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Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

Arguably the most famous band ever to come from Reno is 7Seconds. The hardcore punk band formed here back in 1980 and officially announced their breakup earlier this year (see “Walk off together,” Musicbeat, April 12). The group was based in Sacramento for most of its run, but the band had a huge influence on two or three generations of musicians here in Reno.

In this space in March, I briefly mentioned participating in a neat benefit project. Over three days, 25 Reno bands showed up at the Sound Saloon studio, and in less than an hour apiece, each recorded a cover of a 7Seconds song. That’s 25 bands, 25 songs.

All those songs are now being released on a double LP collection called Destroy All That Tradition.

That title is a lyric from “Walk Together, Rock Together,” arguably 7Seconds’ best-known song, and it’s also a cheeky comment on the whole idea of paying homage.

I don’t like to write about my band in the paper, but my contribution is just a tiny piece of this puzzle. I sang on 1/25 of the album, and our tune is less than two minutes long. And it’s not like I’m going to make any money off this thing. Sales of the compilation will benefit the Holland Project, the all-ages arts organization that embodies 7Seconds’ “rock together” ethos. More than 100 local musicians and engineers worked on the album, and it features a cover painting by local artist Ahren Hertel. We’d be negligent in our commitment to cover local arts if we didn’t mention it at all.

I’ve heard the whole thing now, and I’ve got to say it’s even better than I anticipated.

Among the many highlights: Fall Silent’s rip through “Die Hard,” Hate Recorder’s moody take on “Somebody Help Me Scream,” and Stirr Lightly’s dream pop version of “Walk Together, Rock Together.”

It’s now available to preorder at humaniterroristrecord collective.bandcamp.com.

This letter is about the governorship for 2018. Unfortunately we have two candidates running—where, I don’t know—and neither of them will measure up to the job.

I haven’t figured out why Adam Laxalt is a candidate. He’s very wishy washy. Seems to do only what he was raised to do, with no opinion of his own. He failed as attorney general and will screw our state of Nevada if elected governor. He is a Donald Trump boy, and Trump pulls the strings.

As for Steve Sisolak, he wants to do his ideas on his terms without regard for what is best for Nevada.

To other candidates vying for the governorship under different parties, I strongly suggest they make their views public. Beef it up, so to speak. We want to hear from you.

Is there not an honest, decent human being out there that can lead us? In Nevada?

In the United States?

Helen Howe Lemmon Valley

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsrev i ew . com

One Nevadan’s Nevadan Re “Democrats cross a line” (editorial, Aug. 30) and “Savior” (cover story, Aug 30): I was pleasantly surprised you took a principled stance in the editorial against the Democrats’ scorched earth tactics against right-to-life advocacy and crisis pregnancy centers in particular. Kudos!

However, I do quibble with one statement (about relying entirely on NARAL’s report): “How did such a thing happen, even in a legislature that is overwhelmingly Democratic?” Here, I fixed it for you: “How did such a thing happen? Oh, wait, the legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic.

It’s California. Never mind.”

Regarding the cover story, by all accounts, Adam Laxalt was born in Reno, Nevada.

That makes him a Nevadan and a native son—period. So to gratuitously tar him “a Virginian” is disingenuous, and to splash it on your cover page is foul play.

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Similarly, Fred Lokken belied his advanced education and professorship when he said, apparently straight-faced, “Adam Laxalt is not a Nevadan by any stretch of the imagination.” I’ve lived in Nevada these last 45 of my 63 years, yet I never claim to be a Nevadan. Neither should Lokken imply that Steve Sisolak—born in Wisconsin, and not living in Nevada until his mid-20s—is somehow more a true Nevadan than Laxalt.

Brian Adams Reno

Neighbors Re “Savior” (cover story, Aug 30): You voice my sentiments completely!

As a transplant to California (I grew up in Maine, went to school in Boston and lived in Montana before coming to Truckee), I have always felt a little resented by “hardcore” Nevadans, for being a citizen of California.

It was clear to me, after first arriving in Truckee, that our excursions to Reno for the needed supplies and better prices than Truckee could provide, demonstrated that money from California was doing nothing but raising the standard of living for all of Nevada. This certainly has not diminished!

I find humor in the sentiments expressed

by Reno/Nevada “natives” when they show a disdain for their neighboring and prosperous state of California. A French friend of mine came to live with us for two weeks and ended up staying for two months. He was very opinionated (!) and critical of almost everything “USA.” I finally had to reluctantly remind him that if it wasn’t for the U.S. in World War II, his country, and others, would be eating a lot of sauerkraut today!

When I was growing up in Maine, a family that lived a couple of houses away were more prosperous than anyone else in the entire town. Of course there was envy; they had everything they wanted and we had to get by with much less. But instead of resenting their wealth, I embraced it. Their son was my best friend and by being associated with him I also benefited from what they had!

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Michael Fournier Truckee

Correction Re “Out of school,” (cover story, Sept. 6): Our story misidentified Breanne Read’s job. She’s a paralegal with the Washoe County School District, not an attorney as originally reported.

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BY matt bieker

What’s your favorite music for fall?

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Yevonne Allen Diversity officer

Fall to me is when it starts to get into the holiday season. So I enjoy more classical music, more instruments, things of that sort.

Pink Martini is probably one of my favorites. They come every year for a Christmas concert.

PhilliP Brown Nanny

My music really stays kind of the same. I’m an iTunes junkie so I listen to a lot of their playlists and they have really good fall, like, all the new artists that come out and easy listening music. Most music artists release a lot of music in the fall. ... So I really actually listen to whatever new is coming out.

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Which Democratic Party will the public get?

In all likelihood, given a lunatic in the White House and Republicans abandoning their historic principles in service to their leader, Democrats will score significant gains eight weeks from now. What’s far from clear is what that will mean. Everyone seems to know what a Republican victory means. But the lack of a Democratic vision means the public will vote against Trumpian power, not for Democratic goals. For months, various figures and sections of the party have called for a Democratic version of the 1994 Republican “Contract on America” that gave the GOP major congressional gains. “The message is being worked on,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley said in July. “We’re doing everything we can to simplify it, but at the same time provide the meat behind it as well.”

Then Crowley was defeated in his primary by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat with a clear and well-defined message. Could there have been a neater demonstration of the party’s problems?

There was a time when no one needed to “work on” the party’s message. It was instinctive, part of Democratic DNA, and it included the economic populism Trump promised but failed to deliver. Indeed, the party was defined by economic populism under Roosevelt and Truman. Our news section today deals with the silence of politicians on the failure of 401(k)s. Threatened worker pensions—a classic Democratic issue.

But that was before the party learned to compete for big corporate money and watered down its message to get that money. In subsequent elections, with the party image blurred, Democrats won only when Republicans screwed

up, and without a core message, it was always a temporary win. Washington Monthly editor Paul Glastris recently pointed out that in the last 35 years, the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency for only four years total—two years after the Clinton win, two after the Obama win. Then, in both cases, the Democratic gains started eroding. “Where there is no vision,” Proverbs 29:18 tells us, “the people perish.”

Well, not really. They stop voting Democratic.

It might be thought that the Democrats learned something from the events of the 2016 election. Instead, they are still fighting that last war, with Clinton backers spending ridiculous amounts of time trying to punish Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Meanwhile, the election draws nearer with no agreement on what a Democratic win would mean.

For instance, would it mean—as it did during the Clinton and Obama administrations—that the gap between rich and poor would continue to widen? Would the party plight its troth to corporate money or the working poor?

Nevada knows about that. The Democrats went to the Tesla special session of the Nevada Legislature saying, as their speaker put it, that “we don’t have a checkbook such as Texas has,” and then voted unanimously for the biggest state corporate welfare package in U.S. history.

For another instance, would it mean Democrats would again go to Congress promising a health care plan and then produce a health insurance plan?

No doubt the Democrats will score wins. Will they then be able to sustain that mandate, or will it be gone with the wind as in earlier years? Where there is no vision ... Ω

Honestly, my music goes for all year. I just love dance music or alternative rock. I like air-guitaring it. I mean, Christmas, I just listen to Christmas music, but that’s about it.

JAimie Crush Tutor

Oh, fuck, I don’t know if I have an answer for that. I don’t actually think about what I do in the seasons is the thing. I probably just listen to a bunch of emo music, same as every season.

Modern Baseball is great. Sorority Noise is pretty good, and Moose Blood.

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Jazz. I don’t know. I’ve always liked jazz, especially, like, when school starts or whatever. I listen to jazz while doing my homework. It calms me down.

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by SHEILA LESLIE

Time for candidates to listen Get ready to get sick and tired of political campaigns during the next seven and a half weeks. You’ll feel bombarded by ads on your TV and in your mailbox, and your social media will be full of political appeals. Candidates and their surrogates will be knocking on your door, accosting you in public with their literature and volunteer sign-up sheets and inviting you to event after event to raise campaign cash. It’s exhausting for everyone.

But it’s the price we pay for democracy, and, in Nevada, the extra attention funded by all that “outside money” comes with our status as a battleground “purple” state. And even in these midterm elections, there are plenty of races with national importance, such as the U.S. Senate race between Dean Heller and Jacky Rosen, which is ranked as the Democrat’s best opportunity for a pick-up.

As we head into the final weeks, I offer some advice for the candidates with little hope they or their campaign consultants will heed it.

Despite what Rudy Giuliani and Kellyanne Conway say, truth is truth, and there are no alternative facts. Be honest about your background, your experience and your policy positions.

If you don’t know the answer to something, admit it. Despite our daily presidential example, lying is unacceptable in a public servant. The truth matters.

Try to cut back on the incessant selfies at every community event documenting your wonderfulness. At least balance some of the fluff with substance. Talk about real issues in your community and what you hope to do about them.

Let your constituents know what you’re concerned about and what your policy leanings are.

Treat your opponent with a modicum of respect. Please stop using alliterative insults that sound like something a bunch of snickering middle school boys conjured up on a Friday night. I wince every time I read or hear about Wacky Jacky. Or Shady Steve. And now,

Lackey Laxalt. Calling your opponent silly names doesn’t advance political discourse. It makes you look juvenile and disrespectful of the electoral process. Just because your opponent descends to that level doesn’t mean you have to do it too. Make your arguments about the policy differences between you with a little more class. Please.

Having been a candidate myself through many election cycles, let me also offer suggestions for you, the voters, during the campaign season. Pay attention. Don’t let Nov. 6 arrive without doing your homework. Attend a candidate forum or a meet-and-greet at your neighbor’s house. Answer the door when the candidate comes calling and listen to their pitch. Ask thoughtful questions and enjoy a civil dialogue.

Remember that running for office is a grind, especially for introverts who find it draining to constantly meet new people.

But a candidate’s job is to listen to their constituents. Engage them in conversation

but don’t let them get away with vague non-answers on the big items—you deserve to know where they stand.

Don’t let the negative ads sway you. Refuse to watch them or at least mute the spooky music and doomsday narrator. Immediately recycle the nasty mail flyers or hand them right back to the canvasser at your doorstep. Or save them and give them back to the candidate in person and let them know how you feel about this type of campaigning.

When you receive your sample ballot, start filling it out. If there are races where you’re not sure who to vote for, phone a trusted friend. Visit the candidates’ websites, google their newspaper interviews, see who their supporters are. If you find both candidates truly unacceptable, you can always skip that race and use the “none of these candidates” option if it is available (statewide races only).

And need I say this? Vote. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

A wider view Republican candidate for governor Adam Laxalt, in running against the state of California, has given very few reasons for his objections to the Golden State—cherry-picking certain laws to make that state sound silly, though some of those he cites have not actually been enacted there, only proposed. His choices include sanctuary cities, bathroom policies for transgender students, gun control, cancer warnings, and bans on plastic straws in restaurants.

Since he has been so selective, we thought we would add a few of California’s other laws that have been passed this year to put his criticism in some perspective.

• After new Trump appointments to the Federal Communications Commission enabled the FCC to repeal net neutrality (a policy that protected consumers from preferential pricing), California re-imposed it within its own jurisdiction. The Nevada Legislature next year will consider a similar measure sponsored by Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro.

• The California Legislature this week made it illegal for local governments to use minor municipal infractions to impose large fees for things like legal costs on citizens. News reports brought to light the way some Southern California governments ran up massive legal bills while prosecuting minor code violations and then tried to stick the offender with them.

• Last week, California legislators enacted a plan providing for 100 percent of the state’s energy to come from carbon-free sources by 2045. That comes after the state beat a previous benchmark, a 2006 law that imposed targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The state achieved it four years early while creating jobs faster than the rest of the nation.

• After a lawsuit settlement tried to earmark California’s share of a 2012 national settlement with deceptive mortgage lenders to be used on projects of the litigants’ choosing, the legislature allocated the state portion of the settlement to pay for housing bonds approved by voters. A judge overruled the state, whereupon this week the legislature passed a law overruling the judge.

State attorneys general chronically try to go around legislatures, who represent the public, by inserting language in lawsuit settlements that earmarks public funds without accountability to lawmakers.

• Golden State lawmakers last month adopted a law to crack down on hospitals dumping patients, “ensur[ing] that certain conditions are met as part of the discharge process of a homeless patient.”

In 2013, the Sacramento Bee reported that Nevada hospitals gave 1,500 patients one-way bus tickets out of state—usually to California, the state Laxalt now finds objectionable.

Laxalt, incidentally, put his name to a court brief last year in a California lawsuit filed to keep names of contributors to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation secret. The foundation was set up by corporate polluters Charles and David Koch, who were major contributors to Laxalt’s campaign for attorney general.

—Dennis Myers

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U.S. Senate candidates Jacky Rosen (left) and Dean Heller are not debating how to save worker pensions under the failing 401(k) systems.

The 401(k) debacle Worker retirements at risk “with today being National 401(k) day, I am writing to suggest a story idea for Reno News & Review about why this is a critically underappreciated holiday,” wrote publicist Christa Balingit on Sept.

7 to us and, presumably, hundreds of other media entities. “Consider this: Some 30 million Americans don’t have access to 401(k)s through their employer and even those who do have access are often left mystified by how the whole system works.”

Before you worry that you didn’t have a date on National 401(k) Day, consider this: “Our nation’s system of retirement security is imperiled, headed for a serious train wreck.”

That’s John Bogle, a retired mutual funds exec who was among those who sold the country on the 401(k). He and other 401(k) pioneers say it has failed.

Nevada’s congressional candidates don’t talk about this in the campaign.

It’s not that 401(k)s don’t make a good living. Lawyers specializing in suing employers who fail to comply with the requirements to try to get the best deal for workers make a good living.

Before 401(k)s, eight out of 10 employees in companies of a hundred or more workers were enrolled in traditional company plans providing lifetime pensions which professional stock analysts decided how to invest.

Back then, employers paid most worker’s pension costs, a gift from the fast-declining labor unions. But under the 401(k) regime, most pension costs have shifted to workers. Little wonder

employers gave 401(k)s the hard sell to their workers in the 1980s.

The 401(k) was sold to employees the same way ballot Question 3 is being sold to Nevadans this year—as consumer “choice.” The pitch was, “You can choose your own investments.”

Employers did not provide experts to advise workers, many of whom were in the dark. Those with the advantages in life—affluent families, advanced education, high pay—tended to understand investing better and ended up with better results. But those with little experience in financial markets did the best they could and hoped for the best. The results look like the U.S. economy—top heavy. Even some of the people who invented the 401(k) plans are shocked by the dismal, lopsided results.

It’s easy to say, as one Forbes columnist has, “What if employees had professional financial planners guide them into allocations that were right for their age and risk tolerance? What if they knew how to diversify properly to avoid the stock debacle of a 2008 or 2000?”

This is a considerable amount to ask of workers for whom survival is the big issue, who in the last 40 years were being squeezed tighter economically every year, who may be working more than one job, whose spouses before the advent of the 401(k) may well have been staying home and raising the children but were eventually forced out into the workplace.

A 401(k) study by Boston College said, “[I]ndividuals are on their own, and no one really knows what they will do.”

If workers do have some knowledge about investing, they may discover their company has not met its fiduciary responsibility of trying to get workers the best possible plan. And workers can’t very well take their business across the street to another retirement plan. They are bound to their employer’s plan. And there is a legal limit on how much they can put into their individual retirement accounts.

It’s amazing that anyone ever thought it would work. Workers were expected to take over most costs of pension plans on their same pay. A 401(k) account was, in effect, a pay cut for workers in an era of stagnant wages. And because some plans included an employee match, it was sold as a pay increase.

Today, headlines like “For millions of Americans, the 401(k) is a failure” (CNBC), “Why the 401(k) Isn’t Working” (Fiscal Times) and “Why 401(k)s Have Failed” (Forbes) are common.

So why aren’t the politicians talking about it? In Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, the silence is loud. We have been unable to find any public statements Democrat Jacky Rosen has made on the topic, and when we asked for one, her press aide said we could attribute it only to the aide, not Rosen: “Congresswoman Rosen supports efforts to help Nevada workers save and plan for retirement. She is a co-sponsor of the Lifetime Income Disclosure Act, bipartisan legislation that would help people better plan for retirement by requiring retirement benefit statements to include a lifetime income disclosure in addition to the standard total amount of savings.”

The act cited is H.R. 2055, introduced in the House 17 months ago. It has not moved an inch in the GOP Congress since then. The measure would require quarterly statements for participants in pension plans. There must also be annual assessments of whether the participant is on track to a good retirement.

Republican Dean Heller, has more of a history on the issue. On March 12, 2014, Heller participated in a hearing on “The state of U.S. retirement security: Can the middle class afford to retire?”

Heller heard financial experts say things like this: “Meanwhile, private sector employers replaced secure pensions with 401(k) plans, shifting costs and risks onto workers.”

“401(k) plans also contribute to macroeconomic instability.”

“And it is, in fact, because of these issues at the Economic Policy Institute. Heller: “Mr. with 401(k)s, these risks and high fees, that Hiltonsmith, do you have a 401(k)?” contribute to this retirement inadequacy.”

Hiltonsmith: “I do, indeed. I have two of “Workers under-contribute for three main them.” … reasons. Either they are not earning enough, Heller: “In your testimony, you talked which is one of the major problems here we about reforming or replacing them. Do you are dealing with. They do not trust 401(k)s want to reform or replace your own 401(k)?” and financial markets in general, or they may Hiltonsmith: “I spent the last two years not have the financial literacy to understand doing that at Demos, actually. We had a poor how these plans work or how much to plan, and I think this actually indicates contribute.” one of the difficulties. … You can “401(k) plans were invented by even have the knowledge of Congress a benefit consultant working on a portfolio diversification and fees never bonus plan for bankers. Congress but, through your employer, have never intended for them to little opportunity to change the intended to replace traditional pensions.” plan your employer selected if it invent Section 401(k) was slipped is not good.”

401(k)s into a 1978 tax bill by a congressIn his hearing opening statemember with Kodak and Xerox ment, Heller said workers “are still in his district and was intended to struggling to save for retirement.” Since help those corporations shelter profit sharing the hearing, Heller has rarely mentioned funds. The section was written by a Kodak 401(k)s and when he does it is in an upbeat lobbyist. The Reagan administration—which manner suggesting he is pitching them. In disapproved of judges legislating from the December, he said of H.R. 1, the Republican bench—legislated by regulation to give the tax plan, “This tax bill protects and expands section broader application. Soon thousands of the medical expense deduction for our nation’s companies, driven by evangelistic mutual fund most vulnerable, as well as preserves popular firms, used it to dump most of their pension retirement savings options such as 401(k)s and costs onto their workers, a step that had a role individual retirement accounts.” in the decades-long shrinking of the middle Heller has never introduced legislation to class. Workers had to pay the employer’s share remedy any of the ills he heard about at the without any additional pay. It became just one hearing. Ω more component in the process of redistributing wealth upward.

At one point in the hearing, Heller had The Boston College report can be read at this exchange with Robert Hiltonsmith, an tinyurl.com/y825l9dh. economic policy analyst then at Demos, now

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by Jeff Delong

TeRC research diver Katie Senft deploys a platform of temperature, pressure and current instruments as part of the UPWell project.

In the wind Project UPWELL Strong spring winds and Lake Tahoe’s deeper, colder waters are again under scrutiny by scientists.

When combined, researchers wonder, do those things help make for the slippery, algae-covered rocks many say are increasingly being encountered along Tahoe’s shore?

That’s the fundamental question being asked by scientists at UC Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Center. Project UPWELL, is one of the latest attempts to examine the complex dynamics of Tahoe’s ecology and noticeable changes taking place at this national treasure.

For decades, much attention has been focused on the middle part of Lake Tahoe and why the lake’s famous clarity has steadily declined.

The problem—primarily associated with the introduction of fine, suspended sediments washing into the lake from Tahoe’s roads and urban centers—was meticulously documented. The good news, experts have said, is that the steady decline in mid-lake clarity appears to have stabilized, largely due to projects designed to halt the flushing of sediments into Tahoe’s waters.

Now, attention is shifting to what’s happening closest to Tahoe’s shorelines.

Using submerged monitoring stations installed near Tahoe’s shore in recent years, researchers monitored regular events during which high winds common in late May and early June were apparently associated with the “upwelling” of waters from as deep as 1,000 feet to the lake’s surface.

“One of the distinct patterns seen are these upwelling events,” said Derek Roberts, a graduate student and lead researcher for Project UPWELL. “We’ve

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seen this pattern occur over several years.”

These deep waters drawn to the surface are cold and rich in nitrates, which could help nourish algae growing on Tahoe’s shoreline rocks.

“We decided we want to address the question of ‘Do these upwelling events really matter?’” Roberts said. “Our goal is to understand on a really basic level if this upwelling really plays a significant role in that algae growth.”

To learn more, Roberts—joined by researchers from the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory, Stanford University and the University of British Columbia—installed a 1.5-mile-wide “measurement curtain,” stretching from the shore on Tahoe’s west side toward the middle of the lake.

Nearly 100 instruments were installed at seven moorings along the curtain—the shallowest at seven feet and the deepest at nearly 900 feet below the surface. Current velocity, temperature and dissolved oxygen levels were recorded every 30 seconds, and water samples were taken before, during and after upwelling events.

An autonomous underwater glider was deployed to examine variable upwelling events along the west shore.

Data collected over two months in the spring of 2018 is still being analyzed. So far, the experiment documented two major and two minor upwelling events. During the big ones—May 31 and June 9—water from as deep as 500 feet rose to the surface in just a few hours. Water temperatures at the west shore dropped to a frigid 40 degrees while temperatures on the east shore remained at 57 degrees.

After winds died, cold waters rapidly sank into the depths of the west shore and warm water from the east shore rushed westward across Tahoe’s surface at speeds in excess of two feet per second.

Further research should shed more light on what’s happening close to Tahoe’s shore, Roberts said. Ω

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EvENTs 2018 MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: See this year’s 10 finalist short films and vote for your favorite. The worldwide winner will be announced online at the conclusion of the global short film festival. Seating is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance. Fri, 9/28, 7pm; Sat, 9/29, 2pm & 7pm; Sun, 9/30, 2pm. $15. Joe Crowley Student Union Theater, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6505.

2018 RENO VERY POTTER CRAWL: Wear your Harry Potter-themed costume, purchase a commemorative cup and receive free admission to more than 15 participating downtown bars, nightclubs and restaurants offering beer and drink specials, giveaways and specially themed live entertainment. Sat, 9/22, 8pm. $5. Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020, crawlreno.com/event/potter.

Guide 2018

21ST ANNUAL FALL FEST CRAFT FAIR: The fair features more than 60 vendors selling jewelry, beadwork, arts and crafts, quilts, blankets, pillows, willow baskets, baked goods and more. Free trick-or-treat bags. Fri, 10/12-Sat, 10/13, 10am. Free. Reno/ Sparks Indian Colony Gym, 34 Reservation Road, (775) 842-1385.

ANDELIN FARM FALL FESTIVAL PUMPKIN PATCH: The autumn event features pick-your-own pumpkins, a corn maze, hay rides, farm animals, kids’ activities, Halloween-themed events and more.

The festival kicks off on Sept. 22 and is open Tuesday-Saturday through Oct. 31. Sat, 9/22-Wed, 10/31, 10am. $7-$12. Andelin Farm, 8100 Pyramid Way, Sparks, (775) 530-8032.

CAMP RICHARDSON’S OKTOBERFEST: The 24th annual festival features German food and beer, live music, contests, family games and activities and a beer and wine garden. Sat, 10/6-Sun 10/7, 10am-5pm. Free admission. Camp Richardson, 1900 Jameson Beach Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, (800) 544-1801, www.camprichardson.com.

THE ELDORADO GREAT ITALIAN FESTIVAL: The 37th annual event brings the sights, sounds and flavors of Italy to downtown Reno during Columbus Day weekend. The festival celebrates Italian culture and traditions and includes live entertainment, sauce-cooking, grape-stomping and kids’ gelato-eating contests, food booths, an Italian farmers market and wine walk.

Sat, 10/6-Sun 10/7, 10am. Free. Eldorado Resort Casino, 345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-5700, www.eldoradoreno.com.

FERRARI FARMS FALL FESTIVAL: The seasonal event features pickyour-own pumpkins, a corn maze, farm animals, hayrides, kids’ activities, Halloween-themed events and more. The festival kicks off on Sept. 29 and is open through Oct. 31. Sat, 9/29-Wed, 10/31, 9:30am. Free admission. Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 997-3276.

GENOA CANDY DANCE: The 99th annual fair features more than 300 vendors selling arts and crafts, candy and more along Main Street and surrounding streets in Genoa. The Candy Dance and Dinner is Saturday evening from 4:30-10pm at Genoa Town Park. Sat, 9/29-Sun, 9/30, 9am. Free admission to festival, $5 parking in designated lots, $33-$52 for dinner and dance.

Downtown Genoa, (775) 782-8696.

GOBLIN HALLOWEEN PARADE: Bring your favorite little goblin dressed to scare and walk in the Halloween-themed parade. Check in begins at 4pm at the VC Jerky Company. Wed, 10/31, 5pm. Free.

C Street, Virginia City, www.visitvirginiacitynv.com.

The RN&R’s annual guide to the great indoors

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ll the signs are here: School is back in session. The Man has Burned. Children have started planning their Halloween costumes. There’s a nip of footballs in the air. Rednecks are lighting their shoes on fire. It must be fall.

Usually, when we RN&R types put together a seasonal guide, we focus primarily on outdoor recreation. Summer Guide is all about where to swim, and Winter Guide is all about where to ski. We don’t do a Spring Guide, because who cares?

But Fall Guide is all about the indoors.

Stay inside, warm beverage in hand, and take it all in. (Just don’t forget to leave the house to go vote on Nov. 6.)

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And that’s not to say that there’s not fun outdoor recreation around the region during the fall. Check out our listings to learn about all the corn mazes, costume crawls and hayrides your heart desires.

But our main focus here is on what we enjoy indoors. In years past, we’ve had one writer recommend books, somebody else recommend music, and so forth. This year, we decided to do things a little differently.

We rallied a gang of writers of differing ages with differing tastes, and we each recommended something in the following categories: Books, movies, music and “other media,” a catchall that includes video games, podcasts, TV shows and magazines.

Let’s introduce you to our cast of characters. Andrea Heerdt, in her early 20s, is one of the RN&R’s younger contributors and an enthusiastic music writer. Matt Bieker, our special projects editor and newest staffer, is a 20-something man-about-town. Jeri Chadwell, our associate editor, is a hard-working and intrepid reporter in her mid-30s.

Brad Bynum, a late-30s dad, is the editor of the RN&R. Bob Grimm is the paper’s Gen X movie reviewer. Dennis Myers, our news editor, is a Baby Boomer and veteran reporter.

So, that’s us. Now, here’s what we’re looking forward to enjoying this fall.

GRAND SIERRA BEER AND CHILI FESTIVAL: The festival features the 52nd anniversary of the World’s Championship Chili Cook-Off coupled with local and regional craft beer favorites. Daily activities include chili tastings, music, craft beer and vendors.

Held at the south parking lot of the Grand Sierra Resort. Sat, 10/20-Sun, 10/21, noon. Free admission. Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-2000, gsrbeerandchili.com.

HALLOWEEN HARVEST FESTIVAL: Celebrate the changing of the seasons during this two-weekend festival featuring an applebobbing contest, fishing derby, face painting, pumpkin decorating and Halloween-themed happenings. Fri, 10/5-Sun, 10/7, Fri, 10/12-Sun, 10/14. Free. Resort at Squaw Creek, 400 Squaw Creek Road, Olympic Valley, (800) 404-8006.

HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLORS RENO: The event inspired by the Hindu spring festival features interactive dance, mantra bands, DJs, yoga, food and attendees throwing multi-colored powders on each other. Sat, 10/6, 11am. $6.50-$38. San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., www.festivalofcolorsusa.com.

NEVADA DAY CELEBRATION: The three-day event commemorates

Books ANDREA’S PICk In Hits and Misses, author Simon Rich, a former Saturday Night Live writer, dives into his experiences with Hollywood’s most obnoxious and over-the-top people through a series of short stories. They’re based on real-life encounters but are magnified through the lens of fictional characters to further showcase how absurd people can be in show business. Whether it’s a father who’s jealous of his infant, screenwriter son; Paul Revere’s horse, who’s upset Revere got all of the credit for warning people that “the British are coming;” or a monk who continually drinks his own urine to prove to other monks how holy he is, Hits and Misses highlights the failures of fame.

DENNIS’ PICk Is it humanly possible to come up with a book title more yawnworthy than History of Occupational Health and Safety? Nor is it much alleviated by the subhead—From 1905 to the Present.

But the reader can have a little faith in this title and its author that the fight for worker’s rights is one worth telling, particularly in this era when politicians are telling us regulation has no value. Newly published by the University of Nevada Press, the book makes up-to-date use of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Las Vegas Sun series on the flagrantly high number of fatalities on Las Vegas Strip construction. It’s a worthy read.

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If you’re a history buff, My Memories of the Comstock: An Eye-witness Account of the Richest Place on Earth by Harry M. Gorham is for you. Originally published in 1939—but with reprinted editions available—the book contains a wealth of stories and anecdotes about life on the Comstock Lode during the late 19th century. Harry Gorham was just 18 years old when he moved to Virginia City to help his uncle, Samuel L. Jones, then the superintendent of the Crown Point Mine in Gold Hill.

Gorham spent the next 26 years living and working on the Comstock. In this book, he uses beautifully written, poignant prose to recount what life was like at all levels of Comstock society, both above the ground and in the mines deep beneath it.

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Every once in a while, here at the office, something will arrive unexpectedly, like a specter in the night, in a way that seems both serendipitous and spooky. Just as I was trying to decide what book to write about for this fall guide, a mysterious package showed up on my desk. Trembling with trepidation, I tore it open, and lo and behold! Like a pale, veiled, mysterious woman roaming the hills at night, Ghosts and Legends of Nevada’s Highway 50 appeared before me. A book that’s ghastly autumnal reading and perfectly suited to history-minded Northern Nevadans looking for a fun road trip? This can’t have been a coincidence. It was uncanny. Is my desk haunted? Or perhaps the mailman was some Stygian emissary, ferrying messages from the underworld? It’s inexplicable, indescribable and unspeakable. Janice Oberding’s new book from the Haunted America series is a fun read for Nevadans who know the “loneliest highway” isn’t really that lonely— because it’s full of ghosts! Just kidding. The ghosts might not be real, but the ghost towns definitely are.

the 154th anniversary of Nevada’s admission to statehood and culminates with the Nevada Day Parade and a full day of events and activities on Oct. 27. Thu, 10/25-Sat 10/27. Free. Carson Street other locations, Carson City, (775) 882-2600, nevadaday.visitcarsoncity.com.

dude!), and whatever literature I still possess rests in my cloud thing awaiting delivery to various, expensive devices for perusing. If I were to read, I would read the upcoming Stephen King book, Elevation, and perhaps even read his anthology released early in September, Flight or Fright. If you have a King hankering, it’s a safe bet he would have at least seven books coming out within three months of your cravings. That sumbitch is prolific, for sure.

NEVADAFEST: The Nevada Craft Brewers Association hosts this

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OKTOBERFEST: Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows’ annual Oktoberfest

In his biography Bruce Lee: a Life, Matthew Polly interviews over 100 of Bruce Lee’s family members and former associates, weaving a very human story of a man caught between a changing America and China—celebrated, and later mourned, by both. Complete with rare family photos, Polly explores elements of Lee’s life beyond his famous work ethic and physical prowess, like his father’s opium addiction, his childhood struggles in school and the lasting effect of Western imperialism and racism on his future prospects. Readers are left with the idea that Lee, the fighter, was only one of his many roles, and that to know his legacy means knowing the Lee as a father, an actor and an ambassador who made a lasting impact on how Asians were perceived in America.

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First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong, has already gotten itself into trouble with reallife astronaut Buzz Aldrin because director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) decided to omit the planting of the American flag on the moon. I personally think that’s an odd omission, not because of my patriotic whatever, but because that planting was a pretty significant event. Doing a big-budget take on the first moon landing without a flag planting scene is like doing a Titanic movie without the damn ship sinking. Still, I think I will get over it just fine, because Gosling was born to play an astronaut. (He’s so dreamy!) Just don’t sit in front of Buzz Aldrin at a screening because you’ll probably get a Coke shower. Unless you like being showered with Coke in which case, have at it.

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Bohemian Rhapsody is a biographical film centered around the life of Freddie Mercury from the band Queen. From Queen’s rise to fame to Mercury’s life quickly spiraling out of control and his facing an AIDS diagnosis, the film explores the band’s illustrious sound and their musical endeavors, including one of the greatest live performances in rock history. The trailer features an epic scene of 70,000 people in Wembley Stadium for the Live Aid concert in 1985. The film is set to be released on Nov. 2 this year.

celebration featuring samples from more than 20 Nevada craft breweries, local food trucks, live music and outdoor games like giant Jenga and cornhole. Sat, 9/29, 1-5pm. $20-$70. Wingfield Park, 2 S. Arlington Ave., nvfest.com.

will transform The Village at Squaw Valley into a miniature Bavaria featuring live music, German beer and food, games and family fun. All proceeds from the festival benefit High Sierra Lacrosse. Sat, 9/22, noon-6pm. $20. The Village at Squaw Valley, 1985 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, squawalpine.com.

OKTOBERFEST AT THE DEPOT: The Depot gathers a variety of local and regional breweries to pour their best Oktoberfest brews.

Tickets include a commemorative stein, raffle tickets, all-youcan eat schnitzel, brats, pretzels and other fare. Fri, 9/21, 5pm. $60. The Depot Craft Brewery and Distillery, 325 E. Fourth St., (775) 737-4330, thedepotreno.com.

PUMPKIN PALOOZA: Celebrate autumn and all things pumpkin during the seventh annual event. Attendees can build and race a pumpkin in the Pumpkin Derby, participate in the family costume parade, lay carnival-style games, compete in pie-eating, marshmallow noggins, zombie walk, marshmallow-shooting and mummy-wrapping contests, decorate a pumpkin and enjoy live entertainment and other activities. The festival benefits the Northern Nevada Center for Independent Living. Sun, 10/21, 11am. Free. Victorian Square, 764-794 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 353-3599, www.pumpkinpalooza.org.

RENO LANTERN FEST: Thousands of revelers join together for this nighttime spectacle. Before sundown, friends and families can enjoy food, live music, a stage show, face painting, balloon artists and more. Then, when the time is just right, lanterns will be released into the night sky. Sat, 10/13-Sun, 10/14, 2:30pm. $15$80, free for children age 3 and younger. Wild West Motorsports Park, 12005 East Interstate 80, Sparks, reno.thelanternfest.com.

RENO ZOMBIE CRAWL: Zombies invade downtown Reno during the annual pub crawl. Dress up as a zombie, purchase a $5 cup and map, and get free entry to 45-50 downtown venues offering drink specials, contests, giveaways and live entertainment.

Sat, 10/20, 8pm. $5. Headquarters Bar, 219 W. Second St., (775) 800-1020, crawlreno.com/event/zombiecrawl.

RENO-SPARKS WATER LANTERN FESTIVAL: This family-friendly event includes food trucks, music, lantern-designing and more. The lantern launch starts at 9:30pm. Sat, 9/29, 5pm. $35-$40.

Sparks Marina, 300 Howard Drive, Sparks, waterlanternfestival.com/reno.php

SCHEELS TURKEY TROT: The annual Thanksgiving event offers a choice of a timed 10k run or a two-mile, un-timed walk or run around the Sparks Marina. Thu, 11/22, 8:30am. $25-$60. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 353-7898, cityofsparks.us.

SEPTEMBERFEST: The Potentialist Workshop’s anniversary party includes beer tastings, barbecue, recent works from Potentialist artists, live painting, improv theater performances and live music. At 9pm, watch a double feature of Potentialist films, including the award-winning Ali. Fri, 9/28, 7pm. Donations welcome. The Potentialist Workshop, 836 E. Second St., www.facebook.com/pg/PPPWS.

SOUTHERN FARE ON THE SQUARE: Experience the sounds and flavors of the South at this street festival on Victorian Square featuring food and drink vendors, craft beers, live music and entertainment, arts and crafts and a VIP Beer Garden. Sat, 10/13-Sun, 10/14, 11am-9pm. Free admission. 764-794 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (800) 843-2427.

STREET VIBRATIONS FALL RALLY: The annual celebration of music, metal and motorcycles features poker runs, live entertainment, ride-in shows, stunt and bike shows and more at venues in Reno, Sparks, Carson City and Virginia City. The event is open to all motorcycles. Wed, 9/26-Sun, 9/30. Free. Downtown Reno and other locations, (775) 329-7469, roadshowsreno.com.

TAHOE CITY OKTOBERFEST: The fall celebration event features craft beers from some of the region’s best microbreweries, games, live music and more. Sat, 9/29, noon-5pm. Free. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, www.visittahoecity.org.

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TAHOE DONNER FALL FESTIVAL: the ninth annual festival includes arts and crafts vendors, live music and performances, the annual doggy dip, seasonal beer offerings, a pumpkin patch, a carnival area, pony rides, games and barbecue. Sat, 10/13, 11am-5pm. Free. northwoods clubhouse, 11509 northwoods Blvd., truckee, www.tahoedonner.com/events/fall-festival-2.

WOBBLE BEFORE YOU GOBBLE 10K/5K: participate in a 10k or 5k run/ walk before heading home for your thanksgiving feast. the event benefits the children’s cabinet. Thu, 11/22, 9am. $15-$55. city plaza, 10 n. Virginia st., www.desertskyadventures.com/wobblebefore-you-gobble.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OUTHOUSE RACES: this Virginia city tradition dates back to the day when outdoor plumbing was outlawed and angry residents took their outhouses to the streets in protest. teams of three are pitted against each other in an all-out potty race to claim the latrine title. the parade of outhouses down c street begins each day at noon with races immediately following. Sat, 10/6-Sun, 10/7, noon. Free. c street, Virginia city, (775) 847-7500, visitvirginiacitynv.com.

ART NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: anne Brigman: a Visionary in Modern photography. opens sept. 29; Laid Bare in the Landscape. opens sept. 29; paul Valadez: selections from the Great Mexicanamerican songbook. opens nov. 10; Bethany Wood: all the World in a Book. opens nov. 17. Thu, 9/27-Fri, 11/30. $1-$10. nevada Museum of art, 160 W. Liberty st., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: touching the third rail reception. the third annual partnership features teaching artists from sierra nevada college, truckee Meadows community college and the University of nevada, reno. this year 18 artists will have an array of art that touches on our current political climate. Thu, 9/20, 6pm. Free. sierra arts Gallery, 17 s. Virginia st., (775) 329-2787, www.facebook.com/events/239857543379003/.

ST. MARY’S ART CENTER: Fall art reception. the show features artwork by shaun Griffin and pedro Gomez, as well as diverse work by artisans from the region. Sat, 9/22, 1pm. Free. st. Mary’s art center, 55 north r s., Virginia city, (775) 847-7774.

MUSIC APEX CONCERTS—FROM BACH: University of nevada, reno’s chamber music series begins its eighth season with a program exploring the works of Johann sebastian Bach. Thu, 9/27, 7:30pm. $5-$35, free for Unr students with iD. nightingale concert Hall, church Fine arts Building, Unr, 1335 n. Virginia st., (775) 784-4278.

APEX CONCERTS—THE EIGHTH WONDER: University of nevada, reno’s chamber music series continues its eighth season with a program of works by Franz schubert. Thu, 10/18, 7:30pm. $5-$35, free for Unr students with iD. nightingale concert Hall, church Fine arts Building, Unr, 1335 n. Virginia st., (775) 784-4278.

CLASSIX SERIES—CAPTIVATING CHARACTERS: the reno philharmonic orchestra performs works by Berlioz, Bruch and Brahms. Sat, 11/3, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/4, 4pm. $8-$89. pioneer center for the performing arts, 100 s. Virginia st., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

CLASSIX SERIES—THE WAY WE WERE: the reno philharmonic orchestra performs works by Gershwin, tian and ravel. Sat, 9/29, 7:30pm; Sun, 9/30, 4pm. $9-$89. pioneer center for the performing arts, 100 s. Virginia st., (775) 323-6393, renophil.com.

OFF BEAT MUSIC FESTIVAL: performances are at a mix of venues from small bars to large theaters, creating a “festival crawl” where you have the option of discovering new music from a choice of 100 performances over three days at different locations around the core of reno. Thu, 11/8-Sat, 11/10. $49-$119. Various locations in reno, www.offbeatreno.com.

PERFORMING ARTS SERIES—CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO + MONTREAL GUITAR TRIO: cGt and MGt fuse more than 40 years of combined performing experience into one unique six-by-six string “phenomensemble.” Tue, 10/2, 7:30pm. $5-$35. nightingale concert Hall, church Fine arts Building, University of nevada, reno, 1335 n. Virginia st., (775) 784-4278, unr.edu/pas.

PERFORMING ARTS SERIES—NOBUNTU: the female a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe has drawn international acclaim for its inventive performances that range from traditional Zimbabwean songs to afro jazz and gospel. Tue, 11/6, 7:30pm. $5-$35. nightingale concert Hall, church Fine arts Building, Unr, 1335 n. Virginia st., (775) 784-4278.

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Matt’s pick Venom follows the story of reporter Eddie Brock attempting to understand and control the sinister impulses of the symbiote, an alien parasite that has chosen him as his unwilling host. Brock and Venom are basically the anti-Spider-Man, whose comic universe they also inhabit, but with decidedly fewer moral hang-ups. The awesome Tom Hardy, who has proved that the camera doesn’t need to see his face for him to steal the scene, plays Brock. The film’s PG-13 rating has me and other fans worried about the potential cheesiness factor when it comes to the … carnage, but watching Venom snarl about eating a bad guy’s “eyes, lungs, pancreas” as snacks in the trailer pretty much ensured I’ll pay the ticket price on Oct. 5.

Music BraD’s pick

This is a great year for documentaries. Some of them are still in theaters, others already on DVD. Bisbee ’17 brings back to light the nearly forgotten tale of the Bisbee Deportation, when a mob organized by Phelps Dodge hauled 2,000 striking copper miners from their beds, loaded 1,186 of them into a railroad car, shipped them across the border to New Mexico, and abandoned them in the desert—followed by the imposition of a fascist regime in Bisbee that you never heard about in high school history. Keep this in mind when you hear a commercial or Junior Achievement describing a powerful corporation as a teddy bear.

For whatever reason— maybe the inescapable back-to-school vibes or how winter looms ahead like inevitable death—fall is a time for somber contempla-tion. This means I gravitate less toward the upbeat hip-hop and classic rock playlists that I crank during the summer, and more toward dour singer-songwriters, like Leonard Cohen, and introspective jazz musicians, like John Coltrane. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album is a collection of studio recordings from March of 1963, but not released until June of this year. The album features Coltrane with his “classic quartet”—drummer Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner and bassist Jimmy Garrison. Nothing on this record is as strong as that quartet’s most celebrated recordings—like the classic-by-any-standards A Love Supreme—but there’s still a lot worth hearing. To my ears, the highlight is “Impressions,” an original tune Coltrane often performed live, getting its first-ever studio release. It’s just a treat to hear new music from one of the greatest jazz groups ever—55 years later.

BraD’s pick

anDrea’s pick

Dennis’ pick

There are two kinds of movies that usually get released in the fall: prestigious awards-bait and horror flicks. Suspiria looks like it might be the rare movie that’s both. It’s very loosely based on Dario Argento’s 1977 film of the same name, a classic of surreal ’70s Italian horror. But the new movie is directed

by Luca Guadagnino, a director associated with prestigious awards-bait, like last year’s Oscar-winning Call Me by Your Name. It stars Dakota Johnson, best known for her role in the Fifty Shades movies and for having famous parents—so, who the hell knows what to make of that? But it also stars Tilda Swinton, which is always a good thing. The plot is about an American dancer who attends a German dance academy that might be infested with witches. Another confusing, intriguing thing: the score is the feature film debut of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. He’s released one song from the score, and it’s excellent.

The trailers look good, too. Suspiria hits theaters on Oct. 26.

Jeri’s pick

It took director Wes Anderson nine years to put out his second animated film after 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Isle of Dogs, released in theaters earlier this year and now available for home viewing, is done in beautiful stop-motion animation, plus it features all of the beautiful symmetry and acting talent that fans expect from the director. Regular Anderson collaborators like Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban and Jeff Goldblum contribute their voices to the story’s main characters, a group of dogs in Japan who— along with all of the other canines of Megasaki City—have been banished to Trash Island, a literal garbage dump on an island off the mainland. The story follows young hero Atari Kobayashi as he journeys to the island to rescue his beloved dog Spots, voiced by Liev Schreiber.

The Ramones’ second album, Leave Home, was released 41 years ago in January, 1977. This classic embodies everything that ’70s punk was about, including songs about shock treatment, punk rock girls and, of course, sniffing the cleaning product Carbona. The album has all the fixings you’d expect from the Ramones. The boys from Queens packed 14 tracks into the album by playing chords extremely fast. (Most of the songs are only about two minutes long.) My favorite song from the album, “Pinhead,” features pounding drums in the intro, Johnny Ramone’s aggressive guitar strumming, and the lyrics “D-U-M-B / Everyone’s accusing me” to make it the perfect punk rock track.

Jeri’s pick

Fans of Irish musician Van Morrison have yet another album from the artist to add to their collections. You’re Driving Me Crazy is Morrison’s 39th studio album. If you’re keeping track, yes, in fact, it is the third album he’s released since this time last year. It features American jazz organist and trumpeter Joey DeFrancesco, who helps Morrison reinvent jazz and blues standards as well as some deep cuts from Van the Man’s previous albums. A swinging rendition of Morrison’s original “Have I Told You Lately” is a particular treat.

BoB’s pick

While ex-Pavement leader Stephen Malkmus has released plenty of good solo albums since the band broke up what feels like a billion years ago, Sparkle Hard is his best. That’s because it plays a lot like a great Pavement album. From the alternating

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piano softness to guitar cacophony of the opening track “Cast Off” to the spiraling brilliance of “Kite,” this is Malkmus at his most tuneful and playful. It’s Pavement 2.0!

MATT’S PICK

On Aug. 31, the Maltese-Australian songstress, Tash Sultana, released the first full-length album, Flow State, in her sometimes breezy, sometimes raucous catalog. Flow State is more polished than her previous EPs, but the easy reggae rhythms on tracks like “Cigarettes” and “Mellow Marmalade” will come across as authentic Tash to her fans.

“Murder to the Mind” and “Salvation” lean more into the hip-hop feel, with an emphasis on the backing drum kit and groovy hooks, but Tash’s power has always been her voice.

At times, it’s delicate as she gently warbles over dreamy falsettos, and then it’s powerful and smooth as she delves into her complicated lyrical patterns. Flow State is an experiment in ultimate chill to keep us Americans warm through the Australian summer.

DENNIS’ PICK

Ru-Jac Records was a singlesonly R&B label that operated in Baltimore from 1963 to 1980. Founded by two AfricanAmerican businessmen, its 45s have been gathered by collectors ever since, with many of them unavailable. Finally Omnivore Recordings bought the rights to the entire inventory and began issuing a “Ru-Jac Records Story” series.

Volume three, Finally Together, was released in February and includes 25 pieces by Kitty Lane, The Caressors, Sir Joe, Winfield Parker, The Shyndells, Leon Gibson, Gene and Eddie, Rita Dorsey (supported by both the Shyndells and the Bob Craig Combo), and some tracks by “unknown artist.” A few were never previously released.

Other media MATT’S PICK Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan has been saving America’s butt since he boarded the Red October in 1984, but his incarnation in Amazon Prime’s new series finds him squaring off against a decidedly modern threat. John Krasinski plays our titular hero Ryan, an ex-marine turned CIA financial analyst on the trail of a mysterious high-level terrorist named Suleiman. As his knowledge of Suleiman’s financial workings translates to a real-world terrorist plot, Ryan must traverse the globe with a bevy of other operatives, soldiers and assassins to foil his enemy’s nefarious plans. Krasinski is utterly believable as the humble, yet capable Dr. Ryan, and a supporting cast that give it their all—especially in the Middle Eastern story lines—make for a thrilling ride.

JERI’S PICK Back in June, the NPR business radio news program Marketplace launched its first Amazon Alexa skill, “Make Me Smart from Marketplace.” People in range of an Amazon Echo device can say, “Alexa, make me smart” to hear Marketplace’s Make Me Smart podcast hosts Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood explain issues concerning the economy, technology, current events, pop culture and more.

Learn about things ranging from inflation rates, to how 5G works and even what happened to the $1,000 bill. There’s a new explainer from Ryssdal and Wood every weekday.

BRAD’S PICK New this month, and exclusively for Playstation 4, Marvel’s Spider-Man offers up escapist long-pajamas pleasures.

Players get to web-swing around New York, battle bad guys, and balance fighting crime with the life of beleaguered 23-year-old alter-ego Peter Parker. Spidey takes on Doctor Octopus, Kingpin, the Vulture and more—Spider-Man has the second-best rogues’ gallery in comics. (Batman, of course, has the best. And this new game cribs some cues from the fun and popular Batman: Arkham game series.) One funny twist: in the world of the game, J. Jonah Jameson, formerly Parker’s boss at newspaper the Daily Bugle, is now a bloviating right-wing podcaster. Jameson spins spiteful commentary about whatever Spider-Man does in the game, and that never-ending criticism is the perfect antidote to the false sense of accomplishment that often accompanies playing video games.

BOB’S PICK There are a lot of cool TV events on the way, but none look cooler than Maniac, a mini-series starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone as two people in a trial test for a drug that is supposed to make all their troubles disappear. It’s a remake of a Norwegian series (that there, alone, makes it sound cool), it’s directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective) and reunites Seth and Jules from Superbad.

ANDREA’S PICK New Girl aired its seventh and final season this April on Fox. Although this season only had eight episodes, all hilarious, it still managed to answer a lot of questions about the future of the show’s character—especially the romantic conundrum between Jessica “Jess” Day (Zoey Deschanel) and Nick Miller (Jake Johnson). The show jumps from Jess and her three male roommates trying to navigate life choices in their early 30s to marriage, children and moving out of the Los Angeles loft they’ve called home for the past seven seasons. Hulu subscribers can binge watch season seven now.

DENNIS’ PICK There are times we know we are getting screwed without being able to put our fingers on how. A little-known magazine, Dollars and Sense, does it for us. The current issue has pieces on how big tech corporations that opposed repeal of net neutrality deserted the public, the screams over the newly required release of the pay of top corporate officers, a cartoon on fast food worker ordeals, the impact of the Fed’s higher interest rates on workers, Trump’s daft tariffs, the Wall Street Journal’s “solution” to them and a dozen other pieces. Better yet, it’s still available in print. Send $19.95 for a year’s subscription to 89 South St. LL02, Boston 02111. Ω

Michael Torke, Alexander Scriabin and Jean Sibelius associate or associated musical notes with color. The orchestra will explore the concept of synesthesia in a program that includes pianist Elizabeth Phillips, the winner of the RCO’s annual College Concerto Competition. Sat, 10/13, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/14, 2pm. $5-$55.

Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH RUTH LENZ: For the first time in RCO history, the orchestra will perform without a conductor—in the style of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Among the highlights of the program are Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with RCO concertmaster Ruth Lenz as soloist. Sat, 11/17, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/18, 2pm. $5-$55. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 348-9413, www.renochamberorchestra.org.

ONSTAGE ALL IN THE TIMING: Featuring six diverse but equally hysterical oneact comedies, David Ives’ All in the Timing is a witty, romantic, absurd, existentially minded evening of theater that explores uncertainty, randomness, relativity and the limits and limitlessness of the tools of human communication. Fri, 10/12-Sat, 10/13, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/1, 1:30pm; Wed, 10/17-Sun, 10/21, 7:30pm. $5-$15.

Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW: Young wife Melody has never been to a funeral until her husband dies in a plane crash. Expected to instantly assume proper widowhood, Melody is left to wonder, what’s the right way to grieve? Fortunately, her mother-in-law is a professional. Widow, that is. Under her guidance, Melody must try her best to be a good little widow. A sad comedy about loss and longing. Fri, 11/2-Sat, 11/3, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/4, 2pm; Thu, 11/8-Sat,

11/10, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/11, 2pm; Thu, 11/15-Sat, 11/17, 7:30pm; Sun, 11/18, 2pm. $8-$15. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, rattheatre.org.

BELL, BOOK & CANDLE: Brüka Theatre presents John Van Druten’s classic play. Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly because she is attracted to him. He falls head over heels in love with her at once and wants to marry her. Unfortunately, witches cannot fall in love, and this minute imperfection leads to a number of difficulties. Gillian must choose between her life as a mystical witch or the life of a human in love. Fri, 10/12-Sat, 10/13, 8pm; Sun, 10/14,

2pm; Wed, 10/17-Sat, 10/20, 8pm; Sun, 10/21, 2pm; Wed, 10/24-Sat, 10/27, 8pm; Sun, 10/28, 2pm. $20-$25. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.

THE BOOK OF MORMON: Broadway Comes to Reno kicks off its 20182019 season with the return of the nine-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy, which follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Contains explicit language. Tue, 10/9-Thu,

10/11, 7:30pm; Fri, 10/12, 8pm, Sat, 10/13, 2pm & 8pm, Sun, 10/14, 1pm & 7pm. $85-$175. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St.,(775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

CINDERELLA—THE BALLET: The fall gala season for the A.V.A. Ballet Theatre opens with the classic ballet based on the popular fairy tale. The Reno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Prokofiev’s musical score. Sat, 9/22, 8pm; Sun, 9/23, 2pm. $22-$54. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600, pioneercenter.com.

FALL DANCE FESTIVAL: The Fall Dance Festival will showcase choreography by University of Nevada, Reno students and dance faculty. Thu, 11/15-Fri, 11/16, 8pm; Sat, 11/17, 2pm & 8pm. $5-$15.

Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building, UNR, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

MAYTAG VIRGIN: Audrey Cefaly’s play follows Alabama school teacher Lizzy Nash and her new neighbor Jack Key over the year following the tragic death of Lizzy’s husband. The play explores the ideas of inertia and self-enlightenment and the bridge between the two. Fri, 9/28-Sat, 9/29, 7:30pm; Sun, 9/30, 2pm; Thu, 10/4-Sat,

10/6, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/7, 2pm; Thu, 10/11-Sat, 10/13, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/14,

2pm. $8-$20. Restless Artists Theatre, 295 20th St., Sparks, (775) 525-3074, www.rattheatre.org.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company presents Mel Brooks’ musical comedy adapted from his classic film. Fri, 10/5-Sat, 10/6, Thu, 10/11-Sat, 10/13, 7:30pm, Thu, 10/18-Sat, 10/20, 7:30pm; Sun, 10/21, 2pm; Thu, 10/25-Sat, 10/27, 7:30pm; Wed, 10/31-Sat, 11/3, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St., (775) 322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

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ational Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off as it does every year on Sept. 15. The start date for the celebration of Hispanic-American people, culture and art is a significant one. Sept. 15 marks the anniversary of independence for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Mexico celebrates independence on Sept. 16 and Chile on Sept. 18.

To mark Hispanic Heritage Month, the City of Reno hosts Fiesta 2018 in Wingfield Park. The event is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday Sept. 23 and will feature local mariachi bands, food trucks, family activities and salsa dancing groups teaching lessons.

Changüí Majadero, a five-piece Cuban outfit from Los Angeles, is scheduled to headline the event. City officials didn’t respond to interview requests regarding the event, but a press release states that it was spearheaded by city councilmember Oscar Delgado in “2017 as another opportunity to celebrate Reno’s thriving arts and culture scene, and to recognize Hispanic Heritage Month.”

Another Hispanic Heritage Month event is Fiesta on Wells. Like the one slated for Wingfield Park, it will feature music, art and food, but it’s an older event than the city’s—and it takes place on Wells Avenue, a neighborhood that’s long been home to many of Reno’s Hispanic families and businesses.

According to organizers and spouses Mario DelaRosa and Annamaria Cavallone, Fiesta on Wells has taken place a half a dozen times in the last decade.

This year’s event will take place one day after the city’s, on Sept. 23—with Wells Avenue closed from Casazza Street to Capitol Hill Avenue to accommodate vendors and entertainers.

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People crowd Wells Avenue during Fiesta on Wells 2017.

“And there are many community organizations, also,” said DelaRosa. “For example, we have Catholic Charities, Children’s Cabinet, Silver State Housing.

We have Washoe Foster, [Truckee Meadows Community College]. We have this organization called PLAN.” Cavallone and DelaRosa said they’ve also worked to secure a diversity of arts, culture and entertainment at this year’s Fiesta on Wells.

“We have a tango group participating,” Cavallone said. “It’s an Argentinian group.”

“They’re called Reno Tango Collective,” DelaRosa said.

There will also be a Frida Kahlo lookalike contest, a DJ and a couple of local bands, including Connoy Extrema and an eight-piece band and called Fuerza Latina.

For both Cavallone and DelaRosa, the hope is that Fiesta on Wells will serve as more than a oneday good time to those who attend.

“We know that these events create awareness in the community about the Hispanic community, who we are and the things that we bring to the table,” DelaRosa said. “In these times, it’s very important to come out and celebrate and be proud of who we are.”

Part of that, DelaRosa said, is bringing awareness to the fact that Latino arts and activists groups and Latino-owned businesses are a part of the Truckee Meadows community year-round.

He points to the nearly three dozen Latino-owned businesses in the area of Wells Avenue that will be closed for the fiesta—and to groups like Reno Little Theater, which works with Cavallone to present Brown Eyes Theater productions several times per year.

“We have a new play about Frida Kahlo for October,” Cavallone said. “And we’re the only Latino, bilingual theater group in Reno.”

Frida the Play will run from Oct. 25 through Oct. 28. The Brown Eyes Theater group will also be presenting a Day of the Dead show for children that weekend, which according to Cavallone will be “like a Muppets show,” just “Dia de Los Muertos Muppets.”

“We think it’s very important to maintain our traditions and to show the general community the contributions we bring to the community, including language, culture, arts, food and economics,” DelaRosa said.

Promoting awareness of Latino residents’ contributions to—and engagement with—the broader community isn’t just a concern for the organizers of Fiesta on Wells. It also strikes a chord with some of the folks who will be performing there and those who run their businesses there every day.

Among the performers for Fiesta on Wells is Laura Zamora, a member of the band Fuerza

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Latina. Zamora, a vocalist, has been performing in places around Northern Nevada and California for about six years now. Normally, she said, the band gets hired for “Quinceañeras or weddings, any kind of private party.”

But, she said, “Our music is very popular.

Our music is Cumbia and then Salsa. We do a bit of Bachata and Merengue” and people “who are non-Latinos, they love our music.

The Fiesta just calls attention.”

She’s hoping that attention might be parlayed into casino gigs where the band could reach broader and more diverse audiences.

“One thing about our band—I always call them the perfect combination, which is Salvadoran and Mexican combined,” she said.

“And it’s so good. That’s why, always, when I start any gig, I describe the perfect combination—Fuerza Latina.”

Lola Winckelmann, a tattoo artist at A Toda Madre Tattoos, also describes what she and other artists at the shop do as a type of combination. On their website, they bill it as “Chicano style.”

“Chicano style tattooing, I would say that it’s a way to represent the Latino community and the lifestyle of that—what that means to live in this country being from that background and how to bring that sense of nostalgia but, also … we have now a mixture of this culture with that culture.”

According to Winckelmann, one way the artists at A Toda Madre work to blend more modern and traditional Chicano-style tattoos is by specializing in modern interpretations of a style called “black and gray realism,” which made its way from prisons to East Los Angeles’ Chicano communities, where it became popular.

“It started getting out into the streets and people started knowing about that and seeing how beautiful that is,” she said. “People just started taking that and running with it and evolving it. Now we have some beautifully complex black and gray pieces out there.

They’re hyperrealistic, and it all came from that. We really try and, you know, give our own flair to it and offer that to our community at this shop. … I think that we do primarily specify in black and gray, and we are accommodating to that audience specifically, but we do have somebody for everything. We try to be a wellrounded shop.”

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According to Winckelmann, the shop’s artists are excited to participate with raffles that will hopefully draw in new people.

But, like Cavallone, DelaRosa and Zamora, she’s quick to clarify that Fiesta on Wells is only one chance to engage with a community that exists year round.

“For instance, in the holiday time, we do a lot of toy drives and things like that,” she said. “Definitely, I think that there’s more than one way of being involved in the community. … We have all of these little events here and there. So we give back to the community, and I think that’s really helped for us to be successful in the five years we’ve been here as well.” Ω Learn more about Fiesta on Wells here: goo.gl/xfi9MF.

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NORTHERN NEVADA LITERACY COUNCIL PRESENTS

An AnnuAl Adult spelling bee fundrAiser supporting northern nevAdA Adults 5:30 TO 9:30 p.M. OCT. 4 SILvER LEGACy RESORT CASINO, RENO The community is invited to form teams of three, bring its thinking caps and outwit friends and foes in fierce spelling competition!

• Donations kindly will be accepted for a silent auction.

• Help NNLC celebrate the works of William Shakespeare and send local students to success.

• All proceeds benefit the NNLC as it helps adults achieve their educational and career goals.

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A WWII-era poster from the Work, Fight, Give collection at the Wilbur D. May Museum.

War crafts Work, Fight, Give War is about loss. Lives, communities and peace can all be obliterated, leaving behind tatters and tears. World War II saw more devastation and lives lost than any previous war, and the memory of the event largely centers on destruction and pain. But a new exhibition at the Wilbur D. May Museum challenges that idea and offers an uplifting perspective of the watershed event in our nation’s history as it highlights the helpers.

“The exhibit parallels to our modern times,” said assistant curator Samantha Szesciorka. “It’s inspiring because it speaks to these universal themes of humanity, of coming together. We see that now, and we saw that then.”

Work, Fight, Give is a collection of posters that were made to mobilize regular citizens to donate money, time and clothing to relief causes that aided postwar efforts.

The posters aimed at the heart of America and were created by the top artists and illustrators of the day. When fighting on foreign battlefronts subsided and armies moved on, those living in the war zones were left to pick up the pieces. Many at home wondered how they could aid those affected, and the posters helped point their charity in the right direction.

The posters were like an ad campaign and a GoFundMe campaign rolled into one, alerting the public to different needs in various nations, and calling those who saw them to action. They hung in rural and urban communities across the nation.

Hundreds of relief organizations used the medium as a way to paint a different picture of the war. Instead of news of chaos and calamity, they focused on how to make things better.

Emotional pleas like, “From Want of Food—Never From Want of Courage.

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Give! Greece needs your help now!” drew Americans in and persuaded them to give to countries like Russia, Germany and the Philippines. The calls to action highlighted many organizations that were under the umbrella of the War Relief Fund and helped them collectively raise millions in assistance.

Szesciorka said wars are political, but that when real people see suffering, human nature drives the desire to somehow assist, regardless of the politics or location.

“There were these tragic stories coming in about communities torn apart, children left without parents, refugees, people without food,” she said. “These stories really affected Americans who heard about them and they wanted to do something to help.

And we still see that today. Americans have an amazing ability to come together and help when needed.”

Szesciorka spent her Labor Day setting up the show and said all the posters are powerful in their own way. Yet, a couple made an instant impression on her.

“There’s one that says, ‘America, Speed Up,’ and it has Uncle Sam riding on a horse with the swastika in flames,” she said.

“That is dramatic. Then, the other poster was of a child looking very neglected, and it’s about taking in refugees. Given the current political climate, those two posters stood out to me because I thought, ‘My gosh, those are sort of the same themes we’re seeing today.’ They could be hung now and be just as topical.”

In addition to the 40 posters, the exhibit also contains pamphlets, brochures, a collection box, stamps and more objects that put relief efforts at the forefront. The namesake of the museum, Wilbur May, fought in both World War I and II, so organizers hoped the show would also honor his service. Ω Work, Fight, give is on exhibit at the Wilbur D. May Museum, 1595 n. sierra st., through oct 7. For more information, call 785-5961.

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Close encounters The Wife is one of those OK movies that strikes me as something that would’ve worked better as a play.

I enjoyed it on some levels, and I think some of the performances are quite good, especially Glenn Close as the title character. Other performances come off as if they’re for an audience on a stage rather than on camera. I’ve read that members of the cast rehearsed for weeks before cameras rolled.

The Wife displays proof that sometimes you can be a little too polished and consequently come off as too melodramatic for a movie.

That melodrama could play well for an Off-Broadway play, but for a movie like this? A little too forced.

Close plays Joan Castleman, wife of newly christened Nobel Prize for Literature winner Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce or, as I like to call him, Sam Lowry). The first evidence of what kind of golden work Close will do in this movie is presented during an early moment when she picks up a phone to listen in as her husband is informed of his prize. Close makes an expression that’s a master class in how to act with your face for a camera. It’s breathtaking.

Then, the movie starts to play out, and one character in particular sticks out like a sore thumb.

He’s David, their son, played by Noel Gallagher lookalike Max Irons (son of Jeremy). This is not to say Irons delivers an altogether bad performance—I just think it’s the wrong performance. There are moments when he comes off as too petulant and overacting. There are moments when he comes off as quite brilliant.

I was able to accept his performance by pretending he was doing it somewhere in Manhattan for a live audience. It just worked better for me that way.

Obviously, we’re not supposed to play these sorts of games while watching a movie. The movie needs to flow as a cohesive piece, and Irons sometimes

takes you right out of the film, to the point where you feel like this is not a movie, but a play.

And then there is Close, and her daughter, Annie Starke, playing a younger version of her character, just killing it with their every scene. So much so that you have to dismiss the bad stuff and just enjoy the greatness. The two actresses help to sell a story that’s more symbolic than anything, an age-old tale about repression and insincerity. It’s been told before (this movie shares some DNA with Barton Fink), and it’s been told in better overall fashion before, but Close and Starke make it quite electric at times all the same.

Pryce is equally good as the alternately polite and selfish author battling with major personality flaws that make him a somewhat lousy husband and father. Credit goes to this gifted actor for making Joe a total ass, and somebody you can’t help but feel a little sorry for, at the same time.

As an investigative author hounding the Castlemans, the one and only Christian Slater (Kuffs!) makes his best cinematic impression in many years. His role is as cliché as a role can get, but he makes Nathaniel Bone compellingly persuasive and nasty.

There are some very good cinematic moments constructed by director Bjorn Runge that put The Wife over the top. One of the final shots of Close, with Stockholm snow outside the window behind her, is a stunner. And her final shot, well that’s a keeper for sure.

Moments like those, and some of these performances, help to sort of cancel out the moments that are stagey or a bit too farfetched. The Wife is very much worth seeing for Close, Pryce and Starke.

They make you wish they’d take this story to the stage where it probably belongs. Ω

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Alpha

This 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. 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 (Kodi Smit-McPhee), 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. 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 carries the human half of Alpha’s story. Cavemen movies usually suck. So it’s refreshing to see a film set in prehistoric times that actually engages, provides some thrills and warms the heart.

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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.

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The Happytime Murders

So, with the stalling of the Muppets franchise, it seemed like a good time for a former Muppets stalwart Brian Henson (son of Muppets founder Jim) to take puppet humor in a more adult direction. A raunchier band of puppets would seem an OK addition to the Henson legacy. The Happytime Murders is not a Muppets movie—it’s a Brian Henson puppet movie (starring a lost Melissa McCarthy as a hapless human), a product of Henson Alternative, an “adult” branch of the Jim Henson Company. The public will not be hankering for more adult puppet shenanigans after watching this listless, joyless, humorless exercise in how not to make a puppet movie. The film is set up like your standard puppets-interactingwith-humans Muppets movie, but Kermit and company are banned from the set in favor of bland, seriously unfunny puppets that fail to distinguish themselves in any way. Brian Henson directs—his first big-screen directing gig since Muppet Treasure Island—and it’s a lost puppet cause. Henson’s directing chops have not aged like fine wine. They’ve aged like something more akin to a mango that got lost in the back of the fridge six months ago.

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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 deep-sea 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. 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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Operation Finale

The hunt for Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann is chronicled, albeit blandly, in director Chris Weitz’s lost movie starring Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley and Melanie Laurent.

When Eichmann (Kingsley) is discovered in Buenos Aires living a modest life working at an automobile plant, secret agents led by Peter Malkin (Isaac) and Hannah Elian (Laurent) set up shop where he resides. They hatch a plot to grab Eichmann and return him to Israel to stand trial for his war crimes. Up until the moment where they grab Eichmann, the movie is pretty good. But when the movie becomes about Malkin and Eichmann chatting in a dark bedroom, it loses its sting. A better movie would’ve had Eichmann standing trial for his crimes, thus educating those of us who haven’t seen his trial on YouTube on that historical event. Too much of this film is spent showing Eichmann trying to persuade Malkin that he was just a normal guy taking orders.

Hey, maybe that happened, but cover it in five minutes and stay focused on what a monster this guy was. We already know he’s despicable, and I’m pretty sure the folks who risked their lives to grab him weren’t conflicted about whether or not he was really a nice guy forced to do a bad job. Yes, the movie shows a little bit of his trial, but this is one time where I found myself wishing that more of a movie took place in a courtroom.

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If you’ve read my laments before, you might’ve picked up on the notion that I can’t stand most found-footage films. I also bitch a lot about movies where the whole damn thing happens on a computer screen, with the director finding cute ways to never cut away from Skype, FaceTime, Words with Friends or whatever the hell a character is doing while the plot unfolds. Searching is strange, in that I actually almost like the way director Aneesh Chaganty uses computer screens, apps and news reports to tell his story. I also really like the central performance by John Cho as David Kim, a slightly annoying parent who discovers through a break in technological communication that his daughter Margot (Megan La) has gone missing.

What I can’t forgive is the terrible detour the mystery takes into ridiculous, convenient and unimaginative territory. The screenplay really blows it in the end, especially with the help of a stiff and strange performance from Debra Messing as a cop assigned to Margot’s case.

It’s not as bad as Unfriended, but Searching is pretty bad all the same. I’m seriously hoping that the existence of films like this doesn’t have some Hollywood scribes dusting off old, rejected TV scripts thinking they can repackage them as computer screen thrillers.

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Crispy corn fritters are blended with red curry, lemongrass and long bean and topped with cucumber and a garlic chili pepper sauce.

Meat halfway At few decades ago, I had my first taste of Thai food in Reno at the original strip mall location of Cafe de Thai. As other Thai places opened, I moved on to a succession of new favorites and—for whatever reason—haven’t been back. Cafe de Thai has since moved a few times and changed its chef and menu, so it seemed like a good time to check out its new home in midtown.

My kids and I started with fisherman’s spring rolls ($11.50), one crab and one lobster, each sliced into four pieces and served with a bit of chili sauce, cabbage slaw and avocado. They also came with sides of peanut, cilantro, and sweet and sour chili sauces. The rolls were tightly wrapped, with nice crunchy veggies and fresh tasting seafood. Next was a set of four crispy corn fritters ($7.95) on a plate surrounded by garlic chili tamarind sauce and more slaw.

They had the appearance of a croquette, and the inner blend of red curry, lemongrass and long bean was fairly unique. The flavor was good, but the texture was like chewing through a cake of deep fried grass—with no hint of corn.

The tubes and tentacles of chili-crusted calamari ($9) were tender, crispy and great dipped in garlic chili sauce. About a third of the plate was filled with cabbage, lettuce and sprouts, and I definitely would have preferred more squid. Crispy mushroom dumplings ($8 for six) were filled with assorted mushrooms, basil and herbs and served with sour, spicy lemongrass sauce.

They were absolutely great.

I couldn’t wait to try the spicy beef and tripe salad ($10.50), served warm and tossed with mint, roasted rice powder, lime, chili and scallion. It was served with slaw,

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tomato, romaine leaves and garlic chili sauce. Though the flavors did not disappoint, there was a lot more side vegetation than meat, leaving us to lightly season each leaf with just a smattering of tender, spicy goodness.

Roast duck curry ($15.95) included a few bits of fowl simmered with red curry, coconut milk, tofu, broccoli, cabbage, celery and tomato. But the duck was sparse amid a sea of curry goo. Still, it was tasty, and I spooned it over jasmine and brown rice. A single rice bowl came with the meal, but we were charged $2 each for bowls we didn’t request.

Basil vegetables ($9.95) in a spicy sauce with garlic and Thai chili was pretty much everything that came with the duck, sans duck. It was quite good. Rad nar noodles ($12.95) came with fresh noodles, stir-fried beef and broccoli in a brown bean sauce. The beef was tender and delicious; however, fully half the plate was loaded with slaw and peanut, and I was again left wanting more of the actual entree.

We were offered a choice of three desserts at $5.95 a piece—sticky rice with sliced mango, Thai tea cake or coconut cake. We ordered the first two, though all three appeared with no charge for the coconut. (I guess we can call it even on that extra rice.) All three were great. The mango and sweetened rice were particularly superb together. The Thai tea dessert was somewhere between cheesecake and firm custard—lightly sweet and fragrant. The coconut slice was an ample serving of moist layer cake, and though I really wish the portion ratios had been better, it was a delicious meal. Ω

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The Percy Bysshe Shelley poem for which it’s named is old—published 200 years ago, in 1818— but Reno doom metal band Ozymandias has only been around for about six months. Bandmates Sahara Harrington, Daniel Lee, Ray Huarte and Jacob Rosol are getting ready to play their sixth show together.

Then, after another performance—on Oct. 6—they’re planning to “go underground” to record their first album. It’s likely to feature all six of the originals its members have written together.

While the band is still somewhat new, its members are longtime musicians, and bassist and backing vocalist Rosol and guitarist Huarte have been playing together casually for several years.

“We had a mutual love of music,” said Rosol.

“I’ve been in bands forever. I used to be in Out for War. They’re a bigger punk band around here. … But Ray and I mostly played classic rock covers and shit, but mostly Black Sabbath.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, their current band’s sound reflects that influence.

“Someone said, ‘It’s like Black Sabbath meets Sleep,’ and that was the most flattering compliment I’ve ever gotten,” drummer Lee said.

“Whenever my dad or my dad’s friends have asked me, ‘What kind of music do you guys play?’

I try to stick to classic doom—so, Sabbath, Spooky Tooth,” said vocalist and backing guitarist Harrington.

“I think, especially because of Ray—he plays a very classic [style] of guitar—it pulls us back a little bit further, more to the ’70s feel than to the 2012 feel.”

Harrington likes to joke about becoming the vocalist for a doom metal band when her only prior gigging experience was with “a really terrible, all-girl,

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acoustic band thing … in high school. ” But while her clear, powerful soprano vocals would fit right in with a modern indie band, they also work undeniably to amplify Ozymandias’ nostalgic metal character.

“I think Danny put it kind of well when he said, ‘vintage doom blues,’” Huarte said. “I don’t know. We have a different sound. It’s not straight, droney doom stuff like you hear sometimes. We like heavy music.”

They also like heavy themes. It’s part of the reason they chose the name Ozymandias for their band. And, yes, the bandmates are aware that their outfit’s name is more than a poem. They’ve seen the “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad and agree—for the most part—that, indeed, it is one of the best episodes of any show on television. And, yes, they’re aware of the Ozymandias character in the Watchmen graphic novels. Rosol is a fan. Nonetheless, they want to be clear—Ozymandias, the Reno band, is named after “Ozymandias,” the Shelley poem.

“We had started writing this song called ‘The Traveler,’” Lee recalled. “And that’s basically what ‘The Traveler’ is about—the overwhelming megalomania that causes people to build monuments in their honor. So from that came the name ‘Ozymandias,’ because that’s a poem specifically about monuments that have crumbled.”

The bandmates will start recording after their Oct. 6 show, and their first album is planned for release sometime around the New Year—but with tracks like “The Traveler” and their other originals, they’re hoping it’ll feel a bit classic.

“You know how that 2008 Mustang came out with 1968 lines, and everyone was like, ‘It’s the new thing, with vintage lines!’?” Lee said. “We’re trying to be that for doom metal, except not a Ford.” Ω

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NEVADA’S BEST TACO FEST: The two-day event features a variety of tacos, lucha libre wrestling, the Chihuahua Beauty Pageant, Chili Pepper Challenge, tacoand burrito-eating contests, vendors, live music and more. Sat, 9/15, 11am-10pm, Sun 9/16, 10am-4pm. Free admission.

Sands Regency Casino Hotel, 345 N. Arlington Ave., (775) 789-6700.

THE PUSH: The award-winning documentary film and story about love and the unbreakable human spirit within us all makes its hometown premiere. Thu, 9/13, 6pm. $22. Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 686-6600.

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer club plays LA Galaxy II. Sat, 9/15, 6:45pm. $15-$28. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., www.reno1868fc.com.

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NEVADA HUMANITIES LITERARY CRAWL

Nevada Humanities presents its fifth annual crawl celebrating the literary arts along Reno’s California Avenue corridor. Enjoy fiction, non-fiction and poetry readings, book signings and panel discussions on topics of interest to Nevadans. This year’s keynote speaker is the acclaimed writer, speaker and storyteller Gabby Rivera, who will give a presentation at noon on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St. The event runs all day from noon to 8 p.m. and includes activities such as a scavenger hunt, live music, site-specific dance performances, workshops and children’s literature readings. Participating venues include Arts for All Nevada at the Lake Mansion, Sundance Books and Music and the Downtown Reno Library, among other locations.

Visit www.nevadahumanities.org for details.

RENO SNAFFLE BIT FUTURITY: This a showcase of the Spanish vaquero’s horse-training methods dating back to the early American West. Three-yearold horses compete in herd work, rein work and fence work. Thu, 9/13-Sun, 9/16, 8am. $20-$50. Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center, 1350 N. Wells Ave., renosnafflebitfuturity.com.

SILVER STATE ART FESTIVAL: The festival features gourds, basketry and fine arts and crafts. Fri, 9/14-Sat, 9/15, 9am; Sun, 9/16, 10am. Free. Fuji Park, 601 Old Clear Creek Road, Carson City, (619) 995-2475, nevadagourdsociety.org.

WALK IN MEMORY, WALK FOR HOPE: A 3k walk

EVENTs AUTUMN SLAVIC FESTIVAL: The fourth annual festival features music and dance performances, arts and crafts and traditional food from Russia, Ukraine and other Slavic countries and cultures.

The event benefits the Slavic Cultural Association of Northern Nevada and Kharkov Ukraine Orphanage No. 3. Sat, 9/15, noon. $10 (food sold separately).

Bazaar European Deli and Cafe, Sierra Marketplace, 3652 S. Virginia St., slavculturenv.org.

DECIPHERING THE FORECAST: Join Stormi Noll as she discusses tools and models used in building forecasts, local weather phenomenon and why it is sometimes difficult to forecast weather east of the Sierra. Sat, 9/15, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

DOCENTS IN THE GALLERY—SIMON DINNERSTEIN: Join Nevada Museum of Art docents in the gallery for an indepth discovery of the works of Simon Dinnerstein. Fri, 9/14, noon. $10, free for NMA members. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS: The summertime event features 30 food trucks, pop-up restaurants and food trailers. Fri, 9/14, 5pm. Free. Idlewild Park, 1800 Idlewild Drive, facebook.com/renostreetfood.

FREE MOVIE NIGHT: See Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Skyscraper, Hotel Transylvania 3, Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp and Mission: Impossible Fallout. Enjoy music and games before the movies. Gates open at 6pm and movies will start at sunset. Thu, 9/13, 6pm. Free. West Wind El Rancho 4 DriveIn Theater, 555 El Rancho Drive, Sparks, (775) 358-6920.

IF PARKS COULD TALK: Washoe County Park Ranger Andy Brown talks about the recreation opportunities and remnants of history that exist within Washoe County’s regional parks and open spaces. Sun, 9/16, 2pm. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

MYSTICAL WEEKEND: The Rosicrucians host talks on “Spiritual Alchemy: The Process of Transformation,” “Astral Travel” and “Vowel Sounds and Crystal Singing Bowls.” Buffet dinner at the Peppermill on Saturday night. Take a walk through the Rose and Labyrinth Gardens at Rancho San Rafael Park on Sunday morning. Sat, 9/15-Sun, 9/16. $30-$60.

Washoe Masonic Lodge No. 35, 601 W. Peckham Lane, (775) 750-0227.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AIR RACES AND AIR SHOW: The 55th annual event features six different classes of race planes, aircraft and drone displays, military aircraft and aerial performances. Thu, 9/13-Sun, 9/16, 8am-5pm. $5-$50. Reno Stead Airport, 4895 Texas Ave., airrace.org.

sponsored by the Nevada Coalition for Suicide Prevention. The morning includes community resources and a memorial service for survivors of suicide loss.

Register online or at the walk site. All walkers and leashed dogs are welcome.

Sat, 9/15, 8am. $20 suggested donation.

Idlewild Park, 1500 Idlewild Drive, (775) 684-2238, www.nvsuicideprevention.org.

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ARTIST CO-OP GALLERY OF RENO: Celebrating 70 Years with 70 Paintings by Eileen Fuller. An exhibition of Eileen Fuller’s paintings of local and distant subjects in commemoration of reaching age 70. Thu, 9/13-Wed, 9/19, 11am-4pm. Free. Artist CoOp Gallery, 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896.

THE HOLLAND PROJECT: Pussycat, NV Opening Reception. This pop-up cat lounge by Rosie Zuckerman and Ashley Westwood will include a cat-inspired art exhibit and fun events and workshops with cats from the Nevada Humane Society. Thu, 9/13, 3-6pm; MESHES Video Art Club featuring Michelle Lassaline.

Michelle Lassaline is known for her performance work wearing paper mâche masks and hand-sewn costume. Her presentation will be the public premiere of her latest video work,“Pelican,” which will be followed by a Q&A and reception with refreshments. Sun, 9/16, 6:30pm.

Free. The Holland Project, 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858, www.hollandreno.org.

RENO ART WORKS: RAW Open Studios. Reno Art Works is a non-profit artist co-op organization focused on and dedicated to providing professional work space, gallery and classroom space to artists of all mediums and styles. The gallery hosts new shows every month. Sat, 9/15, noon. Free. Reno Art Works, 1995 Dickerson Road, www.renoartworks.org.

HOGS FOR THE CAUSE WEST III: The third annual barbecue competition and music festival features culinary creations by local chefs and visiting chefs from New Orleans, a silent auction and performances by Galactic, Todd Snider and Dean Ween Group during the threeday event. All the funds raised support the families of pediatric brain cancer patients through Hogs for the Cause Foundation. Thu, 9/13-Sat, 9/15. $0-$125.

Crystal Bay Casino, 14 Highway 28, Crystal Bay, www.crystalbaycasino.com/ hogs-for-the-cause.

The Biggest Little Watercolor Show.

Sierra Watercolor Society presents its latest exhibition of original watercolor paintings by local artists and its annual judged show. A reception with the artists will be on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 1-4pm. Thu, 9/13-Sat, 9/15, Tue, 9/18Wed, 9/19, 11am. Free. Sparks Museum & Cultural Center, 814 Victorian Ave, Sparks, sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

individuals participate and compete in kayaking or stand-up paddling, mountain biking, trail running and navigation. Teams travel on land and lake to gather as many checkpoints as possible and finish within an eight-hour time limit. Sat, 9/17, 8am4pm. $125-$420. Commons Beach, 400 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, (530) 546-1019, bigblueadventure.com.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM, RANCHO SAN RAFAEL PARK: Work, Fight, Give: American Relief Posters of WWII. This exhibition of original relief posters and memorabilia provides a new window into understanding a watershed event in our nation’s history. Thu, 9/13-Sun, 9/16, Wed, 9/19. $4-$6. Wilbur D. May Museum, Rancho San Rafael Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.

mUsIC DOMINATOR & FRIENDS: An evening of

energetic ukulele music. Sat, 9/15, 7pm. $15-$20. Mountain Music Parlor,

season with guest conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong leading the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica.” Clarinetist David Krakauer and the RCO will perform Osvaldo Golijov’s “The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.” The program also features Mozart’s Overture to La Clemenza di Tito, K. 621. Sat, 9/15, 7:30pm; Sun, 9/16, 2pm. $5-$55. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., renochamberorchestra.org.

SUNDAY JAZZ AT RLT: Reno Little Theater, For the Love of Jazz and 89.5 KNCJ present this monthly event featuring The Bayberry Cast. Pay-what-you-can admission. Sun, 9/16, 7pm. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

ONsTAGE presents this contemporary rock musical. It follows a group of students at a Catholic boarding school as they grapple with issues of sexuality, identity and the future. Bare is a provocative and honest look at the dangers of baring your soul, and the consequences of continuing to hide. Thu, 9/13-Fri, 9/14,

7pm, Sat 9/15, 2pm & 7pm; Sun, 9/16, 2pm; Wed, 9/19, 6pm. Free. The Summit Mall, 13925 S. Virginia St., barereno.org.

COLLATERAL&CO. CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY: The dance company’s

Louise Forbush. Exhibition dates are Sept. 13-Oct. 13. Gallery hours are 9am-5pm on Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm on Saturday. Thu, 9/13-Sat, 9/15, Mon, 9/17-Wed, 9/19. Free. Stremmel Gallery, 1400 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-0558, stremmelgallery.com.

TAHOE BIG BLUE ADVENTURE RACE: Teams and

RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH DAVID KRAKAUER: The RCO starts its 2018-19

BARE—A POP OPERA: Mercury Momentum

SPARKS MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER:

STREMMEL GALLERY: Kim English and

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group Jellybread and reggae band Seedless 10DenC headline a fundraiser benefiting the launch of the Music Mothership and Moms on the Run. Fri, 9/14. 4pm. $15-$55. Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, (775) 815-8415.

performance explores and responds to the in-progress poems of Gailmarie Pahmeier, who has been traveling to Nevada state parks composing narratives about the people she encounters in these often remote locations. Sat, 9/15, 1pm. Free. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, nevadahumanities.org.

FUNTIME THEATER—DINNER MURDER MYSTERY: Help solve a murder mystery.

Dinner service starts at 7pm. Visit website for dinner choices. Sat, 9/15, 5:30pm. $40-$50. Sure Stay Plus Hotel by Best Western, 1981 Terminal Way, (866) 449-7630, funtimetheater.com.

OLEANNA: Reno Little Theater presents David Mamet’s two-character battle of the sexes. Thu, 9/13-Sat, 9/15, 7:30pm; Sun, 9/16, 2pm. $15-$25. Reno Little Theater, 147 E. Pueblo St., (775) 813-8900, renolittletheater.org.

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The first few dates are the free trial period of romantic relationships. Think of it like accepting a sample of lox spread at Costco.

You’re seeing how you like it—you aren’t committing to buy a salmon hatchery.

It sounds like you see a date as a Wile E. Coyote-style trapdoor dropping you into a relationship.

You and the guy have sex for the first time, and assuming he doesn’t fake his death afterward or ditch a burner phone he’s been texting you from, you two become a thing—right on track to sign up for those cute side-byside burial plots.

The problem is, this is like getting into a relationship with the first stranger who sits down on the bus next to you. You’re skipping an essential step—the “see who the guy is and decide” part. Even when the guy isn’t just some Tinder rando—even when you’ve known him for a while—you need to see who he is as a boyfriend and how you work as a couple.

Also, making matters worse, if you’re like many women, sex can act as a sort of snuff film for your objectivity, leading you to feel emotionally attached to the man with whom you just slept.

Psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss speculate that this may come out of the orgasm-driven release of oxytocin, a hormone that has been associated with emotional bonding. In men, testosterone goes all nightclub bouncer, blocking oxytocin so it can’t get to its receptor.

To keep sex from drugging away your objectivity, try something—unsexy broad-daylight dates with various guys for just a few hours each. Yes, various guys.

It’s not only OK to date more than one guy initially—it’s ideal. A man with rivals is a man who has to try harder.

Dead wait I’m a 35-year-old guy who’s been texting with this girl. She got out of a seven-month relationship two months ago and is still kind of emotional about it. We’ll make plans to go out, but she always cancels at the last minute, claiming that she’s “still a mess.”

Should I just keep texting with her and see where things lead?

Think about the guys women get stuck on—those they can’t get to text them back, not those who put out lighted signs visible from space: “iPhone’s always on! Call 24/7!”

Consider FOMO—fear of missing out—or, in scientist-speak, the “scarcity principle.” That’s psychologist Robert Cialdini’s term for how the less available something is the more valuable—and desirable—we perceive it to be. This is not because it actually becomes more valuable but because scarcity triggers a motivational state—a state of “Grab it or lose it!”

Contrast that with how available you are—to a woman who doesn’t seem ready for a relationship but is up for the emotional perks that come with. So she sucks up the consoling texted attention she gets from you but ducks out of any in-person gettogethers that could eventually lead to your trying to, well, console her with your penis.

Consider shutting off the therapy spigot and making yourself scarce until she’s ready to date. Tell her you want to take a timeout from texting and give her a little time to heal ’n’ deal and then go on a date.

Pick a night—about a month from now—and ask her to put it on her calendar, explaining that it’s fine if she needs to reschedule if she still doesn’t feel ready.

Putting it on the calendar makes it tangible—but putting it in the future, with an option to push it forward, takes the pressure off. And your disappearing for a while is probably your best shot at shifting your, um, zoological category—to potential “animal in bed” from emotional support animal in the Hello Kitty diaper for the plane. Ω

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For the week oF September 13, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Anne Carson

describes part of her creative process in this way: “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.” I suspect you might be able to benefit from using a comparable trick in the coming days. That’s why you should monitor any odd dreams, seemingly irrational impulses or weird fantasies that arise in you. Although they may not be of any practical value in themselves, they could spur a train of thought that leads you to interesting breakthroughs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The idea of liberation

through the suppression of desire is the greatest foolishness ever conceived by the human mind,” wrote philosopher E.M. Cioran.

I agree that trying to deny or stifle or ignore our desires can’t emancipate us. In fact, I’m inclined to believe that freedom is only possible if we celebrate and honor our desires, marvel at their enigmas and respect their power. Only then can we hope to refine them. Only then can we craft them into beautiful, useful forces that serve us rather than confuse and undermine us. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in this spiritual practice, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Remember that some-

times not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck,” says the Dalai Lama. Ain’t that the truth! When I was 22 years old, there were two different women I desperately yearned for as if they were the Muse Queens of Heaven who would transform me into a great artist and quench my infinite passion. Fortunately, they both rejected me. They decisively set me free of my bondage to them. Later, when I was older and wiser, I realized that blending my fortunes with either of them would have led me away from my true destiny. I got lucky! In a similar but less melodramatic way, Gemini, I suspect you will also get lucky sometime soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’ts for Boys or Er-

rors of Conduct Corrected was an advice book for boys published in 1902. Among many other strictures and warnings, it offered this advice: “Don’t giggle. For the love of decency, never giggle.” There was additional counsel in the same vein: “Don’t be noisy. The guffaw evinces less enjoyment than the quiet smile.” Another exhortation: “Don’t tease. Be witty, but impersonal.” In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby proclaim that all those instructions are utterly wrong for you right now. To sweetly align yourself with cosmic rhythms, you should giggle and guffaw and tease freely. If you’re witty—and I hope you will be—it’ll serve you well to be affectionate and personable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Simplicity is about sub-

tracting the obvious and adding the meaningful,” writes designer John Maeda. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak up,” says artist Hans Hofmann. “Simplicity strips away the superfluous to reveal the essence,” declares a blogger named Cheo. I hope these quotes provide you with helpful pointers, Leo. You now have the opportunity to cultivate a masterful version of simplicity.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your keynote is the

Japanese word shizuka. According to photographer Masao Yamamoto, it means “cleansed, pure, clear and untainted.” One of his artistic practices is to wander around forests looking in the soil for “treasures” that emanate shizuka. So, in his definition, the term isn’t about being scrubbed or sanitized. Rather, he’s interested in pristine natural phenomena that are unspoiled by civilization. He regards them as food for his soul. I mention this, Virgo, because now is an excellent time for you to get big doses of people and places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear and untainted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger

Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes candidly about her relationship with herself. She keeps us up to date with the ever-shifting self-images that float through her awareness. Here’s one of her bulletins: “Stage 1. me: I’m the cutest thing in the world. Stage 2. me, two seconds later: no, I’m a freaking goblin. Stage 3. me, two seconds after that: I’m the cutest goblin in the world.” I’m

guessing that many of you Libras have reached the end of your own personal version of Stage 2. You’ve either already slipped into Stage 3, or soon will. No later than October 1, you’ll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There’s no such thing

as love,” said Scorpio painter Pablo Picasso, “there are only proofs of love.” I’m tempted to believe that’s true, especially as I contemplate the current chapter of your life story. The evidence seems clear: You will thrive by engaging in practical demonstrations of how much you care. You’ll be wise to tangibly help and support and encourage and inspire everyone and everything you love. To do so will make you eligible for blessings that are, as of this moment, still hidden or unavailable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to a

Pew Research Study, nearly 75 percent of Americans say they talk to God, but only 30 percent get a reply. I’m guessing the latter figure will rise dramatically for Sagittarian Americans in the next three weeks, however.

Why? Because the astrological indicators suggest that authorities of all kinds will be more responsive than usual to Sagittarians of all nationalities. Help from higher powers is likely to be both more palpable and more forthcoming.

Any communications you initiate with honchos, directors and leaders have a better-thannormal chance of being well-received.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): One day in October 1926, author Virginia Woolf inscribed in her diary, “I am the usual battlefield of emotions.”

It was a complaint, but also a brag. In fact, she drew on this constant turmoil to fuel her substantial output of creative writing. But the fact is that not all of us thrive on such ongoing uproar. As perversely glamorous and appealing as it might seem to certain people, many of us can do fine without it. According to my analysis, that will be true for you in the coming weeks. If you have a diary, you might justifiably write, “Hallelujah! I am NOT a battlefield of emotions right now!”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Anthropologist Mar-

garet Mead had definite ideas about “the ways to get insight.” She named them as follows: “to study infants; to study animals; to study indigenous people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it.” I have my own list of ways to spur insight and inspiration, which includes: to do walking meditations in the woods on a regular basis, no matter what the weather; to engage in long, slow sex with a person you love; to spend a few hours reviewing in detail your entire life history; to dance to music you adore for as long as you can before you collapse from delighted exhaustion. What about you, Aquarius? What are your reliable ways to get insight? I suggest you engage in some of them, and also discover a new one.

You’re in the Flood of Radical Fresh Insights Phase of your astrological cycle.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Stanley Kubrick made

masterful films, but most of them bore me. I regard John Ashbery as a clever and innovative poet, but I’ve never been excited by his work. As for painter Mark Rothko, I recognize his talent and intelligence, but his art leaves me empty. The music of Nora Jones is pretty and technically impeccable, but it doesn’t move me. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to make the kinds of fine distinctions I’m describing here. It will be important for you to be faithful to your subjective responses to things, even as you maintain an objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.

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by MAtt BiEKER

Designer

that you’re being given a visions and gift and it’s your job to make it.

Is there a Reno “style”?

Clayton Beck is a photographer and fashion designer in Reno whose work has been featured in local media and business promotion. In honor of Fashion Week, we sat down to talk with him about his own inspirations and what constitutes “Reno style.”

I’ve been, since about 16 or 17, a creative kind of following my dreams. Moving to Los Angeles, working for a fashion celebrity photographer there, that kind of refined a lot of my skills in the photo realm. I wanted to do more photography, modeling, things of that nature, but ended up being more of an assistant, re-toucher, helping style or do makeup—whatever I needed to do to make the photo shoot happen. So that sort of shaped who I was in my craft.

Then, kind of evolving into loving everything about fashion and the magic of photo shoots. Coming back to my home, Bishop, California, and then moving to Reno and becoming a hairstylist—did that—and that shaped another realm, but I realized it wasn’t my industry. It was too limiting for me. Now, eight years later, I’ve been doing photography in Reno, being that person in the art scene and making an evolutionary change. Letting things fall aside and then letting things grow, like fashion. I realized what was missing in my photographs was the epic beauty of the clothing to create the vision that I would see in my head—I never really could find what I needed.

PHOTO/ MATT BIEKER

How did you first get involved with fashion?

For the past two years, I’ve been kind of balancing that, and watching how the universe is kind of pushing me to become a fashion designer. Fashion is the umbrella to everything that I’ve been learning and growing into. I can speak hair, makeup, photo, retouching, designing—I can basically do everything now in the language of fashion.

Where do you find a lot of your inspiration when it comes to designing?

Mother Nature really inspires me. I feel that she’s always been there for me. ...

Let’s say I see a scene and then I can basically see something evolve within my vision for something for that specific spot. Sometimes I’ll make something that I don’t know where it needs to be yet until that time is to manifest. Sometimes as a creative, you just have to create and don’t question why you’re making it, just know

I’m not really sure. Reno has a way of capturing an individual in their own way.

Everybody has their own thing. ... As long as you’re not messing with anyone or hurting anyone or doing something wrong, I guess you would say, you can really do and be whoever you want. I’ve worn crazy clothing just to push the boundaries. Going to Bibo, one of my friends was a client, and she was like, “The first time I met you, you were dressed as a ninja asking for a dirty chai.” Reno has this way of—I think Burning Man has helped that—like, do whatever the fuck you want, be whoever you want to be, and just be real. Because if you’re not real, Reno will just eat you up and spit you out. So as far as Reno style, there’s subcultures in Reno that kind of have their thing. ... I think the style would be, if there was a style for Reno, is just to show up and be real in whatever that looks like for you.

What are you goals?

As of right now I’m going to be moving to Bali. I got an opportunity to work for a fashion company as one of their co-creators—as a designer for male and female. That’s the thing, my destiny is very active, and I have to trust and let that become. And I think Reno has given me the tools and allowed me to see every facet of myself, and to push, to teach to grow, but also to allow the community and the culture... to call you on your shit but also empower you to grow. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Celestial glory and earthly failings Have you been checking out the Planetpalooza that has been on display in the night sky the last couple of months? Hope so. Our solar system has been strutting its stuff in the southern sky, putting on a planetary alignment array that has been—and still is—rather dazzling. And now that the doggone smoke is gone, it’s even more of a glittering glory.

Visible as soon as dusk gets dark (8 p.m. is good), you first see Mars, very obvious in its red rage just above the horizon to the south. Can’t miss it. Then, to the right, at about 2 o’clock, you’ll see, more faintly, Saturn. From here, make a wide arc to the right to see the next obvious bright star, which is mighty Jupiter. Then, still to the right, dangling just above the mountains to Reno’s west, is the brilliant evening star, Venus.

This epic configuration was at its

zenith in early August, when the full moon was in the center of this cosmic quintet, perfectly placed between Saturn and Jupiter. It was all so freakin’ Kubrickian I could barely stand it, the kind of perfect heavenly alignment that looked like a signal heralding the opening of some stellar portal into the MindBoggling Beyond.

• It’s fitting that a walking perjury trap like Twitler would nominate a demonstrable liar for the Supreme Court. And make no mistake, the Dems have Kavanaugh’s ass totally busted for lying in ’04 and ’06 in hearings surrounding a controversial Bush nominee named Pickering. Hey, forgive me if I sound like a naive refugee from 8th grade civics class, but aren’t Supreme Court justices supposed to not lie about shit? Am I hopelessly oldfashioned here?

On this topic, here’s a snarky little tweet I recently fired off—“Truly pitiful and infuriating to know that of the 49 Republican male senators, not a one can be counted upon to buck the hideous party line. Not a one with a nut in the vicinity of his david pecker. Hey Flake and Corker, vote NO on Kavanaugh! Why the hell not? WTF is the prob?”

It’s time, Flake and Corker. You guys have been crabbing about Trump for a while now and yet continually voting for everything Agent Orange wants. This is smarmy, shoe-licking spittleshit, now standard for GOP senators with spines of smegma. We ain’t impressed, to put it mildly.

But—all will be forgiven if you suck it up, walk the goddam walk, and vote NO on Trump’s personal power tool. We forgive easily here in Sanity City! Ω

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