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10 BRITS 'N' PIECES COVER STORY 14 Aerosol Ascension The Urban Art of Bryce Chisholm EVENT 24 CANFEST FEATURE 30 Acess Pass 36 Gold N Silver Inn 40 Mandela Washington Fellows return to Northern Nevada 42 Momtrepreneurs FREESTYLE 54 Alfyn Photography

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62 HEALTH TIPS 64 INCLINE VILLAGE CRYSTAL BAY VISITORS BUREAU REPORT 14

66 OPINION PHOTOGRAPHY 68 Michael Lindberg 70 Alfyn Gestoso 72 Joey Savoie RADIO 74 Radio Personality Dave Mencarelli

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SNAPSHOT Photographer Alfyn Gestoso Alfyn Photography www.alfynphotography.com Model Leisha Love Body Paint Britt Gianotti w/ Body Paint Factory Hair and make up Leisha Love

Editor/Publisher Oliver X Art Director Chris Meredith Contributing Designers Courtney Meredith

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Contributing Writers

Britton Griffith-Douglass Thomas Lloyd Qualls Rory Dowd Isha Casagrande Tony Contini Amanda Horn Rachel Douglass Michael Tragash Debe Fennel Isha Casagrande Tessa Miller Lanette Katre Contributing Photographers Shelbi Carr Whitehead Chris Holloman Tony Contini Clayton Beck Anicia Beckwith Digiman Studio Marcello Rostagni Ted Varney Jennifer Sande Kyle Volland Interns Heather McAlpine Sales 775-412-3767 Submissions renotahoetonightrocks@gmail.com Website www. renotahoetonightmagazine.com All content, layout and design is the property of Reno Tahoe Tonight Magazine. Duplication or reproduction is prohibited without the expressed written consent of Reno Tahoe Tonight Magazine. Copyright 2016. Reno Tahoe Tonight is produced on 10% recycled American paper and is printed with all soy and vegetable inks.

A PROBABILITY OF WORDS Text Thomas Lloyd Qualls Photo Johnstone Studios

Thomas Lloyd Qualls is a writer, a condition that is apparently incurable. He manages his condition, in part, by regular contributions to Reno Tahoe Tonight Magazine, and to the borderless tribe known as Rebelle Society. He's also a novelist, a painter, and through his law practice – a sometimes salvager of troubled lives.

You can find out more about him, his books, poetry, paintings, and other projects on his website. www.tlqonline.com.

Or at any of the absurd number of social media profiles out there these days. Feel free to check them out whenever you like.

Or better yet, just invite him out for coffee or beer. He loves a good conversation.

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This Isn’t Social.

Let’s talk about something that’s probably driving you mad. Not that you know you’re mad. Most of us don’t. Even though we are. Okay, you’re right, some of us do suspect we’re a little crazy.

But feeling a little off-kilter doesn’t deter us much, because as humans we’re ridiculously adaptable.

Even though our knee-jerk reaction to change is to bar the door and turn off the lights. We’re actually pretty good with it.

Which brings me to my point: Social media and smart phones are taking over our lives. And our way of life. And when I say “our,” you need to know I mean mine, too. Most definitely mine.

A camera used to be a thing. You know, you brought it out for special occasions. Vacations, weddings, birthdays, graduations, holidays.

When you went to Burning Man, people had to ask permission to take your photo. (And people left their cell phones in their cars while they were there, because they were worthless in Black Rock City.)

Not only is there a webcam at Center Camp these days – which, really, don’t get me started – but I have over 6,000 photos just on my phone. Until about 8 years ago, I’d say that’s more than most people took over the course of their entire lives.

Including some professional photographers.

Also, not very long ago, when we traveled to another county, we wrote postcards and snailmailed them back home. Postcards. Or we bought a phone card if we really had to call the States. But then came Internet cafes. And all that changed.

Now we just update our Facebook status from anywhere. Or text our friends pictures of us halfway around the world. We can’t even eat a meal without photo-recording it and sharing it with everyone we know.

And we are all, even the most disciplined among us, suddenly stricken with obsessive-compulsive disorders. How many minutes (seconds?) has it been since you checked your phone, your email, your Facebook messages, your Instagram feed?

That’s what I thought.

The image of a group of people sitting around a restaurant table and all looking at their phones without speaking a word to each other has already become a cliché. What the fuck is happening to us? Wasn’t social media supposed to better connect us to each other?

The truth is, whatever the intention, the term social media is an oxymoron. Unless SOCIAL actually stands for Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive Internet Addiction Loop. And then, OK, social media is that.

And I’m speaking as someone who everyday tries to embrace, understand, and use this realm to do things I need to do, like share my writing, promote an event, or try to figure out the current Amazon book sales logarithms (a Sisyphean task is there is one).

But here’s the real crazy. We’ve been told, and for a long time we’ve believed, that we need social media to succeed at whatever it is we’re trying to do. And so we’ve built websites. And we’ve set up profile after profile after profile. And we’ve connected them all together. In hopes that we can create complete blanket coverage of the Internet.

And whatever we have to say, share, sell, promote, or invite others to, will effortlessly go viral and our work here will be done. But what we’re starting to understand is that this may all be bullshit. And just maybe we don’t actually need all these distractions.

Maybe the number of widgets you sell on the Internet is not worth all the time and money and energy you spend on it. That even if people are paying attention to your feed, most of them have never bought anything from you. Or gone to one of your events. Or come into your restaurant to eat any of the pictures of food they liked online.

And maybe I’m even more crazy than I’ve been up until now, but I foresee a tech backlash. A return to as many things analog as possible. Like the resurgence of vinyl music and paper books.

Or local food and slow parenting.

We’ll use social media like we’re supposed to use our brains, as tools that work for us. And we’ll go out into the world and make tangible, authentic connections to other humans. We’ll have face-toface conversations, where we hug, shake hands, and make actual eye contact. After all, it’s pretty hard to kiss someone over the phone.

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BEAUTY Text Jennifer Utu

Going Blonde?

Summer is finally here. Outdoor bbq’s, lake excursions, camping, and pool parties are just some of the fun and exciting things we enjoy with warm weather. This season is also popular for wanting blonde hair. When you think of summer hair, you think of brightness, playfulness and blonde locks.

Salons get an influx of this hair color request from the beginning of summer up to fall. Depending on the starting point of your hair color, becoming blonde can sometimes be a lengthy process. This can tend to be more damaging or harsh on our strands.

Here's a few pointers we can give when considering going blonde: 1. Find a color line that can lift your hair with minimal chemicals 2. Use hair products that protect your hair from the summer elements Aura Salon uses a plant based enlightener (bleach), which leaves the hair beautifully blonde and not over processed. We also carry amazing blonde finishers (toners) just for blondes. AVEDA carries a great summer line to protect your hair while enjoying what this warm weather has to offer. We recommend using our Sun Care Protective Veil, which is a spray that protects your hair from sun damage for 16 hours and is water resistant.

Along with this is the Sun Care Hair and Body Cleanser. This cleanser removes product build up, chlorine, salt, and mineral build up. Finishing off the regimen is the Sun Care After Sun Masque, which restores sun-exposed hair and moisturizes with plant oils.

See a professional about going blonde and remember, insure your hair investment by protecting it. Use good products that benefit the hair strand so that your hair stays looking beautiful through the summer months.

Come see us at Aura Salon for your hair care needs.

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FIRST BRIT OF EXCITEMENT Reno is a lot of things in the summer time: A relief from the heat in Lake Tahoe’s cool water; a destination for hot rods and flashbacks to the fifties; a stop-off for Burners headed to Black Rock City, and a slow ride with friends, as we float the Truckee River. Most importantly, Reno becomes Artown. Join in on this incredible art festival, where there is a way to celebrate culture, art and music every single day and night. Download the calendar and learn more about the Biggest Little City’s cultural transformation here: www. renoisartown.com.

BITS: That sweet sound of Tahoe waves.

Everyone knows that music sounds better near the water and you can prove it to yourself at the Music on the Beach North Tahoe Festival. This Friday event runs through September 2nd. Enjoy live bands like The Blues Monsters and The Wrinkle at Kings Beach Recreation Area. Also featuring wine from 14 Hands and brews from Sierra Nevada Company, this is the perfect combination to serenade yourself into a sweet summer. www. northtahoebusiness.org/music-on-the-beach Do the Chicken Dance!

Wedding season is upon us, which means we will see a lot of people showing off their dance moves, including the infamous funky chicken. Cheers to those who wiggle their wings best! The Biggest Little City Wing Fest is held July 2nd through the 4th at the Silver Legacy is celebrating its 4th year of chowing down on America’s favorite snack, the chicken wing. This event spices up over 20,000 pounds of poultry and 65,000 hungry guests.

What are you waiting for? Flap your wings over to their website for more information: www. silverlegacyreno.com/entertainment/citywide/ Biggest-Little-City-Wing-Fest.

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Red, White and Dynamo.

Bikini bodies don’t just make themselves, which is why you need to hop in your tennis shoes and get running! Start your summer with a spark and jog into the Firecracker Mile race in Old Town Truckee on July 4th. This one mile race is family friendly and tours the beautiful Donner Pass Road. Your quads will be grateful you got them burning before the Independence Day BBQs and so will The Auburn Ski Club’s Nordic Programs who receive the proceeds from this sparkling event. Ready, set, go!--buy tickets here: www.eventful.com/reno/events/firecracker-mile-/ E0-001-092746322-6.

Biggest Mini Makers in the World.

Reno is quickly becoming known as a place with movers and shakers, a tech hub and a City filled with #BELIEVERS. Attend the day that ties together imagination, technology and pure genius at the Reno Mini Maker Faire. Located in Idlewild Park on July 9th from 11:00am to 5:00pm guests will gather to see inventions, ideas and true innovation in the park. Get inspired and educated in this day of family friendly fun here: www. www. www.makerfairereno.com.

BRITTS 'N' PIECES Text Britton Griffith-Douglass Photo Jeramie Lu

Party all night, paint all day.

Always wanted to paint the Downtown red?

Well, now you can at the 3rd annual Circus Circus 24-Hour Mural Marathon Competition on July 15th -16th. Watch local artists paint overnight the exterior of this downtown hotel. The art is displayed until the following year’s competition, so if you miss the action of the painting, you can still visit the Arch District to enjoy a local art experience. Hoping to get in on the exciting day of art, adventure and talent? Then grab your paint brush and learn more here: www.circusreno.com/ entertainment/mural-marathon.aspx.

worth walking in a District that is making our City a better place, learn more here: www.artspotreno.com/discover-dickerson.

Werewolves in Lake Tahoe.

Don’t be scared, there won’t be any real furry beasts during the Full Moon Kayak Tour on Lake Tahoe. On July 19th hop in your best full moon flotation device and kayak to see what Tahoe looks like illuminated in moonlight. Buy your tickets here to howl at the moon with your paddle in the water: www.tahoeadventurecompany.com/ourtrips/ custom/fullmoonpaddles.

Walk the road less traveled.

Districts are what build a stronger, brighter and more sustainable community. Reno is lucky to have Reno’s Industrial Arts District as part of our eclectic group of artists and businesses on Dickerson Road, your way to “explore between the river and the rails,” as www.artspotreno.com notes.

Discover Dickerson Road hosts its 3rd annual event on July 16th. Their calendar is packed with events like movies at the Black Rock DriveIn, pottery wheel, spray paint, Iaijutsu swords, aerialists, blacksmiths and dance demonstrations – and of course delicious bites from Dolce Delights, Nom Eats and IceCycle Creamery. This is a stroll

Last Bit of Advice: The months move quickly, the moments pass without a thought and soon we will be snuggling up to watch the snowflakes fall and prepare for the holiday season. Take this month to feel the sun rays on your face, enjoy the longer evenings, toast to friends while dining along the river and smile with gratitude that we do indeed live in the land of the free. A heartfelt ‘Thank You’ to each of our veterans, those still with us and those that we have lost. For me, this is a month of red, white and appreciation.

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Ascension: scension: The Urban Art of Bryce Chisholm

“I think that's the job of a street artist: to make fun of and comment on society.� - Bryce Chisholm 14 Reno Tahoe Tonight

COVER STORY Text Oliver X Cover model Molly Beth Bryant Cover photo Shannon Balazs Photo of Bryce Chisholm

by Jeff Ross Photos of Chisholm's art

by Bryce Chisholm

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Empire's Kiss Artist Bryce Chisholm is a blue collar aesthete whose dynamic work has the street savvy and appeal of outsider art, but is just as comfortable hanging in the private collections of Microsoft and Short Stack. Chisholm's creative methodical approach to process, bold splashes (and drips) of color on all surfaces in mixed media; his embrace of the rebel and the irreverent and his devotion to beauty, make him an important artist for our times, distinguishing his work as uniquely collectible. His photo-realistic, pop art/propaganda, anime-flavored pieces convey terror, hope, defiance, whimsy and awe – often times rendered in a simple expression on the face of his subject.

“My process begins with drawing my subject onto coated sheets and then cutting out the details with a razor blade knife,” says Chisholm in his artist statement. “This step can range in one to nine layers, depending on how many I feel is necessary to get my desired results. The stencil is then applied with spray paint to a colorful acrylic and mixed media background, one layer at a time. Very similar to a printing or screen printing process, the layers are built on top of one another. After the spray paint has dried more hand painted acrylic is added for highlights, details and to help tie the painting together. I like the different paints to mix together leaving the audience to wonder where one starts and the other begins. I look at stencils as another tool in my arsenal. They 16 Reno Tahoe Tonight

do not make up the entire painting, but rather they are used to add details, patterns and intrigue.”

Family man, father and fierce supporter of public art, Chisholm's stenciled manifestos have jumped from graffiti walls and murals to canvas, gallery walls to corporate halls and back again. His craft versatility is workmanlike and his ubiquity is subtle, occupying a space in the psycho-social periphery—like where we keep the homeless.

But Chisholm's art finds homes and space in public places to engage us. And though he is careful not to show too often in Reno (so that he does not saturate the market), his pieces have been rising and selling beyond the city limits. And sell they do, bucking the starving artist stereotype, Chisholm approaches art with a business man's mindset. He was 2014's Artown artist laureate, creating the poster for the festival's 19th season. His 2014 entry for Stacie Mathewson's Doors to Recovery fundraiser at the Nevada Museum of Art fetched a jaw-dropping $50,000 at the charity art auction. At the following year's event, his door went for a modest $10,000.

Not bad for a fella who favors Montana spray paint as his weapon of choice and who walks around with paint on his fingers.

Making art on found objects like old license plates, concrete scrap, metals, brick and wood panels is tricky,

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but something Chisholm says he loves. “I like to experiment with new things. Working on different surfaces creates unique challenges, as paint absorbs into those surfaces differently,” he says. “When I work on wood and concrete, I usually want to see the natural texture show through. So those pieces are usually much more planned out than when I am working on a canvas that is completely covered in paint. Paint also absorbs into wood and concrete differently, so it may take several layers to get the colors to pop like I want them to. If paint on a brush has too much water in it, it can spread to areas you don't want it too. It also has a tendency to follow the grain of the wood. So I always have to take that into consideration while I am working. But this also can lead to what Bob Ross would call 'happy accidents.'”

“Bryce is a creative and unique artist who responds instinctively to the project being commissioned and the viewers of his work.

His use of color ranges tremendously and is part of how he embodies the emotion of his work.”- Beth Macmillan, Artown Executive Director

For our July cover, Chisholm worked with photographer Shannon Balazs, directing the shoot of model Molly Beth Bryant. “The cover was a great process,” Chisholm says. “Shannon was taking photos of Molly; I was in the background directing, telling her to move a little bit and do this and that... Molly

looked great; she did all her own makeup, hair and styling. I knew, because of Artown, [that] I wanted some dance elements [in the cover shot] and I wanted her to be a ballerina. I also wanted to depict some art elements. We put some paint brushes in her hair. So I kinda wanted to mix things together to get a little bit of everything.”

Bryant was painted completely in spray paint, but typically Chisholm will mix media on a piece. “I start by mixing acrylic paints and keep adding color until I like what I have. I usually do that ahead of time. From the photos on this particular piece I designed a stencil from them. I blew up the image using a projector and drew it out on the sheets. I usually work with positives and negatives, so there's black (the dark image); the middle ground and then the white foreground—the brighter side. Then I just keep on working that back and forth.”

“One of the first artists I met after moving to Reno was Bryce Chisholm. He answered my Craigslist ad for the Welcome To Reno group exhibition. I was instantly impressed with his bright bold stencil work and color palate. Since then we have worked together a dozen or more times and it is always a pleasure.

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reception rounds every month. Most recently, he became part of the Sierra Arts Galleries At Work program, where we have more than 30 of his original paintings hanging at the Microsoft campus. His Doors To Recovery piece will be in our community gallery for July and August as well.” - Eric Brooks – Sierra Arts Gallery PR Marketing Associate/Coowner Art Spot Reno Chisholm studied at UNR with Michael Sarich. The artist states that he developed his signature stencil technique while painting with oils at UNR. “I started doing these really high contrast images,” he notes.

“The blacks were blacks and the whites were whites.

But I was painting those by hand with oil paint. One day it dawned on me that I could be making stencils out of these. They weren't colorful, they were just high contrast images, where you just have the positive and the negative. That yin and yang sensibility. But I had always been a color freak. And I think that has come to define my work now. Getting a style is something that I think every artist works toward. To have a recognizable style is definitely amazing. I ran into someone last night and they were like, 'Oh, I saw your door and I said to myself, Oh that's Bryce's door.

ABC Art Attack.' A lot of artists get lost in the mix out there, so developing a style is really important.”

“I first saw Bryce's work at a local art competition.

From across the room his bright vibrant colors and bold lines jumped off the canvas and immediately caught my attention. His use of pop culture images and the way he skews them is a form of art that I 20 Reno Tahoe Tonight

truly enjoy. Ever since I met Bryce I have been a fan of his work, so much so that I produced a mini documentary on him along with hiring him to design my company logo!” -Bryon Evans Films – abcartattack.com/#!video/c65q When asked if 'street artist' is an apt descriptor for him, Chisholm pauses before saying, “Yes, I would say so. I mean, I definitely have that spray paint kinda street feel. But I like working back and forth. I'll spray a piece and then go back over the top with acrylic and brush. I do that with most of my pieces. I want the viewer to ask,'Is this spray painted, or is this handpainted?' It keeps people guessing and on their toes.”

The art of Bryce Chisholm appears at these events and galleries this summer: June 30, 5-9pm, art booth at Artown Opening party on Arlington Bridge July 2, 6-8pm, Eric Santti's Time Project group show at Holland Project July 15-16, 10am-10am, art booth at the Circus Circus Mural Marathon July 16, 12-7pm, art booth at Discover Dickerson July 16, 12-7pm, The Shining group show at Black Rock Drive In Sept 10, 6-9pm, Doors to Recovery art auction and fundraiser Sept 16-17, art booth at Art Blast at McKinley Arts and Culture

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he highly anticipated 8th Annual CANFEST 2016, the original international canned beer festival, is coming. This year promises to be bigger and better than ever – no small feat, since last year's festival was another runaway success. Some of the noted participating breweries this year include 2015 CANFEST People's Choice Award winner Devil's Canyon Brewing Co., Pizza Port Brewing Co., 21st Amendment Brewery, local favorites Common Cider Co., Coronado Brewing, Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Anderson Valley Brewing Co., Deep Ellum Brewing Co., Schilling Cider Co., and Grand Canyon Brewing Co.--among many others.

Festival creator presenter Constance Aguilar has built a marketing structure around CANFEST to help raise the profile of the niche industry event, targeting feeder markets that are now discovering the high quality of crafted canned beer. “I think one of our biggest things this year is trying to work closely with Travel Nevada and the RSCVA,” Aguilar states. “We did get some RSCVA funding to do some out of market ads. So we want to make a contribution

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to the tourism marketing messages of Reno and northern Nevada. We were one of the big sponsors of Reno Craft Beer Week this year.

And overall, the goal is to help bring more exposure to the craftsmanship of brewing happening here – and even the distilling and the wine-making going on here and being embraced in our region. People want to consume wellcrafted alcohol and to have the experience that goes along with it.”

Aguilar has been able to showcase canned beer from all over the country, helping the brands win more fans and customers. The added value is that people are now finding out about these small, up and coming breweries creating really delicious canned beer. “I've had a couple of my friends visit different places and been like, 'Omg, I had no idea that one of the beers I liked at CANFEST is one that's actually made there.'”

I spoke with Aguilar during the run-up to this year's event, happening Saturday, August 27.

Oliver X: You must be so excited to be celebrating eight years of CANFEST

EVENT CANFEST International Canned Beer festival Q&A with CANFEST Creator Constance Aguilar Text Oliver X Photos courtesy of CANFEST

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Constance. Tell me how the event has changed over the years and what activities do you have planned for this year's event?

Constance Aguilar: We're always looking for ways to make CANFEST more than just a beer tasting event; we want it to have a true festival feel, and be engaging on every level. We want it to be something you can't miss because of it's uniqueness. That means bringing in activities like the silent disco year after year; a gal on aerial silks in the middle of the room; a custom photo booth, games, and of course, great music...it all plays together to create an experience for attendees. We also want to make sure that out of town brewers that come see this rad event, and remember Reno for it.

Oliver X: How do you select the breweries and brands that make it into the festival each year?

What hurdles do you experience exposing fans of canned beer to new beers that they can't find in Nevada?

Constance Aguilar: We reach out to any brewery in the US that produces and distributes at least one beer in a can. Canning production grows every year, so we're constantly adding new folks to the outreach list. We've also been expanding our cider selection, something I'm very excited to do.

This year we're hoping to get a canned wine on the roster, because the more we can showcase the growth of the canning trend, the better it is for the movement, as well as the products sold around our region.

And of course, we work closely with the distributors in northern Nevada to feature their products. New West Distributing is a huge supporter of ours; because of the distribution laws in Nevada, we have to ship all beer to a distributor regardless if the brewery has one in the state or not. New West takes on that burden, and allows us to offer selections otherwise not found in the area.

Oliver X: Each year you really focus on a fan element that is memorable and engaging, from tricycle races, to beer dinners, to exceptional live entertainment. Why was it important for you to create a culture and lifestyle around the event?

Constance Aguilar: Because I truly cannot think of anything that fits more with the lifestyle of Reno/Tahoe people than canned craft beer.

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We're a drinking town, but we appreciate craft. We have a growing concern for the environment. And most of all, we love the outdoors. That aligns perfectly with the philosophy driving the canned beer movement. And drinking beer is fun, so the most important aspect to us is that we make a celebration of all things canned beer really, really fun.

Oliver X: Craft beer in a can as an industry is really starting to take hold and take flight. What's better about canned beer and what is the ceiling for this industry?

Constance Aguilar: Oh boy- so many things. Cans are lighter to ship, easier to recycle, and air / light tight. The air and light is better for the beer. The others are better for the environment, and align more with the lifestyle of active craft beer drinkers. I also think the general public is starting to move away from the notion that cans destroy taste, which was probably one of the biggest obstacles facing canned beer. People had this idea that it jaded the flavor. That's part of the reason we pour our beers directly from the cans at the event- no kegs, no bottles. We want to, for lack of a better pun, crush that myth.

As canning lines become less expensive, and alternative options are presented to breweries, I believe you'll only see it continue to grow. The psychology of a consumer going into the grocery store and picking out from a lineup of cans and bottles is shifting, too. Consumers are adjusting to cans as more than a novelty item.

CANFEST August 27, 2016 @ The Peppermill. 6-11pm. www.peppermillreno.com/calendar/canfest

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Access Event Solutions Chapter One: An Introduction First impression.

Seth Sheck is the kind of bootstrapping hustler you might find in a movie like The Wolf of Wall Street. By that I mean a doer, thinker, imaginator.

A curious man. An ant eater of information following a trail of thought. The person who is willing to do the thing you can't do (or won't do) to make a dollar out of fifteen cents. The idea guy who takes risks and gambles aces on himself. Armed with sharp instincts, a certain steel trap persistence and the sparklingly engaging

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personality of a Jack Black, Sheck is handsome and tan, with a bit of a comedic wit to his edge.

He looks like a professional card player who plays hard, plays often and wins a lot of the time. He's that guy you grew up with who always seemed to have a plan—kinda. A dot connector, whose mind is always in big picture motion, eager to hit on something that will break through and break out. He's both in the moment and ahead of time.

Moving forward. Manifesting opportunity where none is seen.

I instantly like him.

FEATURE Text Oliver X Photos courtesy of Access Event Solutions

It's little wonder that Sheck would eventually found and lead the world's most elite event solutions company, with a dream clientele of pro sports teams, superstars and rock stars that exist in that elusive and exclusive tier above the A-list. Who is innovating and employing new technologies, with a vision to write the next chapter for an entire industry.

That Sheck and his early partners (now including his beautiful wife Alma) built and grew Access Event Solutions into a multi-million dollar megasuccess right here in Reno, might be surprising.

How he did it, the team he assembled and where he is taking it, is the subject of this four-part feature series.

I'd planned to interview Seth and Alma weeks earlier, but Seth got a freak bit of food poisoning after coming home from The Governor's Ball on Randall's Island in New York and he was in no condition to chat. We reload and agree to finally meet at Royce, because it's a chill spot where we can talk on the patio. The bartender Joey, has exceptional musical taste – and he also mixes a mean summer cocktail.

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FEATURE at Meadowood Mall: Spinnaker's. And one day I waited tables on a guy (I was a good waiter...and chatty) that was having lunch by himself and his name was Tony Perry. (I don't know if you know his story, but he was running for mayor against Hillary Schieve and he OD'd accidentally.) So I'm waiting on his table and I'm like, 'What do you do?' He says, 'I make back stage passes for bands like the Rolling Stones and David Bowie.' I'm like, 'Bullshit!' There's no way somebody can make a living making passes, right? This was before the internet and email and all that. So I got his card and I drove over there and saw with my own eyes.

He had pass systems framed up for like David Bowie and the Stones. My jaw dropped! And at the time, I wasn't thinking OMG, I wanna be in the back stage pass business! I'm thinking about the band. And as a band manager, if I could get into this business, it would get me this much closer to all the action. So that's how it kinda how it started. Basically he couldn't hire me; didn't have the budget. He said he wanted help and needed help, but he couldn't afford it.

Oliver X: Take me back to the very beginning.

Seth Sheck: [Laughter, waxing biblical]. In the beginning... I'm a sophomore at Reno High School and a football player from the team is sitting next to me in class and goes, 'Hey dude, we're putting a band together... and you gotta cool personality. Would you be interested in coming over and trying out to sing for the band?' And I said, 'Sure, hell yeah.'

Oliver X: Could you sing?

Seth Sheck: I'm getting to that [Laughter]. For now I'm just thinking, Somebody popular in school is giving me the time of day. So we went out to his house and we get there and the band is there. I have the mic in front of me and they're like, 'OK, do something.' [Laughter]. And I'm just like, 'Yeah...no, I'm not a singer...' [Laughter]. But I said, 'If I'm not gonna be the guy on stage, I'll be the guy back stage and I'll help you guys. I'll be your manager, and I'll help you succeed.' Having no idea what that meant. So, I did that for years and years. And in the course of doing that, I waited tables at the first restaurant that was ever

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Oliver X: So he had a small operation?

Seth Sheck: He was a division of Thunderbird Printing, which was kind of the premiere commercial print shop in town for like 35 years.

They did all the handmade, leather bound menus for like The Nugget and Harrah's and all that – and commercial printing. But he was an artist there. But he had seen a pass come through Lawlor Events Center and it said Otto Printing on the back of the pass. He was like, 'Who's this guy Otto?' Cause this is just ink on paper and he worked for a print shop. So, he did a little bit of research and figured it out. And he was like, 'Otto is the only pass company in America. Otto started in 1976. And Tony Perry had started this thing in maybe '83 or '84, or '85? And by '89 he had finally hired me. I just kept coming back. 'Are you ready?

Are you ready? Are you ready?' I just hammered the shit out of him until he couldn't take it any more. He was like, 'Look, if I hire you, will you leave me alone?' [Laughter]. So, yea, I finally got a job. Started at the bare bottom in the shipping department, doing whatever I could. And learned as much as I could.

Oliver X: Alma, had you heard this story before?

Alma Sheck: No, but it's awesome.

I am taking notes! [Laughter].

Seth Sheck: Anyway, Tony Perry was very difficult to work for.

At this point we go off the record and fast forward a bit.

Seth Sheck: Perry gets fired and I took over at T-bird Entertainment. About a year later, Tony opens Perry Entertainment Services. All of a sudden I'm getting phone calls from Def Leppard and bands saying, 'Hey, will you send that artwork over to Perry Entertainment?' And I'm like, Wait a minute. I'm your pass company; I'm your pass guy.' So we were getting legal letters now...I'm like, OK. Oliver X: They had the old number to Thunderbird basically?

Seth Sheck: Well, it was a year after Tony got fired before he started his new business. So we were just getting the business. So I'm like, 'Oh this is cool. I'm da man!' So anyway Tony started back up and he called his people and they said, 'Oh you're back open? OK cool, we'll give you the business.' And Tony's like, 'OK cool, then get those art files from Seth.' And I was just like, 'Oh man!' We started losing accounts.

Oliver X: You're getting punked.

Seth Sheck: Yea, I was getting punked and I was upset. Yea, I was furious.

Oliver X: Somehow here I'd imagine you're about to draw a line in the sand on this situation.

Seth Sheck: Wait, there's a twist...There's a couple twists. There's a twist and a pivot. Wait for it...So, maybe within that year or so time frame, Perry's up and running. We've lost a bunch of accounts. I had created all these new products.

I created a see through pass; I created a pass that's all foil that you could run through a digital printer. I created the very famous passes used now all around the world that are die-cut like a credit card, but different shapes and sizes. Before then,

everybody was putting a piece of paper inside of a laminate and running it through a laminating machine. So, with respect to Tony, I said to myself, I'm gonna fight this, with amazing products and design.

Anyway, he'd just had longer relationships and I couldn't fight it. So one day, he sets up a meeting between his guy and myself. We went to a place called Colombo's, on the river. It's not there anymore. But it was a famous Italian restaurant.

Corky Bennett used to play; there was a big fireplace. It was almost romantic. He made me and offer I couldn't refuse. He said 'Look, why don't you come work for Tony Perry?' And I'm thinking like, Oh man this is a twist. I told him that the only way I'd do it is if I get the title I want... (Now you gotta remember I am like 20 years old; laptops were coming out; cell phones were coming out. So I told him, 'I him I want a cell phone; I want a laptop; I want $500 bucks a week cash salary, and I want commissions. And I want this title: Vice President of Sales. You give me all that and I'll come over.' And of course they gave me all that. I jumped ship and went to work for Tony as his VP of Sales—and got fired about a year later!

Oliver X: What? Was there a reason?

Seth Sheck: Oh yes, there was a good reason. I got his first football team. I bagged the Dallas Cowboys. And it was enormous job. Biggest job he'd ever had. $77,000. But, the end part of the production – the packaging and all that—was happening while I was out on a houseboat, with the guy who'd asked me to sing in his band— the football player. We doing mushrooms and partying. I didn't want to go back to work. Screw that. I called in sick and said I can't come in. Tony was like, 'Dude, you landed this giant job and it's turned into shit—you need to be here!' And I was like, 'I'm not coming in!' And so when I got back and I got fired.

Chapter 2 of our series continues next month, as Seth picks up the pieces and finds greater success.

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FEATURE Gold N Silver Inn Text Oliver X Photos Tucker Monticelli

Reno's favorite diner gives back to it's patrons in a major way during their 60th Anniversary celebration.

“At the Gold 'N Silver, it's mostly regular customers. I wait on a round table every morning – they're called my million dollar table because the senators, doctors, and attorneys all come... there's about twenty-five to thirty of them. I wait on them every single morning, even holidays.

And I have to remember who wants decaf, who wants regular regular, who wants rye, who wants butter and dietary syrup, and who wants their syrup heated; there's one who wants one piece of wheat buttered and the other piece dry, another wants blackberry jam instead of anything else and then there's the one who wants me to cut up their donut...honestly! But to me it's easy because I've done it for so long.” - Gold N Silver Inn waitress Georgina Moore from the book Counter Culture The American Coffee Shop Waitress.

Diners hold a special place in the my heart. From the waffle houses of the I-10 East and I-95 South, to the inner-city soul food greasy spoons of LA and Oakland, diners have beckoned and welcomed me like museums of culinary history.

It's the food you grew up with; the food of your youth, triggering memories of home, of place. Of times when things, people and food were real.

When calories didn't count and your biscuits were smothered in homemade gravy and you asked for more on the side. Your waitress had a heart of gold and wore white shoes, worked doubles and was

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saltier than the crackers in your soup, but sweeter than the milk at the end of your cereal bowl.

Your breakfast coffee came strong and hot and was always the same—just like your order: “Two eggs over medium, bacon (crispy, please), with hash browns... Oh and extra butter on the toast please hon.”

Fourth Street's Gold N Silver Inn is the place where the Great American Diner tradition is alive and well in Reno. Chicken friend steaks, chef and Cobb salads, steak and eggs, malts and milkshakes and Farmer Bros. coffee—a dizzying array of classic menu selections, done well with care—all hours of the day or night!

Owner Jeffry Paine attributes much of the diner's staying power to the fact that they serve real food, done well. “Chains dominate the food scene across America, with food made from a central commissary. Unfortunately that means most of the food we eat out is heat and serve. The art of taking raw ingredients and making things from scratch is being lost,” he sadly notes. “We have very exacting recipes,” Paine states. “We take pride in our homemade gravies, sauces and dressings, made from recipes adhered to exactly and passed down through the years. It's that consistency that people come to depend on and value.”

“I grew up in this place,” says noted concert photographer David Robert. “I've been coming here since I was a little kid and I love it.”

At the tail end of June, Robert, like hundreds of area locals, helped the venerable institution that has served generations of diners seeking a brand of comfort food nearly extinct in today's blur of

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FEATURE fast food and fru fru, celebrate 60 years in business. As a thank you gesture, owner Jeffry Paine decided to offer throwback 50's pricing on three staple beverages and three breakfast, lunch and dinner favorites. 15 cent milk; 15 cent coffee and 15 cent coke per cup, per glass, per refill. The aforementioned entrees were similarly discounted at 95 cents for eggs, bacon or sausage, hash browns and toast; 95 cent grilled cheese sandwiches and 95 cent spaghetti with Gold N Silver's famous meat sauce and garlic bread.

The result: pandemonium, with lines almost out the door of the 11,000 square foot diner over the course of the three-day anniversary.

In the lead-up to the event week, word spread through the social media and print news outlets about the anniversary menu specials. It is still a rarity for any establishment to express gratitude and appreciation in this way to its patronage. A kind of reverence for its own traditions and past and the customer base that has stood with them these decades.

The atmosphere was undeniably festive, like a homecoming of sorts.

Local celebs and dignitaries, many of them long-time regulars, came in droves. Chef Adam Bronson came to eat on Monday with his son.

Governor Sandoval came in at 6pm on Wednesday. People chatted across booths. The gaiety was palpable. But the three day outpouring of support was also a major stress test for Paine and his veteran staff, some of whom have worked there the majority of their adult lives.

“On Monday, right when everything is exploding,” Paine recalls, my bookkeeper and HR person comes

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over and I say, 'You know what, I have to go home.' I had to go home and meet our vet. We had to put our dog down. My wife came home from work and we met the vet at our house, and we had to put her down. There was no frikin' way I was going to go back in on Monday. My wife and I and my other dog sat there and cried all night.

Then I came in Tuesday morning and I got the story about the crush of people who came in that night.”

Paine worked 15 hour days to meet the challenge and says of the avalanche of customers, that they were simply not ready. “I was here til past ten pm on Tuesday and Wednesday,” he says. And you know overall it was a really good thing. As unprepared as we were, we kinda regrouped Tuesday morning. And I just called everybody in. I mean, all of my employees worked six and seven days this week—50-60 hours. Everybody smiled through it and we were wiped out by Wednesday night. My total customer count was 4,600, with 3,000 people ordering one of the specials.”

Paine says that customer after customer came up to him and told him what a nice thing it was the he was doing. With customer appreciation like that, Gold N Silver will continue to be Reno's favorite diner destination.

Gold N Silver Inn is located at 790 W 4th St, Reno, NV 89503 (775) 323-2696 – goldnsilverreno.com References Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, Taylor A. Candacy Page 59. Cornell University Press 2009.

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FEATURE Text Jana Arnold Photos courtesy of the Northern Nevada International Center

Mandela Washington Fellows return to

Northern Nevada to learn and experience

Business and Entrepreneurship

In 2015, the University of Nevada, Reno in conjunction with the Northern Nevada International Center (NNIC) was selected by the U.S. Department of State to host the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF). MWF is the flagship program of President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Nationwide, the Mandela Washington Fellowship provides 1,000 Sub-Saharan African professionals with unique opportunities to develop expertise in their subject areas, grow their professional networks, and increase their knowledge of the United States. The Mandela Washington Fellows attend some of the top U.S. colleges and universities for a six-week academic and leadership institute in one of the following areas: Business and Entrepreneurship; Civic Leadership; or Public Management. UNR hosted one cohort of 25 of the 500 Fellows in the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

African leaders an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship through a combination of lectures by academics and practitioners, through site visits to local companies and by connecting to young entrepreneurs and mentors in weekly sessions.

The academic coursework offered a broad overview of different business start-up and entrepreneurial practices, while the site visits gave fellows exposure to local business operations where concepts that had been presented during classroom sessions were reinforced. Our Fellows gained a deep appreciation of how northern Nevada’s recent experience with the economic recession offered unique opportunities for entrepreneurs to alter the business ecosystem of our region. The efforts of government agencies, institutions of public and higher education and the business community were highlighted to showcase the importance of collaboration and coordination.

The participants are highly accomplished leaders in their respective fields. Last year’s fellows were a diverse group of entrepreneurs coming from fields such as tourism, real estate, oil and the social sector. The Mandela Washington Fellows (MWF) at UNR offered these young

Fellows also learned about the value of volunteerism in weekly activities and they gained leadership skills with local experts. One of these volunteer experiences at the Northern Nevada Food Bank actually resulted in an impromptu Zumba session where fellows, as well as staff,

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danced side by side. Thus, the Fellowship opens up opportunities not only for professional development but social as well.

One of the main goals of the Mandela Washington Fellowship and Northern Nevada International Center is to connect local people with international visitors to stimulate cross-cultural understanding through interpersonal exchanges. Every Friday, the fellows were invited to the same host family in small groups, where the Fellows bonded with their hosts over dinner and conversation. Friday night hosts served as an extension of peer collaborators and mentors in that they recommended additional people to meet and created more opportunities and connections for the fellows.

The Fellows enjoyed ample opportunities to learn about the American West through local festivals, the rodeo and the beautiful scenery of the Lake Tahoe Basin and Virginia City. The major goals for the 2015 Fellows were to expand their horizons, learn new business and management skills and return to Africa enriched with new experiences, new contacts and connections. Most of the personal and professional goals were achieved and the connections forged between the community and the fellows continue to stay strong to this day.

Due to the success of last year’s program, the NNIC and UNR is excited to host another cohort of 25 young African leaders again this summer from June 17 to July 31. Once again they are entrepreneurs from differing fields such as geology, art, filmmaking or innovation and technology. The team at UNR and NNIC hopes to offer 2016 Mandela Washington Fellows with even greater opportunities this summer in the biggest little city. With about 400,000 inhabitants, the Reno/Sparks area offers a small enough place where fellows are able to get to know many community members and have an impact on our campus and region. Connecting our community to the wealth of knowledge and experience of our Mandela Washington Fellows is of key importance to the MWF team at the University of Nevada.

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omen not only hold up more than half the sky, women-owned businesses are a major component of our national economy. In statistics cited in 2015 by the National Association of Women Business Owners, 9.1 million firms are owned by women, generating 1.4 trillion dollars in sales and employing 7.9 million people. [1]

Now, take into account the dizzying array of mom and pop businesses that populate U.S. cities large and small, and those numbers skyrocket. (Notice how the word “mom” comes first in that scenario btw?)

More than ever, working mothers are trading their day jobs for the boss's hard hat – striking out with their skills sets and dreams in tow and not just surviving, but thriving in business!

In a new continuing series inspired by one of our clients, Reno Tattoo Removal co-owner Melanie Gregory, we take a look at how four local women (most of whom you already know) who are balancing motherhood, marriage and business, while finding time to be fabulous in their own right. We think you'll be inspired by their guts, candor and drive, and informed by the unique challenges and vulnerabilities that “Momtrepreneurs” face and overcome daily.

Meet our Momtrepreneurs!

• Melanie Gregory – Co-owner Reno Tattoo Removal

• Aaryn Walker – Owner – Red Chair • Kim Mazy – Director – MunchkinLand PreSchool

• Terri Hull – Owner – Sippees Oliver X: What are the biggest challenges you face as owners/entrepreneurs with kids?

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Melanie: Finding the time, energy, creativity to be both a mom and a business owner. You put everything you have into being both things— well, at least trying – and sometimes one or the other suffers. Sometimes you suffer, but the reward outweighs the bad. You get to show your kids that you can make dreams become realities with hard work; you can help them feel a part of your business, and, with practice and a few cries here and there, you can find time to still make sense of who you are.

Aaryn: Before having a child my biggest concern desiring to have a family was not being able to raise my child. My mom was a stay at home artist for many years. Part of my decision to be a self-employed entrepreneur was to afford myself the opportunity to take my child to work and make decisions that would allow me to be able to raise my child without day care services. Two weeks after having my daughter 5 1/2 years ago, we returned to my shop to conduct business. Having her grow up in the shop was an easy choice. After asking a friend who grew up in her father's ski shop about her experience growing up in a familyowned and operated business, she expressed a great love and respect for her experience, as well as the ability to learn a trade and have an understanding for how her family earned a living. My daughter has become as much a part of my business as myself. Instead of being a challenge, it has been pleasure. I have learned as she gets older, and she realizes that there actually are other options for her after school. If she was left to make her own decisions, [she] would opt to spend less time than more at the shop.

Kim: I would say the part that is the hardest is also sometimes the easiest, and that is the flexibility. Most of the time, my school runs like clockwork and I really don’t have to be there constantly. However, there are times when say for example, I am short-staffed, which means a “Tag! You’re It!” for me.

Because of the nature of my business, it is necessary to maintain certain ratios of children to teachers to be in compliance. It’s not like selling widgets. I deal with tiny humans with lots of needs every day and they really don’t care if Miss Suzie Q called in sick. Times like these, I hop into the classroom to teach. And I must admit, I love it…

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FEATURE Terri: Well, I have three boys, so they keep me very busy! Having your own business takes a lot of your time, so its' hard to do everything I would like to with the kids. School, sports, etc.

“To address existing prejudices and often unreasonable expectations, momtrepreneurs develop a skill set that includes context switching, multitasking, minute-to-minute efficiency, hyper focus, and transparent communications. And of course, our ability to endure sleep deprivation!” [2] - Geektime Oliver X: What is harder, owning a business or being a mom?

Aaryn: Owning a business!

Kim: Wow! That’s a tough one. They are both uniquely challenging. In a way, my preschool is one of my babies. I created it. I have nurtured it.

I have worried about it. I am passionate about it. I love it. Kind of just like my kids. And when you are a business owner, it’s 24/7, like being a mom. My business is a part of me. I could never say that it’s more important than my kids, but it’s up there!

Melanie: At first thought I'd say business, only because I think it always felt natural to me from a young age that I would be a mother. But now, as a mother of three young kids, I think mother.

And then when I really think about it, being an adult is hard. We all have jobs and expectations.

Things we want to do; money we want to make... I think we all wish we could have summer vacations and spring breaks, and our lunches made for us each day. We want to take naps and watch cartoons and eat cookies until we are sick. So maybe it's neither; maybe it's just being a plain old responsible adult. Life can be challenging. So hats off to all us adults who get up each day and put a smile on our faces and make the most of it. We got this shit – even if we eat too many cookies here and there!

Terri: It's hard to say which is harder because your business is your baby too! They both require a lot of time, energy, patience, love. It's very time consuming on both ends.

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Dow Jones company have shown that venturebacked companies led by a woman typically produce higher revenues by 12% and launch on a third less capital. Additionally, womenled companies are proven to be more resilient to financial and market crises than their male counterparts.” [3] - Fast Company Oliver X: How do you chase/manage your time?

Terri: Ha ha! Well when I master that, I will get back to you!

Aaryn: We'll this is the tricky part about owning a business. I wear so many hats and make lots of to-do-lists. Time for me, like most people, is my greatest asset and something that I never find a spare reserve of. The bookkeeping and organizing always seem to fall by the wayside between that and major rearranging of the shop. I find myself spending several 18-20 hour days a month playing catch up. Working late nights allows me the opportunity to get tasks completed uninterrupted. My father, who is an architect and retired professor of architecture, often drafted all night. I have fond memories of him burning the midnight oil drafting and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, I'd slip downstairs and color his renderings. I am grateful for my early training, lol! I also get great inspiration from music and conversational silence. When I joined my dad in his drawing room, we just worked... and listened to music.

So I guess I'm admitting to chasing time and not so much managing time. I never figured out the working smarter than harder. I am always working so hard. Fortunately, I am in love with what I do and it rarely feels like work.

I feel very fortunate that this has been my reality for 13 years.

Melanie: With bad attempts at organization.

I try to schedule things the best I can, but I also want to be able to decide on a whim if I have free time and I don't want to do anything at all. Or I want to have lunch or coffee...or walk around staring at clothes I don't need. I don't really think I will ever actually have enough time to get done the things I want to do or need to do. I just try and prioritize the best can. If my

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FEATURE kid hasn't had a bath in two days...today is the day. Or I haven't seen someone dear to me in a while, I block out a couple hours. I'm always behind....which drives me nuts I used to pride myself on always being on time and having my shit together. Now that I feel like a nutcase, I scramble a bit more. I drink a bit more coffee then I used too, and I say a few more curse words. But all in all, I just do the best I can. I may have giant piles of laundry and need groceries more than I like to admit, but that’s OK. Who needs clean clothes and fresh eggs anyways?!

Kim: It’s all about priorities…and I think that owning my own business allows me to have the best of both worlds. Especially because I am in the “kid biz.” I get to work, contribute financially to my family and be with my kids at the same time. I have been able to be a part of all of my children’s “firsts” as they have always been with me. It’s a win, win! Multitasking at it’s finest.

Usually my days are very flexible, so I am able to squeeze in things that my family needs, like appointments etc., with no problem. The best part is that I don’t have to ask my boss!

Oliver X: Where do your husbands fall in all of this?

Terri: He is the glue that holds the family together. He falls at the top, because without him none of this would be possible.

Melanie: Well, since he's my partner in life and business, I would say number one. We couldn't do this parenthood or business thing without each other. He knows me and tries to make me the happiest gal in all the land. I’m pretty lucky.

We try to make time for each other. We have gotten a lot better at it. We see the value in it.

We realize our kids will survive if someone else watches them, and that we are happier people because of it. We enjoy a lot of the same things, and we both have common goals: to make this business the best that it can be. We work hard together to make that a reality. We want people to feel at home, because this is home to us. We also respect each others need to be individuals, to grow what makes us unique and special. He's amazing with motors/cars/motorcycles/fixing literally anything. It makes him tick. He needs time to be "him" once in a while. Honestly, no one else understands our crazy the way the other 48 Reno Tahoe Tonight

one does. It's so nice to be able to share that with someone – even when you want to run away, the other one has your back. We try to not both go crazy at the same time, so it works out a lot.

Kim: I’m not going to lie, my husband and I are both very busy people. But no matter how crazy our lives are, we really make it a top priority to spend quality time together. We usually do a date night about three times a month. We also plan little getaways as often as we can. It makes us better parents and better at what we do. We have also started doing CrossFit together. It’s awesome to support one another in our efforts to be fit.

Aaryn: My husband ran his own furniture store in Reno (Hapgood's, a similar mid century concept, now closed) and, more recently, he owned Found Modern in Cathedral City in the Palm Springs area that is also now closed. We decided his energy and time are best served as a full-time buyer for Red Chair, now in it's third – and hopefully final—5,600 square feet anchor space in the Moana West Shopping Center. We also do the refinishing of our own inventory – and deliveries. Not having two separate shops and more importantly, being in the same state seven and not three days a week, also allows him the flexibility to be be available for after school pick-up and answering my daughter's request to not be tied to the shop any longer than absolutely necessary.

Oliver X: How do you all manage family time through the chaos?

Melanie: Ha ha ha... I think we all think this is funny. Well, sometimes poorly. We're looking forward to food trucks in the park this summer. We take walks as a family; we attempt to be good parents. I'm sure we could use improvement, but our kids know we love them.

We read stories every night and we try to take our kids to Disneyland each year – even though we really like going without them. (Shh, don't tell them!)

I don't know. It’s a hard one. I'm sure our kids have become more independent because they have to. Sometimes I feel guilty about that; sometimes I think its good for them. We are always present, so I think at least there

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FEATURE is a sense of security with that. We also have family and babysitters that they adore that they spend time with. I think it's nice to have other amazing people in their lives who can show them different things and teach them things I wouldn’t have. It helps them become more well-rounded individuals...at least that's what I tell myself.

Aaryn: Well, I hope we don't all need therapy in the end. I'm a workaholic. I get plenty of time to be a great momma. My husband could probably use a clone of myself.

Terri: It's pretty hard. My husband works works 50 plus hours a week, as do I. So it's not that easy. It's nice to be able to have the kids at the store, and my Husband is out in the field for his work so he is not tied down in one place like me.

Kim: It takes a little work, especially because our 20 year old daughter goes to college full-time and lives in her own apartment across town. We find that having little family traditions helps a lot. Like we do Friday dinner at a restaurant.

Everyone is always invited. If you can come great, if not, then maybe next week. We also do Sunday family dinners at home with the same expectations. Another thing that helps is having grandparents that live locally. They are a huge help with getting everybody where they need to be and babysitting from time to time.

Oliver X: With all that you do, what do you do to keep connected to yourself and who you are?

Terri: I don't. That is something I am trying to work on right now. It's tough.

Kim: I have a few things that I like to do that are just kind of “my things.” I love to cook and entertain. I have started a neighborhood group that has a different themed party every quarter and I love it. I also love to decorate… I typically change my front porch every month. Call me crazy, but I love it! And all things holiday… I am a self-proclaimed Pinterest fanatic. I just love making things pretty! Also, finding CrossFit has been a God send for me. It pushes me to do things that I honestly never thought I could do and gives me both the physical and mental strength to be the best I can be.

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Aaryn: My bubble is very small I am sometimes too connected to myself. For me the challenge is leaving my bubble and disconnecting. I rarely find time for myself. I am extremely happy with all facets of my life, but that takes me full circle.

Time is my most valuable resource and I rarely find a surplus of it.

Melanie: Well, we both drank the Kool-aid and are addicted to CrossFit. We go to Double Edge, and it's amazing. We think it's therapy. For one hour each day, we think about nothing else but surviving. It helps us physically, but emotionally as well. I really don't know how I existed before it. It gives us a sense of confidence as people; it's really powerful. It's not for everyone, but for me, right now in my life, it is huge! It gives me a new task each day to conquer. I may not be the fastest or the strongest, but if I give it my all, and know in my heart that I did, then it doesn't matter. I feel victorious and I think that feeling helps me be better in all I do.

We also try to still be us. He's into stuff; I'm into stuff. We are into stuff together. We like to go out to eat, or have drinks a couple times a month and just be Melanie and Ron. Not Mom or Dad or Laser Specialist.

Fashion and styling for this shoot came courtesy of the fine folks at Sierra Belle Reno, a woman-owned boutique, located at 726 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89501 Phone:(775) 470-8390 shopsierrabelle.com References 1. www.nawbo.org/resources/women-businessowner-statistics – National Association of Women Business Owners. Statistics from Womenable report commissioned by American Express “OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses 2015 2. geektime.com/2016/03/08/what-does -it-mean-to-be-a-momtrepreneur/ - Geektime 3. fastcompany.com/3028299/dialed/5-reasonsmoms-make-great-entrepreneurs – Fast Company

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My best friend Benjamin Franklin said,

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" We all know Benny was actually speaking on the topic of fire safety, however, I prefer to apply this sage wisdom to health practice. Let’s talk about wellness maintenance. Do you have a plan in place that supports your spiritual, physical and mental well-being?

My monthly maintenance includes chiropractic, homeopathic care, spa services, acupuncture, vitamin injections and energy work. This powerpacked ounce of prevention supports the immune system while aligning and cleansing the body.

Each of these modalities is pretty mainstream, but, are you familiar with energy work? Specifically Chakra clearing. Chakra clearing is a quick and easy way to unblock and balance energy.

The Sanskrit word Chakra literally translates to wheel or disk. Chakras are the energy centers in the body, located from the base of the spine through to the crown of the head. Imagine seven spinning wheels of energy running vertically in the body, where matter and consciousness meet. Each chakra corresponds to glands, organs and other facets of your being. If the energy is blocked and not flowing freely, you may experience some of the following problems; fear, low libido, lack of focus, confidence, thyroid issues and headaches.

Leigh Hurst, owner of Purposeful Living Healing Center in Midtown, is my energy balancing practitioner. Tibetan Singing Bowl therapy is my chosen form of chakra alignment, Leigh refers to it as “sound medicine”. These singing bowls align the body with vibration, just as a chiropractor aligns you physically, the frequency of the bowls re-align the energy of chakras quickly. The warm, harmonic tones of the bowl are very pleasing to the ear, the vibration swirls around the body helping to reduce stress, promote deep relaxation and help the brain release endorphins. Each session leaves me feeling centered, peaceful and whole.

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The Tibetan singing bowls are just one of the many therapies offered by Leigh. Purposeful Living offers a variety of monthly classes, sound healing, guided meditation and self- education through talk. Are you ready to live in joy and happiness, be conscious, aware, break old patterns and live a vibrant, purposeful life in the present? Leigh will customize a healing plan just for you. Wellness is for men and women, we all need to be tending to our health on every level. Our bodies are designed to heal themselves, open up you to your healing potential through monthly prevention.

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g n i k i H r e m m Su e o h a T e k a in North L In Tahoe we’re fortunate to have the mother of all hiking trails right in our backyard. The famed Tahoe Rim Trail is a 165-mile dirt path looping around the entire lake, following the ridges that bound the Tahoe Basin. You can backpack it in its entirety in about 14 consecutive days. But if you don’t have that time commitment, check out any of the eight trailheads with trail segments that range from 12 to 33 miles in length, perfect for a weekend trip. Out and back routes are also available for day hikers.

Lake. From there, you can turn around and head back or keep hiking up to Squaw Valley USA’s High Camp and take the cable car down for free (along with the family pooch).

One of the top locals picks is the Mt. Rose Loop Trail off Highway 431. The 5-6 mile roundtrip hike starts at 8,900 feet and tops out at 9,420 feet. You’ll get picturesque views of Lake Tahoe and a beautiful waterfall. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association, the volunteerbased organization that built and maintains the Tahoe Rim Trail, has a calorie counter on its website if you need a little extra incentive.

The Mt. Rose Loop burns approximately 1,422 calories if you take about 3 hours. That beats the treadmill any day!

Traveling with eager toddlers who want out of the car now? Check out the family-friendly onemile trek to the historic Vikingsholm Castle on the West Shore. Park at the Vikingsholm Castle lot on Highway 89 and take a dirt path down to the castle, which offers daily tours in the summer. It’s also a great spot for a picnic and offers up a sandy beach with fantastic views of Fannette Island, Lake Tahoe’s only island, and scenic Emerald Bay.

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There is nothing more rewarding than taking a dip in crystal, clear waters after a strenuous hike. Five Lakes, accessible via Alpine Meadows Road, is popular for this very reason. A 5-mile hike has a tough uphill that gives way to some of North Lake Tahoe’s most popular swimming holes, five serene alpine lakes.

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OPINION

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Last June I cried. For the first time in my life, I was able to legally, lawfully get married.

Just one short year later I am crying again. These are not tears of joy, they are tears of intense anger and profound sadness. The worst massacre in modern history just happened in a gay club. A few short hours later, a heavily armed man was prevented from attacking a gay pride parade.

49 people dead at the hands of a monster with an assault rifle. A weapon of war. A weapon that solely exists for mass killing.

In the days since the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the GOP and their orange tinted ruler have proven yet again, that they are on the wrong side of history; the wrong side of morality and on the wrong side of the gun debate. Do we get action? Do we get a real, substantive conversation about gun violence in this country? No. We get thoughts, prayers, and moments of silence.

I say, fuck your prayers.

Your prayers will not bring back the 49 people brutally killed in Orlando. Your moments of silence will not heal the families of the 27 little children and teachers dead in Newtown.

I am sick and tired of hearing “The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” My right to live and exist is more important that your right to own a weapon of war. It is time for the GOP to stop treating the 2nd Amendment like one of the Ten Commandments. It is time for gun control in this country.

Whether or not the LGBT community is strong enough or will rebound is not even a question.

When you spend your entire life faced with bigotry, hatred and prejudice it is remarkable how thick your skin becomes. Thanks to that vile criminal in Orlando, gun violence prevention is now very much an LGBT issue. Our safe spaces are no longer safe. We are once again a target for violence, simply for existing.

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Since the GOP has made it explicitly clear that in their fucked-up worldview the right to own a weapon of mass destruction is so sacrosanct that they should even be available to terrorists; it is time for us to stand together, united as a community and fight once again for our rights and our safety. It is time to change the conversation, and it is painfully obvious that once again we are going to have to be loud, proud and very much in your face.

The NRA and the pro gun lobby have a stranglehold on Washington and it will take years to undo the damage they have caused.

It’s time to take a stand. Identify political candidates who support gun violence prevention.

Get out and volunteer to get them elected. Call your representatives. Demand action. Most importantly, get angry. Do not forget. Do not let the conservatives brush this massacre aside, like they have so many times in the past. The blood of the 49 killed is on their hands and they must be held accountable.

Don’t pray for a safer America. Vote for one.

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RADIO We catch back up with Shamrock's comic jock Dave Mencarelli for part two of our conversation.

We now rejoin our interview with Mencarelli already in progress...

Oliver X: Take us from BoB to your time

at KOZZ to the Sean, Travis and Dave Show on KNEZ 107.3.

Dave Mencarelli: So that first full-time gig doing mornings at BoB led to some interesting things.

I got to fill in for the producer of The Panama Show, which was fun. I got to develop some talk radio shops in there. The last thing at did with Americom...I was going to leave cause I was kinda burned out, and they asked me to stay to be the producer for the Corey Farley Show. He was a newspaper writer. He used to have twice-weekly column...So they were bringing him on the radio.

[He had] no radio experience, but he was a good smart guy. They were bringing him on and they needed someone to be his producer. I had some things that if I was going to stay and do that, that I wanted, that turned out not to be the way things were going to be. So I only did that [show] for about two weeks and I quit. The day I quit, I made a couple phone calls to other radio stations in town. The only person that took my call was Jim McClain, over at Lotus. He was doing mornings on KOZZ at the time with Steve Smith, and he was the Operations Manager there. He didn't know who I was. I was no kind of celebrity at all, and not even very well known in this small little radio business. But Jim said, 'Yeah, come tomorrow and talk to me.' I was like, 'Great!' So I went in and talked to him and I loved him and we hit it off immediately. We are close friends to this day. He really didn't have a job for me, but he hired me. He said, I'll bring you on and pay you like nine bucks and hour and just use you for stuff here and there and fill in and stuff.

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fill in doing traffic or helping out, voice-tracking some stuff if they needed me.

Oliver X: Was this was in 2008?

Dave Mencarelli: I wanna say that this was 2008 or 2009 maybe? So I didn't do much with them during that run. I was doing some fill-in stuff.

Got frustrated and left radio again. But I left on good terms. In fact when I left Jim said, 'I'm going to go ahead and leave you on the payroll.

You'll be back. It's in your blood.' And I said, 'No I'm done. Screw radio, it's stupid. They don't respect me, and I'm done!' He said again, 'Yeah, I'm gonna leave you on the payroll.' [Laughter].

A year or so goes buy I think. Jim stepped down from being the Operations Manager and Jave Patterson took over. He used to do afternoons on The Dot and people recognize that name. I saw a thing on Facebook that said, 'Hey, we're lookin' for part-timers...' And I figured it was time for me to come back. I hadn't really built any kind of relationship with Jave when I'd worked there. So I said, 'Hey I don't know if you remember me, but my name is Dave Mencarelli and I used to work here. I hear you're lookin' for somebody...' And he was like, Hey Dave, yeah I know who you are.

Come on in and I'll hook you up.' There was some things to do there. Jave liked me. We hit it off well. I was personable. And, again, being likable is often more important than having talent.

Oliver X: Case in point, me myself! [Laughter].

Dave Mencarelli: Jave saw something in me.

There was a morning show called Mike, Malena & Chris in the Mornings. Mike Murray is still at Lotus and Chris is working on The Wolf. Malena left to have her baby, so Jave asked me to fill in and do the news. I'd chime in on the shows. It was music intensive so there'd be songs and for a couple minutes we'd come on and do some fun stuff. Mike and Chris and I hit it off pretty well.

All three of us are still friends and they liked what I brought to the show. My passion. I just loved being able to do morning radio with these two guys who I considered to be super funny. At that time there was a story about a kid who took off in a bubble or balloon or something.

Oliver X: Yes, “Balloon Boy!� His father strapped him into this bubble thing and he video

taped it getting away and the dad panicking.

His son ended up taking off in it for miles right?

Dave Mencarelli: Yeah! That's the one. We did a funny bit on that. I'll never forget that the father's name was Richard Heene. It turned out that he had done all this for publicity. So we called him Dick Heene on the air. And I made up a song and then Mike and Chris made it better. It went “Richard Heene/Super weenie� and they loved it! [Laughter].

Oliver X: I remember that. What a reckless act that was. Unbelievable!

Dave Mencarelli: I know! I got kids. So ridiculous. But great timing for me that we got to make fun of that story for like two weeks. I did well with them and Malena came back, so Jave decided to out me in with Smith & McClain to be their producer and sort of be on air with them. That was amazing. Now Smith & McClain had been doing that show for about 15 years on KOZZ when I joined them. They were mornings for a long time and they were super popular. They moved them to afternoons for a little bit. These guys knew what they were doing. They were like a married couple, they were so good on the air together, I was nervous going in there. They didn't need a producer. But it turned out they did, because they were kinda burned out. They were bored. So, I went in and I owe a huge debt to them for accepting me and making me feel comfortable. That in turn lets the audience accept you. Steve was the number one guy and so he would bring us out of a song and say 'Smith & McClain with Producer Dave.' So the audience accepted me from day one. That was a huge gesture and a class move. We all hit it off really well.

Oliver X: So 'Producer Dave' started to build a following?

Dave Mencarelli: [Laughter] Yeah, I was famous in Winnemucca! Smith & McClain used to do an event called Runamucca, the motorcycle event out there. And KOZZ is heard in Winnemucca. I went out to Runamucca with them; you couldn't walk five feet without people stopping them.

Everybody knew them out there. They would introduce me to people and they would be like,

'OMG Producer Dave!' I felt like a big star. I was leaving town getting gas at the truck stop the next morning. I had my KOZZ hat on and I gave the lady my card. She says, 'KOZZ is my favorite radio station.' And I go, 'Oh yeah, I work for them.' And she takes my card and she looks at it and says, 'You're Producer Dave?

I love you! You're so funny!' And I look around and I think, OK, who's pranking me here?

Somebody's pullin' a joke on me here right? But that was really cool. And that goes back to those guys accepting me. I had a lot of fun working with them for about a year.

Due to time constraints on the eastern seaboard, we move along to further action in the Mencarelli soap opera. Reader discretion is advised. [MA] Oliver X: Sean, Travis and Dave (STD) is very in your face talk. They bang on poor Hillary Clinton relentlessly. But the show is catching fire and you're really growing your audience across all demos. Talk a bit about the show.

Dave Mencarelli: Those guys are super sharp and I credit Sean for being open enough to go with a format like this. Those guys are incredibly knowledgeable. They know who the junior freakin' Senator from West Virginia is for example. They know stuff. I am not so sharp or politically savvy. It's political talk. I have opinions on emotional issues. Things like what's happening in schools, or transgender bathrooms and those things. That's my role: to be the role of the audience and to lighten things up. To do some jokes and to make fun of things. We did a piece on a woman who had a son, gave her son up for adoption; then met him 30 years later and wants to marry him and have his kid. So we talked about that story and then the very next story we talked about socialism and bread lines. And I said, 'Hey, if that lady wants to have sex with her own kid, if she's in a socialist country waiting to get some food, is that the in-bread line? [Laughter].

I get to chime in and stay stupid stuff like that once in a while.

Dave will be here all week on The Sean, Travis, and Dave Show on 107.3 KNEZ Weekdays 3-6pm.

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“I am fast, I am fit, I am strong, here and now.”

Stay with the breath. These feet. This road. There, a tree. Here, a rock. Sun setting over mountainous skyline. Rays glistening off the lake in the sky, providing inspiration to stay the course, to drop one foot in front of the other. To run. Pain comes, grind it out.

“Only love is real. We only borrow this body.”

And right now in this moment I am borrowing this body to run a physical race. A relay race; my team depends on me to carry my load. Three legs of 178 miles. Those three legs belong to me. I will run those three legs with my two physical appendages and I will run in joy, with grace.

Well that was the intention, anyway. For the most part I matched it. One good run, one great run, and one that left me feeling defeated, drenched, dehydrated.

This year, my fourth Reno Tahoe Odyssey race, was one for which in many ways, I felt least prepared but also the least nervous. My assignment: 12th runner on the team. Which means the caboose.

Which means that during the third and final leg, all team eyes turn upon you. They all wait, impatiently in 94-degree heat, for you to cross the finish line so everyone can grab their medals and snap a photo.

I come to running rather reluctantly. As an academic and musical theater freak growing up in the thick of Texas football country, I chided sports. Running? That was only good for running from the cops. To be here now in a place where running brings me joy is not somewhere I ever pictured myself. I’ve always been active, but had never conceived of running as something one would choose to do for fun.

I credit the Odyssey for the switch. Four years ago, my sister-in-law invited me to be on her team. That experience kick-started my affinity for the sport.

Since then, I have run not only three more Odyssey races, but also two half-marathons and a ten-miler.

Running isn’t my primary exercise activity, but I have come to engage in the activity as a meditation, one that follows the breath, tunes into the muscular and subtle bodies, fights through fatigue and wills myself to achieve my mileage or time goal.

The practice has strengthened my spiritual growth and also enhanced the quality I bring to my work.

Lately many facets of my life have embodied a race-like characteristic—especially my professional life. Some days I have to put my head down, ear

buds in, and just grind it out. Other days I melt into the flow and dance through the rhythm with breath, hyper-focused, still at the center of swirling chaos. Some days are just a jumbled mess. Staring at 40 on the horizon—a short six months away— my physical-spiritual-mental practice has become my bedrock. I once fought so hard to leave my body, pursuing liminality with a voracious hunger.

Now I fight to stay solidly in.

“One step, one stride, one leg at a time.”

Aside from the pursuit of perseverance that racing provides, a relay delivers a team-building experience. This was the second year my husband Brad ran the relay with me, and our first year on a new team. Due to a series of life interventions, our prior team had disbanded. We had written off the race. Then my Sports West Athletic Club boot camp coach, Eric Sell, asked if Brad and I wanted to join the SWAC team. Clearly the universe conspired to get us in this race. We piled in van 2 with Eric, our young, talented KTVN anchor friend Landon Miller, and a bad ass couple of nurses named Dustin and Jamie King. Dustin, who happens to be a ferocious runner, also doubles as an equally vicious musician, front-man of Dusty Miles and the Cryin’ Shame. We all got along famously and had a blast. A special camaraderie develops when you spend 26 hours in a van with people you may or may not know, people you want to lift up, people whose support you need to do your best, people you don’t want to disappoint. The relay elevates the exceedingly personal experience of running to a rewarding, team-building exercise comprised of high hilarity. At least that’s my Odyssey experience.

Unrepentantly hot. Sweaty. Respiration struggling to find its rhythm. Knee shouting, foot a receptacle for needling nerves.

Amanda Horn is a Reno-based writer, yogini, and creative community enthusiast. A former circus performer, she has been pushing boundaries most of her life, constantly redefining her own and testing the radius of the world she inhabits. She currently serves as Director of Communications for the Nevada Museum of Art. Follow her on Twitter @TeboHorn or email her at amanda.horn@nevadaart.org.

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2016 is the year of the ‘black swan.’ Remember, we are living in the time of Kali Yuga (Hindu: black or dark time) and our populous world will be talking about this era for decades to come. If not, there will be plenty of reminders to be sure, in film, literature, poetry, and song, lest we forget.

And O my people!—we do forget.

Acknowledging the structural complexities of our current affairs—cultural, political, environmental—New York Times columnist David Brooks admits, “I didn’t see [Trump] coming. [Suddenly] we’ve got a black swan; [I] didn’t take [the signs] seriously enough [perhaps] blinded by my own prejudices” (Charlie Rose, 29 March 2016). Likewise, Ross Douthat titles his NY Times Op-Ed piece, “The Grey Swan Theory of Trump,” entreating readers to “ [ponder] what unexpected events might pave Trump’s still-unlikely path to the White House” (26 May 2016).

In her LA Times newsletter, Arts and Culture writer Carolina A. Miranda cites theater critic Charles McNulty’s comparison of the Trump phenomenon to Shakespeare’s Roman dramas: “To anyone bewildered by the eruptions of violence at the Trump rallies”—[and to this we can add the Bernie rallies]— “’Julius Caesar' and 'Coriolanus' reveal just how easy it is to transform anxious citizens into mobs” (27 May 2016).

From Shakespeare to grey matter to ‘black swan’ theory—a term that references ancient belief in the non-existence of black swans, and the socio-economic theory developed by statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb describing rare, hard-topredict, and surprising events—the mythos of our wayward times begs sober contemplation.

Listening for the eternal voices beneath the temporal chatter, I pull substantive fodder from the wreckage of ragged and broken bones underscoring our human condition.

I remind myself that we—you and I—are the stuff of All Consciousness, designed to “raise being to another level” by nature of our own complex structures. If what we do “does not lift

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up the psyche (soul),” writes French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, “it will not transform it.”

Without certain and graceful reminders, we tend to forget the road we’ve just traversed. Eyes glossed and glazed over by both strange and familiar sites, we react blindly, attuned neither to what is familiar nor to what is strange. This is the mythos of death; it is also the mythos of life. To this paradox, Black Swans, an opera poem, speaks.

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Training Tips Text Camie Cragg Fitness Photo Tourine Johnstone

Energetically, Reno Nevada made it to the Top 10 Fittest Cities in America! According to National Nutrition Month, a new survey was conducted by WalletHub, who analyzed the 100 most populous American cities based on fitness levels. The report ranks the 50 biggest cities on a range of factors demonstrating how we support activity, healthy lifestyles, walking, running, biking lanes in the city, park access and the rates and numbers of heart disease, diabetes, body fat percentages, overweight percentages that have been logged, diet habits and smoking.

Here is the list of the Top Ten Fittest Cities in America: 1. Honolulu, HI 2. Reno, NV 3. Boise, ID 4. Las Vegas, Henderson, and Paradise, NV 5. Sacramento, Roseville, Arden-Arcade, CA 6. Boston, Cambridge, Newton, MA/NH 7. San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, CA 8. Colorado Springs, CO 9. Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, CO 10. Tuscon, A

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I applaud the Reno-Sparks community for becoming more physically aware of themselves and making the Top Ten List Fittest Cities in America! It's true when people say, "Working out is contagious!" Through our flaws and hiccups we are becoming the best versions of ourselves, one day at a time. We are utilizing what the city has built for us. We are participating in events like 5K and 10Ks and half marathons. We are seeking out out-of-town events as well to do travel and activity in one setting like Tough Mudders, Bikini Contests and Iron Men competitions.

I'm proud to be a gym owner in Reno, where so many people use multiple styles of training to reach their goals. Having a special lake right in our back yard that keeps us all so active, happy and close to water and outdoor sports. Take this summer and utilize all that is around you. Seek to be challenged by where we live which is so vibrant on so many levels if you hike, bike, walk trails, swim, fish, paddle board, ski, kayak, run, or life. The list goes on and on...

Stay active and blessed!

Camie Cragg Lyman Owner Cragg Fitness Social media FB, IG and Snap Chat: @camiecragglyman

Summer Tours and Events in North Lake Tahoe

Historic Thunderbird Lodge Tour Peek into the 1930s lifestyle of the rich and famous on a docent-led tour of George Whittell’s castle in the sky, the historic Thunderbird Lodge Estate. Walk winding pathways in search of secret tunnels.

Wine and cheese and garden and wine tours are also available.

UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Tour Explore why Lake Tahoe is unique aboard a virtual research vessel.

Discover Lake Tahoe’s underwater life in the science lab. Build mountains and make it rain with the “Shaping Watersheds” interactive sandbox. Tour “Lake Tahoe in Depth” in the 3-D theater. For handson activities, visit Lake Tahoe’s only public science center.

Tahoe Adventure Company Looking for adventure in the Tahoe area? Choose from activities such as biking, hiking, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding, sailing and full moon tours and the Tahoe Adventure Company team will take care of the rest. Customize adventures with activities in single or multiple days.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival – Sunset Serenades Concert Series August 16 – 21: The Festival’s 20-piece Academy Orchestra presents a 5-day concert series at intimate outdoor settings on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, Tahoe City and Truckee. Soloists Nathan Hughes, Principal Oboe for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Saeunn Thorstensdottir, renowned international cellist will be featured this season.

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Earning the love of your customers isn’t easy, but showcasing your great online reputation can be.

Check out our top 5 tips to spread the word about your great reviews on Yelp:

1 Put a badge on your website and link to your Yelp

listing using Yelp’s review badges – we provide the code, you just paste it into your website. The review averages and counts even update automatically as new reviews come in!

2 Put a “Find us on Yelp” sticker on a door or window in your business. These have even been spotted on business-branded vehicles. You can make your own using our brand assets, or request one from Yelp using this form.

3 Share your great reviews on Facebook and Twitter, as well as through email! Just select the “Share this review” arrow below the review in your Yelp for Business Owners Account or Mobile App.

4 Don’t forget to thank your customers in person

and on Yelp for their kind words. Responding to your positive reviews on Yelp is a great way to build strong, lasting relationships with your most vocal customers.

5 If you’re a 2016 “People Love Us on Yelp” Recipient, be sure to share your Yelp-approved status with prospective customers in both online and offline channels. In addition to displaying the “People

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Love Us on Yelp” Sticker on your window, consider posting, or even framing, the certificate inside your business. You can also announce your status on your social media pages with the images provided in your Downloadable Toolkit.

Sharing those reviews will likely result in increased traffic to your Yelp page, which means more opportunity to convert those visitors into customer leads and revenue opportunities for your business.

So we’ve got these top tips, to make sure your Yelp page is ready to perform:

1 Add Your Hours: Businesses with hours average 250% more customer leads than those without hours. Listing hours helps make sure you’re found when people search for businesses using our “Open now” filter.

2 Add More Photos: Take two businesses.

They both have between one and five reviews.

One has 10 photos and the other has none.

The business with photos will average 200% more user views.

3 Set up a Check-in Offer: Check-in offers are a great way to entice mobile users. Also, users who check-in receive a prompt to review you later. Log in to Yelp For Business Owners today to get started.

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“If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.” Yogi Bhajan Yogi Bhajan brought Kundalini yoga to the western audience in 1968 when he began teaching in California. Previously, Kundalini had been taught only in India by guru's passing the teachings down to their students. Yogi Bhajan wanted to share the benefits of a Kundalini practice with the general population, and in 1969 he created the 3HO (The Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization).

I didn't overly enjoy my first experience in Kundalini yoga because I was very uncomfortable. It's a much more mental yoga for me. Once recognizing this weakness, I have made it a goal to attend more Kundalini classes. I now love taking the Tuesday 9:30am classes at The Studio with Linda Azar. I always feel like whatever overall goal we are working on in class is exactly what I need to achieve that day.

Kundalini students often wear white clothing and head wraps to help with the vibration of energy, but it's not a mandatory dress code to attend a class.

Some Kundalinis also use sheepskins instead of yoga mats. Yogi Bhajan recommended this practice as a way to separate the body from the earth's magnetic pull. All of this is optional upon attending a class.

A Kundalini class begins with breathing and the mind-body connection, followed by a short chant, and moving into a warm-up that improves spine mobility. Kundalini yoga asana sequences are called kriyas. Each kriya is a preset series of poses that is done with a specific breathing technique and engagement of the bandhas to intensify the effects of the pose. Bandhas are the four main body locks that energy flows through. Each kriya works with a particular chakra. Some of the poses are held briefly while others last for several minutes. “In Kundalini yoga we harness the mental, physical, and nervous energies of the body and put them under the domain of the will, which is the instrument of the soul,” says the 3HO Foundation. The class ends with meditation and a closing song. Instead of namaste, Kundalinis say,

“Sat Nam.”

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Next Month in the August 2016 Reno Tahoe Tonight Text Oliver X

We have a stacked issue next month full of visual delights of all types! Gifted multi-instrumentalist Edward Howland of Hamora brings his apocalyptic guitar-driven soundscapes and musical vision to our pages in an editorial shot by Frank Haxton or Digiman Studio out in the Black Rock Desert.

We highlight Virginia City's Mustang Ranch Steakhouse to discover their delicious cuisine, great steaks, great service and 100mile views! Photographer Mairin Kareli and model-actress Liz Cole collab on a sexy Playa wear editorial. We feature South Lake Tahoe's essential Burner boutique Gaialicious as we all gear up for this year's Burn. Art Dogs & Grace has a huge new pipe room and we find out what great American glass items they have on display this year, just in time for back to school meditations. Jenny PezDeSpencer chases down the foul-mouthed icon of blue comedy Andrew Dice Clay. Tony Contini speaks with local singer-songwriter Michael Stosic, who is making music industry waves world-wide with his inspirational music and message.

Plus, I interview legendary musical ambassador of peace Michael Franti of Spearhead, as he brings his Soulrocker Tour to Stateline's Montbleu Resort & Casino August 19. And we feature Part 1 of our three part piece on my favorite design center Haus of Reed. You won't wanna miss a word of it! www.renotahoeotnightmagazine.com 100 Reno Tahoe Tonight

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