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Good reception Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Last Saturday, with some babysitting help from the kids’ grandparents, Margot and I got a nice night out—together!—and we were delighted to attend the artist’s reception for Jaxon Northon’s painting exhibition. The exhibition was all of the original portraits that he painted for our Best of Northern Nevada issue a couple of weeks ago.

I saw the paintings as he was working on them, but it was great to see all of them up in a public place where they could be admired.

The event was extra fun because Jaxon—thoughtful guy that he is—didn’t just have a regular ol’ artist’s reception with cheap wine and stale hors d’oeuvres. Instead, his reception was a bangin’ dance party at one of Reno’s finest watering holes, Chapel Tavern. We danced up a storm.

We didn’t even get there until around 9 p.m., but Jaxon had been there all day, and he was elated at the response to his art and its community-oriented themes. He’d already sold four of the original paintings, along with a few dozen prints. When we were there, the place was packed—and it was definitely the hip nighttime crowd you might expect. But Jaxon was especially excited about the crowd that had come by to see the paintings earlier during the day—including families and elderly folks.

As I wrote in the BONN issue, Jaxon and I have been friends for years, and I’m really proud of the work he did for this project and happy that the RN&R was able to help his art reach a wider audience.

If you want to order a print, you can reach out to him at jaxonnorthon@gmail.com.

And don’t worry! If you somehow missed the BONN issue, you’ll get another chance to see the artwork in print in October for the Winners’ Issue.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

Exchange Editor’s note: We received a well-researched letter from a reader. We asked county commission candidate Bob Lucey to reply for this edition.

One of the primary tasks undertaken in the process of opposition research is to determine source and amounts of the opponent’s campaign donations. This is done primarily to understand not only business interests of the donors, but the monetary “influence” pressed upon the candidate accepting those donations.

I recently reviewed Bob Lucey’s 2017-18 campaign contributions (http://nvsos.gov/).

To determine business trends in this donor pool, I collated information on all the donors/ donations above $150, a total of $97,750.

The following groups comprised Lucey’s business donor pool: developers, general business, casinos, builders and building supplies, cannabis, lobbyists, lawyers, local government entities, real estate and utilities.

Developers, real estate, builders and suppliers comprise over 60 percent; casino interests, lobbyists, lawyers and cannabis, the rest.

It’s no surprise that most Lucey donations come from developers and businesses supporting them. He and the county commissioners have responded in kind by approving a record number of housing and business developments from 2015-18.

The cannabis industry has Lucey’s interest. Benjamin Koppel of Chicago gave Lucey $5,000 in 2017 after his second (publicly disputed) marijuana dispensary was approved by the county. Good Chemistry NV, LLC and Washoe Dispensary also donated $1,000 each.

Donor lobbyists are affiliated with Marcus G Faust, a lobbying firm that focuses on counties, cities, water authorities and utility companies in Nevada and Utah; and legislation that created the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act, a national monument at Tule Springs and a payments-in-lieuof-taxes program for rural Nevada counties with federal land. Lands bill, anyone?

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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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Ignacio Zuleta, donated $1,000 to Lucey’s campaign. Several years ago, it was reported they made large donations to lawmakers in Florida in exchange for greasing the wheels for their business. They have given $27,500 to political campaigns since 2015 (“Academica cultivates links to lawmakers,” Miami Herald, Dec. 14, 2011 and “9 investigates lawmakers’ connections with charter schools,” KFTY News, Nov. 14, 2012). In 2017, the State of Nevada approved the issuance of $31,190,000 in bonds (taxpayer money) to finance acquisition of facilities and land improvements on behalf of Academica.

Do any of these businesses support we existing Washoe residents to the degree that they support Lucey’s campaign? Will we profit as much from land development, construction, lobbyists, casinos and cannabis as these business entities will if he’s elected?

What price will we residents continue to pay for ongoing uncontrolled land development if Lucey is elected? Do these businesses “count” more than the Washoe Residents who elected Lucey to represent us?

Kristin Hemlein Reno Over the last several years, Washoe County has come together and built a foundation of success and prosperity for our community.

We have seen new investments by job creators, a re-priortizing of our transportation system, and tourism rebranding that has had only positive impacts on our economy.

Because of these steps—and many more not listed—Washoe County is proudly reclaiming our rightful spot as the crown jewel of Nevada. I am honored to have played a role.

Yet, there is a common thread that has run through every inch of success we have seen over these last few years—trust.

Washoe County voters have trusted in their representatives to fulfill their vision of what they want our community to be. My district has entrusted me to be a sound voice of our shared conservative values and fiscal responsibility to ensure that we’re not passing along mountains of debt to our children. It is Advertising Consultant Myranda Thom, Paegan Magner Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Manager Bob Christensen Distribution Drivers Alex Barskyy, Corey Sigafoos, Gary White, Joe Wilson, O.C. Gillham, Marty Troye, Timothy Fisher, Vicki Jewell, Olga Barska, Rosie Martinez President/CEO Jeff VonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Project Coordinator Natasha VonKaenel Director of People & Culture David Stogner Director of Dollars & Sense Debbie Mantoan Nuts & Bolts Ninja Norma Huerta Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Hansen

Accounts Receivable Specialist Analie Foland Sweetdeals Coordinator Skyler Morris Developer John Bisignano System Support Specialist Kalin Jenkins N&R Publications Editor Michelle Carl N&R Publications Associate Editor Laura Hillen N&R Publications Writer Anne Stokes, Rodney Orosco Marketing & Publications Consultants Steve Caruso, Joseph Engle, Elizabeth Morabito, Traci Hukill, Celeste Worden Cover Design Maria Ratinova

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the common thread that enables our community to stand above every other throughout the state and should not be taken for granted.

I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish together but I know that we’re just getting started. As a fifth generation northern Nevadan, I have a unique connection and perspective on the issues we face.

For years, I have continued to maintain and cultivate relationships within our community built on trust and dedication to building a better community, a better county, a better region for all of us. It is the greatest honor of my life to represent you, and I hope to have the opportunity to continue doing so.

Bob Lucey Washoe County

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I was at my aunt and uncle’s cabin in Crosslake, Minnesota, and I went swimming with my little cousin who is, like, 2 and a half—and we splashed around in the shallows and looked at clams and snails. I don’t speak 2-year-old very well, but I was getting it.

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Press on While there has always been skepticism toward journalism, things changed in 1969. That was when the right wing war against our profession was launched by President Nixon and Vice President Agnew. What had been fair and legitimate criticism of journalism from which we learned and improved became decade after decade of a systematic, relentless and sustained attack that continues now and is intended to discredit the messengers, not reform them.

It’s a cliché to say that opinion belongs only on the editorial page and that news should be objective. Among those who disagreed with that notion were the founders.

The first amendment was written by the first Congress to protect newspapers that spoke for politicians and political parties, that were subsidized by them, that served a point of view, and that were often vitriolic and unfair to politicians—and, at times, to each other. Early Nevada newspapers on the Comstock lode and other mining booms fit that model, being subsidized by players like Adolph Sutro and William Sharon, and their newspapers often attacked each other, producing useful and educational dialogue.

And that founding Congress believed if the press was left free to continue that way, the public would be well served. That is not to say they trusted newspapers, other than their own. “Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle,” Thomas Jefferson wrote.

Jefferson could be caustic: “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

But he also said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we

should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

This week, newspapers are running editorials defending a free press against the continuing GOP war on journalism, now commanded by Donald Trump. We are not wild about joint actions by journalism entities, but we are also not wild about the pack of lies masquerading as healthy criticism.

Newspapers are in decline. Television is not picking up the slack. Indeed, most television stations have cut back on their operations, resulting in a lot of maps, computer generated graphics and viewer photos instead of television reporters and photographers who work beats in the field.

This is a great time for public officials to engage in graft because journalists likely won’t notice.

Which is certainly what Trump is doing. When he’s not pitting us against each other or watching Fox News or posting reckless and angry tweets, he’s piling up new wealth from being president as no president has ever done. And there is no way to tell that story objectively.

And while journalists gave up on correcting Ronald Reagan’s many innocent mistakes, our colleagues are relentlessly correcting Donald Trump’s deliberate lies.

But it is not just Trump we need to worry about. It is county commissioners, state treasurers, improvement district trustees—as journalism declines, so does accountability, the kind of accountability the founders wanted to encourage, the kind Finley Peter Dunne described when he wrote that a newspaper “comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable.” Ω

I’m trying to remember the last time I went swimming. I think I was with my brother and one of our friends, and we were just hanging out on a floaty in a little backyard pool. I mean, we went tubing on the Yuba River—a couple of weeks ago.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

A look back, and forward Last week I reached another milestone in life. I retired.

A few people challenged my decision, saying I’m much too young to retire, but I’m probably older than they think.

I’ve worked since I was a junior in high school, earning the minimum wage of $1.60 an hour shelving books at the Pacific Grove Library. That wage sounds laughable now, but it’s equivalent to $9.60 in 2018 dollars, demonstrating that workers at the bottom rung have lost significant purchasing power since 1972. Federal minimum wage in 2018: $7.25. In Nevada, $7.25 for health-insured workers, $8.25 for all others.

I’ve worked in the Reno area for the past 39 years, and have been blessed with many opportunities to live my values and get paid for it. My personality and skills fit well in human services program development because I enjoy the murkiness of a new idea when trial and error is the only way to succeed. Looking back at the nonprofit agencies I led in their infancies,

Food Bank of Northern Nevada and the Children’s Cabinet, leaves me deeply satisfied.

Running a nonprofit is a tough job.

Leaders face the same pressure as any small business person—meeting payroll, managing personnel, figuring out how to “sell” their vision. That’s why I’ve always been annoyed by the holier-than-thou attitude of the self-proclaimed “job creators” and their taxpayer-subsidized fan clubs who think we should grant their every whim. Their jobs are no harder or more valuable than ours.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonprofit entities create more than 10 percent of all private sector employment. Washington D.C. leads the nation in the percentage of nonprofit jobs in the private sector at 26.6 percent.

Guess who brings up the rear? Nevada ranks 51st, with a measly 2.7 percent.

Even Texas (5.1 percent) and Alabama (5.4 percent) managed to do better.

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I’m grateful to the District Court for allowing me to take unpaid leave during my 14 years of service in the Nevada Legislature, an experience that gave me quite an education in politics and public policy. I learned from smart and compassionate colleagues like Barbara Buckley and Chris Giunchigliani, women who taught me to stand my ground for things in which I believed.

They also taught me to lose graciously and go on to fight another battle when things didn’t go my way. And unlike many of our politicians today, no one ever had to remind them why they were there or who they represented.

I’ve often been told I’ve chosen thankless jobs, but that simply isn’t the case. I still get thanked by random people for issues I worked on decades ago. And

there’s really no better thanks than seeing people get the help they need and deserve in the mental health court, through the Mobile Outreach Safety Team (MOST), or through assisted outpatient treatment, all programs I helped create during my tenure with Washoe County.

I leave the workforce happy with what I’ve accomplished and even happier to see younger people rise up and take my place who are not only competent, but visionary.

We’re going to need them to conquer climate change and the ongoing epidemic of alcohol and substance abuse, and to protect equal rights, including the right of a woman to make her own decisions about her health care.

I’ll be cheering them on from the cheap seats, doing a bit of consulting and teaching, writing this column as long as they’ll have me, and spending more time with my grandson, whose presence in this world reminds me every day how much more work there is to do. Ω

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Lab workers at Northern Nevada HOPES do their thing.

Wells Fargo has closed the account of a Florida politician because of her position on marijuana.

“As part of the onboarding of the client it was uncovered some information regarding the customers [sic] political platform and that they are advocating for expanding patient access to medical marijuana,” WF vice president and “senior relationship manager” Antoinette Infante wrote in a July 11 email to the campaign of Nikki Fried, who is running for state agriculture commissioner.

Banks, which are federally regulated, have been reluctant to take deposits of money from marijuana dispensaries because the plant remains illegal under old federal laws. But challenging the political views of marijuana-supporting politicians takes submission to the feds to a new level.

After Fried responded to a bank inquiry by saying she did indeed receive campaign contributions from marijuana health businesses and would continue accepting them, the bank wrote to her, “Periodically, we review our account relationships as part of our responsibility to oversee and manage banking risks.

As a result of a recent review of your account relationship, we determined that we need to discontinue our business relationship and close the account above within 30 days from the date of this letter.”

Wells Fargo has more than a 100 Nevada offices.

Celeb ag helping laxalt Also on the topic of Florida, that state’s attorney general will attend Adam Laxalt’s annual fundraiser in Douglas County on Aug. 25.

Attorney General Pam Biondi’s office, after receiving multiple complaints from Floridians, announced on Sept. 14, 2013 that it was considering joining a lawsuit by state attorneys general against Trump University.

Three days later, the Trump Foundation gave a committee supporting Bondi’s reelection $25,000, after which Bondi decided not to join the suit. An Orlando Sentinel columnist wrote, “Imagine you were mugged. You think you know who did it. So you tell your local prosecutor.

But then something weird happens. Three days after the prosecutor vows to get to the bottom of things, the accused mugger gives that prosecutor $25,000 in campaign donations. Suddenly, the prosecutor has no interest in your case.”

It took the Orlando nightclub shooting to get Bondi to drop her hostility to the gay community and her opposition to marriage equality. After the Las Vegas concert shooting, Laxalt invited Bondi to Nevada as an expert.

She once asked the governor of Florida to reschedule an execution to accommodate one of her campaign events.

Also attending the fundraiser are highly decorated Navy SEAL and talk show host Marcus Luttrell, U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch and Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.

Incidentally, the announcement of Laxalt’s fundraiser suggests he has stopped trying to go by “Adam Paul Laxalt.” The news release refers to him only by his middle initial. His grandfather was Nevada governor and U.S. senator Paul Laxalt, and the younger Laxalt has switched on and off using his middle name.

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Uncertain hopes Political system wreaks havoc on medical systems northern nevada hopes is a nonprofit Reno health center created in 1997 for “medically under-served populations.” HOPES is an acronym for HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services. While it originally dealt principally with sexually transmitted diseases and similar maladies, Dr. Trudy Larson—one of its founders—said this week, “It now provides total primary care for adults and children. It’s quite remarkable. It’s a full-fledged community health center.”

In its two decades of service, HOPES has gone from an ability to handle 800 cases to 10,000. And it is now turning away 80 cases a day. The limitations on its ability to handle more cases is mainly the size of its physical facilities. Its building was constructed for expansion, and in the next two or three weeks, work will be completed on an expansion that will allow it to handle 18,000, which should serve it until 2020.

But that’s not the only challenges it has faced. In 2009, the Medicaid

provisions of the Affordable Care Act allowed HOPES to widen its assistance to more patients.

“It has had a huge impact on our patients, allowing them to get the care they need,” Larson said. “It also provides reasonably priced insurance for the patients who are outside the Medicaid salary cap. And it was very difficult before ACA to get our imaging and lab testing done—a scan or MRI—or specialty care that might be necessary.”

But the ACA is unlike other federal laws. Normally, in the past, when a law was enacted, even over fierce opposition such as Social Security, the 1964 Civil Rights Act or Medicare, the debate ended with enactment. The majority’s final decision was accepted, and the nation got on with implementing the measure.

But many Republicans in Congress have never taken that final step, and there have been repeated attempts to repeal the ACA. Failing that, Republicans more recently switched to a strategy of trying

to get rid of individual components of the ACA until it is “hollowed out.”

For example, in October 2017, Donald Trump ordered that payments be halted for cost-sharing subsidies that reimburse insurers for reducing deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. Republicans argued that although Congress had approved the subsidies, it had never appropriated the funds for them. About six million lower-income policy holders were affected. The change threw “insurance marketplaces into a tizzy and possibly result[ed] in higher prices and less coverage for many,” health care journalist Trudy Lieberman wrote. As it happened, Trump could do nothing about insurance companies having to meet the cost of the subsidies, so they raised rates.

There have been about a half dozen such changes. The administration even cut back on advertising that explains the program to consumers, which resulted in a drop in sign-ups, meaning fewer people with insurance, which drives up health care costs.

For HOPES and many other health care programs, the chronic uncertainty is unnerving.

“I think what we see with the ACA and with Medicaid, the expansion of Medicaid, is that we find the uncertainty challenging as we try to think strategically about the future and expansion,” said CEO Sharon Chamberlain. “Having a very clear picture of what is going to unfold could help us have a better opportunity to insure that we are sustainable in whatever business models that we have.”

navigating politiCs It’s not just HOPES that is experiencing this uncertainty. Health care organizations of all kinds feel it.

HOPES marketing coordinator Mary Ingvoldstad has been a U.S. Senate aide dealing with health issues and was previously associated with Immunize Nevada and Renown Health, giving her a wide view of the health care system.

“The uncertainty around the ACA has added stress to the whole health care system,” she said.

The tension and the financial cost of coping with frequent changes is anyone’s guess.

For HOPES, which in part treats patients with stigmatized maladies, it exacerbates an already difficult mission.

And just to tie things together neatly, at the moment, there is an election campaign going on in which the ACA’s fate may well be determined. For many health care programs like HOPES, it’s like walking through a political minefield. Such programs try to maintain good relations with congressmembers on both sides of the aisle, but the campaign does not make that easy.

Last year, U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, toured HOPES. Afterward she put out a statement: “HOPES has been essential to Nevadans who rely on their services and we must ensure that it continues to get the support it needs. Unfortunately, community health centers like HOPES risk losing their funding, and 400,000 Nevadans could lose their health coverage because Republicans are recklessly threatening to repeal the Affordable Care Act. We must work together to improve the ACA—not put the health and well being of Nevadans at risk.”

Ingvoldstad told us HOPES is non-partisan and has a good working relationship with Republicans Dean Heller and Mark Amodei, who also represent it in Congress.

Chamberlain said, “We’ve spoken with and have good relationships with all our congressional delegates, and we have heard that there is support for continued ACA and Medicaid expansion.”

In Nevada, state Republicans—including Gov. Brian Sandoval—opposed enactment of the ACA. When it was approved anyway and survived court tests, Sandoval said grudgingly, “Though I have never liked the Affordable Care Act because of the individual mandate it places on citizens, the increased burden on businesses and concerns about access to health care, the law has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

As such, I am forced to accept it as today’s reality, and I have decided to expand Nevada’s Medicaid coverage.”

Sandoval also decided the state would have its own exchange rather than having Nevadans deal with federally managed exchanges to obtain coverage. His eventually cooperative attitude has stood in contrast with many other Republicans. To this day, only 12 states have state-run exchanges, officials of other states unwilling to participate in ACA even to that extent. Ω

Uncertainty makes a less healthy health care system

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According to the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District, it was a large bird that caused the Berry Fire, which started in Washoe Valley on Friday, Aug. 17. According to a tweet from TMFPD’s Twitter account, the bird, which was “nesting on power pole,” took flight and shorted an electrical line. That short caused a secondary short on another power pole causing two separate fires.” The fire was 100 percent contained at 12.3 acres on Saturday evening. Fire officials said one outbuilding was destroyed in the fire.

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On a recent Friday afternoon, tour guide Kelly Caves (on stairs) led visitors through the historical Hellman-Ehrman mansion.

Go public Historical mansions Kelly Cave spends her workdays giving tours of the Hellman-Ehrman mansion, part of Sugar Pine Point State Park on the shore of Lake Tahoe. Built in 1903, it and 2,000 acres of surrounding land once belonged to Bay Area financier Isaias Hellman.

Cave is an environmental scientist who says her passion lies in “educating people about the importance of the environment” and “talking with people about history and science.” She does plenty of both as a tour guide and supervisor.

Cave likes answering questions, and on a recent Friday morning tour, she fielded a range about the mansion and its surrounding grounds—including whether or not it’s true that Lake Tahoe is a hotbed for murders “because bodies don’t float in it.”

And someone asked a question Cave said is among the most common she gets: “How did all of this become a state park?”

“I would say—let’s see, I give this tour six times a day—so about six times a day I get this question about ownership and … how it changed from private to government ownership,” she said.

The short answer, Cave said, is that the Hellman-Ehrman family fell on difficult times and eventually “a lot of back taxes and other things were owed.” In 1968, the family relinquished ownership of its home and land to the state of California in exchange for $6.5 million and the forgiveness of some delinquent taxes.

It’s understandable that people might wonder how and why a family would give up a mansion and thousands of acres of lakefront property. Nonetheless, it’s the reason this part of the lake isn’t privately owned. And, interestingly, it isn’t the only case in which a large tract of Tahoe land

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that was private became public. The Hellman-Ehrman mansion is one of three historical Tahoe homes that now lie on park lands.

Vikingsholm at Emerald Bay was built for millionaire Lora Knight. Completed in 1929, it functioned as a summer home for her family before being sold. It and hundreds of acres might still be private property had the mansion’s last owner, lumberman and philanthropist Harvey West, not made a deal with the state of California in the early 1950s to “donate one-half of the appraised value of the land and the Vikingsholm outright, if the state would pay him the other half of the land value.”

Thunderbird Lodge, completed in 1939, lies on the Nevada side of the lake, just south of Sand Harbor. It was the home to Bay Area millionaire George Whittell, Jr., who also purchased 40,000 acres of surrounding land with some partners, intent—at first—on developing it.

According to one of those partners, Norman Biltz, Whittell quickly changed his mind about selling. In a 1967 interview with the University of Nevada, Reno’s oral history program, Biltz said he went to Whittell and was told, “Whatever price you bring to me on the sale for approval, I’ll turn down. …

If it’s a hundred a foot, I’ll turn it down; if it’s two hundred a foot, I’ll turn it down; if it’s five hundred a foot, I’ll turn it down.”

In the late 1960s, the state of Nevada forced Whittell to sell 5,300 acres through eminent domain, which became the foundation for Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. Another 10,000 acres were sold to the Forest Service and Nevada State Parks by the remaining property’s next owner, Jack Dreyfus. In 1998, the last of the land became parks land, and the home came under the care of the nonprofit group Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society. Ω Learn more about visiting Thunderbird Lodge (https:// bit.ly/2MFceyu) and Vikingsholm and the Hellman-Ehrman mansion (https://bit.ly/2MFbNnO).

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How do race and wealtH affect HealtH at tHe Pyramid lake indian reservation and tHrougHout wasHoe county?

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ita Romo treats a lot of wounds. In fact, in the course of a day’s work, that’s often the main thing she does.

Romo is a community health nurse at the Pyramid Lake Tribal Health Clinic, and she deals especially with foot and leg wounds, trying to hold off infections so her patients don’t end up needing amputations or, worse yet, dying from sepsis. The patients she treats—Paiute (Numu in their native language) on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation—almost all have problems with healing wounds, so even small cuts can have dire consequences. And the underlying cause is type 2 diabetes, which disrupts healing because high blood sugar levels damage blood vessels and nerves and impair the function of white blood cells.

Jeff Davis, a physician assistant at the clinic and, for the time being, the de facto director of medicine, said that educating people about diabetes prevention and treatment has had a big impact on the reservation. Even so, he guessed that some 30 to 40 percent of the Paiute on the reservation have type 2 diabetes.

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The eight sub-populations were labeled “America 1” through “America 8,” in order of highest to lowest life expectancy.

At number 5 were “Native Americans living in the West, excluding the West Coast.” Most of these were Indians living on or near reservations, including the Pyramid Lake Paiute. This “America 5” group had life expectancies just under 70 years for males and about 75 years for females, much closer to the low end of the scale than to the top. America 5 also had a high rate of death from diabetes.

The message that comes through loud and clear from this “Eight Americas” study is that, within the U.S., there are huge disparities in overall health. And these health differences are tied to race and socioeconomic circumstances.

Genetic myths Before the 1950s, relatively few Americans, native or otherwise, had the disease, but these days one often hears about a national “diabetes epidemic.” So, what has happened at Pyramid Lake is part of a larger phenomenon. However, diabetes prevalence for the whole country is “only” about 9 percent, far below the level among the Pyramid Lake Paiute.

According to Davis, who is white, and Romo, who is half-Paiute and half-Mexican, it’s not just that diabetes is especially common on the reservation, but also that many people have serious complications from the disease. For patients whose blood sugar levels get out of hand, it becomes a sickness of the entire body.

“The peripheral neuropathies, the pain in the legs, the amputations, the blindness, the visual problems, the heart disease, everything really stems from the diabetes,” Davis said.

In 2006, public health experts at Harvard identified eight U.S. sub-populations, categorized by race and place, and showing great differences in life expectancy. They ranged from “Asians” (excluding Pacific Islanders) with life expectancies of about 82 years for males and 87 years for females to “high-risk urban blacks,” with life expectancies of about 67 years for males and 75 years for females. As the researchers pointed out, life expectancy at the bottom end was at the level of low-income countries such as Nicaragua and Lebanon, while at the top end it was higher than that of any country.

Three or four days a week, Ed Nasewytewa works out in the gym at the Reno-Sparks Tribal Health Center on Kuenzli Street. He does an hour of cardio work first, and then hits the weights.

Sometimes he boxes. At 56, he cuts a distinctive figure, with a mix of gray and black hair pulled back in a ponytail, and a barrel body that makes his metal prosthetic lower legs look even spindlier than they are.

Nasewytewa was born in Arizona, worked as an IT specialist in California for many years and moved to the Reno area in 2016. He was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1998, lost his left lower leg to the disease in 2012 and lost his right lower leg five years later. His brother and sister also have diabetes, and both his mother and father died from diabetes-related complications. He’s been working out at the health center for about a year now, and has lost weight, gained strength, and built up his endurance. His blood sugar is pretty much under control, although there are times when it spikes.

The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony is unusual in that it is home to members of three different tribes—Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone. Nasewytewa isn’t part of any of those groups, though. His ancestry is in the

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“commodities”—powdered potatoes, sugary peanut butter, heavily-salted ham, and so forth. They noted that, from the tribal seat in Nixon, one has to drive at least 19 miles to get to a grocery store, and that there are people on the reservation who don’t have a car or can’t afford the gas to make the trip. They mentioned the simple lack of money to purchase healthy food.

“You can buy a lot of beans and macaroni and cheese, but if you’re buying fresh vegetables and fruit, it doesn’t go as far, and you have to make it go,” said Davis. “You have to make that dollar last.”

In other words, it’s about money and access to resources, especially access to healthy food. It’s about living habits constrained by circumstances, which, in turn, have been dictated by history. It’s not about genes.

The tiny Pacific island of Nauru, part of Micronesia, has one of the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world, with over 40 percent of the population afflicted. As at Pyramid Lake, amputations, blindness and kidney disease—all tied to

these populations could not have become more Western than the dominant society itself.

This is not a logical argument. It does not recognize that indigenous people in the modern world often experience unhealthy Western habits—for instance, lack of exercise and diets overloaded with processed carbs—in an exaggerated form. It is possible to be more Western than the West.

It seems telling that the genetic susceptibility argument for a high rate of diabetes also has been applied to blacks, Asians and Hispanics. And in the late 1800s and early 1900s a similar argument was made for Jews.

In all these cases, supporting genetic evidence has been weak or non-existent.

Death by the numbers At the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services in Carson City, a statistician from something called the Office of Analytics will, as if

“I can afford to go to the grocery store three times a week. I can afford to buy the groceries that are the right groceries for me. I can afford to join the gym. And that’s huge right there.”

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Physician, Pyramid Lake tribal health Center diabetes—are unusually common on Nauru. Other Pacific Islanders also are suffering from especially high rates of the disease, as are indigenous Australians.

Medical experts have often used the “thrifty genotype” or other genetic explanations to account for the high rates of diabetes in these indigenous peoples. For instance, one group of researchers has argued that adoption of Western lifestyles, while important, cannot explain “the prevalence [of diabetes] above and beyond that of the dominant or “Westernized” society.” In other words, the high rates have to be tied to genetic susceptibility, because

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by magic, pull up data on “all-cause mortality,” the rate of death by any cause, sort of the inverse of good health. This person will also— implausibly quickly by bureaucratic standards—divide the data up by race and ethnicity. And they will make sure the results are adjusted for age, so that the numbers for different groups can be directly compared.

The results, depicted in the graph, are illuminating (even if a bit messy because of small numbers). Just as the situation at Pyramid Lake fits into the big picture of diabetes on Indian reservations and beyond, so the

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Desert Southwest. He’s part Hopi and part Pima.

A Pima Indian with a severe history of diabetes. For anyone familiar with diabetes research that phrase will get some brain neurons firing. The Pima, specifically those living on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona, were one of the first tribes recognized as having an unusually high prevalence of diabetes. In the 1950s, the disease was already much more common in the Pima than in the overall U.S. population, and today the tribe has one of the highest rates of diabetes anywhere in the world.

Many medical experts viewed the rate of diabetes among the Pima as so anomalously high that it couldn’t possibly be due only to poor diet or other lifestyle influences. The Pima, the thought went, must be inherently susceptible to type 2 diabetes; they must be genetically predisposed to develop the disease.

The experts especially applied to the Pima the “thrifty genotype” hypothesis, the notion that because of a long history of famines, certain populations possessed genetic alleles for efficiently storing fat.

This was fine if you were actually experiencing frequent food shortages, but in the here-and-now, with a constant surplus of food, that “thrifty genotype” translated to obesity. And obesity led to diabetes.

It sounds like a reasonable explanation, but it doesn’t hold up.

For one thing, the idea that the Pima experienced especially frequent food shortages is debatable. More importantly, nobody has been able to find the supposed “thrifty genes” in the Pima. Genetic alleles that increase the risk of diabetes do exist, but they do not seem to be more common in the Pima or other Native Americans than in Europeans.

Davis and Romo, in talking about diabetes among the Pyramid Lake Paiute, were much more on the mark about why the disease is so prevalent among reservation Indians. Type 2 diabetes is strongly tied to living habits, especially lack of exercise and a diet that includes lots of sugar and other refined carbohydrates, and those were the sorts of things Davis and Romo brought up.

They pointed to sedentary modern habits. They talked about the unhealthy, non-perishable food provided by the government in the form of so-called

“all-cause mortality” for Washoe County is a microcosm of racial and ethnic distinctions for the whole country.

Some of what comes out of the graph echoes the “Eight Americas” study. For instance, blacks have the highest mortality rate, Asians have a low rate, and whites are in between.

The fact that Native Americans in Washoe County have a mortality rate similar to or even lower than whites might seem to go against the “Eight Americas,” but most Native Americans in the county are urban, and those Indians tend to be healthier than the reservation Indians of America 5.

Maybe the most striking result is the low mortality for Hispanics, lower even than the rate for Asians (although the two probably are not statistically different). This is surprising, because Hispanics as a group are relatively poor, and poverty usually means bad health.

But, as it turns out, the county numbers here are in line with national data. In fact, the relatively good health of Hispanics despite often being poor has been observed so often that it has been dubbed “the Hispanic Paradox.”

Nobody knows for sure why Asians and Hispanics are doing markedly better than other racial/ ethnic groups, but, as with most health differences among populations, the immediate explanation is probably living habits. For both groups, diet is often given as a possible reason. Hispanics also tend to have especially strong ties to family and community, and those connections might be important; various studies show that positive

Ed Nasewytewa works out in the gym at the Reno-Sparks Tribal Health Center on Kuenzli Street three or four times each week.

social networks translate not just to better mental health, but to improved physical health as well.

The county mortality figures might give the impression that non-Hispanic whites, some 63 percent of the population, are actually a disadvantaged group. But the reality is that only some whites are disadvantaged.

A few years ago, University of Nevada, Reno researchers Wei Yang and John Packham put together data that give some insight into this issue.

They took Washoe County health statistics for the years 2008-2010 and divided them up, not by race or ethnicity, but by place, specifically, by zipcode areas.

From this dataset, one can pull out a rather stark comparison: zipcode 89519 versus zipcode 89433.

89519 is Caughlin Ranch, one of the wealthiest areas in Washoe County, and 89433 is Sun Valley, one of the poorest; the per capita income of 89519 is more than three times that of 89433. Both areas are majority non-Hispanic white, although Caughlin Ranch is more heavily white than Sun Valley.

Yang and Packham included rates—age-adjusted—for three kinds of hospitalizations, and for all three there were huge differences between the two areas, with Sun Valley always having the higher rate. For heart attacks, the figure for Sun Valley was 2.3 times higher than for Caughlin

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Ranch, for asthma, 2.9 times higher, and for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) a whopping 6 times higher. It’s as if these two places, both mostly white and fewer than 10 miles apart, are in different countries.

This is just one comparison, obviously, but similar connections between wealth and health have been reported over and over, whether comparing

countries, counties or neighborhoods.

Contemplating such results, John Packham, who is now associate dean for the Office of Statewide Initiatives at UNR, said that health problems related to social class, regardless of race, haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. Poor whites, poor blacks, poor Native Americans—they all tend to fare badly when it comes to health, and for many of the same reasons, such as poor education and lack of access to healthy food. The message is that, whatever gave rise to socioeconomic inequalities, diminishing them will help erase the massive health differences in our society.

Still, it would be hard to argue that race and racism are not part of the puzzle. For instance, the relatively poor health of Native Americans on reservations is linked to poverty, but that poverty is itself tied to a long history of racial oppression, from genocide to the theft of land and water to cultural erasure at Indian boarding schools.

Along the same lines, how can black poverty and health be separated from slavery, segregation, unnecessary incarceration?

The widening gap In the U.S., health disparities among groups have gone up over the past several decades, as indicated by the “Eight Americas” study and others.

The gap has especially widened between the poor and the middle class; for health, the fuzzy border between haves and have-nots is not between wealthy elites and the rest, but instead is much further down the ladder.

Jeff Davis, the physician assistant at the Pyramid Lake Tribal Health Clinic, said something that suggests why this gap has widened. Davis had gone on a “paleo diet” and lost 25 pounds, and was talking about how his circumstances had allowed him to do this. “I can afford to go to the grocery store three times a week,” he said. “I can afford to buy the groceries that are the right groceries for me. I can afford to join the gym.

And that’s huge right there.”

The implication is that middleclass folks like Davis, even if they’re not medical professionals, tend to have both information about living healthily and the wherewithal to translate that knowledge into

action. The information and the ability to do something with it have gotten better, and so overall health has improved, despite persistent problems. Those in disadvantaged circumstances, whether connected to race or not, are more likely to lack the information or the wherewithal or both. And, too, poverty often means living with high stress, which also affects health.

If such things are at the core of widening health disparities, as they seem to be, then it is not obvious how to close the gap. John Packham said education is a key, because it leads to higher income, and he particularly mentioned raising Nevada’s high school graduation rate to 90 percent. No doubt that would have a positive impact.

But one wonders if, ultimately, a societal shift is needed.

Perhaps what is required is an overall movement toward greater equality, something fundamental, something seismic. Ω

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reveal a simple truth: Weight of the Tide has no shortage of joy in what they do.

“We’re happy dudes playing sad music,” said Phipps, guitarist and co-vocalist. “I tell my wife this all the time: I’ve never tried less and gotten more in music.

And it’s not that we’re lazy—we’re in this like weird twilight version of heavy metal where we all have kids and now things are happening. We’re all like, ‘Where was this 20 years ago?’”

Moots, guitarist and vocalist; and Thomas, drummer, founded Weight of the Tide five years ago. Both have played heavy music in Reno for decades. In the late ’90s, they spent years touring and recording with their band December, whose sound incorporated the brutal vocals that would become commonplace in metal and its associated genres throughout the next decade.

“What happened was, in 1996, Jason and I started a band called December, and I didn’t sing. I screamed my fucking head off, and I did that for a good long time,” Moots said. “At the time, we were pretty unique, because there were hardcore bands, but they were barking, you know, that super kind of Hatebreed-esque, tough guy thing.”

After December’s dissolution, Moots and Thomas pivoted to a more groovecentric project called the Swamp Donkey, which ventured into stoner rock. In its wake, Moots approached long-time friends Phipps to play guitar and Mayhall to play bass in a new metal band—but the emphasis on musicality remained.

“We’re melody based,” Phipps said.

“Everything we do is based around guitar melodies and vocal melodies. I appreciate global dynamics in a band. I like a band that can make me go, ‘Oh, my god, I’m going to shit myself it’s so heavy, but, also, holy shit, that dude really means what he’s singing about.’”

Weight of the Tide released its debut EP Epilogue in 2015, borrowing both songs and vibes from the remnants of the Swamp Donkey. In 2017, the bandmates followed it with their first official album, All Told, and solidified their new sound as a combination of both salient band chemistry and changing melodic tastes.

“I’ve graduated musically to the point where I appreciate a good singer over a good screamer,” Phipps said. “Our music doesn’t lend itself to screaming. The tunes, in my opinion, they’re very heavy, they’re very thick, but they’re very melancholy.

There’s a gloom over the drive, I guess.”

That’s not to say the band’s gone soft.

Tracks like “Architect” and the titular “All Told” emphasize both pounding drum fills and droning, hardcore-esque breakdowns, while Phipps’ and Moots’ harmonizing vocals and guitars soar against the cavernous reverb.

“The lovely thing about metal in particular is there’s so many subgenres and tags that you can throw at it,” Moots said.

Reno band Weight of the Tide played Bloodstock Open Air Festival this year alongside some of the biggest names in metal.

“There’s elements of a lot of it. I think we’re a very heavy metal band that leans into sludge and changes, they doom and probsaid, were ably some weird welcome, grunge-ism here and to play and there.” to a receptive However, age crowd of over 1,000 at and introspection also Bloodstock was nothing short played a role in the of momentous. sonic shift away from “It’s incredibly gratifying the extreme end of and validating in a lot of the metal spectrum, ways,” Moots said. “I think they said. all of us have been playing in “You grow up bands and doing music for most Je st in P hi p ps de a little bit,” Moots of our lives, and this was sort Weight of the Ti said. “Not that I feel of like the crowning achievelike extreme music’s ment. It was the kind of thing, if we never did immature, because I fucking love Cannibal anything again, I’d be like, ‘Well, that was the Corpse—but that’s not me. I got to a point best show we ever played.’” where I didn’t want to do it anymore, because Weight of the Tide does plan to play again, I realized I’m not really angry, and I felt like I however. With recognition from their perforwas lying. I felt like I was selling something I mance spilling over to their online presence, wasn’t invested in.” the bandmates returned to Reno with plans to arrange touring dates in the Bay Area with other regional acts. They also plan to start preproduction on a new album.

“We found that even before we returned, all Keeping true to their new sound paid off of a sudden there’s a bit of momentum behind unexpectedly earlier this year when the band’s us, which seems to count a lot,” Moots said. independent UK label approached them on “It matters more than I wish that it did, but it Facebook about playing a few shows overseas, does—‘book-face’ and Instagram and all that— culminating at the annual Bloodstock Open and we’re gaining some serious momentum Air Festival, which has taken place in England there so we want to keep it going.” every August since 2005.

The band’s next home show will be at The With headliners like Judas Priest, Gojira and Saint on Sunday, Sept. 23 alongside This Patch Nightwish, Weight of the Tide jumped at the of Sky and Seas & Centuries. chance. But whereas in years past the musicians Regardless of what Weight of the Tide’s might have considered such an opportunity an next step will look like, its members are looking exciting obligation, their outlook now allows for forward with the kind of level heads that only a certain amount of stoicism. come from experience.

“Ten or 15 years ago, this would have “I don’t know how to not do this, so no been like, ‘We have to do this because I don’t matter what level it gets me to, I’m going to know anything else besides music—I have to play heavy music with my friends,” Moots said. make this work,’” Phipps said “Now we have “There could be massive opportunities that this life safety net where if nothing comes of could come about because of this. There could this, cool. I’m still going to come home to my be nothing that comes about other than this great wife and kid. I’m still going to go to work, experience. But you know what? Both of those and I’m still going to play music. That feels are fucking cool.” Ω better.”

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Now, how’s that for meta?

Meshes, the monthly video art screening night at the Holland Project, however, gets its name from an actual notable video artist, Maya Deren, and Deren’s own seminal film, Meshes of the Afternoon. The next entry in the series with be Aug. 27 at 8:45 p.m.

Alana Berglund, the series’s organizer, said that Deren’s film “changed everything.”

“Her writings talk about film being this endless opportunity, right?” Berglund said. “Because time doesn’t matter anymore, geography doesn’t matter anymore. Everything is spatial, right? So you could do whatever you wanted.”

Berglund’s monthly event showcases work by prominent, modern, real-life video artists. July’s screening showcased artist Valery Jung Estabrook.

On July 23, the small audience watched a short sketch from the TV show Key & Peele about an all-black flashmob, an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) video from YouTube, and a video satirizing apocalypse-peddler, televangelist Jim Bakker—created by the airhorn-loving, Trump-trolling viral-video-ace Vic Berger—before watching two of Estabrook’s original shorts.

“I wanted to choose videos that weren’t just other artists, because even though I do have lots of video artists that I admire and like, I don’t know if they directly inform my work,” Jung Estabrook said.

Her video Beautiful Face explored issues of racial identity and preconceptions. The inspiration of ASMR

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is apparent in the meditative and trance-like video My Hands Are Healing, which features the voice of Estabrook’s mother repeating the title phrase in Korean over layered clips of hands reaching toward the audience. The layering and arrangement of these clips combined with the tranquil, composed motions of the hands gives the impression of a multi-armed Hindu deity. Watching the piece, which is in part a response to the death of Estabrook’s father and ends with the artist’s face floating on screen with tears streaming, is spiritual and emotional.

“There was a lot of serious, a lot of hypnotic stuff, and some comedy,” said Adam Montano, 23. “I could have gone to the movies or something, but this is something totally different.”

The August video art night will showcase work by Shana Moultan, an accomplished artist who has had solo exhibitions across the globe.

Moultan’s video project Whispering Pines is “an episodic internet soap opera,” as described by the New Museum, which exhibits the project online at www.whisperingpines10.com. The soap opera has an original score, no real dialogue and is choreographed like a performance art piece, starring Moultan herself.

Whispering Pines is funny, but it also explores what Berglund calls “American self-help culture.”

It’s a look at how people try to fix themselves in the 21st century, through fad workouts, pseudo-healthcare routines and conscripted—perhaps insincere—spirituality, leading to increased anxiety rather than healing.

The schedule for Aug. 27 has yet to be set, and Berglund is unsure if Whispering Pines will be featured.

Berglund said Meshes is an unusual setting to consume an avant garde medium. She differentiates her event from watching video art while sitting on a sterile bench in a museum.

“This is with your friends,” she said. Ω

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“our story should be told. Where’s Jack London when we need him?”

Dog days Alpha, the story of man’s first interaction with a dog, turns out to be a winner if 1) you’re a dog person, and 2) you can watch a movie set 20,000 years ago and believe that the inhabitants could have such stylish leather jackets.

The jackets look pretty cool, made of buffalo hide, I presume, with stylish fur collars. I think I would buy one if I saw it on Amazon (with fake fur and leather, of course). No way somebody without a sewing machine could’ve put these things together way back then. If so, they were the Versace of their day.

Directed by Albert Hughes (From Hell, Menace II Society), this is a sweet hypothetical story about a long-ago boy, lost in the wilderness after a hunting trip gone awry, befriending a wolf. It’s not a syrupy sweet story; the two go through a sort of hell trying to find the boy’s homeland during the onset of winter. But if you are a dog person, and I am, the gradual warming of their relationship as they rely on one another to survive is nothing short of adorable and powerful.

Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is on his first buffalo hunt with his dad, Tau (Johannes Haukur Johannesson). He’s a good kid, but he can’t hunt buffalo worth bat turds and winds up critically injured on a cliff, far out of rescue’s reach. A distraught Tau leaves his presumably dead son and heads home to bang rocks together or whatever they did in those days. Keda isn’t ready to die. A vulture peck on his lip wakes him up, a flash flood creates enough of a cushion for his fall, and he has a new lease on life.

Unfortunately, that new lease involves a lot of vicious man-eating animals trying to eat him, his escapes hampered by an injured foot. One such attack by a pack of wolves results in the pack leader wounded at the foot of a tree Keda has scampered up.

Rather than driving a spear through his wounded foe, Keda takes pity and carries the wounded wolf to a nearby cave.

Things start off with a lot of snarling and growling as Keda tries to establish himself as the master of the

living situation. Gradually, Alpha—as the dog is eventually named—comes to appreciate Keda’s tendency to provide food and water while only occasionally acting bossy. The two join forces, take turns saving each other’s lives and become pals.

Of course, there was a first time that man walked up to a dog-like creature and thought, “Say, I would like to play fetch with this beast, as long as it doesn’t bite my face off. Maybe if I give it a biscuit it will like me?” That dude probably got his face bitten off, but, as we know, dogs became man’s best friend over time. The film contains its interpretation of man’s first tug-of-war with a dog, man’s first game of fetch the stick with a dog and man’s first campfire snuggle with a dog. Aw! Hughes doesn’t simply rely on his sweet story to score a win with this one. His movie is often gorgeous, featuring majestic landscapes, excellent CGI work, and a damn fine dog as the title character.

Smit-McPhee—the boy who cried “Poppa!” in The Road—is on screen for most every scene, relegated to a fake caveman language for his dialogue. All said, he delivers some career best work here, and sufficiently carries the human half of Alpha’s story.

Cavemen movies usually suck. 10,000 BC … sucked. Caveman starring Ringo Starr … sucked.

Quest for Fire starring a pre-Hellboy Ron Perlman … really sucked. So it’s refreshing to see a film set in prehistoric times that actually engages, provides some thrills and warms the heart.

Be assured that, after the credits rolled on this one, I promptly drove home and gave my little dog some extra treats and belly rubs. Dogs rule, and Alpha is a decent enough guess at what our first hike with one of them was like. Now, if I could just get me one of those snazzy buffalo jackets! (With fake fur—I’m not advocating fur here! No hate mail!) Ω

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Ant Man and the Wasp

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BlacKKKlansmen

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. 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 funny, thanks mostly to Rudd, ninja master of comic timing.

The great Spike Lee has returned with what amounts to his best film since Malcolm X 26 years ago. Based on a true story, with some significant tweaking, it centers on Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, son of Denzel), a black police officer in Colorado who, on a whim, decided to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan by posing as a redneck. It wound up being a two-man sting, with Stallworth pretending to be a white man on the phone while sending in a white partner (depicted here by Adam Driver) to do the face-to-face work. Stallworth’s investigation eventually leads to him being named head of a local chapter of the KKK, and direct dealings with David Duke (Topher Grace), Grand Wizard of the KKK and all-time major asshole. The movie is as crazy as the story was, with Spike balancing intense drama and humor perfectly. Washington is as good as his old man in this movie, and Driver continues to show he’s always a cast MVP. Lee, shooting on celluloid again, makes a fantastic-looking movie; he’s a master of period pieces, with this one set in the ’70s. The film’s conclusion uses current events news footage—including Charlottesville—showing the unfortunate and all too real racism parallels between the events in this film and the current state of America.

The movie is a great watch, but it is also a loud, absolutely necessary wakeup call.

5

Eighth Grade

This movie is a masterpiece in many ways, from its perfect cast to its crafty camerawork and immersive electronic score

by Anna Meredith. But, most of all, this movie is what it is for its central performances from Elsie Fisher as Kayla and Josh Hamilton as her dad. Going into this movie, I didn’t realize Fisher was already a cinematic hero of mine. As it turns out, she’s the voice of Agnes from the first two Despicable Me movies. Agnes is the “It’s so fluffy I could die!” girl. In Eighth Grade, Fisher shows her talents go well beyond voice, creating a character that captures the awkwardness, joy, sorrow and virtual hell of that last year before high school when everything is just about to shift into an all-new, freaky gear.

Yes, the movie captures the significance of social media and its impact on adolescents, but so much of this film is timeless and universal.

It’s a storytelling triumph. While the film can certainly be categorized as funny, it tackles some of the nasty sides of a girl’s childhood head on, sometimes in scary fashion. As Kayla prepares for high school, she winds up in a situation or two that takes her from joyful elation to horrified in mere seconds. It’s heartbreaking, even terrifying to watch at times, but Burnham and Fisher expertly navigate the emotional waves.

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The Meg

It’s been over two decades since author Steve Alten released his big shark story Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, the first of many Meg books. From the moment the first book hit stands, producers have been attempting to make a movie out of it. Many directors have flirted with making the movie, including Jan de Bont, Guillermo del Toro and, as recently as 2015, Eli Roth. The property eventually ended up under the directorial guidance of one Jon Turtletaub, the guy who made Cool Runnings, the National Treasure movies and, wait for it, 3 Ninjas. The result? A movie as misguided, sloppy and boring as you would expect from the guy who directed 3 Ninjas. Let’s just get the obvious problem out of the way good and early in this review. The Meg is rated PG-13, and probably could’ve pulled a PG. This is not a horror film. It’s an undersea adventure with a big, messy CGI shark and sci-fi twist. Roth left the project because they wouldn’t let him gore it up, and they wouldn’t let him star as deepsea diver/adventurer Jonas Taylor. Instead, we get Jason Statham as Jonas, and hardly any need for makeup artists on the set due to a supreme lack of bloodletting. Heck, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial had more bloodletting in it when Elliot pricked his finger on that saw blade.

Like I said, this thing could be PG. And let’s be very clear, Jaws, the mother of all shark movies—and the greatest movie ever made, thank you very much—had a shit ton of bloodletting, and it was PG.

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Mission: Impossible—Fallout

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Puzzle

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 sixth 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 bone-breaking glory. 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. Henry Cavill ups his stock worth with a great performance as an agent sent along to shadow Cruise’s Ethan Hunt; Cavill finally gets a chance to really show what he’s made of as an action star. 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.

Kelly Macdonald is terrific as Agnes, a mother of two and wife to Louie (an also excellent David Denman). Agnes is loved by her family, but they tend to not pay attention to her at times, and she’s beginning to lose interest in their mundane routines. She finds solace in jigsaw puzzles, and realizes she has a talent for putting them together fast. She sees a posting for a person looking to find a “puzzle partner,” gives them a call, and strikes up a friendship with Robert (Irrfan Khan) an eccentric millionaire with a shared fascination for puzzles. As the two meet twice a week to train for a puzzle competition, things go beyond friendship, and Agnes is forced to make some decisions about her home life. Marc Turtletaub’s minimalist direction works like a charm for this story, which plays a lot better than it sounds. Macdonald is first rate every second she’s on screen in this one, but especially in her scenes with Denman and Khan. Khan brings a lot of dimension to Robert, basically a nutty, lonely guy. Denman does a remarkable job of making Louie likeable, even if he is a bit of a dick at times. It’s not a film I was especially anxious to watch given its premise. I was pleasantly surprised.

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As an omnivore, I do love well prepared meaty treats, dairy products, etc. But it’s a backhanded compliment when vegetarian/vegan dishes are described as being “so good you won’t miss the meat.” For me, food is either delicious or not, regardless of the ingredients.

When we arrived at West Street market, the roll-up door was open, so my companion and I chose to sit at the bar facing the street. There are also a handful of tables, with plenty of seating in the common area shared by other eateries. We kept entertained by people-watching while we waited for our meals. Maya’s menu is small, with individual dishes ranging from $5.99 to $8.99. We opted for a pair of four-dish combo platters ($14.99), which allowed us to taste everything available.

Our server offered a small sample of chilled panakam, a popular South Indian beverage made with grated jaggery—an unprocessed cane sugar— ginger, cardamom, black pepper and lemon juice, though lime is often used. It was very refreshing. A full serving is $5.99. Kombucha and South Indian coffee are $5.99 and $2.99, respectively.

Our meals were served on flat, sectioned steel trays—e.g. cafeteria-style. This was fine with condiments and entrees, but the sambar soup—a lentil and tamarind vegetable stew with excellent, spicy flavor—was rendered cold almost immediately. Three

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small sections contained coconut chutney, tomato chutney and mildly sweet payasam, a sort of golden lentil pudding. The coconut stuff was mild and a little grainy, the tomato very smooth and quite spicy.

Payasam I could take or leave.

Fried items are done with rice bran oil rather than clarified butter. We were encouraged to dunk everything in the condiments, and dunk we did.

Idli—patties of steamed rice and black lentil—were kind of spongy with a texture akin to steamed pork buns. Kuzhi paniyaram are made of a similar batter, cooked stovetop in a multi-pocket covered pan, reminiscent of muffins. They were crispy and fluffy with a creamy, almost buttery interior.

Dosa—a thin crepe made of fermented rice and black lentil—is the item I most associate with South Indian food. The plain crepe is meant to be dunked or used to scoop up food, but I like the crispy edges on their own. They have a really tangy flavor I find irresistible. The texture reminds me a of Ethiopian injera flatbread, just thinner. A masala dosa was stuffed with a spiced mixture of yellow potato and onion. A side of the same masala was served along with wheat poori flatbread, the lone source of gluten on the menu.

A serving of plain Medhu vada—fritters of yet another combination of black lentil and rice—had the appearance and texture of little doughnuts, perfect for dunking. Sambar vada was exactly that, little savory doughnuts swimming in soup. They’ll bring you more chutneys on request, but I was too full and happy for another bite. Ω

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Hawaiian BBQ Kyle O’Donnell and Brendan Aguiar have been playing music together for eight years.

About time Hourglass Flies In an auto body garage in Sparks, you’ll find Brendan Aguiar playing his Epiphone Les Paul sunburst guitar and screaming lyrics while Kyle O’Donnell pummels his drum set and sings back-up. What began as a friendship turned into a psychedelic garage rock band known as Hourglass Flies.

The duo released the album Broken Wings on Bandcamp on May 4. The eight experimental songs on the album were produced by O’Donnell and Aguiar themselves. Some tracks are almost eight minutes long, consisting of colorful guitar ballads and continuous, reverberating noise.

Aguiar became interested in playing with different guitar pedals—like the wah pedal often used

by Jimi Hendrix—by listening to different types of instrumental music and trying to figure out how to recreate that sound. Aguiar and O’Donnell studied bands such as Toe, the instrumental rock band from Japan, to gain inspiration.

The duo also incorporates electronic music and hip hop samples into their work. They’re inspired by musicians like Ice Cube and Mix Master Mike, using samples of their work in Hourglass Flies’ songs.

“There’s a lot of nostalgia in the music and a lot of feels within these samples,” said Aguiar.

Other unconventional sounds are also sampled and incorporated into songs such as the sound of rain, thunderstorms, horses, news clips and even the Friday The 13th theme song.

Although Aguiar says the duo’s music may not always be easy to dance to because of the long, wavering guitar riffs and the aggressive tone of

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Aguiar’s singing, the band wants its listeners to focus on the lyrics and the message of their songs.

Some of the band’s songs are reactions to events happening in the country and around the world. “One of the first songs we ever made, ‘Fuck ’Em’ is a reaction, I guess, in our own way, of what’s going on with the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality,” said Aguiar. The song features a sample from a news clip discussing the death of Eric Garner, a man killed by a New York City police officer’s chokehold.

Another song in the works discusses families being separated at the Mexican border. “We just wanted to speak out against [family separation] in our own words and in our own music, and that’s what we’re trying to do with this song,” said Aguiar, “We’re asking ourselves, ‘What’s wrong in America right now?’ And it’s coming across in our music.”

The track contains the lyrics “What’s wrong with America/ What’s wrong with our pride,” and after each chorus, the song breaks down into a jam to deliver a powerful punch.

Despite the serious subject matter of a lot of the duo’s songs and convoluted melodies, Hourglass Flies is high energy in their stage presence. They can be seen banging their heads during a performance and moving around the stage. “[Being in a band] is a realization that we absolutely love music,” said Aguiar, “It’s the only thing that can comfort you besides a person, and it’ll always be there for you. Even if the track’s not [physically] there, it’ll still be in your head.” Ω

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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) 3223001: 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

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2) In-A-Fect, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

2) Brother Dan, 6pm, no cover

2) Paul Covarelli, 5pm, no cover Ebony not Quite Ivory, 9pm, no cover

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2) Jason King, 6pm, no cover

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

2) Couch King & Nesha, 10pm, no cover

1) The Traveling Spectacular: Music, Magic, Burlesque, 9pm, 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-$49.95 3) DJ Roni V, 10pm, no cover

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2) Rock-N-Roll Experience, 9pm, no cover 4) Halie O’Ryan Band, 9pm, no cover

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Auditions:

Call backs:

Prepare up to one minute of music that shows off your voice. Bring appropriately marked music for the provided accompanist. Men auditioning for the leading roles who play musical instruments (i.e. guitar or piano) should be ready to audition those instruments. There will be a dance audition as well so you should bring clothes that you can move in with appropriate footwear.

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Tuesday August 28 at 7pm

Wednesday August 29 at 7pm

Friday August 31 at 7pm

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November 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 at 8pm, November 11, 18 at 2pm

Nell J. Redfield Performing Arts Center 505 Keystone Ave, Reno Nevada

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THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN BY THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. RESULTS BASED UPON AVERAGES. MODELS ARE USED IN ALL PHOTOS TO PROTECT PRIVACY.

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FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 23, 2018 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

JUKEBOX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The festival features films about music, musicians, musical styles, venues and music videos. Thu, 8/23-Fri, 8/24, 8am. $10-$40. Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William Street, Carson City, (775) 830-7939, jukeboxiff.org.

LAST FRIDAY AT VICTORIAN SQUARE: The City of Sparks and Sparks Heritage Museum present this monthly event. Participants can visit Sparks Heritage Museum, the train display and Glendale Schoolhouse for free with docents available for tours. There will also be art booths and entertainment in the Victorian Square Amphitheater and Great Basin Stage. The event winds down with a free movie in the amphitheater. Fri, 8/24, 7pm. Free.

Victorian Square, 764-794 Victorian Avenue, Sparks, cityofsparks.us.

READING AND SIGNING WITH MICHAEL P. BRANCH: The author will present his

AUG/29

: BEST IN THE WEST NUGGET RIB COOK OFF

Nugget Casino Resort will welcome two dozen of the world’s top rib cookers to downtown Sparks for the 30th annual cook off. The cooks will compete for $19,500 in cash prizes, as well as bragging rights to the title of best ribs in the West. The end-of-summer event features a beer garden, a kids’ area with a variety of rides and activities, a craft vendors area and live entertainment on two stages, including headliners Colt Ford, Mark McGrath, Joe Diffie, 10,000 Maniacs, Jana Kramer and Blind Melon. The festivities kick off on Aug. 29 and end with the awards ceremony on Labor Day, Sept. 3. Festival hours are 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 29 through Sunday, Sept. 2, and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 3. The event takes place along Victorian Avenue in downtown Sparks. Admission to the festival is free. Call 356-3300 or visit nuggetribcookoff.com.

EVENTS ART OF CHILDHOOD GALA AND FUNDRAISER: The Children’s Cabinet’s 20th annual event spotlights a Children’s Cabinet program as well as honors a distinguished supporter with the Dixie May Philanthropy Award. The event will include live and silent auctions, gourmet dinner and drinks, testimonials from youth and case managers and live entertainment. Fri, 8/24, 5:30pm. $250.

Montreux Golf & Country Club, 18077 Bordeaux Drive, (775) 856-0356.

THE BIG RENO SHOW: The trade show features antique and modern firearms, ammunition, hunting and fishing items, books, Western memorabilia, collectibles and more. Fri, 8/24-Sun, 8/26, 9am. $12$85. Reno-Sparks Convention Center, 4590 S. Virginia St., bigrenoshow.com.

CANNABIS AND YOUR PET: Mynt Cannabis hosts its first cannabis and wellness course featuring guest speaker Stacy L. Hosking, who will talk about cannabis and CBDs for pets. Tue, 8/28, 6pm. Free.

Mynt Cannabis Dispensary, 132 E. Second St., (775) 686-6968.

CARSON CITY GHOST WALK: Hear paranormal stories and gossip from Carson City’s past during this guided walking tour of the downtown district’s historic homes and businesses. Tours leave rain or shine. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the walk begins. Sat, 8/25, 7pm. $15-$20. McFadden Plaza, Third & Curry streets, Carson City, (775) 3486279, carsoncityghostwalk.com.

FEED THE CAMEL: Local food trucks convene under the Keystone Bridge, serving unique specialties along with local beer. Wed, 8/29, 5pm. Free. McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, www.facebook.com/Feed-TheCamel-256832417824677/.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: The gathering features 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers every Friday. Local bands and artists are featured each week. Fri, 8/24, 5pm. Free admission. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/renostreetfood.

HOPEFEST8: Singer-songwriter Tyrone Wells headlines Carson Tahoe Health Foundation’s annual benefit concert.

Proceeds will go toward cancer patient support. Fri, 8/24, 6pm. Free. Carson Tahoe Cancer Center, 1535 Medical Parkway, Carson City, (775) 445-5165.

latest book How to Cuss in Western (And Other Missives from the High Desert), a love letter of sorts to the western Great Basin Desert of Nevada. Wed, 8/29, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188.

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

team plays Sacramento Republic FC. Sat, 8/25, 7:15pm. $15-$28. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, reno1868fc.com.

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

team plays Las Vegas Lights FC. Tue, 8/28, 7:15pm. $15-$28. Greater Nevada Field,

250 Evans Ave., www.reno1868fc.com.

RENO ALOHA FESTIVAL: The third annual festival showcasing the cultures of the Pacific Islands features live entertainment, a kids’ village, food, merchandise and workshops. Sat, 8/25-Sun, 8/26, 10am-6pm. Free.

Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., renoalohafestival.com.

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: Reno Coin Club presents “Counterfeit Coins.” The group will gather to share counterfeit coins and currency from ancient times to the present. There will be early bird prizes, quarter pot, raffle, bid board and more.

Tue, 8/28, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, www.renocoinclub.org.

ROD STEWART AND CYNDI LAUPER: The pop

stars bring their tour to Reno. Tue, 8/28, 8pm. $137-$303. Reno Events Center, 400 N. Center St., (775) 335-8800.

WHISKER LICKIN’ AND TAIL TWITCHIN’ CAT SHOW: Sophisticats Cat Club presents this show featuring cats from around the world. The show will have several cats of different breeds competing and strutting their stuff. There will also be cats available for adoption from local rescue groups. Proceeds from the show will benefit Palamino Valley Pet Rescue. Sat, 8/25-Sun, 8/26, 9am. $2-$10.

Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Centers, 1350 N. Wells Ave., (775) 240-8828.

ONSTAGE

WINE & RIBS FUNDRAISER: Community Health Alliance’s seventh annual fundraiser will feature offerings from Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que, 25 wine varietals from Whispering Vine Wine Co., a silent auction and music by The Reno Jazz Syndicate, plus a special guest. Sat, 8/25, 5pm. $65-$70. California Building, 75 Cowan Drive, (775) 329-6300.

ART

ANIMAL: Restless Artists Theatre Company presents Claire Lizzimore’s dark comedy about the underside of domesticity, the complexity of the brain in chaos and the thin line between sinking and survival. Fri, 8/24-Sat, 8/25, 7:30pm; Sun, 8/26, 2pm. $8-$15. Restless Artists Theatre Company, 295 20th Street, Sparks, www.rattheatre.org.

LEGALLY BLONDE—THE MUSICAL: Sierra

ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY RENO: Nevada and the West and Loving Nevada. Members Larry Jacox and Ann Weiss host the gallery’s August show. Thu, 8/23-Wed, 8/29, 11am-4pm. Free. Artist Co-op Gallery Reno, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

GALLERY EAST, MCKINLEY ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER: Untitled: A Venture into the Unknown. The exhibition features works by artist Quynh Tran. Thu, 8/23-Fri, 8/24, Mon, 8/27-Wed, 8/29, 9am-5pm. Free.

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

School of Performing Arts presents the award-winning musical based on the hit movie. Sorority star Elle Woods doesn’t take “no” for an answer. When her boyfriend dumps her for someone “serious,” Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style. Fri, 8/24-Sun, 8/26, 7:30pm. $15-$45.

Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, sierraschoolofperformingarts.org.

GALLERY WEST, MCKINLEY ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER: A Splash of Color. McKinley Gallery West hosts painter Courtney Jacobs. Thu, 8/23-Fri, 8/24, Mon, 8/27-Wed, 8/29, 9am-5pm. Free. McKinley Arts and Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive, (775) 334-6264, www.reno.gov.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Dungeon Crawler.

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

8/23-Fri, 8/24, Tue, 8/28-Wed, 8/29, 3-6pm. Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858.

METRO GALLERY, RENO CITY HALL: Winnemucca Valley—Nevada’s Serengeti.

The Reno City Hall Metro Gallery exhibits Erik Holland’s landscape paintings of Winnemucca Valley. Thu, 8/23-Fri, 8/24, Mon, 8/27-Wed, 8/29, 8am-5pm. Free. Reno City Hall, 1 E. First St., (775) 334-6264.

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, 8/23-Sun, 8/26, Wed, 8/29, 10am. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

SPARKS MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: The Biggest Little Watercolor Show. Sierra Watercolor Society presents its latest exhibition of original watercolor paintings by local artists and its annual judged show. Thu, 8/23-Sat, 8/25, Tue, 8/28-Wed, 8/29, 11am. Free. Sparks Museum & Cultural Center, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

TAHOE/TRUCKEE BLUESDAYS: Singer and blues guitarist Coco Montoya performs as part of the concert series. Tue, 8/28, 6pm. Free.

Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, 1960 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

CHILDREN’S ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DAY: North Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition hosts a day of science activities, games, crafts and demonstrations for all ages. Sat, 8/25, 1pm. Free. Common’s Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, keeptahoeblue.org.

LAKE TAHOE MUSIC FESTIVAL: The festival’s 20-piece Academy Orchestra presents a five-day concert series at intimate outdoor settings on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City and Truckee. Thu, 8/23-Sun 8/26. $0-$75. Various locations across Lake Tahoe, Highway 28, Tahoe City, (530) 583-3101, tahoemusic.org.

LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s 46th season is headlined by productions of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the off Broadway revue Beehive: The 60s Musical. The productions will be performed in rotating repertory Tuesdays through Sundays until Aug. 26. Thu, 8/23-Sun, 8/26, 7:30pm. $15$188. Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village, (800) 747-4697, laketahoeshakespeare.com.

MUSIC ON THE BEACH—ACHILLES WHEEL: The band plays its blend of rock, roots and world music. Concerts are brought to you by the North Tahoe Business Association. Fri, 8/24, 6pm. Free.

Kings Beach State Recreation Area, 8318 N. Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, northtahoebusiness.org.

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A New Sex Pill Takes the Spotlight as the Viagra Patent is About to Expire A patented pill costing less than $1 a dose stands to help millions of men with failing sex lives; no prescription will be required

By Ray Wilson Associated Health Press AHP− A new sex pill is set to take the spotlight with the Viagra patent about to expire. But unlike the former, it won’t require a prescription and is priced just under a $1 a dose.

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The Brain Erection Connection Until now, medical researchers did not fully understand the brain-erection connection. It has now been made clear with Vesele. When both are supplied with a constant blood flow, men are harder and firmer for longer...and have unbelievable sex drives.

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According to research published by the National Institute of Health, 50% of men taking these drugs stop responding or can’t tolerate their side effects...and on top of that they spend $50 per pill and it doesn’t even work half the time.

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Men across the country are eager to get their hands on the new pill and according to the research, they should be.

In the trial above, as compared to baseline, men taking Vesele saw a staggering 85% improvement in erection hardness over a four-month period. Their erections also lasted twice as long.

These same men also experienced an astounding 82% increase in the desire for sex (libido/sex drive) and an even greater improvement in overall satisfaction and ability to satisfy their partners.

Many men taking Vesele described feeling horny and aroused through the day. The anticipation before sex was amazing. They were also easily turned on. Their moods were more upbeat and positive, too.

Faster Absorption into the Blood Stream Vesele is made up of three specialized ingredients: two clinical strength vasodilators and a patented absorption enhancer often called an accelerator. According to an enormous amount of clinical data, each is very safe.

Research shows that with age, many men lose their desire and interest in sex. They also struggle to produce an erection firm enough for penetration.

And although there are many theories as to why this happens (including a loss in testosterone) one thing is certain, inadequate blood flow is virtually always to blame.

That’s why sex drug manufacturers focus on blood flow, it makes your erection hard.

But what’s more surprising, and what these manufacturers have failed to consider, is that lack of blood flow can also kill your sex drive. That’s because blood supplies energy for the brain. This energy is required for creating brainwaves that cause excitability and arousal.

Studies show the Vesele stimulates the entire cardiovascular system, including the arteries that lead to both the brain and penis. The extreme concentration of the ingredients combined with the accelerator ensures that this process starts quickly.

Expiring Patent Opens the Door to a New Sex Pill: Vesele is a new pill that cost just $1 a dose does not require a prescription. It works on both body and mind to increase arousal and erection hardness.

Recent Studies Show Positive Effects on Women In the same study referenced throughout, Vesele was also shown to have an amazing (and somewhat surprising) effect on women too. That’s because the same arteries and vessels that carry blood and oxygen to the brain and genitals are the same in men and women.

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by AMY ALKON

Too mush information My friend was dying to tell her new boyfriend she loves him but waited till he said it first. She, in fact, makes that a rule. Now I have a new boyfriend. Should I just shamelessly own my feelings—that is, tell him I love him?

Or should I follow my friend’s lead?

Your desire to go all blurtypants on the guy likewise seems romantic— until you consider the psychological mechanics behind it. Chances are, you’re in a state of psychological tension—all fired up with suspense at how the guy will respond—and only by telling him will you finally get relief. It’s basically the emotional version of really, really needing to pee.

Research on sex differences in “parental investment” by evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers suggests that it’s probably a bad idea for you, as a woman, to go first with the ILY. Trivers explains that in species like ours, in which females get stuck with the burden of parental care, they evolved to vet males for ability and willingness to invest—more than that initial teaspoonful of sperm, that is. Men coevolved to expect this—to expect to have to prove themselves to women to get sex. In short, men chase; women choose.

Sure, there are couples out there in which the woman chased and things ended up just fine. But those evolved differences in male and female psychology are still driving us—even now, in our world of smartphones, facial recognition software, and, before long, family vacations in flying minivans.

In other words, you’re taking a risk by tossing out the ILY first— possibly causing the guy to want you less than if you let him take the lead in ILY blurtations. And, hi, feminists! I can hear the flicking of your lighters as you ready your pitchforks and hay. But the way I see it, what should be feminist is acknowledging what seems to be the optimal approach for women per research on human psychology.

Despite the risks, you may decide to be that rebel gazelle that chases the lion. If so, why not go all the way? Pull out your man’s chair for him in restaurants. Put your jacket over his shoulders on a cold night. And, be the one who goes downstairs with the baseball bat when there’s a weird noise at 3 a.m.

The benefits of exorcise My fiancee dumped me three months ago. I was devastated, but I’ve come to realize that we shouldn’t be together. Now she keeps pressing for us to meet, saying there’s stuff she needs to “process.” I was finally starting to get over her, but should I just go?

Getting together with your ex-fiancee after you’ve finally started to move on is like being just out of rehab and reconnecting with a friend: “What could be the harm?

A nice pastrami on rye with my old heroin dealer!”

Your brain, like an air-conditioned Miami mansion, is “expensive” to run, so it tries to go on autopilot (basically nonthink mode) whenever possible. When you repeatedly take a certain action— like turning to a certain person for love, attention and comforting—that action becomes more and more automatic. On a neural level, this plays out with a bunch of individual brain cells (neurons) that “wire together,” as neuroscientist Carla Shatz puts it.

This happens after individual neurons each fire off a chemical messenger—a neurotransmitter—that another neuron catches and absorbs. The more a person repeats the same action—and the more a group of neurons does the same fire-off-and-catch sequence—the faster they get at it. Eventually, these neurons become what I like to describe as a “thinkpack”— conserving mental energy through bypassing the conscious thought department and robotically defaulting to whatever action worked for the person in the past.

Right now, the last thing you need is to stall your recovery process—the weakening over time of those entrenched neural pathways—by getting the band (Ramon and The Neurons) back together.

If you feel bad about saying no to seeing her, consider how she’s prioritizing her need to “process” over your continued recovery. 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 23, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The two pieces of

advice I have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary.

Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak the following

declaration aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong, soft kisses and tender, unruly kisses, and secret, truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.” If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious, affectionate amazements and deep, dark appreciation and brisk, mirthful lessons and crazy, sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think? Do these formulas work for you? Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy? I hope so. You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As you map out your

master plan for the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have been

communing with my horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education—for free!

Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1. What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2. What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “All the world’s a stage,”

wrote Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers. Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others. Our personalities are facades that display a colorful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behavior as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.” Invoking his view—and in accordance with current astrological omens—I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks.

Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think you’ve done

enough rehearsals. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism.

What? You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In all the time we’ve

worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business. So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your Season of Completion. Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when

the new cycle begins? Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who

calls herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that makes her “believe in magic.”

They include the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When I picture a

perfect reader,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.”

I suspect he was using the term “monster” with a roguish affection. I am certainly doing that as I direct these same words toward you, dear Sagittarian reader. Of course, I am always appreciative of your courage, curiosity, cunning, suppleness and adventurousness. But I’m especially excited about those qualities now, because the coming weeks will be a time when they will be both most necessary and most available to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You do not yet

have access to maps of the places where you need to go next. That fact may tempt you to turn around and head back to familiar territory.

But I hope you’ll press forward even without the maps. Out there in the frontier, adventures await you that will prepare you well for the rest of your long life. And being without maps, at least in the early going, may actually enhance your learning opportunities. Here’s another thing you should know: your intuitive navigational sense will keep improving the farther you get from recognizable landmarks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Healing isn’t impos-

sible. You may not be stuck with your pain forever. The crookedness in your soul and the twist in your heart may not always define who you are. There may come a time when you’ll no longer be plagued by obsessive thoughts that keep returning you to the tormenting memories. But if you hope to find the kind of liberation I’m describing here, I advise you to start with these two guidelines: 1. The healing may not happen the way you think it should or imagine it will. 2. The best way to sprout the seeds that will ultimately bloom with the cures is to tell the complete truth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Nineteenth-century

British painter J. M. W. Turner was one of the greats. Renowned for his luminous landscapes, he specialized in depicting the power of nature and the atmospheric drama of light and color.

Modern poet Mary Ruefle tells us that although he “painted his own sea monsters,” he engaged assistants “to do small animals.” She writes that “he could do a great sky, but not rabbits.”

I’m hoping that, unlike Turner, you Piscean folks will go both ways in the coming weeks. Give as much of your creative potency and loving intelligence to the modest details as to the sweeping vistas.

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 JERi ChADwEll

Outfitter

Is a date for this clothing line TBD?

Peter Barnato—local musician and co-owner of the Loving Cup, 188 California Ave.—is planning to open a vintage clothing business upstairs from his bar.

Yeah, I mean, I have ideas and stuff for it, I’m just going to take it one page at a time. It’s just me, which was important to me. And that’s why it’s taken me so long to get it together. I’m doing the build out myself. Everything’s me.

What are you calling the shop?

You’re stylish, for sure. Where did you get your interest in fashion?

What do mean by workspace?

I’m going to be making my own clothes and stuff, too, again. So I’m doing my own line—going to start out with vintage, obviously. I have really high-end vintage stuff. And I’m going to keep doing my customization, but another side of it that I’m going to unveil is the stylist side. So, I’m going to, obviously, offer that service to whomever would want to use it, but mostly I know a lot of bands and musicians and people who are doing movies and stuff like that. I have enough stock to be able to style on that side of things.

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It’s called Velvet Pill. It’s going to be more of a workspace/showroom—more than actual retail. People will be able to come in. … And I’ll be there a lot, to buy stuff that way. But I’m mostly focusing on online and Instagram sales worldwide.

I have a lot of Japanese buyers I work with, and stuff like that. It is going to be a retail shop, but I’m not going to be there all the time. I’ll have my number on the door. When I’m there, it’ll be unlocked.

My sign will be on, and I’ll have some set hours people can come.

So, like, style a band for a music video or something?

Yeah, or a tours. So that’s another side of the business. I kind of want to take it a little further than just being a retail shop. … I’m going to have a little area in the shop where Jaxon Northon is going to have his interactive art, some of his pieces there. And he’ll rotate that. It’s just going to be a good, kind of a creative workspace. And the biggest thing is to create my clothing line that I eventually want to get to.

I don’t know. It’s always been something I was interested in since I was a little kid. And I was always obsessed with rock ’n’ roll, you know, ’70s rock ’n’ roll and David Bowie and the Rolling Stones. And I always noticed the way they looked. … Growing up with my mom, she was also kind of into fashion, too, so she used to let me wear whatever I wanted and let me do my own thing. I’ve always kind of dressed strangely, even since I was in kindergarten, she would say.

Tell me more about the space.

It’s above the bar. It’s a tiny space, which has been hard for me because I love making a space look great. This is going to be very organized, but it’s going to be very full. … It’s going to be mostly a showroom, workspace. You can come see all of my collection and stuff. My collection is insane right now. I’m really proud of it. I’ve been working on it for a really long time. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

One man’s base I think I finally reached a happy place when it comes to President Spanky’s daily barrage of bullshit tweets. And make no mistake, I’m on those nasty little communiques. I get up at 6, and by 6:15, I’m reading the latest round of Twitlerian twaddle. So what has transpired organically over time is where his smears and insults that used to get me all agitated are now eliciting nothing more than yawns. That’s it. I mean, in this situation, where every tweet is a lie, and often multiple whoppers, I’ve finally reached a place to where I’m fairly bored. The Tweeter-in-Chief done wore me out! His bile blasts are nothingburgers that will be forgotten in a day. Ho hum. Dum Dum’s raving.

Again. ZZZZZ. You know who Spanky reminds me of now? No, not Hitler. I’m not going there (although I will give big applause to the guy in

front of the White House with a sign slamming Agolf Twitler.

Kudos, sir!). I’m thinking more Jim Jones. Isn’t Trump basically Jim Effing Jones with fenders (goddammit, our phony president has fenders?), tweeting to his unbudgeable base of zomplorables, which we now can say with pinpoint accuracy is 36-38 percent of America. Every morning, Reverend Trump doles out the Kool-Aid to the faithful, only his Kool-Aid isn’t liquid, it’s digital, and it’s delivered via daily tweetstorm. So the faithful drink. And like. And then concoct some new cockamamie conspiracy direct from the realm of Cuckoo Crazy for Cocoa Puffs.

We in the media talk way too much about Dum Dum’s base.

Why bother? They’re barnacles.

They like him being a racist, sexist, lunkheaded psuedo-mob boss. So be it. We don’t talk

enough about our base. The base of Americans who prefer sane, reasonable, non-racist, nonasshole legislation and action coming out of D.C. The base of us who want the current crop of Malevolent Klepto-Incompetents to GTFO ASAP. I put our base at a solid 58 percent. So let’s kick some ass. You ready? Deadline for voter registration is Oct. 7.

And remember, only squares vote on actual Election Day. How 20th century! Ughsville! Early voting runs from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2, and when you early vote, it takes anywhere from four to seven minutes, and it couldn’t be easier. It’s amazing how many people still wait for Election Day. I guess there are folks who just like waiting around in lines.

Hey Omarosa—we’re ready for a fun new tape! Drop it, sister!

How about one that pulls Pence’s pants down? Ω

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