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Today’s agenda Welcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.

In our cover story, we talked to folks at a local cannabis event for perspective on who uses marijuana and why.

Part of why we like running stories like this is because we want to normalize cannabis use. There’s still stigma. We sent our questionnaire to some local business owners and politicians, and received some “are you crazy?” replies.

Some community leaders still don’t want to be associated with cannabis (especially not as users).

I like using cannabis.

Probably not as much as you might expect judging by my long hair, ice-creameater’s physique, and eclectic music collection, but did I pop an edible before going to the Pixies concert at GSR last week? You bet.

At the RN&R, we treat cannabis as something nice, normal and non-threatening— the same way we treat craft beer, the same way we treat local theater, the same way we treat mini golf.

It’s not just a cultural issue.

It’s a justice issue. Cannabis prohibition laws in this country were developed as tools to target specific populations, especially African Americans. There are thousands of Americans still in prison on cannabis-related charges.

Cultural reforms can lead to legal reforms. It starts with normalization. Just think of how putting nice, normal and non-threatening gay characters in TV sitcoms changed national conversations about homosexuality.

Being gay is nice and normal. Playing mini golf is nice and normal. And using cannabis is nice and normal.

Of course, that’s probably just what you’d expect your local “liberal rag not fit to line a birdcage” to write. And you’re right. And we’re willing to say it in public.

—Brad Bynum bradb@ ne wsreview . com

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Re “Game day” (cover story, April 4): I think it’s pretty sad that your article [subtitled] “Where do Reno’s team loyalties lie?” makes no mention of the world’s and Northern Nevada’s game, soccer. Not only are there more kids playing soccer than any other sport in Northern Nevada, Reno is home to one professional and one semiprofessional team.

Reno 1868 FC plays in the second tier of soccer, the USL Championship. It is San Jose Earthquakes’ affiliate and plays at Greater Nevada Field, averaging over 5,000 people every home game.

The Nevada Coyotes play in the United Premier Soccer League, fourth tier, and play home games at Damonte Ranch High School.

In the first two seasons, 1868 has made the playoffs both years and has a rabid fan base with three independent supporter groups who represent all ages, ethnicities and members of the local community.

The Coyotes has won every trophy in its league and have recruited players from such far flung places as Kazakhstan, Scotland and various African countries.

Perhaps if your journalist actually got out of the sports books and sports bars and did some research, or perhaps, God forbid, got himself to Greater Nevada Field to see 1868, he might understand what makes Northern Nevada’s game so popular. In fact, let’s do this. The Douglas Alley Renegades (one of the supporter groups) will comp him a ticket so he can join us and Los Unikos Del 68 (another one of the groups) at Red’s Broken Bat for the pre-game on April 20th before 1868 take on New Mexico United. We’ll show him what footie and the fans are all about, and then maybe teams that actually play in our Biggest Little City will get some coverage and respect from your newspaper.

Roy Douglas Reno

I am not a pro-AGW [anthropogenic global warming] zealot. I’m not a global warming denier either. I know the science because I read science journals, I do not get my doctored scientific information from the biased and thoroughly ignorant media, left or right. In addition, some of my closest intellectual pals are climate scientists. None of us is in denial that CO2 is a valid “greenhouse gas,” and none of us is in denial that the current ppm of atmospheric CO2 is relatively higher than the long-term norm. But because we know the paleo records, we know that global warming and cooling is a profoundly complex thing involving a multiplicity of interacting factors.

When the ice cores taken from Antarctica showed that over the past 400,000+ years each cyclical increase in global temperatures was followed—not preceded—by increases in atmospheric CO2 by upwards of 1,000-year lag times, the pro-AGW zealots had to scramble to find a way to spin this INCONVENIENT TRUTH to fit their anti-CO2 dogma. So, what they came up with is that each cyclical increase in global temperatures was due to changes in Earth’s spatial relationship to the Sun and the Sun’s cyclical solar activity. Great, no problem with that argument because those of us in-theknow know that Earth’s spatial relationship to the Sun and solar activity are indeed major factors in our planet’s warming-and-cooling dynamics. However, where this convenient spin by the pro-AGW zealots have placed them in checkmate is that out of the other corner of their mouths they claim that the current warming trend is not related to Earth’s spatial relationship to the Sun and solar activity.

Oops, you can’t have it both ways!

My Oxford climate scientist buddy, Peter Taylor, has calculated that about 18 percent of the 1.34 degrees F in global temperature rise over the past 100 years is due to anthropogenic CO2. Fair enough, we know that CO2 plays an important role in the regulation of Earth’s atmospheric temperatures. But

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this means that the other 82 percent is due to other factors unrelated to human activities.

An intelligent and honest person has to ask how it is that the pro-AGW zealots can callously dismiss the role of the other factors when those other factors account for roughly 4/5 of the current warming trend.

So, playing loosely with how the math actually sorts out, if CO2 accounts for roughly 18 percent of the current warming trend of 1.34 degrees F over the past 100 years, that means that CO2 is responsible for only 0.24 degrees F. Run for the hills, Maude, the end is near!

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Allow for privacy Senate Bill 224 makes the names of recipients of pensions administered by the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) confidential. Not secret, but confidential, to protect the privacy of the recipients.

But some news reports have used the more emotionally loaded term.

Although we’ve not heard any angry arguments about it at breakfast time at the Gold ’n’ Silver in Reno or Jack’s Café in Sparks, and although the hearings at the legislature have been reasonably polite, the Reno Gazette Journal calls 224 “deeply divisive.”

We have watched for years as the RGJ and a conservative political group have used lawsuits to try to pry loose the names of state pensioners from PERS. And we have often wondered why they want them. We can imagine a variety of stories about PERS that journalists could tell— comparing state pensions to private pensions, say, or the number of people who have more than one pension from mid-life career changes. But we are hard pressed to know how matching the name of the guy in the basement of the Nevada capitol who microfilms corporate registration documents or the name of the weights and measures woman who checks the accuracy of gas pumps to their pension amounts would advance those stories.

We can, on the other hand, see how the release of those names could injure the pensioners. We recently attended a Democratic Party meeting in Carson City where one of the audience members said, “Everyone here is a senior citizen, and they are preyed on by scam artists. Why put their names out there?”

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PERS makes available the kind of information that is useful for journalism—years of service, agency, pension amounts, averages, identification numbers and so on. But producing the names in this computer age is unnecessary.

Nevada Press Association director Richard Karpel seems to assume public workers are out to screw us all: “Hiding the names will make it much more difficult to detect fraud and abuse in the system.”

When PERS officials spell out the safeguards, he then argues, “And we’re now supposed to trust that they inform us when they discover the system they manage is being abused? Please.” We get why the conservative groups that sued for the names would take that approach, but those of us who use public employees every day as sources do not see either PERS or state investigative offices as having common cause with those trying to cheat the system.

Having said all that, we do think that some of the language in the bill is poorly drafted. It specifies that certain groups of big shots should not be identified—supreme court justices and state legislators, for example, along with all recipients of pension payments administered by PERS. Legislators should keep the latter language and drop the rest. It’s duplicative and poor PR. Journalists need to fight for openness for a reason and a purpose, not just openness for its own sake.

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When good ideas meet bad ends Every bill can’t be given a hearing in committee during Nevada’s 120-day legislative session. There is not enough time. Some unheard bills are based on a scientifically-false ideological premise— i.e., abortions cause breast cancer—and don’t deserve a hearing. Bills emerging from one political party’s base are often ignored when the other party is in control.

Sometimes bills aren’t heard because leaders or the governor have no intention of approving them and would rather avoid a hearing that will put individual members on the record. It’s better to let a committee chair stubbornly refuse to comment on why there was no hearing than to have individual members held accountable for what is seen as a needless vote.

But it’s unusual for three significant policy bills, all with strong support from the Democratic base, to die without a hearing when Democrats control the legislature and the governor’s office. This strategy

might protect legislators from having to take a stand and endure resulting pressure from their supporters, but it stifles public debate on important topics and angers constituents. Scuttling bills without a hearing sounds like a good solution at the moment, but it encourages rebellion later in the form of initiative petitions, a vastly inferior method of creating public policy.

Or people may decide not to vote, as Democrats did in 2014.

Legislators were mum about why the three bills died without a hearing last week when the deadline for moving a bill through committee arrived, undoubtedly hoping progressives were focused elsewhere. But voters who were expecting the payday loan industry to be reined in aren’t going to forget that their legislators didn’t even consider capping outrageous interest rates the companies charge—up to 652 percent—to desperate consumers.

Assembly Bill 118 would have capped the

interest rates at 36 percent, higher than in many states, but still a huge improvement.

When other legislatures refused to act on payday loan abuse, voters turned to initiative petitions to make the policy themselves. In Colorado last year, 77 percent of voters approved Prop 111, capping interest rates at 36 percent and eliminating all other finance charges and fees on payday lending. In 2016, South Dakota voters approved Measure 21 by 76 percent, also placing a 36 percent interest rate cap on short-term loans. The industry’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to the governor and legislators may not seem like such a great investment when voters respond with a 2020 initiative and fix what legislators clearly won’t As the death penalty continues to lose favor across the country, governors are declaring moratoriums, and legislatures are moving to eliminate it in favor of the penalty of lifetime incarceration. But

Nevada’s legislative leaders wouldn’t sanction a hearing on either of the death penalty bills in the Assembly or Senate.

And despite the debacle of killing a scientifically-based sex education bill in 2013 in the Democratic-controlled Nevada Senate after it had passed the Assembly with every Democrat voting in favor, this year the bill was refused a hearing, leaving our youth without the vital information they need.

Democrats have moved good bills on health care, gun safety and criminal justice reform towards passage. But that doesn’t let them off the hook for stifling debate on the abuses of the payday loan industry, the death penalty or sex education in our schools. Disappointed doesn’t begin to cover the reaction of many progressives who are wondering why they worked so hard for a Democratic majority not even willing to have a public conversation about these serious policy concerns. Ω

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by Dennis Myers

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The Nevada Legislature’s action on payday loans is being closely watched.

Massacre Rim, a federal wildlife study area in northwest Nevada near Vya and Cedarville, California, has been designated a planetary “dark sky sanctuary.”

Such designations are made by a private group called the International Dark-Sky Association which works to reduce light pollution. Nomination of the site was made

by Friends of Nevada Wilderness, working with the Cedarville office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

There are petrogyphs and sage hen in the area.

In an earlier, similar designation in 2005, the Jarbidge Wilderness region in northeast Nevada was designated by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science and the Wildlife Conservation Society as one of the places on Earth least disturbed by humankind.

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2020 caucus pLan sLated The Nevada Democratic Party will hold a meeting in Tonopah at the end of the month to seek approval of its new plan for the Nevada presidential caucuses.

The meeting will not be teleconferenced, local Democratic officials are being told by the state party, because Tonopah is not a good site for it. However, teleconferencing has been done routinely in the town by health care entities, the state judiciary and legal groups, and others in the last couple of years. Fibre optic upgrades were made in Nye County for just this purpose in late 2016 and early 2017.

In a release by the county’s electric co-op on Jan. 30, 2017, county information tech director Milan Dimic said, “We had many issues with response times before, including delays that were intolerable.

The connections were inconsistent and unpredictable. Bandwidth would drop with no warning. Since the fiber was installed, I’ve had zero complaints.”

The caucus plan comes after complaints from participants who want to be heard but don’t want to participate in the traditional caucus process. They just want to vote and go, akin to a primary, and the plan is reported to accommodate them. In addition, the plan is reported to reduce the chance of a candidate gaining votes between the caucuses and the Democratic state convention based on subsequent, post-Nevada events, as Bernie Sanders was able to do in 2016, though his gains did not give him control of the Nevada convention, where national convention delegates are named.

The plan can be read at https://bit.ly/2U5y8j7.

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Another effort at the Nevada Legislature to bring down the cost of running for municipal office is making progress.

Assembly Bill 282, which would change some city races from citywide to ward elections, has received a recommendation of “amend, and do pass as amended” to the full Assembly.

Businesspeople and particularly builders and developers in Reno prefer citywide elections because they allow more moneyed candidates to prevail more often. Past efforts to retain citywide elections have involved loaded language on a 2012 Reno city ballot measure intended to guarantee a particular result, and a 2017 veto by then-Gov. Brian Sandoval of a change to ward elections.

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Bidding war Payday loan bills inspire giving a flood of payday loan money flowed into campaigns in the last election, and it could succeed in stopping changes in Nevada law that would have curbed the high interest loan industry.

Democrats in the 1980 U.S. Congress, in thrall to deregulation, not only repealed federal usury (excessive interest) laws but imposed on the states a repeal of their usury statutes. The states could re-institute them, but many did not. “Financial deregulation (enacted by Democrats in 1980) legalized usurious lending and created a large pool of families (now around 12 million) who can’t afford a bank account and get ripped off by predatory lenders,” wrote economic journalist William Greider in 2008.

Credit card companies, banks and insurance companies were unleashed on the public, and a new “payday loan industry” evolved. As a result, a substantial portion of people in the United States have become trapped in debt, hampering the nation’s economic growth. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in February that household debt hit $13.5 trillion on Dec. 31. That was the eighth consecutive quarter that consumer debt hit a new historical high.

A recent audit by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division found that “33 percent of licensed payday lenders received a less-than-satisfactory examination rating annually over the last five years.”

At the Nevada Legislature, there are three bills dealing with the payday loans.

Assembly Bill 118, sponsored by Clark County Democrat Heidi Swank, would have created a 36 percent interest rate cap. This measure died when it failed to clear a deadline for action.

A.B. 360, sponsored by Clark County Democrat Dina Neal, would have moved some lenders into a different section of Nevada statutes to regulate them like traditional installment loan firms. It was supported by Dollar Loan Center. The measure also failed to meet a deadline and died.

Senate Bill 201, sponsored by Clark County Democrat Yvanna Cancela, provides for a database to determine when applicants apply for multiple loans.

It would fold into Nevada law some of the protections for military servicepeople in the U.S. Military Lending Act because the Trump administration has stopped enforcing it. This measure is still alive.

In preparation for this legislative session, the industry went to work.

• Dollar Loan Center gave $17,000 to 16 candidates.

• Advance America gave $37,750 in 47 contributions to candidates and entities like party caucuses.

• Check City gave $38,650 in 25 contributions to candidates and one Democratic PAC (Leadership in Nevada).

• Security Finance gave $23,000 to 27 candidates.

Cancela’s bill would require the state financial institutions commissioner to develop a database of loans made in Nevada, so loan companies can find out if their applicants already have outstanding loans and may be in over their heads, akin to the way pharmacies can find out through a statewide database when customers have already filled prescriptions at different pharmacies. The payday loan companies seem to badly want not to know that kind of information. State law limits how much of a borrower’s income loans can tie up. Witnesses for Dollar Loan Center have suggested the database could put DLC out of business and them out of jobs.

DLC employee Gloria Diaz: “I was able to assist [her children] in getting an education. … With Dollar Loan Center, I’m able to provide for my family. In the near future, I will find myself taking care of my elderly mother and my disabled brother, and without Dollar Loan Center this will not be possible.”

DLC employee Candace Tracy said she uses Dollar Loan herself: “DLC is a great place to work. … I’m able to provide help to people in need, and it’s ultimately fulfilling to me. … Working at DLC reassures me that my family and I will have our own shot at the American dream. … I should be able to go next week and get something [with a DLC loan]. The database is going to tell me that I can’t. If I have the money to pay it off, and I’ve proven that I can do it, the database shouldn’t stop me.”

But such witnesses did not explain how the database would threaten the business or their jobs. To the contrary, some of them claimed DLC already complies with what the database would require—and their companies are still in business.

Legal services that try to help overburdened low income workers who are in over their heads say the problem is not just multiple loans. It is also “rollovers.”

Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada attorney Tennille Pereira: “The lenders often say, ‘OK, we’ll write a new loan to pay off that old loan.’”

Bailey Bortolin with the Nevada Coalition of Legal Service Providers said loan customers who are being pursued with collection agency tactics may actually not be a legitimate targets and can be aided.

“They’re reached a desperate situation by the time they’ve gotten [to legal aid],” she said, and then it is discovered that “this loan is not in compliance with Nevada law.” They inform the loan company, which stops harassing the borrower. “I wish that every violation that we see goes into the public record,” she said.

One witness testified against the database not on loan issues but on privacy.

Latin Chamber of Commerce President Peter Guzman: “Databases, intended to help I’m sure, end up being databases of minorities and in particular Latinos. … We are vehemently opposed to the idea of keeping and tracking in the form of a database that will end up being a database full of Latinos. We are adamantly against that. That means this will be a database that has a risk of being hacked. … These names could end up in the hands of people who don’t like immigrants.” He urged larger traditional banks to get into the business of helping small loan applicants.

The measure is in the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, and its membership shows the way payday loan money permeated the process:

Committee chair Pat Spearman received $1,000 from Dollar Loan Centers (DLC), $250 from Advance America (AA), $500 from Check City (CC) and $500 from Security Finance Corporation (SFC).

Member Marilyn Dondero Loop: $1,000 DLC. Member Nicole Cannizzaro: $500 AA, $1,000 DLC, $5,250 CC (in two payments), $500 SFC. Member Chris Brooks: $500 AA, $2,000 DLC (in two payments), $500 SFC. Member Joseph Hardy: $1,000 DLC. Member James Settelmeyer $1,000, $750 CC, $1,000 SFC. Member Heidi Seevers Gansert $1,000 DLC, $1,000 CC. Some of the pre-election investments were less than prescient. Check City, for instance, gave Committee Chair Spearman—who is in the Democratic majority—$500. But they gave Gansert, least senior member of the committee, who is in the GOP minority, $1,000.

And companies raced to copper their bets after the election, giving money to candidates they’d neglected who won anyway.

Gov. Steve Sisolak, incidentally, would have to sign any legislation approved by the lawmakers. He ranks this way: $2,500 AA, $4,000 (in two payments), $2,500 SFC. At an election forum during the campaign, Sisolak praised the database proposal.

Former state legislators like Marcus Conklin and William Horne have been hired by the loan companies to lobby for them. Ω

One down, one up

The building that once contained the Silver Club in Sparks has been leveled and now work is underway on another structure—an amphitheatre—to replace it. Marnell Gaming, which owns the Sparks Nugget, is planning to use the site for outdoor concerts and programs associated with downtown special events like Hot August Nights.

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Water bills Lake legislation Friday April 12 was the deadline for bills in the Nevada Legislature to have made it out of committee or fail. The deadline saw the death of 274 bills. But as the Legislature continues its 2019 session, there are several measures pertaining to Lake Tahoe that are still alive.

Assembly Bill 93 made it out of committee one day before the deadline.

This bill makes changes to the way money from special license plates is distributed to groups to be used for the “support of the preservation and restoration of the natural environment of the Lake Tahoe Basin.”

Existing law authorizes the administrator of the Division of State Lands in the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to provide grants from money raised through special license plate sales to other public agencies to use for support of these preservation and restoration programs.

AB 93 would amend the existing law to also allow for grants to be distributed to nonprofit organizations working on similar projects.

Assembly Bill 220 is related to the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program, now in its 22nd year. The bill authorizes another $8 million of the $100 million in general obligation bonds authorized by the state in 2009 to provide money to carry “certain environmental improvement projects included in the second phase of the program.” For those who may not know, the program was launched in 1997 and is a partnership between federal, state, and local agencies as well as private landowners and the Washoe Tribe.

According to the text of Senate Joint Resolution 7, newly available data shows that nearly 10 million automobiles are

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Legislation related to Lake Tahoe during this session of the Nevada Legislature deals mostly with environmental issues.

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driven on the Lake Tahoe Basin’s roadways each year. This resolution was drafted to express “support for finding innovative transportation solutions in the Lake Tahoe Basin and for the efforts of the Bi-State Working Group on Transportation.” The Bi-State Working Group was convened in 2018 by California and Nevada to identify the region’s transportation challenges and funding shortfalls and prioritize solutions. The Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club, which represents more than 30,000 members and supporters in Nevada, wrote a letter in support of SJR7.

The summary for Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 states that its goal is to express “support for the role of science in the Lake Tahoe Basin” and to recognize “the role of the Tahoe Bi-State Executive Committee and the Tahoe Science Advisory Council in guiding environmental preservation, protection, restoration and enhancement efforts in the Lake Tahoe Basin.”

The Tahoe Science Advisory Council was established by a formal agreement between the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and California’s natural resources agencies in 2015. The council is comprised of representatives from six different research institutions, including Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno. Among its members’ current projects is a comprehensive review and update of the environmental thresholds, standards and indicators—from noise to air quality—for the Tahoe Basin. According to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the current environmental threshold standards were adopted by in 1982. Ω

Learn more about this session’s legislation pertaining to the lake by visiting the Nevada Legislature website: www.leg.state.nv.us.

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when i’m high, it’s like it adds that bit of emeril lagassé to my Cooking.”

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- Jenes Carter

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Locals share their thoughts on pot Compiled with photos by Jeri Chadwell

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t’s been almost two years since Nevada dispensaries opened their doors to recreational cannabis users. In the first year, sales smoked expectations with a total of $69,759,783 in wholesale and retail taxes collected from purchasers. And it looks like this year’s sales will produce even more revenue and tax dollars. With five months of data left to compile, the state of Nevada Department of Taxation already reports a total of $55,990,991 collected in taxes during the 2019 fiscal year. The numbers indicate one thing for certain; Nevadans of all different kinds are consuming cannabis. It also seems the stigma associated with marijuana is lessening.

During a recent private event called the High Sierra Smokeout, attendees packed into Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., to listen to music and get high in the venue’s large concert hall.

The event drew adults of all ages.

From favorite strains to biggest stereotypes about smokers, we asked some of them to share their thoughts on pot with us.

david daniels SeLF-emPLoyeD

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

I do. I like RISE.

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

Jenes Carter ArTIST/eNTerTAINer

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

I do have a favorite local dispensary.

It’s Silver State Relief. They get really involved in the community. There have been so many shows we’ve done with [my band] Mojo [Green], and they’re there. They’re part of it. … It’s really nice how they place themselves in our community.

What’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

The movies. I’m feeling all deep. I’m trying to be in the moment.

Do you prefer indica, sativa or hybrid?

The way my body is set up, things that are uppers take me to different places than things that are technically downers will. So I like indicas, because it’s the opposite for me, and it makes me feel more up—even though it’s not, like, “the one” for that.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

OK. So I started out smoking Black & Milds. And blunts kind of look like that, so it just sort of happened. Then I was like, “Oh, OK, I’m high.” And it was mostly just like that, not amazing, but it just happened.

What’s your favorite way to consume?

Just a simple joint. I can do a blunt—but joints get me to the right place. … It’s just like if you’re drinking something, you know, you want to be balanced. You don’t need to over do it.

You get to that point where you don’t have to get fucked up. Smoking a joint does that for me.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

I like Bone Thugz[-n-Harmony].

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

I feel like everything I cook is good. … For the most part, when I’m in the moment, I’m really cooking—and I’m cooking good, because I’ve got to eat it. When I’m high, it’s like it adds that bit of Emeril Lagassé to my cooking—like, bam, uh oh! I’ll start throwing in different condiments and spices, get a little daring. As long as I’m not cooking while I’m high and hungry— because then it gets weird.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

I don’t know if there’s anyone else I’d like to get high with, but I’ve already been able to smoke with Snoop Dogg. … I’d just gotten into the LEX, just got in the club.

The security guard pointed me out and said, “You come up here.” I met Snoop, and I was asking dumb questions like, “How do you feel about having to ask for straws now when you get a drink.” He’s like, “I don’t drink as much.” I was like, “That’s crazy, because you’re not sippin’ on gin and juice. You’re just laid back.

Either way you’re fucking amazing.” And then he lit a blunt. He rolled a blunt, and it was like he was snapping almost. He put it in one hand, put all the stuff in there, and then, basically, in one snap, it was a blunt.

It was magical.

I like Jub Jub’s, actually. Or, you know, down by the river is cool, too. The River District is awesome.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

I was 15, I think. We actually smoked it out of computer paper. We ripped up a piece of computer paper and rolled it up. It was pretty crazy.

What’s your favorite way to consume?

Just a joint.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

Stoner doom metal.

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

I like conspiracy documentaries.

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

I’ve got to think here. I’ve cooked all sorts of things. My favorite edibles right now are raspberry shortbread cookies. They’ve got about 100 milligrams in them.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

Tommy Chong.

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

Laziness. It depends on the person, though, right? Some people it really does make lazy. Some people, it doesn’t affect them.

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

I don’t know if there’s one most inaccurate stereotype. I feel like people will try to identify smokers as people who are not motivated, people who won’t go out there and do their best. But there are so many people. The people who are running businesses—who are selling it—they obviously smoke it, and somehow they’ve been able to create a lucrative business.

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retiree

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

No. My boyfriend lives in Reno.

We’ve been to Mynt, and I don’t know the others.

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

I smoke all the time. It’s nonstop.

And where I live is really beautiful.

There’s a beavers in a creek that runs through my backyard. There’s all of this wildlife. It’s in Quincy.

Do you prefer indica, sativa or hybrid?

floor wasn’t where I thought it was going to be.

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

What’s your favorite way to consume?

I make edibles—candy and cookies.

I just smoke it. I love dab, but we smoke a lot of blunts at our house—or vape. I have a Volcano Vape.

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

I like a good romantic comedy.

We don’t watch a lot. We play Super Scrabble. It’s a bigger board. We watch America’s Got Talent or sports.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

Willie [Nelson].

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

That it makes you stupid. I get mad.

I have two older friends who—if they say something stupid or they do something stupid—they’ll say, “Well, I’m stoned.”

Indica, for sure. Afghan, they used to say. They don’t say that anymore.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

I didn’t think I felt anything, and when I went to take a step the

KiKi BrisKer

Budtender/podcaster

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

It’d be Silver State Relief. That’s where I work, and, I mean, that’s my favorite dispensary. That’s my biased answer.

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

After I’m stoned, I definitely go get some food somewhere. Lately it’s been Firehouse Subs. It’s pretty fire.

They’re really good.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

It was right when Wiz Khalifa dropped that mixtape, Kush & Orange Juice. So it was 2010. That was the first time I smoked, and it was really trippy—really trippy, like movie, cinema-type trippy. I don’t know how else to explain it. It was like I was seeing things in frames, type of thing.

What’s your favorite way to consume?

Lately, the easiest way for me has been vaping. I have two cartridges on me at all times.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

I guess you could say neo soul. I really like jazz, and I really like hiphop. And I made up a genre called “jazz-hop,” but I don’t know if that’s a real genre. I really like soul music and R&B and instrumentals.

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

I try to find new things all the time to watch. I never really stick to one thing. I go off references a lot.

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

I’m thinking too hard about it. Let me think recent. I made some shrimp and spinach Alfredo noodles. It was so fire. I snapchatted that.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

This is a no brainer—Wiz Khalifa.

I met him, but it was at a radio station in Vegas. … My real answer would be Dizzy Right, too.

I could smoke with my homey again and have a real conversation—because we haven’t since he blew up. He’s from Vegas too.

My fan girl answer was Wiz.

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

That it’s a sin to use it. That is my biggest aggravation—people who think that way, that it’s not healthy to use it or that it dumbs you down when you use it. In certain aspects it can, but it’s all about education, about learning how to use it and not abuse it. …

With me being a budtender, I’m so fascinated with the science.

it’s all about

eduCation,

about learning how to use it and

not aBuse it. ” - KiKi Brisker

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AdAm SouSA

WoodWorking craftsman

T.R. SPRiggS Bartender/dJ

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

The desert. I like to be outside. … I smoke a bowl on the top of Mount Rose every year.

I guess Mynt, but whatever’s convenient.

Do you prefer indica, sativa or hybrid?

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

Tell us about the first time you got high.

My living room.

Do you prefer indica, sativa or hybrid?

I like to get high when I’m off of work, so I prefer an indica because I want to unwind from the day.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

It took me probably about a dozen times of smoking weed back in the ’90s before I got high in the first place. And I had a crush on a girl who wanted me to be a pot head with her, so I kept trying and never got high. Finally, about the 10th time, I got high. It works that way for some people. I was one of those people.

What’s your favorite way to consume?

I usually go with a hybrid.

It was out of a homemade bong. It was one of those plastic Garfield the Cat cookie jars with a Bic pen and a foil bowl. And that was the first piece I ever smoked out of.

What’s your favorite way to consume?

Bong or food. I made a weed beer before, which was my absolute favorite way to consume. I do chicken pot pot pie and weed beer.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

The chicken pot pot pie. That was a thing of genius. The name works. The taste works.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

Electro-swing or Tool.

Tommy Chong.

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

The Lord of the Rings series or the Hobbit series, that kind of stuff.

Lazy stoners. I smoke, and I get to work.

I like to smoke weed.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

Lately I’m into podcasts. I’ve been picking out music as my job since 1997. That’s 22 years later, so the podcasts are nice—because it’s not music.

Andy PonciA

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

Do you have a favorite local dispensary?

I like comic book movies. I’m a classic ’90s dude. I have a gargantuan comic book tattoo on my side.

What’s the best thing you’ve cooked while high?

Drawn butter—we made bud butter and grilled shrimp and dipped the shrimp in the butter. That was the highest I’ve ever been. … That was bonkers. Don’t do that.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

That’s a crazy good question. If I could meet any celebrity it’d be Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, high or not. I’d like to shake his hand. I’ve smoked weed with my weed heroes already. B-Real from Cypress Hill smoked me out.

Poker dealer

I was driving—which probably isn’t a good thing. I thought I was following my friend, and then when I caught up to the car, it wasn’t him. I ended up getting lost in a town I wasn’t really familiar with. I mean, not too bad—I knew in general where I was. But I was confused as to where I was at for a little while.

mARijuAnA hAS been wondeRful. i’ve been All foR iT Since i STARTed Smoking iT.”

What’s your favorite way to consume?

- andy Poncia

Not at the moment. I used to have one in Santa Rosa. I lived in Quincy and Santa Rosa and went back and forth.

Where’s your favorite place to hang out while on cannabis?

Anywhere where there’s music.

Do you prefer indica, sativa or hybrid?

Indica is what I’d rather have. I have pain issues, too, so that’s kind of how I started—and that was, like, in 1976. I was 21.

Tell us about the first time you got high.

I prefer joints. I do dabs and the vape pen. I use creams, too, for muscle pain—and edibles. And I found CBD helps. … Marijuana has been wonderful. I’ve been all for it since I started smoking it.

What’s your favorite music to listen to when you’re high?

Mojo Green. If you haven’t seen them—I go there, and sometimes I don’t feel so good, and I have to just sit, but I’ll catch myself dancing in my chair or just having to get up. It’s just because of the music. It’s just a good draw—and a bunch of wonderful people, also.

What’s your favorite movie or thing to watch when you’re stoned?

I like comedy—something like Caddy Shack.

The celebrity with whom you’d most like to partake?

Probably a lot. I’m trying to think. I mean, times have changed since I was young. Willie Nelson’s was a very cool cat, I think, in my time. Now it would be different probably. Snoop would be cool, too.

What’s the most inaccurate stereotype about pot or pot smokers?

There’s a lot. But I got to convince my parents, so I don’t know. I made them realize how beneficial it was for me—with sleeping and being in less pain. They accepted it, but they made fun of hippies and people who smoked pot back in the day. Ω

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When they talked about tour highlights over beers about a month after the tour, the members of Four Stroke Baron—guitarist Kirk Watt, drummer Matt Vallarino and bassist Keegan Ferrari—laughed about this incident, but at the time it was a bit rattling.

Vallarino unspooled the story, which

started as he woke up from trying to sleep on a squeaking, noisy tour bus.

“I checked my phone and saw four messages from Keegan,” Vallarino said. “So I looked for him in his bunk, and he wasn’t there.

‘Holy fuck, Keegan’s not on the bus!’

So I called him back, and he’s just huffing and puffing: ‘Dude. The bus.

Left me.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, we can’t turn around, man, we’re behind schedule.’”

Of course, the bus did come back around to pick Ferrari up, who was talking to his girlfriend on the phone before it pulled away. As it happens, his watch was about 15 minutes off so he missed the 2 a.m. call to get back on the bus from a stop on the road.

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Reno rock band Four Stroke Baron playing at Club Pralnia in Wroclaw, Poland, during their recent European tour.

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“So I start sprinting, trying to catch up to the bus, and I’m at eyelevel with the driver and they didn’t see me,” Ferrari said. “And I’m screaming, ‘Wait! Stop! Wait, wait wait!’”

Apart from that touring rite of passage—whether you are in a bus or your buddy’s van—Four Stroke Baron’s 14-date tour wasn’t really ripped from a screenplay.

“We don’t have tour stories like you hear: ‘Oh, the women and the drugs,’” Watt said. “We did get really hammered and hung out with the band, though,” Vallarino adds.

Oh, and they did go bowling at a German truck stop with the touring bands on a day off.

So, it’s not exactly Crüe-worthy, but it is an exciting time for this intriguing band that has taken a less obvious path toward international tours and national record contracts.

From its ’80s-pop-meets-snarlingmetal sound to its way with a bizarre lyric, Four Stroke Baron’s not playing by the rules—yet it’s paying off.

Sweet Smell of SucceSS For starters, Four Stroke Baron only played Reno, Los Angeles and Oregon before its run of February shows in Europe. The bandmates played in Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

The band’s management got them the tour, with some help from the headliners, the excellent jazz-meetsmetal band Shining. Their founder and sax player, Jorgen Munkeby, made a guest appearance on 4SB’s “Planet Silver Screen,” which was released late last year on national metal label Prosthetic Records. They signed the band after hearing their self-released work on the Bandcamp music site.

The tour was hectic, with only two days off. “It was back-to-backto-back shows with three showers for the whole tour and we smelled great,” Vallarino said.

The reactions were positive for the most part, and the band loved the camaraderie between the other touring bands and crew. They also got to meet a ton of new fans, sign some autographs and sell a ton of albums and merch.

“It was just a very positive reaction,” Vallarino said. “Everyone there was super nice.”

Now, back down to Earth as well as Reno, the members of Four Stroke Baron hope to join another band’s U.S. tour sometime this year, but in the meantime they will be playing one-off shows when they can. That includes the Spring Meltdown metal festival on May 18 at Whiskey Dick’s in South Lake Tahoe.

The journey to being a band with some buzz started from humble beginnings. In 2011, Watt answered a Craiglist “band wanted” ad from Vallarino. With another bassist for a time, the duo just played around with song ideas and genres, with no ambitions to play shows or even record.

“We were just hanging out and jamming, and we did that for several

Four Stroke Baron only played Reno, Los Angeles and Oregon before its run of February shows in Europe. The bandmates played in Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. years, but I was starting to get kind of bored with it,” Watt said. “One day, we just hit on the idea to play this weird, really sludgy stuff, just fun and easy-to-play metal.”

From there, the band released a self-titled EP in 2014 and an album, King Radio, in 2015. By this time, they had to find a new bassist. Watt knew Ferrari and asked him to jam with the band in 2016.

“We still didn’t have any plans to do some crazy live thing,” Vallarino said. “We just wanted to put our music up for free online so more people could hear it.”

The folks at Prosthetic Records did hear it on Bandcamp, which is known for its cadre of committed music fans. They liked the band enough to give them a shot at a national release for their next record, Planet Silver Screen.

The results have been great, as rock and metal playlists on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have led Four Stroke Baron to a much wider audience than just their pals in Reno.

“We have also been published in a bunch of magazines now, and the reviews have been

fairly positive,” Ferrari said. “There’s been nothing that’s overwhelmingly bad. Some just say, ‘This is a band that’s just starting out, but I think they can go somewhere.’”

Work in progress Here’s where explaining what Four Stroke Baron does gets tricky. Yes, they are on a label with metal bands, but they instead write songs that cross genre lines like bootleggers cross county lines with the cops on their tails. UK post-punk, ’90s noise rock, straight-up classic rock and pop, and stoner/doom metal all get a place at the table for a heady mix that gets its hooks into you once you get acclimated.

Plus, they don’t write conventional metal lyrics, although they did point out that there is a lot of death at the end of their songs. Written collectively and often coming to the group in the form of wacky dreams or crazy ideas, they include songs about a kid who is struck by lightning, a cop who is really happy about a new pair of shoes, and a professional bear wrestler who meets a gruesome, ignoble ending.

(That last one, “A Matter of Seconds,” will be the band’s next video.)

The band knows it’s in a weird genre spot, but it isn’t going to change, either.

“I think we’d be better marketed as an alternative rock band, if we were to set up the best expectations,” Watt said. “I just like metal production, but on pop songs.”

“Since our sound is so different, we get labeled as progressive metal, but then you can see where we’re probably not progressive enough for some people,” Ferrari said. “There’s no shredding or 18-minute songs. So they may start with a notion that isn’t correct and then grade it on that.”

“I think one of the coolest complements we got on tour was from this guy who said, ‘We know you guys aren’t a metal band—you’re a pop band that plays heavy-ass music,’” Vallarino said. “That’s a good way to explain it.” Ω

During their tour, Four Stroke Baron playeD a progreSSive metal event calleD complexity FeSt in haarlem in the netherlanDS. photo By hugheS vanhoucke, courteSy Four Stroke Baron

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id you know we send about 4,000 tons of trash to the Lockwood landfill every day during the winter? That’s like sending over 700 elephants to the landfill every day!

Washoe County generates 7.9 pounds of waste per person per day, nearly double the national average of 4.4 pounds. With the inception of disposable plastic, it has become far too convenient to use these materials, which has led us towards becoming a “throw-away” society.

change. Have you heard of the 5Rs? The 5 R’s were started by Bea Johnson who lives in a “Zero Waste Household.” They are Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. Start by refusing single use items like straws, disposable silverware, cups, and plates, food items wrapped in plastic, and those dreaded single use plastic water bottles.

Instead, bring your own reusable items with you like a reusable grocery bag. Some places, like WINCO, offer a discount to customers for every reusable bag they bring to the store.

Next reduce the amount of waste you are producing. Try making your own natural cleaning products by using white vinegar and baking soda instead of buying cleaning supplies in plastic bottles. Visit the Bulk Section at your grocery store to avoid all of that unnecessary excess packaging when grocery shopping.

Disposable plastic silverware, cups, straws, and plastic water bottles for instance, are only used once before being sent to the trash where they live in our landfills for eternity. Our trash can also end up somewhere in our environment as litter.

Scientists predict that by the year 2050 plastic waste will outnumber fish in our oceans. Plastic doesn’t decompose like many other materials, but rather breaks up into tiny pieces called microplastics that are getting into our waterways and bioaccumulating in our ecosystems.

Next reuse and find other creative uses for items rather than purchasing disposable items meant for one-time use. For example, aside from storing your marmalade, glass jars also make for great storage containers after you’ve used all of the jelly for those PB&Js. Use metal silverware at your event gatherings instead of those pesky single-use plastic silverware. Head to a thrift store and buy a bunch at a great price you only have to pay once!

After you have refused, reduced and reused you recycle what is left, which should behardly anything. Be sure to recycle right and check out KTMB’s recycling guide if you are unsure on how to recycle certain items.

Lastly we rot or compost food that can be turned into nutrient rich soil. Collect all the veggie and fruit scraps, place it into a bin and let nature do all the work! There are so many simple steps we can all take to make a positive impact and make Earth Day, Every Day! Just remember that there is no “away”. Visit www.ktmb.org formore information on ways you can help keep our community clean!

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Jeff Tremaine, director of Jackass films, tries to deliver an actual narrative movie and bombs miserably with this lame biopic of Motley Crue. Based on the book written by members of the band, the film covers the band from formation through their career and makes a mess of the whole thing. For starters, Tommy Lee-lookalike Machine Gun Kelly delivers a bad performance as the iconic drummer, making him into more of a cartoon than he already is. Daniel Webber is an annoying prick as lead singer Vince Neil, who actually is an annoying prick in real life, too, so I guess he gets a pass. Douglas Booth renders bassist Nikki Sixx boring, while Iwan Rheon is the closest thing to any fun as the old, grumpy guitarist Mick Mars. I confess, I’ve never liked the band, and I find their music amateurish and shitty, so liking a movie about them might be a stretch. Still, we are talking some bad wig acting here, and nothing revelatory whatsoever about the group. They had groupies. They did drugs, blah, blah, blah.

I never thought I’d see a rock biopic that annoyed me more than Bohemian Rhapsody, but here you go. (Streaming on Netflix.)

In a bucket A Hellboy movie without director Guillermo del Toro proves to be a very unfortunate thing with Hellboy, the third movie based on the classic Dark Horse comic.

This isn’t a sequel. It’s a reboot, and a cheapassed, sloppy reboot at that. David Harbour steps in for Ron Perlman to play the title role, while Neil Marshall (The Descent) haphazardly directs in place of Guillermo del Toro. While Harbour (Stranger Things) is OK in the role, he does little to distinguish himself, basically doing some lightweight riffing on a character Perlman established.

He’s a lot like Perlman, but he’s not as good as Perlman.

Gone is the richness and depth of del Toro’s world, replaced by choppy CGI, unimpressive makeup and messy editing. The movie is just one lackluster action sequence after another, strung together with slow dialogue scenes that do nothing to make the film feel coherent.

The movie starts off on a goofy note, with Hellboy in a wrestling match with his former partner turned vampire. That sounds stupid, and it is, giving the film a silly note to start on as the narrative jumps from vampire-slaying to giant-hunting.

Hellboy battles giants, who are represented with the aforementioned choppy CGI. Marshall apparently got the go ahead to incorporate a lot of gore, and the movie has a lot of blood, to the point where it has a numbing effect.

The main villain here is Nimue, also known as The Blood Queen and played campily by Milla Jovovich. One of the film’s many flashbacks shows Nimue in a showdown with King Arthur, resulting in her getting her arms and legs cut off. As I write this, I realize that King Arthur cutting somebody into bits with his sword is very Monty Python and the Holy Grail, something that didn’t dawn on me while I was actually watching the movie. That would probably be because The Holy Grail was classic fun, and

“So ... we’re just going to carry the head around, huh?”

Hellboy is a miserable time. Fun comparisons were miles away from my brain.

The film isn’t totally void of visual coolness.

When Hellboy emerges from his hole with fire crown and horns, wielding Excalibur, you get a sense of what might have been had Marshall found a consistent tone. The movie doesn’t know if it’s a horror movie, a comedy or a comic fantasy. And it doesn’t work as a horror/comedy because it is neither funny nor scary.

One thing this movie offers that, I confess, I’ve never seen before, is the psychic ghost puker.

Actor Ian McShane has endured some embarrassing moments onscreen during his illustrious career, but this movie features a scene where his character’s ghost is vomited out of somebody’s mouth. He becomes a sort of puke ghost, a grotesque body with a fairly normal head, flowing out of a person’s face. McShane is then forced to recite some earnest dialogue, all while appearing as a vomit ghost. It’s amazing, in a bad way, that the puke ghosts made it into a movie. Some ideas need to die in the writer’s room.

The stated budget for this movie was $50 million, low by today’s blockbuster standards, and lower than del Toro’s Hellboy movies. Del Toro wanted to make a third movie, but he left the project due to creative differences. I think his exit probably had to do with the producers being cheap.

While del Toro’s works were masterful pieces of art direction, this Hellboy looks like countless other cheaply shot dark fantasies before it.

The final scene of the film seems to be setting the table for a sequel, a sequel that won’t happen for a long time, if ever. Del Toro was ready and willing to put together the third and final chapter in his Hellboy trilogy. Instead we get this, a shlocky restart to a franchise that, most assuredly, will stall again. Ω

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Dumbo

The decline of Tim Burton continues with Dumbo, his wasteful remake of the classic animated movie that amounts to a big nothing, for kids and adults alike.

The original Dumbo clocked in at just over an hour, while this one lasts for nearly two hours that feel like 40. Yes, the running time has been padded, but not with anything that registers as beneficial. A bunch of unnecessary subplots and added characters take away time from the title character, an admittedly cute CGI achievement. There are no talking animals in this movie, so scratch Timothy the mouse, the singing crows and the lullaby from Mama elephant off your list of expectations. The mouse—who makes a brief appearance as a caged mouse wearing a hat—is replaced by the requisite precocious children, one of them played by Thandie Newton’s daughter. Sorry, Thandie Newton’s daughter, but you can’t act. Colin Farrell appears as Holt, the precocious children’s dad, back from World War I with one arm, and his wife died of the flu while traveling with the circus. The circus is led by Max Medici (a blustery Danny DeVito), who has purchased a cheap, pregnant elephant. He wants Holt to be the keeper of his elephants, a comedown from his previous gig as a circus cowboy. Farrell, like most of the humans in this movie, seems lost. V.A. Vandevere, the villain of the film, played by Michael Keaton, purchases Dumbo and plans to make him a main attraction at his Dreamland, which has a strong resemblance to Disneyland. So, in a way, Vandevere is modeled after Walt Disney and is portrayed as an evil megalomaniac.

So, in essence, Burton gets away with indirectly portraying Walt Disney as a bit of a greedy monster. I’m not saying this is anything inaccurate, but it’s a little odd to see in an actual Disney movie.

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Pet Sematary

The original cinematic take on Stephen King’s supposed scariest novel was a camp horror hoot, a strange mixture of gore and satire that holds up pretty well today. This take is more of a straightforward approach to King’s story about humans who can’t deal with death, especially when it comes to pets and family members. Jason Clarke steps in as Louis Creed, big city doctor moving to the country, where his wonderful new house is unfortunately bordered by a pet cemetery/Indian burial ground in the back and a road full of speeding trucks to the front. The death of the family cat leads to an ill-advised burial in the cemetery, which leads to a zombie return of the beloved cat. The cat is followed by a family member, and King fans will be surprised to see who that family member is (as long as you haven’t seen many of the commercials). This remake is sorely lacking the sense of humor that made the

original twisted in a solid, King sort of way.

The behavior of everybody in this movie is so stupid that when it is played straight, it just comes off as moronic rather than scary. Jete Laurence is very good as the young daughter, and John Lithgow is OK with a more serious take on neighbor Jud (played by the late, great Fred Gwynne in the original). The movie drifts away from the original book too much in the end and, again, could’ve used a few more sick laughs. It’s admirable that the filmmakers were shooting for something other than a note by note remake of the original but, by going off book too much, they lose some of the cruel sting of King’s intentions.

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Us

The DC universe gets its best movie since Wonder Woman with Shazam!, a fun—and sometimes shockingly dark—blast of comic book superhero fantasy. While a little sloppy at times, the movie works thanks to its central performances and warmhearted core. Zachary Levi proves an excellent choice to play the title character, the net result of a 14-year-old boy being handed super powers by a wizard (Djimon Hounsou). That boy is Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a foster child in search of his real mom. When he yells “Shazam!” a lightning bolt blasts him in his melon, and he becomes the glorious, red-suited, white-caped superhero, albeit a superhero with a 14-yearold’s brain. This gives Levi the chance to do a Tom Hanks-in-Big kind of shtick, and he’s good at it. The new Shazam, who goes by various names, including Captain Sparkle Fingers, gets coached by his superheroobsessed sidekick and foster brother, Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer). Freddy is one of the big reasons this movie works despite its flaws. Grazer employs the same kind of whip smart line delivery that made him one of the more memorable kids running away from Pennywise. While the movie doesn’t always work due to some abrupt tonal shifts and subpar CGI, it’s refreshing to see DC go a comedic, shiny superhero route after the gloomy blunders that were Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Justice League and the goofy bombast of Aquaman. Shazam! has some of the joy that’s missing from the latest Superman flicks.

Oh, those evil doppelgangers and their wonderful place in horror lore. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twin Peaks, The Thing and now Us, Jordan Peele’s extremely creepy follow up to Get Out. The film starts with a quote about America having many miles of tunnels underneath its surface, then a quick flashback shot of a C.H.U.D. videotape next to a VCR. A TV plays an advertisement for Hands Across America, and you already have all sorts of subtext before anything even really happens. When a young girl (Madison Curry) in the same ’80s flashback drifts away from her father at an amusement park and finds herself in a darkened hall of mirrors, Peele immediately states that he’s not playing around with this movie. Prepare to be scared, disturbed and uncomfortable in a good way. The film then jumps to the present day, where Adelaide and Gabe (Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke) are taking their children, Zora and Jason (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) to the beach. It’s the same beach we saw in the flashback and, much to her chagrin, Adelaide was that young girl who ventured into that hall of mirrors. She’s not happy about revisiting the Santa Cruz pier, but the husband and kids really want to, so she takes one for the team. Us has a larger scope than I was expecting and qualifies as one of the better apocalypse movies I’ve ever seen. No question, writer-director Peele has been gobbling up zombie, slasher and isolation horror movies all of his life, and their influences play a significant part in his vision.

The movie is a mind-bender, but it’s also an efficient, bare-knuckled horror-thriller. In short, it’s the whole package as far as horror movies go.

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La Mint serves Vietnamese favorites and other Asian dishes in a casual setting.

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With bamboo parasols hanging from the ceiling and a prominent mint leaf motif, La Mint offers a menu of Vietnamese favorites and other Asian dishes in a pleasant, casual setting. With prompt service and plenty of room for the whole family, my frequent young dining companions wasted no time studying the menu.

Starting with an order each of grilled pork and shrimp spring rolls ($6, four pieces), the tightly rolled rice paper was stuffed full of vermicelli, lettuce, mint, bean sprout and cilantro. The pork rolls had a bit more meat than the shrimp, but both were great dunked in an exceptional, slightly spicy peanut sauce. These were followed by the twin boys’ favorites, pot stickers ($8, six pieces) and crispy calamari ($9). The deep-fried pork and vegetable dumplings were pretty big, remaining crispy through a dip in house soy sauce. The squid was lightly battered, tender and almost outshone by its accompanying stir-fry of jalapeño, bell pepper, scallion and garlic. I didn’t bother with the provided sweet and sour sauce. There was already plenty of flavor going on.

A bowl of wor wonton soup ($10) included plenty of pork and shrimp fried dumplings, plus shrimp, chicken, barbecued pork, broccoli, bok choy, cabbage and carrot swimming in a suitably savory chicken broth. I thought the wontons were a little tough, but my daughter seemed pleased. My friend’s rare beef and brisket pho ($9.50) was similarly loaded with tender meat, scallion, cilantro, fried onion and vermicelli in a rich beef broth. The optional toppings of bean sprout, Thai basil and jalapeño were put to use, though a lemon wedge was substituted in place of the expected lime. All in all, it was a very decent bowl of pho.

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We had to caution one of the lads not to touch his sizzling cast iron platter of barbecued pork ($13), lest he receive a lesson he hadn’t planned on. The mix of broccoli, mushroom, bamboo shoot, bok choy, baby corn, carrot, celery and water chestnut—stir-fried in brown sauce—was pretty good once it settled down, but the sliced pork was a bit tough and overcooked. However, his brother’s Korean short ribs marinated with honey and lemongrass ($14) were tender and packed with flavor. Served with a simple salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and a side of chicken broth laced with fresh scallion and cilantro, I was glad I got a taste before he dug in.

Though there are plenty of noodle bowls offered, I was lured by the promise of shrimp pad Thai ($14). Unfortunately, this turned out to be the one real disappointment of the meal. Instead of slightly broad rice noodles stir-fried together with egg, bean sprout, scallion and tamarind, I received a glued together pile of thin strands sitting atop the shrimp, with what amounted to a side omelet of egg and raw white onion. I fruitlessly tried to mix the egg and veg into the noodle nest, but probably should have left it alone. The shrimp were large and plentiful, but the hint of tamarind was completely overwhelmed by onion. Definitely the only example of pad Thai I’ve ever left on the plate, and I doubt I’ll want anything else with onion for a while. Ω

La Mint Vietnamese Kitchen 770 S. Meadows Pkwy., 470-8400 La Mint is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Learn more at la-mint.com.

by JeRi ChadWeLL

In full flow BlackWater Ryzn Todd Baumgartner started his latest band about two and half years ago. As a lifelong musician and longtime metalhead, he knew exactly what he was looking for—a group of musicians with whom he could create original music in the vein he loves.

Vocalist Baumgartner had the guitarist he wanted in friend Randy Lintz, and, from there, the two set out to recruit a full complement for their new outfit, BlackWater Ryzn. Rather than seeking a bassist and drummer from their shared pool of musical acquaintances, they turned to Craigslist.

“There’s a lot of guys in town, but, you know, I wanted something different,” Baumgartner said. “I didn’t want the same old guys who’ve been playing together for 20 years and know each other. Randy, when we were looking for a bass player, didn’t list the name of the band.”

After a few personnel changes over the last several years, the band has settled into a regular lineup—comprised of Baumgartner and Lintz accompanied by bassist Scott Dasnielt and drummer Jerry Coleman—and started producing original music that sounds like it might have come out of heyday of hair metal.

“We’re all children of the ’80s,” said Lintz.

“We just don’t have any hair anymore,” Coleman added.

But the band does draw heavily on the era’s influence still.

“I was in hair bands back in the ’80s—and I get my melodies from there and stuff, but we want heavy guitars, heavy riffs,” Baumgartner explained. “I would say a band called Dokken and a band called Flame that I was in back in the day. I was the background singer for them. And then Dio was amazing. … Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. Those singers were my favorites.”

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Randy Lintz, Jerry Coleman and Todd Baumgertner of BlackWater Ryzn perform at Virginia Street Brewhouse.

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Coleman, who said the band’s songs also incorporate catchier elements of rock and pop, calls BlackWater Ryzn’s sound “arena rock”—and the band has begun playing Reno’s bigger venues. On April 12, BlackWater Ryzn opened for early ’90s Southern metal sensation Jackyl at Virginia Street Brewhouse.

On April 20, the band will play Cargo Concert Hall.

The bandmates are also working on the release of a debut album.

“We’re on MeloSonic Records … and it’s a new label,” Baumgartner said. “It’s a friend of mine I’ve known for 34 years. He was our sound guy back in the ’80s. He went to engineering school in L.A., and he’s been there for 25 years. He’s got a lot of connections, and he’s got his own whole studio.”

While BlackWater Ryzn occasionally plays fanfavorite covers from decades past, the bandmates said they’re excited to be carrying on the metal tradition with new originals that speak to their older style.

“That was the good music back then for everybody,” Dasnielt said. “It was easy. It was good—I mean, good, strong vibes.”

“That’s the key thing,” Coleman said. “Good music stands the test of time.”

“A lot of musicians—I know a lot of guys who just live to learn other people’s music,” Lintz added.

“It’s their musical high. … And then there are other people, and I’d throw myself in that camp, where you sit down, you pick up the guitar, and you just start playing and see what comes out. … That’s the key, I think. … recognizing that an original band has to have a product. You’ve got to get music recorded, and people have to be able to listen to it.”

“It’s the crack method,” Dasnielt quipped.

“You’ve got to give it away before you sell it. But they’ve got to have it to see that it’s something they want.”

The bandmates of BlackWater Ryzn expect to release their first album this summer. Ω

BlackWater Ryzn will play at Cargo Concert Hall, 255 N. Virginia St., at 8 p.m. on April 20. Learn more here: bit.ly/2Gfvv4i.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race viewing party, 9pm, no cover

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Dance party, 10pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover

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Güero, 9pm, no cover

Truth cARTel, 9pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 7pm, M, no cover Trivia Night, 7pm, W, no cover

Bar oF aMErICa

Blues Monsters, 9:30pm, no cover

Blues Monsters, 9:30pm, no cover

5 Star Saloon

132 West St., (775) 329-2878 10069 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 536-5029 10040 Donner Pass Rd., Truckee, (530) 587-2626

Thelem April 20, 8 p.m.

The BlueBird 555 E. Fourth St. 499-5549

Comedy Carson Comedy Club, Carson City Nugget, 507 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 882-1626: Jeff Capri, Fri-Sat, 8pm, $15 Laugh Factory, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, 407 N. Virginia St., (775) 3257401: Jon Stringer, Thu, Sun, 7:30pm, $21.95; Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, 9:30pm, $27.45; Mitch Fatel, Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, $21.95 LEX at Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-5399: JR De Guzman, Fri, 6:30pm, $10 The Library, 134 W. Second St., (775) 683-3308: Open Mic Comedy, Wed, 9:30pm, no cover Pioneer Underground, 100 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-5233: Steph Sanders, Freddy Correa, Thu, 7:30pm, $12-$15; JR De Guzman, Fri, 8:30pm, $17-$20, Sat, 6:30pm, 9:30pm, $17-$20

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555 E. Fourth St., (775) 499-5549

This Is Normal: Thelem, ONHELL, KOWTA, 8pm, $17

CarGo ConCErt Hall

Y&T, BlackWater Ryzn, 8pm, $20

Fever 333, 8:30pm, Tu, $16.66

Cíana, 9pm, no cover

Traditional Irish session, 7pm, Tu, Wed. Night Showcase, 7pm, no cover

255. N. Virginia St., (775) 398-5400

CEol IrISH PUB

Cole Adams, 9pm, no cover

538 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-5558

CottonWooD rEStaUrant

Axton & Co. 6:30pm, no cover

Guitar Town, 6:30pm, no cover

275 E. Fourth St., (775) 324-1917

Karaoke with Nightsong Productions, 8pm, no cover

Just In Beaver, In Spades, Cat Stanley, 9pm, no cover

DEaD rInGEr analoG Bar

Dead Comics Society, 8pm, no cover

10142 Rue Hilltop, Truckee; (530) 587-5711

DaVIDSon’S DIStIllErY 432 E. Fourth St., (775) 409-4431

House Party 1 Year Anniversary, 1pm, $5 before 5pm, $10 after 5pm

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22nd Annual MOTHERship to Reno, 11pm, $10

239 W. Second St., (775) 470-8590

Fat Cat Bar & GrIll

599 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City; (530) 583-3355

Panda, 8pm, no cover Lexi Scatena, 9:30pm, no cover

HEllFIrE Saloon

Lady an the Tramps, 8pm, no cover

3372 S. McCarran Blvd., (775) 825-1988

tHE HollanD ProjECt 140 Vesta St., (775) 448-6500

Foliage, Cathedral Bells, The Waterbeds, 8pm, $5

Extortionist, Dead Crown, We Were Giants, Convulsions, 7pm, Tu, $TBA

Kayla Meltzer, 9:30pm, no cover

Soft Kill, Skew Ring, 8pm, Tu, $10-$12 Red Ribbon, Blunderbusst, 8pm, W, $5

Saturday Night Karaoke, 9:30pm, no cover

180 W. Peckham Lane, Ste. 1070, (775) 686-6737 71 S. Wells Ave., (775) 384-1652

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Punk vs. Hip Hop Rager, 7:30pm, $5

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jUB jUB’S tHIrSt Parlor

Hott Boxz, 9pm, no cover

Madchild, Stevie Stone, 7:30pm, $20

Death Angel, Blasphemous Creation, Claymore, 8pm, $15

Cosmic Brain Cells 4/20 Celebration, 9pm, $5

Long Knife, Sex Haver, 8pm, $5

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SUNDAY 4/21

LAUGHING PLANET CAFE

Jazz Jam Session Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE NIGHTCLUB

Live Jazz Jam Wednesdays, 7:30pm, W, no cover

941 N. Virginia St., (775) 870-9633 1480 N. Carson St., Carson City, (775) 841-4663

THE LOFT

1021 Heavenly Village Way, S. L. Tahoe, (530) 523-8024

Magic Fusion, 7pm, 9pm, $22-$47

MIDTOwN wINE BAr

1527 S. Virginia St., (775) 800-1960

DJ Trivia, 7pm, no cover

MOODY’S BISTrO, BAr & BEATS 10007 Bridge St., Truckee, (530) 587-8688 235 Flint St., (775) 376-1948

THE POLO LOUNGE

1559 S. Virginia St., (775) 322-8864

rUE BOUrBON

Thursday Night Acoustic Series, 6pm, no cover

THE SAINT

The Collectivity, 8pm, $TBA

SHEA’S TAVErN

715 S. Virginia St., (775) 786-4774

The Messthetics

SPLASH rENO 340 Kietzke Lane, (775) 686-6681 April 24, 7:30 p.m.

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Ozymandias, AL1CE, Kelly Proud, 9pm, $5

Bingo w/T-N-Keys, 6:30pm, Tu, no cover Krystal McMullen, 6pm, W, no cover

Musicole, 8:30pm, no cover

Dave Mensing, 8pm, no cover

Lumbercat, 8pm, no cover

Lumbercat, 8pm, no cover

Skillz to Pay the Bills Fundraiser with Huckleberry Road, 8pm, no cover

Wily Saves, Schizopolitans, 9pm, no cover

DJ Trivia, M, 7:30pm, no cover

Chris Costa, 7pm, no cover DJ Bobby G, 10pm, no cover

Adrian Diijon, DJ Bobby G, 8pm, no cover

DG Kicks, 8pm, Tu, no cover DJ Trivia, 1pm, no cover

Open Mic Night, 8pm, W, no cover

Trivia Night hosted by Aubrey Forston, 8pm, no cover

Year of the Cobra, Toke, Great Electric Quest, Flesh to Dust, 7:30pm, M, $5-$6

Hoedown in Midtown, 8pm, no cover Calling Kings, Donkey Jaw, Grimedog, 9pm, $5

Starving Wolves, Call the Cops, Dissidence, Lost Idea, 8:30pm, $12-$15 Plastique Tiara, Lily Does Moore, Sasha Devaroe, 11pm, $10-$20 Up Till Dawn: Vic Crulich, Half G, Shane Harjes, 11pm, no cover

Hott Boxz, 6pm, $5 The Beachin’ Bash, 11pm, $5

Big Smo, 8pm, $15 4/20 Celebration with Clear Conscience, Collective Crew Records, 9pm, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF apRil 18, 2019 For a complete listing of this week’s events or to post events to our online calendar, visit www.newsreview.com.

EVENTS 10TH ANNUAL EASTER EGG DASH: The Bridge Church hosts its annual event for kids in preschool through sixth grade. There will be games, prizes, bounce houses, candy and the dash for 50,000 candy-filled eggs. Sat, 4/20, 11am. Free. Idlewild Park, 74 Cowan Drive, thebridgereno.com.

ANNUAL POETRY MONTH SERIES: Poets Gailmarie Pahmeier, Tom Meschery, Logan Seidi and Isabelle Lang will read from their works. Thu, 4/18, 6:30pm. Free. Sundance Books and Music, 121 California Ave., (775) 786-1188, www.sundancebookstore.com.

BEERS & BEASTS—DRAUGHTS & DIATOMS: Meet these artful microfossils, explore their tiny glass houses and discover their longstanding affair with beer making. Thu, 4/18, 5pm. Free. Great Basin Brewing Company, 1155 S. Rock Blvd., Ste. 490, www.facebook.com/ greatbasinbrewing/.

EASTER BONNET & PET PARADE: Dress up in your Easter finest and stroll down Virginia City’s main drag with your furry friends during the annual parade. The lineup begins at 11:30am with the parade starting at noon. Sat, 4/20, 11am. Free.

C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-7500, www.visitvirginiacity.com.

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

Bring appropriate clothing and plenty of water. If there’s enough snow, this will be a snowshoe hike. The hike intensity varies, depending on the audience. Sat, 4/20, 10am. Free. Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

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EQUUS:

Good Luck Macbeth and director Bill Ware present the modern classic, Equus. A psychological thriller and inquiry into the mysteries of passion and reverence, Peter Schaeffer’s 1973 play probes into the depths of motive, purpose and meaning in life. This international success reached new acclaim in London and on Broadway during its 2008 revival, a strong indication of the play’s enduring relevance to audiences. The cast features Dave Anderson as Martin Dysart, Mason Vokes as Alan Strang and Jamie Woodham and Dave Richards as Dora and Frank Strang.

Opening on Friday, April 19, the 14 performances of the show will be at Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 124 W. Taylor St. All evening performances begin at 7:30pm. Matinee performances are at 2pm. Tickets are $18-$20. Call 322-3716 or visit www.goodluckmacbeth.org.

MovieHouse presents a screening of the 1963 comedy directed by Vittorio De Sica. During the greatest economic boom in Italy’s history, hapless businessman Giovanni is good at just one thing— letting the bills pile up. Still, he and his wife crave the luxurious lifestyle everyone else is enjoying. Out of the blue comes an opportunity to get well fast, and now Giovanni faces one simple but grim choice-his debts will be cleared if he will sacrifice...one of his eyes. Sun, 4/21, 6pm. $5-$9. Good Luck Macbeth Theatre Company, 1214 Taylor St., artemisiamovies.weebly.com.

GOLDEN BOUGH: The trio performs as part of Brewery Art Center’s Celtic Music Series. Sat, 4/20, 7pm. $15-$20. Maizie Harris Jesse Theatre, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

LAKE TAHOE—PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: John Farley, a docent at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, explores the tectonic forces that resulted in the creation of Lake Tahoe, the impact of mining and logging to the lake and its watershed and how climate change may affect the lake in the future. Sat, 4/2010am. $5 suggested donation. Galena

Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mount Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948.

co-op members Tetyana Anderson and Galina Milton. Thu, 4/18-Wed, 4/24. Free.

Artists Co-Op Gallery of Reno, 627 Mill St., www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.

QUAD MAKERSPACE: The Quad contains equipment and tools that the public can use free of charge to create, learn new skills and new technology and practice artistic expression. It is open on Thursday afternoons from 3-6pm.

Quad staff will lead instruction sessions on different tools or equipment each week. Project time ends at 5:45pm so everything can be put away and cleaned up by 6pm. Thu, 4/18, 3pm. Free.

Downtown Reno Library, 301 S. Center St., (775) 327-8300.

RENO 1868 FC: Reno’s professional soccer

team plays New Mexico United. Sat, 4/20, 6:45pm. $15-$75. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000, www.reno1868fc.com.

NEVADA LEGISLATURE: Home Means Nevada. The traveling photo exhibition features the works of 15 contemporary photographers whose works echo the famous photographs and artwork from the late 1800s and early 1900s that helped spur protections for many of our national parks. Thu, 4/18-Fri 4/19; Mon, 4/22-Wed, 4/24. Free. Nevada Legislature Senate, 401 S. Carson St., Carson City, bit.ly/2Ulznux

NORTHWEST RENO LIBRARY: Spring Thaw.

Sierra Watercolor Society’s newest exhibit features original watercolor paintings by local artists. Thu,

4/18-Sat, 4/20; Mon, 4/22-Wed, 4/24. Free. Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive, (775) 787-4100, sierrawatercolorsociety.com.

RENO ACES: Reno’s minor league baseball team plays Fresno Grizzlies. Wed, 4/24, 6:35pm. $9-$33. Greater Nevada Field, 250 Evans Ave., (775) 334-7000.

MUSEUMS

RENO COIN CLUB MEETING: The coin club will share moon landing exonumia, medals and coins to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Early bird prizes, quarter pot, bid board and more. All ages welcome. Tue, 4/23, 7pm. Free. Denny’s, 205 Nugget Ave., Sparks, www.renocoinclub.org.

JOHN AND GERALDINE LILLEY MUSEUM OF ART: To Have and To Hold: Nevada’s Art

SIERRA SWEETHEARTS CD RELEASE: The bluegrass/Americana band celebrates the release of its new CD. Fri, 4/19, 7pm. $13-$18. Maizie Harris Jesse Theatre, Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King St., (775) 883-1976, breweryarts.org.

SO VERY LITERARY BOOK CLUB: This month’s book selection is Ordinary Grace

by William Kent Krueger. Thu, 4/18, 2pm. Free. South Valleys Library, 15650A Wedge Parkway, (775) 851-5190.

Collection. The exhibition introduces Nevadans to the collection of art works held in stewardship by the University of Nevada, Reno. From 5,000-year-old Neolithic pottery to photographs made just last year, the exhibition explores how humans across the globe and across time have explored what it means to be human. The museum is closed Sundays and Mondays. Thu, 4/18-Sat, 4/20; Tue, 4/23-Wed, 4/24. Free. John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, University Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1335 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-6682, www.unr.edu/art.

NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: After Audubon:

UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC CHORUS AND CHAMBER SINGERS: The chorus is a large ensemble of UNR students and community singers, including faculty and staff members from other departments.

It performs a wide variety of works in collaboration with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, as well as other instrumental groups. The University Chamber Singers is a select, mixed ensemble for upperdivision music majors, non-majors and graduate students. It offers students the opportunity to seriously study and perform a wide variety of choral repertoire, including virtuoso choral music from the Western tradition, vocal jazz and music from other cultures. Tue, 4/23, 7pm. $7, free for UNR students with ID. Hall Recital Hall, University Arts Building, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278.

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Art, Observation and Natural Science is on display through April 21. Also on display through April 21 is Paul Valadez: Selections from the Great MexicanAmerican Songbook. Ann Johnston Quilts of the Sierra Nevada is on view through May 19. The museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Thu, 4/18-Sun, 4/21; Wed, 4/24. $1-$10. Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.

WILBUR D. MAY MUSEUM: The Lost World of Dragons. Discover the stories and mythology of dragons throughout history and around the world. See larger-than-life animatronic dragons, try out a virtual reality experience that lets you ride a flying dragon, sit on a throne, sneak through a dragon’s lair and much more. The exhibition is open Wednesday-Sunday through May 12. Thu, 4/18-Sun, 4/21; Wed, 4/24. $9$10. Wilbur D. May Museum at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.facebook.com/ WilburMayCenter.

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There’s something about Marriott I’m a married lesbian. Yesterday, on the phone, my wife invited her sister to spend the night (in our small one-bedroom apartment) without asking me. When I confronted her, saying it’s our home, she said, “It’s my sister!”

Family’s very important to her, and her sister didn’t come, so I let it go. But what’s the protocol with guests, specifically family?

To err is human—as is the tendency to duck personal responsibility like it’s a shoulder-fired missile.

We have a powerful drive to be consistent—to have our actions match what we claim to stand for.

We are also frequently inconsistent.

Welcome to “cognitive dissonance,” social psychologist Leon Festinger’s term for the discomfort we feel when we hold two competing beliefs or attitudes or when our beliefs and our behaviors clash. An example of this (totally random!) would be the belief “I’m a loving, respectful, considerate spouse” and then the behavior “I just hauled off and told my sister our home is her hotel room—without so much as a courtesy ‘Hey, hon...?’ to my wife.”

Social psychologist Elliot Aronson, one of Festinger’s former students, found that we manage our inconsistencies through “self-justification.” This involves creating an explanation for our hypocritical attitudes or behaviors that makes us look good, smart, honest and 100 percent in the right.

So (again, super randomly!) an example of self-justification would be a spouse who’s just acted like a singleton instead of a partner—who excuses it with “Family is everything to me!” instead of conceding “Whoopsy … got a little impulsive on the phone and forgot to run Sis’s visit by you.” (Just a guess, but you probably wouldn’t have been all “Sorry, but the couch is totally booked up with our unfolded laundry.”)

As for your question—“What’s the protocol with guests, specifically family?”—unfortunately, there’s no set of numbered stone tablets to answer that. In fact, as with so many questions that come up in relationships, the process of answering—not the actual answer— is what really matters.

I see this constantly in my work as a volunteer mediator (doing free dispute resolution for Los Angeles residents in the LA City Attorney’s office). Conflicts that turn ugly and escalate are typically the result of people pushing for “positions” without regard for “interests.”

Positions are our goals—the “what,” as in what we want another person to do (or stop doing). So, your position might be “I want to be asked, even just as a formality, before you tell somebody they can stay over.” Interests are the underlying motivations or the “why”—like “I want to be treated with respect, like my feelings matter.”

In my mediations, I’ve found that positions that are deeply important to a person can become far less do-or-die when you tend to their underlying interests. This starts with framing whatever happened in, uh, flame-retardant rather than inflammatory terms. You do this by expressing your feelings—“I felt really humiliated when X happened’’—instead of making accusations: “You did this, you relationship criminal!”

Hearing feelings (instead of blame) allows you to empathize with each other. (HINT: You should actively try to empathize—and, in mediator lingo, “validate feelings,” meaning let the other person know that you get where they’re coming from.) For example, in addressing this guest issue, you might’ve said to your wife, “I hear how important family is to you.” Hearing that you understand eliminates the need for her to try to make you—meaning she can approach the conflict between you more like a loving partner, too. The beauty of dialing down from combat mode is that it enables you to engage in collaborative problem-solving—for example, brainstorming together to come up with ideas for how things could work regarding overnight guests at your place. Ω

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Curcumin is a chemical

found in the plant turmeric. When ingested by humans, it may diminish inflammation, lower the risk of diabetes, support cardiovascular health and

treat digestive disorders. But there’s a problem: The body is inefficient in absorbing and using curcumin—unless it’s ingested along with piperine, a chemical in black pepper. Then it’s far more available. What would be the metaphorical equivalent to curcumin in your life? An influence that could be good for you, but that would be even better if you synergized it with a certain additional influence? And what would be the metaphorical equivalent of that additional influence? Now is a good time to investigate these questions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I have the usual capacity

for wanting what may not even exist,” wrote poet Galway Kinnell. How about you? Do you, too, have an uncanny ability to long for hypothetical, invisible, mythical and illusory things? If so, I will ask you to downplay that amazing power of yours for a while.

It’s crucial for your future development that you focus on yearning for actual experiences, real people and substantive possibilities. Please understand: I’m not suggesting you’re bad or wrong for having those seemingly impossible desires. I’m simply saying that for now you will thrive on being attracted to things that are genuinely available.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Sometimes I have

kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. I’m guessing you’ve had that experience—maybe more than usual, of late. But I suspect you’ll soon be finding ways to express those embryonic feelings. Congrats in advance!

You’ll discover secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself. You’ll receive missing information whose absence has made it hard to understand the whole story. Your unconscious mind will reveal the rest of what it has thus far merely been hinting at.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All over the world,

rivers and lakes are drying up. Droughts are becoming more common and prolonged. Why? Mostly because of climate change. The good news is that lots of people are responding to the crisis with alacrity. Among them is an engineer in India named Ramveer Tanwar. Since 2014, he has organized efforts leading to the rejuvenation of 12 dead lakes and ponds. I propose we make him your role model for the coming weeks. I hope he will inspire you to engage in idealistic pursuits that benefit other people. And I hope you’ll be motivated to foster fluidity and flow and wetness everywhere you go. The astrological time is ripe for such activities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger named

Caramelizee offered her definition of elegance: “being proud of both your feminine and masculine qualities; seeing life as a non-ending university and learning everything you can; caring for yourself with tender precision; respecting and taking advantage of silences; tuning in to your emotions without being oversensitive; owning your personal space and being generous enough to allow other people to own their personal space.” This definition of elegance will be especially apropos and useful for you in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have been sum-

moning heroic levels of creative intensity. You’ve been working extra hard and extra smart. But it seems that you haven’t been fully recognized or appreciated for your efforts. I’m sorry about that. Please don’t let it discourage you from continuing to express great integrity and authenticity.

Keep pushing for your noble cause and offering your best gifts. I’m proud of you! And although you may not yet have reaped all the benefits you will ultimately sow, three months from now I bet you’ll be pleased you pushed so hard to be such a righteous servant of the greater good.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at realastrology.com.

by KRis VAgNER

This is the first time you’ll have two full-service locations. What did you have to do to make that work financially?

Growth cycle

What made you decide to go back to Fourth Street?

It was a happy coincidence. We were looking for extra storage space ... and we found that place, that building, and it’s huge, so we had to kind of reevaluate whether to rent that building. ...

The original plan was just storage, but we saw how much space there was there, and we were like, We could put a production center over there, we could put a small shop over there, and we could have all the storage that we need and probably more. So it was almost the building that dictated what happened there. It felt really right, though. ... We lost a lot of storage from what we had at the old Fourth Street location. Also, we’re busier than ever ... and we’re getting more donations. We had to grow.

PHOTO/KRIS VAGNER

Genevieve Parker is the program director for Reno Bike Project.

The group moved in 2017 from East Fourth Street to Grove Street.

In June 2018, they leased an additional storage space, back in the old neighborhood, at 635 E. Fourth Street. This weekend, they’ll open the new digs to the public as an additional full-service shop. A grand opening celebration—with a bike swap, games and DJs from KWNK—is scheduled for 10 a.m.-5 p.m., April 20. For information, visit RenoBikeProject.org.

Do you have a sense of why you’ve been getting busier? Do you think it’s a natural momentum?

I think it is a lot of natural momentum.

The city is growing, and I think a lot of people who both lived here already and who moved here are realizing that getting around by bike is a great way to do it, and they can bypass a lot of traffic woes if they choose to bike.

Has your clientele changed over the last few years?

Definitely, from moving here, yes. We’ve always had a really diverse clientele. This neighborhood here [near Grove Street] has a lot of families living in it. ... It doesn’t have the same [homeless] shelter and services that Fourth Street did. So, our shop has become a lot more kid-friendly in the last of couple years, that’s for sure.

How so?

We are selling a lot more kids’ bikes. ...

And we have a lot of kids coming through here, in afternoons and on weekends— and we’re continually helping them patch flats and pump tires. It’s good energy.

We decided to just make it work on the budget that we had. To be honest, that location over there is not making money yet, but we are hopeful that it will be in a couple of years, and we hope to float it until it does.

Have you had to beef up your staff?

To a degree, we’ve made it work with staff that we had before, but we have been actively hiring. We have brought a few new faces on, and they’re a big help. But we’re still hiring. We could use more people.

What are you looking for in an employee?

Most importantly, someone who feels really passionate and wants to learn, and secondarily, someone with experience as a bike mechanic or as a customer service person. The passion and the excitement and the teachability are probably the most important aspects.

The RN&R hasn’t caught up with you in a while. Have you started any new programs lately?

One of the things I’m most proud of as program manager is, we have a job skills training program that uses our two shops as an environment for training people who are maybe in their first jobs with general employability skills, making them pretty savvy mechanics—but also a lot of attendance skills that you’d need for any specialty retail job. It’s for youth 16-24. It lasts for 15 weeks, and it’s paid the whole time. Ω

by BRUCE VAN DYKE

Debates in June?!

You know, a guy just can’t help but notice that Trump, when it comes to his taxes, acts exactly like a man who doesn’t just want to keep all of that info secret, he’s downright desperate to do so. Maybe it’s the brand new team of $500-an-hour lawyers he’s hired to keep all this tax stuff completely invisible. The optics just aren’t real good, ya know? So gee, let’s go ahead and take a wild stab here—that a man who has lied his ass off for 50 years just might have fibbed a little on his taxes a couple of times? I know, I know. Kind of a stretch, right? I’m getting to be such a cynic! (Is Prez Capone gonna fight to the death about his taxes because he knows that it was a simple tax evasion bust

that finally brought down the real Capone?)

• Nice to see that more and more folks are getting over the hurdle about Pete Buttigieg’s name (boot-a-jedge) and actually hearing the good stuff he has to say. By the time the debates begin rolling in June, he’s gonna be a player. In fact, he appears to already be one. (Maybe he’s this year’s Jimmy Carter?) Another guy who has something important to say, and knows how to say it—Jay Inslee, the climate change candidate. He’s a smart, committed, courageous man, and we could use a few of those in top level spots these days.

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OK, the first show is in the books, and yes, they brought the Thronocity last Sunday night. (Jeez, that poor Umber kid.) The word is that episode three coming up on the 28th will be—well, the word underwhelming won’t be applicable. And I’m sure I wasn’t the only viewer around these parts who noticed that Dany and Jon’s Dreamy Dragon Cruise looked like it was happening right here in the High Sierra. Jeez, I kept looking for the crushing Tahoe shot while they flew and frolicked about on their big lizards. (Is it just me, or does Game of Thrones right now have about 10 times more buzz than the last three Star Wars flicks combined?) Ω

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