toto, 8pm, $39.50-$65 2) Waka Flaka Flame, 10pm, $20

1) Volume Burlesque, 8:30pm, $30-$40

1) Volume Burlesque, 8:30pm, $30-$40 2) DJ /dancing, 10pm, no cover

1) Ice Cube, Everlast, Mix Master Mike, 6pm, $40-$80

1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37

1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37

1) Hot Jersey Nights, 7:30pm, $27-$37

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, $24-$38

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, $24-$38

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, $24-$38

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, $24-$38

1) Solid Gold Soul, 8pm, M, $24-$38 2) Buddy Emmer, 8pm, Tu, no cover

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

eldoRAdo ResoRt CAsino

1) Cirque Paris, 7pm, $19.95-$49.95

345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700 1) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

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2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000 1) Grand Theatre 2) LEX 3) The Pool

HARd RoCk Hotel And CAsino

Karaoke

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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 3) Plaza

HARRAH’s lAke tAHoe

15 Highway 50, Stateline, (800) 427-7247 1) South Shore Room 2) Casino Center Stage

nUGGet CAsino ResoRt

1) Space Oddity—The Ultimate David Bowie Experience, 8pm, $20-$30

1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, (775) 356-3300 1) Showrrom 2) Brew Brothers 3) NoVi

montBleU ResoRt

55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515 1) Celebrity Showroom 2) Nugget Ballroom

peppeRmill CAsino

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

silveR leGACy ResoRt CAsino

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

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1) Temptations, 8pm, $50-$60

2) Matisyahu, 7pm, $27-$32

2) Latin Dance Social, 7pm, $10-$20

2) DJ Spryte, 10pm, $20

1) America, 8pm, $49.50-$69.50 4) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover

1) Adam Ant, 8pm, $49.50-$59.50 3) Seduction Saturdays, 9pm, $5 4) Mike Furlong, 9pm, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF augusT 2, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

FIRST THURSDAY: Grab a drink, listen to music by The Sextones and check out the galleries. Thu, 8/2, 5pm. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

TYPE WALK: AIGA Reno Tahoe invites the public to explore Reno’s unique typography during its eighth annual event. Wear comfortable shoes and bring a camera. Thu, 8/2, 6pm. $12. Bundox Bocce, 1 Lake St., renotahoe.aiga.org.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: The event features 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week. Fri, 8/3, 5pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/ renostreetfood.

FOUR SEASONS BOOK CLUB: The group will discuss Bottomland by Michelle Hoover. Sat, 8/4, 1-2pm. Free. Sparks Library, 1125 12th St., Sparks, (775) 352-3200.

HIGH SIERRA WRITERS: Bring your

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The traveling exhibition, which concludes its fiveweek run this weekend, features 39 larger-thanlife, illuminated displays crafted by Chinese artisans. See colorful dragons, pandas at play, Chinese zodiac animal signs and other whimsical creations.

Visitors can also enjoy traditional arts and crafts, performances and a variety of Chinese and American food and beverages at the Wilbur D. May Arboretum & Botanical Garden at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Gates open at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 2-Sunday, Aug. 5, with performances at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Thursday and Sunday and an additional show at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $17 for adults and $12 for seniors, military personnel and children ages 6-15. Admission is free for children age 5 and younger. Free nightly guided tours are included in admission. Visit dragonlightsreno.com.

written work to share and critique with published and unpublished writers. Wed, 8/8, 7pm. Free. Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 5555 S. Virginia St., highsierrawriters.org.

HOT AUGUST NIGHTS: The 32nd annual celebration of classic cars and rock ’n’ roll kicks off in Virginia City on Aug. 3-4. The main event moves to Reno and Sparks on Aug. 5-12. The festival features over 290 events, including show ’n’ shines, swap meet, autocross, a vintage trailer show, auctions, live music and entertainment and a parade through downtown Reno. Fri, 8/3-Wed, 8/8. Free for most events. Various locations, hotaugustnights.net.

INVASIVE AND NOXIOUS WEEDS: Keep

EVENTs 39 NORTH MARKETPLACE: This familyfriendly street fair features fresh produce from local and regional farmers, arts and crafts, live cooking demos by local celebrity chefs, seminars, live music and creative and educational activities for kids. Thu, 8/2, 4pm. Free.

Downtown Sparks, Victorian Avenue and 10th Street, Sparks, (775) 690-2581, www.39northdowntown.com.

ABWA MONTHLY LUNCHEON MEETING: The Reno Tahoe Express Network, a league of the American Business Women’s Association, holds its monthly event featuring lunch, a guest speaker, raffle drawing and networking with local businesswomen.

Thu, 8/2, 11:30am. $20-$25. Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, 3800 S. Virginia St., www.abwa.org/chapter/reno-tahoeexpress-network.

BARRACUDA CHAMPIONSHIP: The 20th annual golf championship is one of only 47 stops on the PGA Tour and the only one offering the Modified Stableford playing format.

Fans can watch some of the world’s best golfers up close and personal as they compete for a $3.4 million purse and 300 FedExCup points. Thu, 8/2-Sun, 8/5. $0$92.65. Montreux Golf & Country Club, 18077 Bordeaux Drive, (775) 849-1090, barracudachampionship.com.

DISCOVER YOUR WAY: Families with children on the autism spectrum and with sensory processing disorders are given special admission before the public.

This monthly program provides an opportunity to enjoy sensory-friendly time at the museum and allows parents to network. Sun, 8/5, 10am. $10-$12.

Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., (775) 786-1000, nvdm.org.

DEPRESSIVE AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE: People with a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of depression or bipolar disorder are invited to attend weekly DBSA meetings held every Tuesday in the parish center of Our Lady of the Snows Church. Tue, 8/7, 7pm. Free. Our Lady of the Snows Church, 1200 S. Arlington Ave., (775) 219-9142, charlesnielsenmd@ gmail.com.

EVS & ESPRESSOS ELECTRIC TAILGATE PARTY: Talk with local electric vehicle owners over coffee at this gathering hosted by the Electric Automobile Association of Northern Nevada. Sat, 8/4, 9am. Free.

Glory Cloud Coffee, 10 Greg St., Sparks, (508) 245-6796, bit.ly/2mEmvMy.

FEED THE CAMEL: Local food trucks convene under the Keystone Bridge, serving unique specialties along with local beer. Wed, 8/8, 5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/Feed-TheCamel-256832417824677/.

Truckee Meadows Beautiful and the Nevada Department of Agriculture have collaborated for this presentation on invasive and noxious weeds in Northern Nevada. Learn how to identify these weeds and how to eliminate them. Sat, 8/4, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

READING AND SIGNING WITH KAREN GEDNEY: Karen Gedney is an internal medicine specialist who spent almost 30 years behind bars as a prison physician. She will read from her book 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor, which documents her journey as a naive young physician who survived a world she was ill-prepared for and turned it into a calling. Tue, 8/7, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., www.sundancebookstore.com.

SMALL WONDER WEDNESDAYS: Tots ages 5 and younger can participate in story time and explore the The Discovery for a full hour before it opens to the public. Wed, 8/8, 9am. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.

TODD BORG BOOK RELEASE: Sundance Books and Music celebrates the release of the 16th installment of the Owen McKenna Mysteries, Tahoe Skydrop. Author Todd Borg will read and sign his new book. Sat, 8/4, 11am. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Avenue, sundancebookstore.com.

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GARAGE DOOR GALLERY, SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: MFA-IA Theses Exhibit. The exhibition features work by Karen Krolak, Sarah Lillegard, Chelsea Mandell and Sam Shear. There will be a reception on Aug. 4.

The show runs through Aug. 30. Sat, 8/4Wed, 8/8. Free. Sierra Nevada College, 999 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, sierranevada.edu.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Dungeon Crawler.

ARTIST COOP OF RENO: Nevada and the West and Loving Nevada. Members Larry Jacox and Ann Weiss host the gallery’s August show. Meet the artists at the reception on Aug. 5, noon-4pm. The shows run through Aug. 30. Thu, 8/2Wed, 8/8, 11am-4pm. Free. Artist Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

The exhibition features three immersive solo installations by Devra Freelander, Jessica Gatlin and Cassie McQuate.

The artwork is on view Tuesday-Friday through Aug. 29, with an opening reception on Aug. 3, 7-9pm. Fri, 8/3, Tue, 8/7-Wed, 8/8, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

METRO GALLERY, RENO CITY HALL:

CCAI COURTHOUSE GALLERY: Visual Oasis: Creative Growth. The Capital City Arts Initiative presents its group show, which includes mixed media, 3D art and 2D works. Thu, 8/2-Fri ,8/3, Mon, 8/6-Wed, 8/8, 8am-5pm. Free. CCAI Courthouse Gallery, 885 E. Musser St., Carson City, arts-initiative.org.

Winnemucca Valley—Nevada’s Serengeti.

The Reno City Hall Metro Gallery exhibits Erik Holland’s landscape paintings of Winnemucca Valley. The show runs through Sept. 7. There will be a reception on Sept. 6, 5-7pm. Thu, 8/2-Fri, 8/3, Mon, 8/6-Wed, 8/8, 8am-5pm. Free. Reno City Hall, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-6264.

THE POTENTIALIST WORKSHOP: DJD-Art

COMMUNITY CENTER SIERRA ROOM: Jenny Raven—The Creative Growth Years 19791984. Jenny Raven lived in San Diego until the mid-1970s. Following surgery for a brain tumor that left her disabled with limited short-term memory, her family moved to Berkeley. There she was able to access purpose and artistic guidance at Creative Growth Art Center. Raven worked in a variety of media, but she preferred drawing with pen and ink. She died at age 23, but during the last five years of her life, she thrived as an artist at CGAC developing a mature style in her art. Raven’s exhibition is a companion show to Visual Oasis: Works from Creative Growth, a survey of art in the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. There will be an art reception on Aug. 17, 5-7pm. The show runs Monday-Thursday through Oct. 18. Thu, 8/2, Mon, 8/6-Wed, 8/8, 5-8pm.

Community Center Sierra Room, 851 E. William St., Carson City, (775) 283-7421, www.arts-initiative.org.

GALLERY EAST, MCKINLEY ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER: Untitled: A Venture into the Unknown. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, Gallery East presents works by artist Quynh Tran. This series deals with the artist’s conception of liminal space— a space between worlds, thresholds or psychological states. The show runs through Sept. 7. Thu, 8/2-Fri, 8/3, Mon, 8/6-Wed, 8/8, 9am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264.

GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER: A Splash of Color. McKinley Gallery West hosts painter Courtney Jacobs. The show runs through Sept.

7. Thu, 8/2-Fri, 8/3, Mon, 8/6-Wed, 8/8, 9am5pm. Free. McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264.

Workshop for Veterans. The David J. Drakulich Foundation Art Foundation for Freedom of Expression hosts open studio hours for war veterans every Tuesday-Saturday. Thu, 8/2-Sat, 8/4, Tue, 8/7-Wed, 8/8, 4pm. Free. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., potentialistworkshop.com.

ST. MARY’S ART CENTER: Summer Exhibition.

Artwork by Edward Durand and Tynan Wheeler, Mimi Patrick, Casey Clark, Patty Lassaline, Joanne Pinnock, Pinion Pottery, Malissa Sparks, Grey Wolf Leather Works and Paula Saponaro. Exhibition viewing: Friday-Sunday, 11am-4pm through Sept.

2. Fri, 8/3-Sun, 8/5, 11am. Free. St. Mary’s Art Center, 55 North R St., Virginia City, (775) 847-7774.

MusEuMs NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Andrea Zittel: Wallsprawl; Art of the Greater West; BLOOM: Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg; Celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat; Hans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada; History of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg; James Turrell: Roden Crater; Manet to Maya Lin; Maya Lin: Pin River—Tahoe Watershed; The Nuclear Landscape; Trevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector; Judith Belzer: The Panama Project; The Lasting World: Simon Dinnerstein and The Fulbright Triptych. Thu, 8/2-Sat, 8/4, Wed, 8/8, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

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TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM (THE DISCOVERY): Curiosity

DANCE WITH ZIZOU: In honor of 5-year-old Zizou Colombant, Sierra Arts Foundation has collaborated with many local dance instructors to provide free monthly kinder-dance and movement classes for kids 4 to 8 years old. Classes are generally held the first Saturday of each month in the Sierra Arts Gallery. Sat, 8/4, 11am. Free. Sierra Arts Gallery, 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-2787.

Carnival. Explore Curiosity Carnival—a summer full of exhibits and activities designed to help you delve into the science, technology, engineering, art, math, and history of carnival games through Aug. 18. Museum hours are 10am-5pm on Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday, 10am8pm on Wednesday and noon-5pm on Sunday. Thu, 8/2-Wed, 8/8. $10-$12. Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery), 490 S. Center St., nvdm.org.

MONDAY ART MAKERS: Arts for All Nevada offers weekly workshops for people with intellectual disabilities every Monday evening. Art supplies are provided.

Aides/caregivers are welcome to attend the workshops as needed. Mon, 8/6, 3:30pm. Free. Arts for All Nevada, 250 Court St., (775) 826-6100.

FILM BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN: The Carson City Classic Cinema Club presents a screening of the 1935 horror film starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester. Trivia and discussions start at 6:30pm, followed by the film at 7pm. Tue, 8/7, 6pm. $3-$5, free for members. Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. King St., Carson City, ccclassiccinema.org.

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JAZZ & BEYOND—CARSON CITY MUSIC AND ART FESTIVAL

Mile High Jazz Band Association and Carson City present the 15th annual festival featuring 17 days of music, art and film at multiple venues, including Bob McFadden Plaza, Silver Saddle Ranch, the State Railroad Museum, Comma Coffee, Brewery Arts Center, Capital Amphitheater, Bliss Mansion and Living the Good Life Nightclub. Most events will be free. The festival kicks off on Friday, Aug. 3, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 19. Visit jazzcarsoncity.com.

CLASSICAL TAHOE MOVIE: Watch the 2009 Disney/Pixar film Up. Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly Carl’s worst nightmare comes true when he discovers a little boy named Russell is a stowaway aboard the balloon-powered house. Mon, 8/6, 7:30pm. $10. Classical Tahoe Concert Pavilion at Sierra Nevada College, 291 Country Club, Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, classicaltahoe.org.

MOVIE SERIES—TULLY: This film, starring Charlize Theron, delves into the modern parenthood experience with a blend of humor and raw honesty. Rated R. Inclement weather location will be the JCSU Theatre on the third Floor. Thu, 8/2, 9pm. Free. Joe Crowley Student Union, University of Nevada Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6505.

Big Damn Band performs with special guest Harper and Midwest Kind. Sun, 8/5, 4:30pm. $18. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, greaternevadafield.com.

FROBECK: The high-octane funk, soul and rock group performs as part of the Levitt AMP Carson City Summer Concert Series. Sat, 8/4, 7pm. Free. Minnesota Street Stage, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

duo performs. Fri, 8/3, 6:30pm. Free.

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

ONSTAGE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: Sierra Nevada Ballet presents its steampunk version of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream featuring guest artists from Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Sacramento Ballet, as well as SNB company dancers. Sun, 8/5, 4pm. $20-$40. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., sierranevadaballet.org.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S STEAM: Join the

’80s PROM WITH NEW WAVE CRAVE: Get out your skinny tie, leg warmers and huge shoulder pads for this all-ages dance party featuring New Wave Crave performing hit songs by The Cure, Billy Idol, David Bowie, A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran and other retro faves. Sat, 8/4, 7:30pm. $15-$29. Piper’s Opera House, 12 N. B St., Virginia City, (775) 847-0433.

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Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, www.facebook. com/RestlessArtistsTheatreCompany.

IMPROV: The BAC Blowhards present an evening of improv. All ages welcome (PG-13 humor). Fri, 8/3, 7pm. Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., Carson City, breweryarts.org.

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FROG AND TOAD: The acoustic guitar

THE WINDING STREAM: Artemisia Moviehouse presents a screening of the 2014 documentary film directed by Beth Harrington that traces the history, legacy and tangled relationships of country music progenitors the Carter Family. Sun, 8/5, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

well again, reduce pain and stress and improve balance and performance with Awareness Through Movement classes. Sat, 8/4, 10am. $8-$15. Cathexes Building, 250 Bell St., (775) 240-7882, renofeldenkrais.blogspot.com.

WATERCOLOR PAINTERS OPEN GROUP: This is a group of watercolor painters who paint together and learn from each other. Fri, 8/3, 9am. $5. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-1128.

WEEKLY WONDERS SPARKS ART CLASS: Arts BLUES AT THE PARK: Reverend Peyton’s

OUTDOOR SUMMER MOVIE SERIES: Families and friends can snuggle up under the stars while enjoying new releases and family classics on the big screen in the Events Plaza at The Village at Squaw Valley. All movies start at 8:30pm, weather permitting. Blankets and warm clothes are recommended. Thu, 8/2, 8:30pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley., squawalpine.com.

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Sierra Nevada Ballet and High Desert Steam for a close look at the making of the SNB’s steampunk-inspired production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Meet the cast, costume and set designers and the creative minds behind the show. The event concludes with dancing and dessert in the Wilbur D. May Garden Court. High Desert Botanicals will bring provide a cash bar of wine, specialty drinks and non-alcoholic beverages. Fri, 8/3, 6-9pm. $14-$20.

Wilbur D. May Center, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., sierranevadaballet.org.

Galena Creek Park with a local specialist.

Please bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 8/4, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 8494948, www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball team plays Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Thu, 8/2-Fri, 8/3, 7:05pm. $9-$45.

Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.milb.com/reno.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball

team plays Oklahoma City Dodgers. Sat,

8/4, 7:05pm; Sun, 8/5, 1:05pm; Mon, 8/6-Tue, 8/7, 7:05pm. $10-$45. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.milb.com/reno.

CLASSES BASIC DRAWING CLASS: Students will learn the basics of drawing while using still life as a vehicle. All skill levels are welcome.

Limited to 12 students. To sign up, email Chris Newhard at christophernewhard@ gmail.com. Tue, 8/7, 10am. $30. Nevada Fine Arts, 1301 S. Virginia St., nvfinearts.com.

for All Nevada offers workshops for people with intellectual disabilities every Thursday evening. Art supplies are provided. Aides/caregivers are welcome to attend the workshops as needed. Thu, 8/2, 4pm. Free. Larry D Johnson Community Center, 1200 12th St., Sparks, (775) 826-6100.

TAHOE/TRUCKEE ARTIST STUDIO TOUR: Watch artists at work during Tahoe Art League’s 12th annual studio tour. Fri, 8/3-Sun, 8/5, 10am.

Various locations in South Lake Tahoe, talart.org.

BLUESDAYS: Blues guitarist Kenny Neal performs as part of the 10th annual outdoor concert series. Tue, 8/7, 6pm. Free. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

CLASSICAL TAHOE: The seventh annual music festival features classical music concerts and family movie nights through Aug. 12. Fri, 8/3-Tue, 8/7. $10$120. Classical Tahoe Concert Pavilion at Sierra Nevada College, 291 Country Club, Incline Village, (775) 298-0245, classicaltahoe.org.

CONVERSATION CAFÉ: This is a drop-in conversation forum open every week except holidays. Participate with people sharing diverse views and a passion for engaging with others over topics and news. Thu, 8/2, 10:15am. Free. Aspen Grove Community Center, Incline Village, (775) 832-1310.

HOPS IN THE YARD BEERFEST: The beer festival features over 20 handles, food trucks and some of the area’s best homegrown talent. Sat, 8/4, 1-5pm. $25.

MontBlue Outdoor Event Center, 55 Highway 50, Stateline, (775) 588-3515.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The festival’s 46th season is headlined by productions of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, and the off Broadway, retro-hit revue Beehive: The 60s Musical. Thu, 8/2-Wed, 8/8, 7:30pm. $15$188. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, laketahoeshakespeare.com.

SKI RUN FARMERS MARKET: The market features over 35 vendors offering organic, farm-fresh produce and local eats, as well as a bounce house for kids, live music and locally made arts and crafts. Fri, 8/3, 3pm. Free. Along Ski Run Boulevard, South Lake Tahoe, skirunfarmersmarket.com.

TAHOE CITY FARMERS MARKET: Enjoy fresh, local produce, delicious food and lake views at the Tahoe City Farmers’ Market every Thursday through Oct. 1. Thu, 8/2, 8am. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 583-3348, tahoecityfarmersmarket.com.

TAHOE STAR TOURS: Star guides Tony and Ryan Berendsen offer an intimate look at the stars in the Sierra nightime sky every Thursday-Saturday through Sept. 1. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes.

Enjoy comfortable seating, blankets, outdoor heaters, hot chocolate, s’mores and more. Thu, 8/2-Sat, 8/4, 7pm. $40.

Northstar California’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium, 148 Northstar Drive, Truckee, www.northstarcalifornia.com.

TEA ON TOP OF TAHOE TREK: The Tahoe Institute for Natural Science and the Tahoe Rim Trail Association host this event combining art and nature on a hike to Picnic Rock. The group will stop for tea on top of Picnic Rock as TINS naturalist Sarah Hockensmith leads a brief sketching workshop. No experience necessary. Bring a journal and/or sketching paper, pencils, a mug and your favorite bag of tea to enjoy. Hot water will be provided. Fri, 8/3, 8:30am. Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, 948 Incline Way, Incline Village, (775) 298-0067.

TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKET: Buy some local produce and enjoy live music. A collaboration between Slow Food Lake Tahoe and Sierra Valley Farms, the mission of the market is to support local farms and producers within 125 miles of Truckee and to promote access, education and appreciation for local, fresh, sustainably produced goods. Sun, 8/5, 9am. Free. 12047 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, truckeefarmersmarket.org.

YOUNG SHAKESPEARE MACBETH: The cast of the D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare Program present William Shakespeare’s chilling tale, Macbeth. Although the performances are free, reservations are required due to capacity limits. Thu, 8/2Fri, 8/3, 10am. Free. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, laketahoeshakespeare.com.

WATER CARNIVAL: The annual event features giant inflatable water slides, slip ’n’ slides, water games and more. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. Sat, 8/4, 11:30am-3:30pm. $5 for kids, free for adults. Incline Park Ballfield at Incline Middle School, 939 Southwood Blvd., Incline Village, (775) 832-1301.

by AMY ALKON

Seize the meh I’m a 31-year-old guy who got really hurt after a relationship ended a few years back. Now I just don’t date women whom I’ll ever really care about because I don’t ever want to feel how I felt when my previous relationship ended. I think I’m being smart in protecting myself.

These days, your relationships probably start when you eyeball a woman on the street: “Whoa! I bet she’d be seriously mediocre in bed!”

Next, you discover that she’s a real yawn out of the sack, too—and you’re in!

Now, it’s possible that you’re way more emotionally sensitive than most people. Even if you are super sensitive, avoiding the pain comes at a substantial price: living a gray goulash of a life, spending every day with some uninspiring somebody you don’t really care about.

But consider that we evolved to be resilient—to heal from emotional injuries as we do physical ones.

However, in order for you to do this—and to see that you might actually be able to stand the pain of loss—you need to view resilience not as some mysterious emotional gift but as a practice.

Resilience comes out of what clinical psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls “hardiness.” He writes that “hardiness ... provides the courage and motivation to do the hard, strategic work of turning stressful circumstances from potential disasters into growth opportunities.” His research finds that hardiness is made up of three “interrelated attitudes,” which he calls the three Cs: commitment, control and challenge.

Commitment is the desire to engage with people and life instead of pulling away and isolating yourself. Control is the motivation to take action to improve your life “rather than sinking into passivity and powerlessness.” Challenge is the willingness to face the stress life throws at you and use it as a learning experience “rather than playing it safe by avoiding uncertainties and potential threats.”

These attitudes might not come naturally to you. But you can choose to take them up. Understanding that there are steps you can take to recover from heartbreak might give you the courage to go for a woman you really love.

Sure, that woman might leave you—causing you big-time pain.

But consider that risk avoidance— like by being with a woman you don’t really care about—isn’t pain avoidance. The pain is just different.

It’s low-dose extended-release—like frequently experiencing the post-sex horror that leads you to want to grab your clothes and make a run for it before the woman next to you wakes up. And then you remember a couple of essential points: She’s your wife, not some Tinder rando, and it’s your apartment.

Give pizza a chance I’m a straight, 36-year-old woman, and I recently lost a lot of weight. My girlfriends think I look great. However, my male friends think I’m too skinny now. Is there a big difference in what the sexes consider a good body?

In studies exploring men’s and women’s ideas of the ideal female body weight, women consistently “perceive men as being attracted to thinner female figures than is true in reality,” writes social psychologist Viren Swami. And it isn’t just North American men who like fleshier women. Swami ran a massive survey—of 7,434 men and women in 26 countries, across 10 world regions—and “men across all world regions except East Asia selected a significantly heavier figure as being most physically attractive compared to what women believed was most attractive to men.”

Swami and his colleagues speculate that “women exposed to magazines marketed to women may form skewed perceptions of what body types are most appealing to men.” But don’t despair. Swami’s study and others measure the preferences of the “average” man.

There is no such person. Or, as an epidemiologist friend of mine often reminds me, there are “individual differences”—meaning individuals’ preferences vary. In other words, there are men out there who will be seriously into a woman like you. 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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Free will astrology

by ROb bRezsny

For the week oF August 2, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that August

will be a Golden Age for you. That’s mostly very good. Golden opportunities will arise, and you’ll come into possession of lead that can be transmuted into gold. But it’s also important to be prudent about your dealings with gold.

Consider the fable of the golden goose. The bird’s owner grew impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day; he foolishly slaughtered his prize animal to get all the gold immediately.

That didn’t work out well. Or consider the fact that to the ancient Aztecs, the word teocultlatl referred to gold, even though its literally translation was “excrement of the gods.” Moral of the story: If handled with care and integrity, gold can be a blessing.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus socialite

Stephen Tennant (1906-1987) was such an interesting luminary that three major novelists created fictional characters modeled after him.

As a boy, when he was asked what he’d like to be when he grew up, he replied, “I want to be a great beauty.” I’d love to hear those words spill out of your mouth, Taurus. What? You say you’re already all grown up? I doubt it. In my opinion, you’ve still got a lot of stretching and expansion and transformation to accomplish during the coming decades. So yes: I hope you can find it in your wild heart to proclaim, “When I grow up, I want to be a great beauty.” (P.S. Your ability to become increasingly beautiful will be at a peak during the next 14 months.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Manage with bread

and butter until God sends the honey,” advises a Moroccan proverb. Let’s analyze how this advice might apply to you. First thing I want to know is, have you been managing well with bread and butter? Have you refrained from whining about your simple provisions, resting content and grateful? If you haven’t, I doubt that any honey will arrive, either from God or any other source. But if you have been celebrating your modest gifts, feeling free of greed and displeasure, then I expect at least some honey will show up soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t worry your beau-

tiful head about praying to the gods of luck and fate. I’ll take care of that for you. Your job is to propitiate the gods of fluid discipline and hard but smart work. To win the favor of these divine helpers, act on the assumption that you now have the power and the right to ask for more of their assistance than you have before. Proceed with the understanding that they are willing to provide you with the stamina, persistence and attention to detail you will need to accomplish your next breakthrough.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Sometimes, I feel the past

and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

A character named Julia says that in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. I bring it to your attention as an inspiring irritant, as a prod to get you motivated. I hope it will mobilize you to rise up and refuse to allow your past and your future to press so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present. It’s a favorable time for you to fully claim the glory of being right here, right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m not an ascetic who

believes all our valuable lessons emerge from suffering. Nor am I a pop-nihilist who sneers at pretty flowers, smiling children and sunny days.

On the contrary: I’m devoted to the hypothesis that life is usually at least 51 percent wonderful.

But I dance the rain dance when there’s an emotional drought in my personal life, and I dance the pain dance when it’s time to deal with difficulties I’ve ignored. How about you, Virgo?

I suspect that now is one of those times when you need to have compassionate heart-toheart conversations with your fears, struggles, and aches.

would the arrival of these delights spur you to come up with imaginative solutions to your top two riddles? I’m pretty sure it would. So I conclude this horoscope by recommending that you do indeed arrange to revel in your equivalent of the delights I named.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t try to steer

the river,” writes Deepak Chopra. Most of the time, I agree with that idea. It’s arrogant to think that we have the power to control the forces of nature or the flow of destiny or the song of creation. Our goal should be to get an intuitive read on the crazy-making miracle of life, and adapt ourselves ingeniously to its ever-shifting patterns and rhythms. But wait! Set aside everything I just said. An exception to the usual rule has arrived. Sometimes, when your personal power is extra flexible and robust—like now, for you—you may indeed be able to steer the river a bit.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear Astrologer:

Recently I’ve been weirdly obsessed with wondering how to increase my levels of generosity and compassion. Not just because I know it’s the right thing to do, but also because I know it will make me healthy and honest and unflappable. Do you have any sage advice?— Ambitious Sagittarius.” Dear Ambitious: I’ve noticed that many Sagittarians are feeling an unprecedented curiosity about how to enhance their lives by boosting the benevolence they express. Here’s a tip from astrologer Chani Nicholas: “Source your sense of self from your integrity in every interaction.” Here’s another tip from Anais Nin: “The worse the state of the world grows, the more intensely I try for inner perfection and power. I fight for a small world of humanity and tenderness.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Time does not

necessarily heal all wounds. If you wait around passively, hoping that the mere passage of months will magically fix your twists and smooth out your tweaks, you’re shirking your responsibility. The truth is, you need to be fully engaged in the process. You’ve got to feel deeply and think hard about how to diminish your pain, and then take practical action when your wisdom shows you what will actually work. Now is an excellent time to upgrade your commitment to this sacred quest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The questions you’ve

been asking aren’t bad or wrong. But they’re not exactly relevant or helpful, either. That’s why the answers you’ve been receiving aren’t of maximum use. Try these questions instead.

1. What experience or information would you need to heal your divided sense of loyalty? 2.

How can you attract an influence that would motivate you to make changes you can’t quite accomplish under your own power? 3. Can you ignore or even dismiss the 95 percent of your fear that’s imaginary so you’ll be able to focus on the five percent that’s truly worth meditating on? 4. If I assured you that you have the intelligence to beautify an ugly part of your world, how would you begin?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A scuffle you’ve been

waging turns out to be the wrong scuffle. It has distracted you from giving your full attention to a more winnable and worthwhile tussle. My advice? Don’t waste energy feeling remorse about the energy you’ve wasted. In fact, be grateful for the training you’ve received. The skills you’ve been honing while wrestling with the misleading complication will serve you well when you switch your focus to the more important issue. So are you ready to shift gears?

Start mobilizing your crusade to engage with the more winnable and worthwhile tussle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you absolutely need

orchids, sweet elixirs, dark chocolate, alluring new music, dances on soft grass, sensual massages, nine hours of sleep per night, and a steady stream of soulful conversations? No. Not really. In the coming days, life will be a good ride for you even if you fail to procure those indulgences. But here are further questions and answers: Do you deserve the orchids, elixirs and the rest? My answer is yes, definitely. And

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 Dennis Myers

Broadcaster Sam Shad

How long have you been doing what you do?

Since, I would say, 1990, because that was when the radio started, and that was the precursor to Nevada Newsmakers.

So the tail end of the first Bush administration.

Yes.

What is it that you do? Is there a name for it?

I talk to people, and I listen to them.

You know, the concept was—I had left Channel 2, and I had a six month noncompete [agreement]—and so I needed to do something. So, I love Larry King, loved his style of interviewing, where it seemed to me he could ask anybody anything he wanted to ask them, and nobody told him what he could and couldn’t ask. And he also could interview people on any topic from politics to entertainment, and so I decided I was going to be the Larry King of Reno.

Has it worked out the way you expected it to?

Better.

Why better?

Because when I first started—well, the first version of the show was just an hour-long radio program. And I focused on the people who were at the Reno Rotary Club, which in those days was a powerhouse. So the head of the bank was there. The head of the power company was there. The head of the phone company. So you could hob nob with those folks at lunch time, and then they would come to the radio station, which rarely got out of the building, and they would be on the show. And my wife, who was my producer, would interview the guests for about 45 minutes. We had a list of questions, and it would lead you to all kinds of of interesting answers.

But it was just a basic set of questions.

And then they would come on the show.

I would interview them for an hour on the radio, live. And then they would get a cassette of the program after the fact so they could play it to their wife and their kids. So it expanded the range of the program. And then all of the people at the Rotary Club wanted to be on it

PH OTO/ D E NNI S MyE R S

For nearly three decades, Reno broadcaster Sam Shad—formerly best known as a weathercaster— has been doing radio and television political talk shows. We asked him to talk about the way politics has changed over the years when many news entities stopped doing serious political coverage.

because their friends were on it, and they were listening to it. And so Nevada Newsmakers was a wider version of that. The aim was the governor, the legislature, the executive branch, the congressional branch. And I figured there was probably going to be about 300 people that would be the audience for that program, but they would be a very influential audience. The lobbyists, of course, as well. And what happened was, with the dearth of local news and statewide news over the years, Nevada Newsmakers would become a place where more and more people got their news and information. And so the audience has grown vastly from that initial group, and so that’s something I’m thrilled about. And, also, we always did it as a statewide show from the time we started in 2002, even though we weren’t in Las Vegas at the time. I always did it as a show that, if somebody was from Las Vegas, they could get as much meat from it.

And I feel that the two markets, even though they’re dissimilar in appearance and sizes, all the problems and the issues are the same.

Did you ever have trouble in the early days getting people to fly up here?

It’s not one I would ever want to be a part of. It’s one I love to cover because it involves everything in a soap opera— you know, money, power, greed, envy, sex, you name it, it’s all part of politics.

And nothing has changed with that. I mean, you have different characters and different styles, but the essence of politics has not changed since the Roman times.

Do you think we’ll get back to a point where we can govern again, and my premise for that question is that what is going on in D.C. is not governing because we’re putting huge amounts of resources in at one end and getting just a trickle out at the other.

I think that governing goes on all the time. I think that the media focuses in on certain aspects of governing and certain aspects of Washington, D.C. But there are tens of thousands of people involved in the federal government, and there are things going on all the time, every day in all those various departments that we don’t know about, or we have to dig pretty deeply, as you do on a lot of occasions, to find out that information about what’s going on. But there is a lot more governing going on than one would imagine from just reading certain newspapers or watching certain programs.

When I talked about the difference from when you started doing this to now, one of the things I had in mind—and I use this example all the time—you rarely saw terms like lie, liar, lying used in political coverage back then, and you see it all the time now.

You do, but then again, at the New York Times, for example, Dean Baquet— the executive editor— has made a point to tell the reporters not to use the word lie because if you use it on a constant basis, it loses its value and its meaning. If you remember the show Hair, there was a word that starts with F and ends in K that was repeated multiple times in a very short period of time back in, I think, 1968. That was considered scandalous until you went to the show, and it lost all of its meaning by about the fifth time they said the word. Politics is the toughest of games. I mean, back in the 1800s in Nevada, we had duels and knife fights in the legislature. This is nothing new, you know? This is all about power. It’s all about money. Not a lot has changed in, like I say, going back to Roman times. Politics has always been an ugly game, and a lot more was done behind the scenes. But because of modern day media, we are able to see and hear a lot more than we did before.

But it was always an ugly business behind the scenes. Ω

“Politics has always been an ugly game.”

No, I think we just, when we knew somebody was coming, we would invite them to be on the show. And so it was not the reverse of that. We weren’t literally asking people to come up specifically to be on the program. But if we knew somebody from Las Vegas was going to be in town, then we would ask them to be on the program. And we had very few turndowns.

So you started pre-Clinton, a very different kind of politics in those days. Did you imagine that we would end up in this kind of polarized politics?

Politics is, as you well know, because we—you and I—have had many discussions … politics is a fascinating topic.

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