November 2015 Reno Tahoe Tonight

November 2015

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ART Art, Music, Culture & Community

11 ASK THE DOC 12 BEAUTY 23 BEER 25 BRITS 'N' PIECES BUSINESS 27 Yelp in your words

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COVER STORY Comedian Jenny PezDeSpencer:The Biggest Mouth in the West

34 CULTURE RANGER ESSAY 36 The Swan Lectures

EVENT 38 Comic Con FOOD 40 Southcreek Pizza 53 HEALTH TIPS 57 LIVE!

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60 MALL PHOTOGRAPHY 62 Elsa Boscarello 64 Jackson Mathews

PSYCHIC 69 Samantha Fe

RADIO 70 Chris Payne 78 RADIUS

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81 REAL ESTATE 82 RENO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY RETAIL 86 Green Rush 93 SKATE NV

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95 SLUDGE 96 THE COUTURE COLUMN 101 TRAINING TIPS 105 YOGA

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107 DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

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

Design Associate Katrina Stewart

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 2015.

Reno Tahoe Tonight is produced on 10% recycled American paper and is printed with all soy and vegetable inks.

SNAPSHOT "Hotsprings" Photographer Lisa Youell Jeanney Shot in Modoc County on the Nevada/California border

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Do we find meaning or does it find us?

Text Thomas Lloyd Qualls Photo Johnstone Studios

Let me say that another way.

The meaning of life is not hiding out there somewhere, waiting to be found. Life has whatever meaning we attach to it. Whatever meaning we imagine for ourselves.

Create It. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

-Albert Camus

I know what you’re doing. You’re out there turning over stones in search of some deeper meaning to your existence. And when you do, you’re going to find some things: moss, algae, bugs, discarded exoskeletons. Your toes are going to sink into the mud. And you’re going to get wet. You’re going to feel the stream’s current on your calves.

And you’ll probably discover some other hidden treasures you never expected.

What you will not find are any engraved explanations, no statements of empirical meaning, no one-size-fits-all answers. That’s because life is not some big game of hide and seek, where the gods have written down the correct answers under certain stones, and the only game is for you to look in the right places. Though, come to think of it, that would make a good story.

Let me be clear, I do believe in living a life filled with turning over stones. And if you enjoy playing in rivers and creeks, hunting fairies, and searching for mayflies, then you should continue to do just that. There are treasures to be found everywhere. But just as the beauty beheld depends upon the eyes that seek it out, your life’s meaning lies in the joys of your own experience.

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More simply, we do not find meaning; we create it. And when we stop creating meaning, we quickly get lost. And then, though we are in search of meaning, somehow we end up looking for ourselves. And we don’t realize that now we are two steps away from the answer.

And when we begin to feel better, it isn’t because we have found ourselves, or our way home, or even discovered the elusive meaning we sought.

It is because we have assigned some meaning to our present experience. Randomly or not. Of our own design or someone else’s.

What does it mean to mean?

What does it mean for something to have meaning?

How do we know when anything is meaningful? Too often, we believe it is when another person, religion, institution, television show, or cereal box tells us it does. But this adopted meaning often doesn’t ring true.

Meanings are a lot like fingerprints. Consider a rose.

To a photographer, the meaning of the rose is it's vibrant color.

To a sculptor, it's texture. To the blind, it's smell. To a lover, it's a symbol of affection. To a gardener, it's reflection of success. To a bee, the sustenance it provides. These are each true and meaningful aspects of a

rose. And yet, no one could ever say that any of these was the one true meaning of a rose.

It is also why it cannot be said that anything is inherently meaningless.

You can do this with almost anything. Take a songbird. I may see waking up to bird songs at dawn as the Universe giving me the best gift it can imagine to start my day. You may grab a pillow and wonder why in the world you’ve been cursed by the gods. When the gelato café moves in next door to your workplace, you may celebrate it as proof that you are, in fact, the chosen one of the goddess.

Where your best friend may view it as yet another obstacle to a happy bikini season.

What do you mean by create?

Isn’t that like making it up? Are you saying we are just making up things about life so we’ll feel better? Well, yes, in a way. But more than that, I’m saying that the meaning of life is not set.

It is not some fixed, static thing. Otherwise you could just look it up in the dictionary and move on.

We live in an interactive universe. The meaning of anything in life is not separate from you. We all create our lives, and their meaning.

Everyday. All day long. Life is not a board game and we are not game pieces.

When a painter paints a picture, everyone agrees that the painter has created something. But the act of creation is not limited to art. It is spread across all aspects of our lives. Your life’s meaning is no different. You are constantly deciding what is meaningful.

Consciously create.

We are unconscious of most of the assignments of meaning in our lives. Often because we’ve mindlessly adopted someone else’s decisions. But we can change that. We can be mindful of the unique fingerprints of our own world of meaning. And we can do it in a way that keeps us awake. And we can do that moment by moment.

I think what Camus meant was to get out of your head.

Because the meaning of life is not there. It’s in your life.

Live your life fully and find your own meanings in the living.

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, an essayist, a painter, and through his law practice – a sometimes salvager of troubled lives.

Waking Up at Rembrandt’s, his debut novel, has received local and national critical acclaim. The second edition of the novel is available in print (think of vinyl, only for books) and on multiple ebook platforms.

There’s also a book of poetry, love jaywalks, readable on just about any device that plugs into the internet. Still on the horizon: a collection of essays, some new paintings, and a second novel, painted oxen, currently in final draft. Or you can visit his website whenever you like.

There's more stuff there. www.tlqonline.com. © 2015 thomas lloyd qualls *A previous arrangement of some of the words in this essay appeared on the website www. rebellesociety.com, but you’d hardly recognize it.

Kind of like when The Birds covered Mr. Tambourine Man.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

ART MUSIC CULTURE & COMMUNITY Text Oliver X Photo of Moondog Matinee

by Adam Carpenter

Off Beat Arts & Music Festival

November 5-9 - 90 bands, 13 venues, 4 big days!

There's a palpable buzz of anticipation building for this month's Off Beat Arts & Music Festival. The inaugural event is primed to burst onto the festival firmament with a mission to celebrate Reno's local music scene, and raise money for the non-profit Future Kind organization, which provides access to music and art education and strives to create a generation of conscious, healthy and educated people worldwide www.futurekind.org.

Two years in the making, the ambitious festival is being captained by Future Kind's Baldo Bobadilla; The Glenn Group's Flip Wright, Loren Condron and Chris Ewing from Dotted & Crossed, Art Spot Reno, Wolf Pack Relations and festival booker Remi Jourdan of TuneTrax/EMG, and will feature 90 bands at 13 venues over four days.

Building a music festival around a talent base of local bands, DJs and songwriters is an ambitious act, fraught with risk. But by tapping northern Nevada's deep talent pool of artists, Off Beat is providing a long-awaited platform for the exposition of the excellence that has created one of the most brilliantly diverse emerging music scenes in America. Northern Nevada's local artists are regularly touring the states (Off Beat act Karma just got off of a ten-month national road trip); opening for national acts; playing prestigious music festivals nationwide; recording with Grammywinning producers; selling out local concert halls; 8 Reno Tahoe Tonight

wowing regional audiences; earning critical raves in press reviews; securing commercial radio spins; attracting and landing major label deals (Off Beat featured band Moondog Matinee, pictured, recently signed with Capitol Records) and, most importantly, our locals are growing Reno's national music reputation.

But there would be no scene without the enthusiastic support of local music fans here – who turn out again and again to local and national shows – to hear their favorite bands play, buy CDs and merch, share links and help passionately promote the shows and bands they believe in.

This festival is for the fans, and the multivenue event will arguably present the finest first-year lineup ever seen in Reno.

Concert goers have the opportunity to buy pre-sale passes (wristbands) that get them into every show at a significant discount—almost like having a fast pass at Disneyland. The OffBeat Festival bill features a genre-blurring assemblage of locals, indie label artists, future household names and sleepers, ready to rock the stage. Add to that, a stellar list of electrifying national touring acts (Houndmouth, Delta Nove, GrooveSession, Soft White Sixties and Diego's Umbrella to name a few) and some of the music industry's brightest young stars (like San Francisco's Con Brio,

recently touted by Popmatters.com as “the Best New Live Band in America”) and the OffBeat Festival is sending a strong message to the entertainment world that Reno has arrived as a breeding ground and showcase city for exposing and discovering next level talent.

Here's a list of the bands, DJs and songwriters that will be on display: Actors Killed Lincoln, Apprentice, Asphalt Socialites, B*Side Players, Black Rock City Allstars, Bluff Caller, Britt Straw, Brothers Gow, Busking By Moonlite, Cad Bane, Chango, Con Brio, Coop Da Loop, Craigslist HookUp, Cranialgalactic Orchestra, D6, Delta Nove, Diego's Umbrella, Drinking With Clowns, Drop Theory, Elephant Rifle, Elspeth Summers, Failure Machine, FM Marc, Forrest Day, Georgette, Gia Torcaso, Giant Fighting Robots, GrooveSession, Heidalicious, Herbert Bail Orchestra, Houndmouth, Jake Houston & The Royal Flush, Janaka Selekta Live, Karma, Kate Cotter, Kristophari, Liam Kyle Cahill, Lila Rose, Los Pistoleros, Max Volume, Mel Wade, Merkin, Miss Cooper, Mojo Green, Moondog Matinee, Motorhome, Mr. Rooney, Nick Ramirez, Nikki Smiles, Phat Couch, Plastic Caves, Postwar, Reno, We Have A Problem, Rick Hammond Blues Band, Rigorous Proof, Robot Barbie, Royal

Band, Rubles Plunge, Rundown Schizopolitans, Scott Pemberton, Spike McGuire, Stax of Wax, Subdocta, T Lee Walker & The Company He Keeps, The Atomiks, The Bonfire Set, The Electric, The Fantods, The Flesh Hammers, The Jokers Wild Blues Band, The Pretty Unknown, The Saddle Tramps, The Shames, The Sloths, The Soft White Sixties, The Whiskey Heroes, Tigerbunny, Todd Ballowe, Tyler Stafford, Vague Choir, Weapons of Mass Creation, WhatItDo, Wheatstone Bridge, Who Cares and Zach Rawlinson.

“We want the public to know that we have committed to investing thousands of dollars this year in performance fees to support of our local musicians,” says Bobadilla, who is also the lead singer/lead guitarist in the Off Beat featured group Drinking With Clowns. Additionally, the Off Beat Festival will showcase northern Nevada's remarkable fine art community, headed up by Geralda Miller and Eric Brooks of Art Spot/Art Walk, featuring exhibits at twenty area locations in downtown and Midtown Reno.

Get your festival wristbands and get access to the full lineup at all the feature venue locations by going to offbeatfest.com.

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ASK THE DOC Questions and Answers About Medical Text Dr. Sean Devlin

Marijuana with Dr. Sean Devlin

Q: Can marijuana use actually cause people to become nauseated?

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The answer is a bit complicated. Most people who are well-versed in medical marijuana have known or heard of marijuana’s effectiveness as an anti-nausea medicine. Many patients with chemotherapy induced nausea report improvement in nausea symptoms and improved appetites with the use of medical cannabis. On the flip side researchers have shown recently that heavy use of marijuana, specifically among young male users, can trigger a ‘cyclic vomiting syndrome’, which is described as dramatic attacks of nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain every few weeks. Those diagnosed with or suffering from cyclic vomiting syndrome may benefit from cessation of marijuana use. This relatively Many pesticides and other chemicals are used in both black market new diagnosis should always and commercial/co-op grows involving marijuana. Pesticide products be considered in someone such as Avid and Floramite are often popular with ‘black market’ has developed new onset growers and even some large commercial cultivators in unregulated symptoms of severe nausea states. Large commercial cultivators are responsible for large amounts and vomiting who are also daily of commercially available cannabis through patient cooperatives and users of cannabis. So with that dispensaries. As a result, many cannabis consumers are unwittingly being said, yes in some cases purchasing potentially tainted cannabis. Many growers may resort to the marijuana can cause nausea use of a variety of pesticides in an effort to protect their plants and their amongst heavy users. investment. Some of these pesticides include Imidacloprid, Permethrin, Bifenthrin, Pyridaben, Cypermethrin, Indoxacarb, t-Fluvalinate, Deltamethrin, Carbaryl, Propiconazole, Acetamiprid, Dicofol, Diazinon, Malathion, Thiamethoxam, Tetramethrin, Bifenazate, and Tebuconazol. Many of these agents are considered biological poisons, which can damage nervous and reproductive systems, interrupt hormonal messaging and can even There are many anecdotal stories that would induce cancerous changes in cells. All of this indicate marijuana may help directly treat or act sounds very dangerous. Why would marijuana synergistically with antineoplastic agents to kill users take the chance and smoke material cancer cells. There are hundreds of laboratory studies exposed to these agents? Unfortunately that also suggest that cannabinoids like CBD and many marijuana users are unaware or just do THC may directly kill cancer cells in petri dishes not care and they may be exposed to these and in animal models. Currently GW, a cannabis substances if their using unregulated cannabis. pharmaceutical company, in the United Kingdom Thankfully in the State of Nevada, in order is pursuing research in the area of brain cancer. The to protect medical marijuana users, has company plans to investigate Sativex (a cannabis mandated strict testing guidelines to ensure containing medicine) as an add-on to the standard patients have access to the cleanest medical chemotherapy agent temozolomide, rather than a marijuana possible. stand-alone. According to GW Pharmaceuticals, pre-clinical research suggests that cannabinoids can improve the anti-cancer ability of temozolomide.

Sincerely, Sean Devlin DO It appears that at this early stage some combinations and dosing of cannabinoids may play a role in treating To make an appointment with Dr. Devlin, brain cancer. Research is taking place now that please call 775-772-9933 or email info@ may shed further light on how cannabis fights this washoewellness.com disabling and deadly form of cancer.

Q: What chemicals are used to grow marijuana and are they dangerous?

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BEAUTY

The Petal to the Metal Element Series

The Petal to the Metal Element series was originally inspired by the colors, textures, and shapes in the floral arrangements and displays created by local florist Sandy Rose. The inspiration to bring this idea to life and juxtapose a beautiful image that included the floral element led to the gathering of other talented individuals in the community. Each contributor adds their own unique and creative touch. We were inspired to create a series that included hair, makeup, styling and wardrobe influenced by the flowers, plants, and orchids used. Each set of images was shot in a different area in the Sierra Nevadas, displaying the beauty it has to offer: Kings Canyon Falls in Carson City, Pyramid Lake hills, Donner Summit Railroad Tunnels, and the Galena Creek Fish Hatchery. Nine individuals, seven months, and four locations later, we were able to capture nature’s elements: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire.

Wind

Photographer: Valerie Thompson – Valerie Thompson Photography Model/Hairstylist: Dana Foltz Makeup & Styling: Gloria Jimenez – Glomari Artistry Products Used: MAC Cosmetics, Stila Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Becca Cosmetics, Cinema Secrets, Ben Nye, and Urban Decay.

Florist: Sandy Rose – Petal to the Metal Reno Flowers: Eucalyptus, grasses, and Orchids.

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Water

Photographer: Valerie Thompson – Valerie Thompson Photography Model: Drenica Keith Nacion Hairstylist: Ashley Dymond – Salon 7 Makeup & Styling: Gloria Jimenez – Glomari Artistry Products Used: MAC Cosmetics, Stila Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Becca Cosmetics, Cinema Secrets, Ben Nye. Florist: Sandy Rose – Petal to the Metal Reno Flowers: Calla lilies, Spider Mums, Rose petals, and Babies breath.

Wardrobe: Timeless Fashions Consignment Boutique Location: Galena Creek Fish Hatchery 14 Reno Tahoe Tonight

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Earth

Photographer: Valerie Thompson – Valerie Thompson Photography Model: Ciara Kelley Hairstylist: Ashley Dymond – Salon 7 Makeup & Styling: Gloria Jimenez – Glomari Artistry Products Used: MAC Cosmetics, Stila Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Becca Cosmetics, Cinema Secrets, Ben Nye. Florist: Sandy Rose – Petal to the Metal Reno Plants: Mixed greens, moss, Scabiosa pods, and succulents.

Location: Kings Canyon Falls Carson City, Nevada

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Fire

Photographer: Valerie Thompson – Valerie Thompson Photography Model: Ashley Needham Hairstylist: Janis Lokke– Salon 7 Makeup & Styling: Gloria Jimenez – Glomari Artistry Products Used: MAC Cosmetics, Stila Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Becca Cosmetics, Cinema Secrets, Ben Nye. Florist: Sandy Rose – Petal to the Metal Reno Flower Jewelry: Coxcomb, Celosia, Mums, and Montbreia

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’TIS THE SEASON FOR SHOPPING AT THE

Museum Store November 27 / 10 am - 3 pm CCM PRESENTS

Black Friday in Midtown

December 3 / 5 pm to December 6 / 6 pm MUSEUM STORE

Annual Holiday Sale*

December 12 / noon - 3 pm HOLIDAY POP-UP

Made in Tahoe *Members receive 20% off, 10% for everyone else.

Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts | E. L. Wiegand Gallery 160 West Liberty Street in downtown Reno | 775.329.3333 | nevadaart.org

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BEER BEER Text Bret Schaeffer with Rich Taylor

Great Basin Icky

This is the beer that started it all in northern Nevada. Could Icky and Great Basin put northern Nevada on to the beer map like Deschutes did for Bend, Oregon? They’re giving it a go and distributing to southern Nevada and northern California now. Great Basin is the oldest craft brewery; has the most major awards of any brewery in Nevada, and has expanded twice since they opened in 1993.

Icky is an India Pale Ale who’s named comes from the Nevada state fossil: the Ichthyosaur. Icky has a piney nose but the taste comes across the tongue as floral and citrusy (which are characteristics of Cascade hops) and has a malty backbone. It’s brewed in the American IPA style, which is more hopped up and has a higher alcohol by volume (ABV) than the traditional English IPA. Icky is one of my favorite beers from Great Basin and was the beer that turned me on to craft beers.

I hope to see it more readily available outside the area. I think it could really boost the area’s craft beer scene if it does.

Tasting Notes: Style: IPA ABV (Alcohol by Volume): 6.4% Aroma: Medium floral, citrus and piney notes Appearance: Golden amber with a fluffy white head Taste: Moderate pine bitterness balanced nicely with a malt backbone. The bitterness doesn’t linger long.

Palate: Medium body with a crisp finish.

Track 7 Hoppy Palm

Track 7 Hoppy Palm is fresh off this year’s silver medal for American Pale Ale at the Great American Beer Festival. The American Pale Ale is the beer that started the American Craft Beer movement.

From Track 7 Brewing Company: “During hop selection, a brewer will rub hops between his or her hands to tease out the aromatic qualities of a particular lot. During the 2013 hop selection in Moxee, Washington, both Ryan and Geoff walked away with green, sticky, hoppy palms. The name stuck. Hoppy Palm is an American Pale Ale with light body, minimal sweetness and aggressively dryhopped. The hop profile features citrus notes from Cascade and tropical notes from Galaxy hops.”

Hoppy Palm is a perfect beer for those that don’t like big hoppy flavors, but still want to taste some hops in their beer. At SixFour Growlers, Hoppy Palm is the second biggest mover behind the Fruli Strawberry beer. It’s a well-balanced American Pale Ale with the malt grains balancing out the Piney/Citrus hoppy finish.

Tasting Notes: Style: American Pale Ale ABV (Alcohol by Volume): 5.7% Aroma: A sweet pine and citrus nose with light malt Appearance: Amber/gold in color with a white head Taste: Well balanced with minimal sweetness with a slightly bitter finish Palate: Light to medium body and the taste doesn’t linger

SixFour Growlers is located at 555 South Virginia Street #105, Reno, NV 89501, near Great Full Gardens. Stop in, say hi to Rich and Bret and enjoy an impressive variety of great tasting beers—and take home a growler! 775-337-9578.

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Tipsy Turkey

Wine Walk NOVEMBER 21, $20 - 2-5PM

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

Britton Griffith-Douglass

First Brit of Excitement I am thankful for a lot of things during the national month of ‘thanks’, including my health, my family, my friends, my job and the joy of joining together with everyone around the table to feast, watch football and movies snuggled up together. Most importantly, I crave the pleasure of eating an entire pumpkin pie, secretly by light of the TV, in the middle of night, once everyone else has entered a turkey coma. Hey, what happens at Thanksgiving, stays at Thanksgiving and that’s the God’s honest turkey leg.

BITS:

Yodel with Yoakam.

If you don’t like yodeling, guitars and a cowboy with just enough grey hair to be ultra-sexy, I don’t know what I can to do help you.

If you’re a normal Nevadan native and do think that country twang sounds better than a turkey’s ‘gobble gobble’, two-step down to Silver Legacy on November 7th to listen to Dwight Yoakam, the classic ‘honky tonk man’. Tickets are available here: silverlegacyreno.com/ reno/dwight-yoakam.

I’m running away to join the Circus.

This year’s Fantasies in Chocolate, hosted by the Reno Gazette Journal is themed the Bohemian Circus.

Doors will open on November 7th in the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino. Enter the red and white tent for a delectable evening in your most delicious black-tie attire. No trained bears, musical monkeys or creepy clowns allowed.

Purchase your entry to enjoy chocolate, bites and champagne that surpass your wildest dreams here: fantasiesinchocolate.com.

20 under 40.

The 9th Annual Young Professional Twenty Under Forty awards hosted by Reno Tahoe Young Professionals Network and RGJ Media in the Peppermill Resort and Casino will take place on November 4th, from 5:30-8:30p.

Read up on this year’s winners, nominees and purchase tickets to the awards reception here: renotahoeypn.com/twenty-under-40-awards.

Drumstick, I mean drumroll… please.

Reno isn’t used to having to be ordinary, so the ability to dance your bizarre turkey legs off to your own unique rhythm at the OffBeat Arts & Music Festival is the perfect way to rock out.

Located in Downtown, Midtown and Fourth Street corridor from November 5th to the 8th this four day jam fest is a great way to see the best of Reno’s local hot spots and listen to local talent like The Pretty Unknown. Learn more here: offbeatfest.com.

How do you say ‘awesome’ in Klingon?

Bibbity Bobbity Boo, your fairy Godmother is here and has granted you admission to dress like Merlin, practice your use of the force and embrace your inner cape wearing mega geek at the Wizard World Comic Con Reno from November 20th – 22nd at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Meet numerous comic book creators, writers and even Tommy from the Power Rangers, Jason David Frank. Children under 10 years old get in for free, must be accompanied by an adult, grown-

ups beam up your tickets here:

wizardworld.com/reno.html. Bazinga!

Crawling for beer, before midnight.

Trust me it’s for a good cause.

On November 28th if you see me drunk and on my knees downtown, just relax, I’m roaming around in hopes for Reno snowflakes at this year’s 6th annual Reno Beer Crawl, ‘Pray for Snow event’ in the Riverwalk District.

This is the closest thing to skiing I’ll do all year, visit renobeercrawl.com to beer ski with me.

LAST PIECE OF ADVICE

In the midst of reminding yourself to wake up with a full heart and go to sleep with a grateful mindset – or whatever else your Pinterest inspiration board tells you to do, remember those that find it a bit harder to find something to be thankful for. Spread the love and consider donating some food for a holiday feast to local families that cannot purchase their own. The Northern Nevada Food Bank is the place to start in learning where to help our community: facebook.com/FoodBankNN

Downtown's darling, Britton Griffith-Douglass, spends her days placing tenants in StartUp Row. As the sun sets, she plans the finest events in the Riverwalk District.

At moonlight, under the stars, she's reminded that the biggest of dreams come to life in the Biggest Little City. Britton.rec@gmail.com Reno Tahoe Tonight 25

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BUSINESS Yelp Text Michael Tragash Illustrations by Maren Rush

Yelp’s Great Reno Whiskey Hunt Yelp is all about connecting people with great local businesses, and Yelp events are a fun and interactive way to do just that. This year we’ve mashed buttons at Game Lab in the Peppermill Resort; hit the track at Need 2 Speed, and traveled to far off destinations with chefs and restaurants via Yelp’s International Supper Club. But our favorite events are always the big beautiful community collaborations for a cause – which is why we’re so happy to bring Yelp’s Great Reno Whiskey Hunt back for its second year.

Yelp, Southern Wine & Spirits, Maren Rush Designs, seven locally-loved bars and restaurants, and Barrels & Bites benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows, have all come together to make this great event possible. And we’ve got to give a hat tip to DrinkableReno.com who launched this event with us last year.

The Great Reno Whiskey Hunt is for aficionados and newbies alike, and serves as a wonderful way to introduce Reno to a wide range of spirits in the whiskey category, and reward the whiskey connoisseurs with an opportunity to sample unique spirits at a significant discount.

Whiskey Hunting is Easy *From now through November 13th, visit the seven participating local bars and sample the selected spirits. *Check-in on the Yelp App to unlock a sweet discount on the spirit or featured flight, up to 50% off. *Collect the corresponding Maren Rush Designs collectible card, with one letter in the word W-H-I-S-K-E-Y for each spirit sampled *Collect all seven cards on or before November 13th and, thanks to the generosity of Southern Wine & Spirits, they’ll become your FREE TICKET (Valued at $60) to Barrels & Bites, benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of the Truckee Meadows.

*Redeem your cards for tickets at Barrels & Bites on November 13th at the Peppermill Resort.

This year we expect a lot of Whiskey Hunters out there, and we’d love to follow all of your adventures. Post photos to your favorite social network with #YelpRenoWhiskeyHunt and tag @YelpReno too.

Now, if you haven’t been to Barrels & Bites, you’re seriously missing out.

The event has evolved a lot over the years, moving from a wine-only event to become northern Nevada’s premier event for food, wine, beer, and spirit connoisseurs. Now, along with 500 wines from around the world, attendees can sample premium spirits, specialty cocktails, and craft beers; throw down in the Whiskey Corral; enjoy delicious food; bid on amazing items and even dance the night away at Edge Nightclub – all while doing some good for this great cause.

So get out there and experience the wonderful world of whiskey... responsibly of course. Visit the seven bars; check in on Yelp; sample the seven whiskeys; collect the seven labels, and come celebrate your accomplishment with Yelp at Barrels & Bites. For all of Yelp’s Great Reno Whiskey Hunt details; Barrels & Bites information and great community happenings, make sure to visit yelp.com/events!

Did Someone Say Whiskey?

Atlantis Casino Sports Bar – Hibiki Harmony Chapel Tavern – Buffalo Trace Chapel Tavern Single Barrel Death & Taxes – I.W. Harper Heritage – Jameson Cask Mate Stout Edition Pignic Pub & Patio – Woody Creek Colorado Rye Royce – Oban Little Bay Whispering Vine (West 4th Street) - Jefferson Ocean Voyage * For check-in offer details, check out yelp.com/events/reno

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COVER STORY Text Oliver X Cover and feature photos Ben Davis Hair and makeup Jacqueline Maffett

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Jenny PezDeSpencer: THE BIGGEST MOUTH IN THE WEST

“Comedy should never apologize.”

– Jenny PezDeSpencer

Jenny PezDeSpencer is the funniest woman I know. She's opened for some of the brightest comics in show business. Bunnyhead pez dispensers tattoo her forearms. We were introduced back in 2008 by our mutual friend Meredith Tanzer, when Tanzer owned La Bussola. A loud-mouthed, sexy, big breasted provocateur, Jenny was a swaggering sight to behold in her tight-fitting red dress. Six feet tall in heels. We hit it off pretty quickly. She was completely real. An original. A rarity in today's monde artificiel.

But I could tell she had no filter. This was driven home in spades one afternoon when I invited her to come help me host the Wine Walk Raffle at West Street Market, pulling maps out of the large wooden box and handing out prize certificates from area merchants to eager drunkards. It's one of the highlights of the Wine Walk and the assemblage can get pretty raucous and restless after three hours of imbibing.

But that's part of the fun. Jenny misread the crowd and when they wouldn't quiet down, she growled “Alright listen up you fucking cunts!”

Um, no bueno. Jaws dropped and before they began to fucking riot, I whisked her off the stage, chewing her ass out under my breath. But the cool thing was that Jenny got it, and we later had a good laugh about it. We became the closest of 28 Reno Tahoe Tonight

friends and her work in our pages over four years as our Senior Contributing Writer showcased her prodigious gifts for observational humor and dead nuts social commentary. Her musical knowledge is as immense as her formidable wit and candor.

As with any friendship, we've had our tiffs—a few epic ones to be clear—but our mutual admiration love fests could gag a goat they're so sickly sweet. Quite simply, Jenny Pez is a bawdy, badass bitch with a heart of pure gold and a mouth for sin. Here is her close up.

Oliver X: Talk about how you got into comedy and who were some of your influences?

Jenny Pez: Well it's really hard to say what one thing led me to comedy. I always was funny and needed an outlet. I really just evolved into comedy. My mother had the all the albums from some of the greatest comedian ever like Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip; all of Cheech and Chong's albums and Robin Williams before he became politically correct. My mom was a comedy fan, so I was influenced by them. Picture this, me at eight years old, wearing 70's head phones listening to a Cheech and Chong album that skipped on my Barbie record player. I got so excited when they said they were doing coke because I thought they got to drink soda. I didn't realize they were talking about cocaine! As I got older, I was drawn more to Bill Hicks, Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison and old Saturday Night Live re-runs. Comedy and comedians that really pushed the envelope always got me. It made people love or hate them.

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COVER STORY I guess it was always a progression for me to push the comedic envelope further. I didn't want to ever be told what to do at a job.

Comedy doesn't tell you what to do. You tell the audience what to do; how to feel or what you think. And if they don't agree, it's okay.

Comedy should never apologize. I guess the simple answer is life led me to comedy.

Oliver X: You've overcome a lot in your life-including a few cancer scares and other personal tragedies – not unlike a lot of other comedians.

Do you feel adversity makes for better comedy?

Jenny Pez: Honestly, you can't be a comedian and not have tragedy. We are always going to be the laughing face/sad face of life. And some are darker than others. When I talk about drug use, I'm not coming from a place of imagination. When I talk about taking my boyfriend to rehab – that really happened. I was broken up with via text, and, I have fist fucked a guy name Travis.

It was horrible! One of my good friends had her husband hang himself and they called me because they knew I would make light of it, everybody did laugh when I said, "Oh, thank god I was worried someone was pregnant." It's just what comedians do to survive the pain of heart-wrenching break-up, death and loss. It's in our nature. With the shit, I have gone through, a normal person would have slit their throats.

Instead I just kill or just die on stage.

Oliver X: What do you feel makes a good comic?

Jenny Pez: Honestly someone that really doesn't care if they get a laugh. They put themselves out there and hope for the best and if it doesn't work, fuck it, they move on. There are a lot of tremendous comedians in this town that are so underrated that no one comes to see. Then again, there's a lot of horrible comedians who just have a lot of friends. I always say, "Can you make your friends and family laugh when they're drunk at a party?" If they say yes, they suck and they're probably not a good comic. But if you see a lady in the check-out line at Wal-Mart with a box of Super Kotex pads, a handle of cheap vodka and a gigantic bar of chocolate … and you look at her and say, 'Having a bad day?' If she cracks up; you can be a comedian. Because that's what we do: we make strangers laugh at life.

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Oliver X: You've famously said that you make fun of everybody and you are notoriously blue in your stage shows. Do you feel out your audience (not literally of course), to take their temperature before launching some of the comedic bombs you throw? Or do you just go for it?

Jenny Pez: Here's the thing about that Oliver. If you're going to my show, you know you're seeing me. If it's a local crowd like at 3rd Street Bar, Studio on 4th, Shea's Tavern … I'm going to do whatever I want. You should expect me to do what I want. But if I'm doing a show at The Knitting Factory or Laugh Factory, I have to feel the audience out. Although most times, I don't care. I know people are there for me and I have enough material for everyone. Most people going to comedy are there to laugh and they will laugh – eventually. It's the risk you take with this job. For me, people are going to love me or hate me. It's the same in my personal life. I'm kind of over-the-top, and people make assumptions about me that just aren't true. Then they get to know me and realize that I'm awesome and wonderful.

Some of my best friends started out really disliking me; then they realized I'm not at all what they thought I was.

I recently I did the A Salon 7 White Party and was told to be outrageous – so I was. One person got so offended they felt they had to talk trash about me on social media. The best part was the owner of A Salon 7, Jenny O, immediately jumped to my defense, as did many other people who don't even like my comedy. But I was doing what I was told to do – which was not a stretch for me – and that is being outrageous and over-the-top.

Oliver X: Is it true that you work at a truck stop and practice some of your jokes on the truckers before taking them to the stage?

Jenny Pez: Yes, it's true. I work at the Alamo Truck Stop in Sparks. I love it and I do practice on them [truckers] all the time. I get some of my best material from truckers and my coworkers. Remember these are blue-collar workers, mainly men, who are on the road for weeks at a time. The only drawback is when they find out I am a comedian, they always want to tell me a joke, or they want me to make them laugh. I have to tell them, 'I don't tell jokes, I do bits!'

But I make them laugh. They're really great.

The more raunchy and politically incorrect the better! Plus, they're usually on a layover; so they are a captive audience. We also get a lot of locals as well – which is great for me because I am local comedian.

Oliver X: I consider you to be a very misunderstood person. Looking from the outside, what do people get wrong about you?

Jenny Pez: I don't know that I'm misunderstood.

I think that people just want to be quick to judge everyone these days on what they think we should think, act or say, when they're not our judge on any level. When you're unafraid, confident, loud and don't take any shit, it comes off as being an asshole or arrogant. When you say you love yourself, you're narcissistic. But when you say you hate yourself, you're suicidal. I think I'm the way I'm suppose to be. I'm really very kind. I genuinely give a shit about others. I want to see people grow. I want to see them do better, but I'm also not afraid to tell them I don't agree with them. One of the biggest misconceptions about me (because I'm queen of the comebacks) is that I always have to be right. I'm not always right! I don't have all the answers. I'm flawed like everyone else. I'm surely not the best comedian out there. There's even a problem with this answer I just gave you because no one can see that I'm actually kind of cracking myself up saying it. In print you can't see facial expression, or hear the tone of my voice. So some people are going to read this and go 'Yup she's an asshole.'

That's one thing about comedy over all other things: you can see my face and my expressions; you know I am joking … or am I. Oliver X: You've been very open about your mental health challenges and you willingly sought help to deal with your care. Can you share some insights on how you've been able to manage and cope? What advice would you give someone who is struggling emotionally, but has not yet been diagnosed?

Jenny Pez: Wow, you just got deep. I thought this was going to be a puff piece about me. [Laughter} Let's do this! I've got nothing to hide. I have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The shitty part about that kind of diagnosis is that it's always the murderer on Crime TV that has the disorder. But it's nothing like that. I try to explain to people it's like being a hoarder in your mind.

You just have too much shit going on. And once

things start to get you going, you spin into butter.

By that I mean you really start to over think shit over and over again. It can be frustrating and hard to explain to people who don't have it. The only real treatment that helps is called Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT). Drugs don't treat it; man I wish they did. It would be so much easier – but DBT does. I've been getting help for a few years now and I can honestly say it's the best thing I ever did for myself. I'm really lucky that I had a therapist, most comics do, that suggested that BPD might be my problem.

Most people never seek help because they don't realize what's going on. You'll over hear people, say well I'm just crazy. And that's actually a judgment term which is a no-no in the therapy.

It's really about loving yourself and using what's called your "wisemind" to make appropriate decisions about your life. But also there are different kinds of BPD, so getting the right help for your diagnosis is really important. The craziest things about borderlines is that we are usually the life of the party. The fun guy or girl which makes it harder for people to believe there is anything wrong. When they have no idea you're going into the bathroom to punch yourself in the leg over and over again to get through an event. It can be debilitating sometimes, but I am much better and, really, comedy helps because I don't have to keep so much shit inside.

Oliver X: Talk about your upcoming shows and future career plans.

Jenny Pez: I took a job as a cocktail waitress, so I could really pursue comedy instead of working for corporate America for the rest of my life. My corporate job was not going to allow me time off to do things like SXSW in March and the other big comedy industry things I want to do. I'm hopefully going to be working more with local bigger venues in the next couple months. Keep your eyes out, I cannot wait to blow your mind and piss you off!

Catch Jenny PezDeSpencer live on Friday November 13 at 8pm at The Potentialist Workshop, located at 836 E. Second St. in Reno. For info call 775-686-8201.

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Culture of the Sky

Pilots are a curious lot, and aviation an interesting culture. It’s a masculine group, mostly, although my friend (the one with sixty-one hundred hours) has told me that women actually make better pilots.

“What is the reason for that?” I asked, when I was with him the first time I had ever been in the cockpit of an airplane. He replied, “Here, take the controls.”

I have no theory on the gender ratios of general aviation, nor am I picking an equality fight. On the taxiway this past Sunday, I made a point of counting the nearly equal number of ladies and gentlemen wearing Thunderbird flight suits. Flying simply seems an interesting place to observe how the very real differences between men and women could be at work in what we choose to do for work and play.

What I have observed about pilots is that flying requires an almost impossible amount of precision and focus, traits that are biologically hardwired in the male brain, along with the diffuse awareness and spatial literacy that are hallmarks of a female one. From that, you’d expect to hear a proportional amount of Amelia Earharts and Beryl Markhams on the radio.

“Really?” We were flying a double-engine propeller plane designed in the 1940’s, a big, elegant machine that had glided – yes, glided – off the runway so gracefully that for a moment I imagined that the engine racket in my ears had ceased, and the scene was a silent movie. From the right-hand seat, I peered at the thirty-seven inscrutable dials, gauges, and displays before us. I looked at the two-handed yoke, and the only visual context I could give it was a Hollywood fighter pilot scene, because that is just how little I knew about flying. Fighter-piloting is not in my temperament. I looked him in the eye as he generously nodded at the controls. “Okay…” I put my hands on the yoke and the weight of the plane resisted me. I turned it, just a little, like the steering wheel in my car, and to my surprise, it gave way not just left to right, but front to back. Smoothly, the horizon rose a millimeter or two in front of us as my right shoulder dipped in tandem with the wingtip out the window.

On the other hand, flight training is a never-ending series of staged problems for pilots to solve, and problem solving attracts the boys. Check yourself right now: when you read the words “problems to solve,” did your body register excitement or dread?

Men tend to hear the word “problem” similar to “puzzle,” while women tend to hear “disaster.”

Not only the training, but flying itself, is a set of situational calculations that begin long before takeoff.

“I always try to be several steps ahead,” I heard one pilot say the other day, implying a very male mode of seeing daily life as a series of steps to cycle through. Long before the pre-flight checklist, a pilot looks up the length of the destination runway and the airport elevation, checks weather reports for things like wind speed, visibility, and a dozen other even more technical-sounding variables. While no takeoff or landing is the same, there’s not much room in aviation, it would appear, for the feminine mode of “going with the flow.”

“That’s why women make better pilots,” he smiled.

“A guy grabs the controls for the first time and yanks the plane all over the sky. Women have a softer touch.” It is a fascinating idea that gender would affect the way one approaches that situation. I know virtually nothing about flying, although I have picked up some things in my twenty-three hours listening and watching in the co-pilot’s seat (listen to me, I have my own numbers now). In those – admittedly minimal – hours, I’m not sure I’ve heard a single female pilot come on the radio. “Carson City traffic, Cessna 5637 Bravo, over the top of the field for left traffic two-seven…”

I have tremendous respect for the disciplined habits of mind that are formed by certain kinds of lifelong pursuits. Over time, team sports create a finely tuned ability to evaluate other players’ skills, a coachable attitude, and the finesse to know when to lead and when to follow. Creative work nurtures our ability to observe, engage, and interpret our environment. A seasoned pilot possesses impressive focus and problem solving skills; and among them is a related trait that is the king (or queen) of critical thinking – decision-making. Aviation, I am learning, is an intense lens through which a pilot processes as much information as possible in order to take

This past weekend I enjoyed the Capital City Airshow at Mather Air Force Base outside of Sacramento, California with a bunch of aviation nerds. “I have sixty-one hundred hours in the air,” one of them said. “Whatd’you fly?” another asked back. Numbers and letters that are not acronyms for anything might have been the answer. Precision, detail, and calculation are the language of aviation.

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decisive action, over, and over, and over again. Next time you meet a pilot, know that he or she has a phenomenal ability to focus and multitask at the same time; to plan ahead and handle the unexpected; to decipher, cipher, and communicate precisely and, maybe most impressively, he or she is a decision-making machine.

CULTURE RANGER Text and photos courtesy of Erika M. Cole

Erika M. Cole is a cultural literacy specialist and writer based in Lake Tahoe.

In her writing, classes, and events, she is an expert at personalizing the experience of skillful looking in order to appreciate art and culture. The joys and fears of navigating untranslated worlds have led her to experience personal triumphs and tragedies in 20 countries, so far. Find her at thecultureranger.com and on Instagram: @thecultureranger.

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ESSAY Essay by L. Martina Young Photo by Anne Murray

I'm searching life for observations, nuances, details. Because my interest in life is not the event as such, not war as such, not Chernobyl as such, not suicide as such. What I am interested in is what happens to the human being, what happens to it in our time.

How does man behave and react.

How much of the biological man is in him, how much of the man of his time, how much man of the man. ~ Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature Kudos Svetlana Alexievich!

I begin this writing with a statement of Ms. Alexievich’s found on her website because it was brought to my attention that she and I seem to be moved by resonant concerns and approaches to our work as artists. Contextualizing my own work in general, and The Swan Lectures in particular, here is my own statement, found also on my website:

THE SWAN LECTURES

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I am drawn to the silent habitations of persons in their bodies, and am brought to the instinctive empathy I experience therein. I reach for, gather, and develop a relationship with these ways of inhabiting. Through rigorous observation, together we discover ‘what happens’ to us—breath, skin, viscera—and cross the bridge to renewed ways of being human.

Svetlana is a writer, I am a dance-maker; we both go about documenting our work with people

by foregrounding their insights and experiences, —their ways of languaging ‘what happens’ to them, how they are altered by events. In this way, our work is collaborative and generative by nature.

Having just returned from California Institute of the Arts (Walt Disney’s visionary art conservatory and my alma mater)—where I was Visiting Artist in the Theater School—I engaged both MFA and second-and-third year BFA students in The Swan Lectures labwork. I have written extensively about this immersive and collaborative project in previously published RTT’s, thus I will refrain from reiterating the content of the lab in this issue. Rather, what I am interested in doing is citing some of the responses from the students— for it is their statements that significantly fulfill the aesthetic round of transformative experience— for them, for me, and for you—the reader. Their words are emissaries of the possible, making tangible what so often remains abstract and therefore unknown; through language’s immediacy, experience is translated—not only one’s felt sense of being, but also how one’s sense of being is altered. Before I get to their words, I feel that a little historical background is needed to establish aesthetic ground.

While serving on the faculty of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in the early 80’s, tasked with creating an apprentice dance company for students who did not have the technical skills to become members of the college’s dance company Orchesis, I set about interrogating and mining my own aesthetic precepts regarding the relationship between the human body, poetic perception, and transformative aesthetic experience. I encouraged students to transcribe their perceptual responses, cognitive and somatic, as they observed bodies in stillness and motion, their own and other’s, from first-person and third-person points of view. Guided by intuition, I discovered insights into the meaning of corporeal compassion and how the human body was an important bridge to cultivating empathy. This became the spawning ground from which I have long since posited an aesthetic ethos involving nuanced attentiveness to the body as the primary speaking subject.

Minding thought, perception, and worldly action, I am moved by a moral imagination,—one that embraces a complex and dynamic vision in which art, beauty, and grace point to an ethics of aesthetics.

~ The Swan Lectures

In Their Own Words:

“I see everything in the world like ‘fractals,’ all of us blooming exponentially, like, that person is me and also more than me; or, somehow, everything is extended element of my own being” “I feel less anxious, less fear; confidence, a confidence that does not mean an absence of fear” “relaxed courage” “From a world inside, I feel gratitude for everything in the world outside” “... changes my dynamic with people; reduced anxiety, compassion; I think less about myself and surrender to how we are related” “I underestimated my role with others.

Consciousness requires prioritizing in the present as things happen in the now “ “My physicality changed! I can look up, I took myself out of my cloak; it feels magical” In the end, I shared this thought, entreating students to allow the thought to permeate their beings, to perceive the world through their soul’s eyes: There is a quiet world behind every face,—reaching, screaming, dreaming, and illuminating what is possible through the template of every body. ©2015 L. Martina Young All Rights Reserved.

L. Martina Young, Ph.D. facilitates THE SWAN LECTURES,—an immersive movement lab and contemplative writing experience addressing the ‘image-body-empathy’ relationship. The fall workshop scheduled for The May Arboretum Society has been cancelled. Please visit the website for updates. www.apoeticbody.com Reno Tahoe Tonight 37

EVENT Special to Reno Tahoe Tonight Text and photos courtesy of Wizard World Comic Con

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Adam West, Burt Ward, Mena Suvari, Mark Pellegrino among top celebrities scheduled to attend Wizard World Comic Con Reno, November 20-22 at Reno-Sparks Convention Center Official costumed after-party in downtown co-hosted with Crawl Reno

Adam West

Wizard World is back for its second trip to the Reno-Sparks Convention Center at Wizard World Comic Con Reno, November 20-22 after a very warm welcome in November 2014.

This year’s show has a “dynamic” lineup including The Dynamic Duo of Adam West and Burt Ward (“Batman”), Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie), Mark Pellegrino (“Supernatural,” “The Returned”), Erik Estrada (“CHiPs”), Adrian Paul (“Highlander”), Jodie Sweetin (“Full House”) and Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, “Spin City”) among the celebrity guests scheduled to attend the pop culture extravaganza.

Other well-known Wizard World Comic Con Reno guests include Tovah Feldshuh (“The Walking Dead,” “Law & Order”), “WWE® Superstar Dean Ambrose™ and Diva Charlotte™, Jason David Frank (“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” “My Morphing Life”), Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes,” Rocky Balboa), Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation, Independence Day), Will Friedle (“Boy Meets World,” “Kim Possible”), Jeremy Shada (“Adventure Time with Finn and Jake,” Team America; World Police), Bill Farmer (the voice of “Goofy” in “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse,” Toy Story), Nicole Eggert (“Baywatch,” “Charles in Charge”) and Chris 51 (“Epic Ink”).

Wizard World is also the home of the most creative comics artists and writers on the planet. Artist Alley at Comic Con Reno will feature Neal Adams (“Batman,” “Green Lantern”), Greg Horn (“Marvel: War of Heroes” iPhone app, “Guardians of the Galaxy”), Tom Cook (“He-Man,” “Superfriends”), John Beatty (“Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars,” “Captain America”), Jonboy Meyers (“Spawn,” “League of Legends”), Michael Golden (“Batman,” “Spider-Man”), Jim Shooter (editor, Marvel Comics), James O'Barr (The Crow), Phil Ortiz (“The Simpsons,” “Muppet Babies”), Mike Zeck (“Spider-Man,” “Punisher”) and many others.

In addition, all full-price Wizard World Comic Con Reno attendees will receive a limited edition exclusive variant cover “The Walking Dead” comic, drawn by one of Wizard World's talented artist guests (to be announced soon). Comics will be issued at registration while supplies last and VIP attendees will receive an additional black and white sketch version.

Wizard World Comic Con events

bring together thousands of fans of all ages to celebrate the best in pop-fi, pop culture, movies, graphic novels, cosplay, comics, television, sci-fi, toys, video gaming, gaming, original art, collectibles, contests and more. The final of 24 events on the 2015 Wizard World calendar, Reno show hours and advance general admission prices are: Friday, November 20, 3-8 p.m, $35.; Saturday, November 21, 10 a.m.-7 p.m, $45.; Sunday, November 22, 11 a.m.5 p.m., $40. Three-day passes and VIP admissions are still available but are going fast. Kids are free under age 10; two kids allowed free per paid adult. Sunday will feature a costume contest and other special programming just for the kiddos!

After parties at Wizard World Comic Con Reno will be off the hook! Friday night the world famous “Drink and Draw: Artist Pro-Am” will return where fans and our famed comics artists unite to create unusual and unique art all for the love of the con!

Stay tuned for more info on location.

Wizard World Comic Con Reno is also the place for cosplay, with fans young and old showing off their best costumes throughout the event. Fans dressed as every imaginable character – and some never before dreamed – will roam the convention floor and participate in the famed Wizard World Costume Contest on Saturday night. Immediately following the costume contest at Wizard World Comic Con Reno will be the Reno Comic-Crawl in downtown Reno, the official after-party featuring: Celebrity Appearances: we aren’t allowed to tell you who will be there but it’s happening!

More details on that as the event gets closer!

Free Art for Crawlers: just like last year we will be giving away limited edition prints made just for the crawl!

Comic-book Karaoke: belt out themed tunes dressed as your favorite character!

Star Wars Twister! Try keeping your right foot on blue with a Darth Vader mask on and win prizes!

Fantasy Strip-Off: watch some of your beloved characters ruin your childhood memories!

Marvel vs DC Bowling and other contests to be announced!

For more on the 2015 Wizard World Comic Con Reno, visit wizd.me/RenoPR or for more info on the Reno Comic-Crawl visit crawlreno.com/event/comicrawl/ (We could take this out if we have an article up on our site already about this/the after parties).

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here's something universally appealing and poetic about the passionate pursuit of a dream. For Mike, Linda and Ian Madan, owners of the insanely popular SouthCreek Pizza Co., that pursuit is a family affair, and each member plays a role in its stewardship. From staffing, cooking, front and back of the house, to wine and beer selection and curation, the Madans have all hands on deck.

Recently celebrating their second anniversary in business this past September, SouthCreek Pizza Co. is the Madan's first restaurant. After they opened, word quickly spread and the restaurant almost immediately won a large following for its delicious, authentic Neapolitan pizzas made with simple fresh local and international ingredients.

The atmosphere is cozy and relaxed; the service is exceptional. Food comes out quickly, and the staff is professional and attentive. As a result, SouthCreek Pizza Co. consistently makes “Best of ” lists and nabs five-star reviews on Yelp for its outstanding, affordably priced menu of salads, sandwiches, pizzas, desserts, beer and wine.

During our sit down, the Madans insist I try SouthCreek's most popular pizza: the Margherita ($14). The simple elegance of this delicious pizza cannot be overstated. The only ingredients: tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil and extra virgin olive oil. It was exceptional, with a lightly charred crust, delicate, crispy and full of flavor – and just the right amount of cheese.

The sauce was bright and not too sweet. It's a perfect pizza pie. On a previous visit, I had the “Campo” pizza ($17), which has tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, Italian sausage, hot soppressata (a cured salami) diced Niman Ranch bacon and SarVecchio Parmesan. TDF! How and why they got into the pizza business “The reason why we're in business is because we absolutely love wood-fired pizza and wood-fired cooking,” beams Mike Madan, whose son Ian is earning critical raves for his hand-crafted, wood-fired artisan pizzas, served up at the bustling South Creek Retail Center in south Reno, home to Big Horn Olive Oil Company, Bibo Coffee, Yosh's Unique Deli, The Whispering Vine and many others. The spacious indoor outdoor pizzeria has a capacity to seat 42 Reno Tahoe Tonight

seventy patrons inside and thirty outdoors on their lovely landscaped patio area.

A seasoned entrepreneur, the elder Madan's career started in the manufacturing industry with his company DoughMate®, makers of plastic products for the pizza industry. In particular, dough trays, lids, scrapers, dollies—the whole dough management system. “I started making products for the pizza industry in 1987 and really became enamored with pizza, Mike says. “We'd go to the pizza expos in Florida, Vegas and New Jersey, and we just hung around pizza … a lot of pizza.” [Laughter].

Madan designed some of his products, with the help of industrial designers; in particular the artisan pizza dough tray—a small tray that fits inside a home refrigerator. Growing up in that environment, Ian was around pizza a lot.

“We would do Friday night pizza parties,” Mike states. “We started in our own home oven with a pizza stone. And then about ten years ago, the cost of wood-fired ovens in the U.S. came way down. And they started to become popular here. They were bringing in pre-fab wood-fired ovens as kits from Italy, that would then get built here in the States. So there was this whole subcultural community of wood-fired pizza fans, making pizzas like they did in the old country in Italy. Anybody who goes to Italy and likes pizza, comes back wanting to make pizza like they do there. [Laughter]. And we were the same way. We went to Italy a few times. Ian and I had pizza on New Year's Eve one night right on the street in Rome... We put a pizza oven on our patio and just became totally immersed in woodfired pizza and wood-fired cooking.”

Ian recalls when that oven was installed.

“The oven was a Neapolitan style oven. “100% wood. That was where I initially was introduced to the idea of cooking with wood. I was pretty young at the time and never thought that pizza [making] could be a livelihood. We serviced the pizza industry, so it was something I was always knowledgeable about, but I did not look at it as a career.”

But Ian's collegiate life (he studied business in Burlington, Vermont) was peppered with food service positions and culinary industry

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FOOD employment. “I was cooking to make a living. I liked food and I liked the skills that I'd acquired in my cooking experiences in college,” he notes.

“Being a chef was not a personal goal. I thought after college I would get a desk job. I moved to Truckee and got a job at a small private school as an administrator. Business administration was the path I thought I'd be pursuing.”

So how did the idea of starting SouthCreek Pizza Co. come to fruition? “I feel it was an amalgamation of where we were in our life,” Ian says. Mike concurs,“The stars aligned,” he says. Linda recalls, “It was a dream to have a restaurant. Ian made it a reality; his talent and experience made it possible. He'd been catering in Truckee and he eventually took his own teams out. Then he worked with Chef Mark Estee.”

Speaking about his progression from administrator to culinarian, Ian reflects, “When I moved out here I liked the idea of being involved in the food industry, but I wanted to make more money, so I was doing school administration.

During the summer off-season when school was not in session, I was the lead caterer and prep cook with Mountain Magic Catering up in Truckee. We would generally feed over a hundred people at catered events and large parties. Trust was instilled in me to get the job done on my own wits with my team. That was empowering and gave me a good foundation to start on this as a career path.”

Ian found that he didn't like working at a desk and, as a result of his catering experience, he began to see and learn about the food industry from a different perspective. Parents Linda and Mike, were still living in New Jersey. “I knew it was always a goal of my mother to get out of New Jersey and move out west, but they didn't know where,” Ian notes. “They had met in Colorado and had always wanted to get back to the west coast someday. My sister lives in Denver, so that was an option [for their relocation], but then I kinda put it in their head [to come live here] after they'd visited Truckee and Tahoe.”

Linda and Mike started to really like Reno. Ian found Reno to be an affordable opportunity for him to put down roots. He invested in Reno for the long term, purchasing a house in south Reno's Double Diamond neighborhood, at the 44 Reno Tahoe Tonight

bottom of the market back in 2011. He then began lobbying for his parents to move out here.

He sold them on Reno's beauty, affordability, infrastructure, feeder market transportation convenience and proximity to Tahoe and Truckee. “We found a place up on Mount Rose Highway that we love,” states Linda. “It's a great place to live. People here are so friendly, open and welcoming.”

Ian eventually started working with restaurateur Mark Estee at Campo, which also has an Italian Neapolitan pizza oven. Not long thereafter, when the opportunity to open up a restaurant location of his own arises, he and his parents take the leap, anchoring at the emerging South Creek Retail Center – and the rest is pizza history.

The foundation: dough!

Asked what makes cooking with wood in a domed oven in the traditional Neapolitan style so appealing to him, Ian is thoughtful in his response. “The chemical breakdown and the whole molecular gastronomy that actually goes into making dough; making mozzarella, cooking at 900 degrees; the structure of the dough; the nerdiness that you can get to when you're smelling the dough and looking at it; feeling it and observing it is fascinating.”

“Everything starts with the foundation: the dough,” Mike says. “The dough is made as simply as possible. We use the best double zero flour imported from Italy. Which means it's a highly refined flour. The Italians bring in wheat from all over the world wherever it's being produced at that time of year; they bring it all together (mostly non-GMO I would think) and it gets highly refined. It's a high gluten dough. Gluten is a protein that allows the dough to stretch as it gets kneaded and worked. So the foundation is the dough. Everything is built from that foundation. At SouthCreek Pizza Co. we use a low and slow proofing or fermentation technique with our dough. It takes time to develop texture and flavor. The dough gets put into the walk-in refrigerator for a number of days in different styles and intervals.”

Ian describes the process. “We make a batch of dough and then we take it out of the mixer and separate it into three large buckets. The reason we do that is because we don't have a big enough

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We're using 55 pounds of flour with 14-1/2 liters of water. So it's heavy. One batch of dough is about 140 nine-ounce dough balls.”

“That's called a bulk fermentation,” Mike says.

Ian continues, “That sits out at room temperature after it's done mixing for approximately two hours, so the yeast can start doing its work.

It's called “retarding” when it's put into a cold environment. It slows down the process. The yeast gets less active as it gets colder. The flavors we are looking to achieve after three days of cold fermentation help make our dough more delicate.

The reason why we can have consistent pizza quality is that we can control the environment...

Little things like water temperature, humidity, the temperature of the flour, the hydration of the flour and barometric pressure all play a role in the process and the outcome of the pizza.”

Sauce “So many friends helped us along the way when we were gathering information, and were very open with us,” Mike states. “So we're paying it forward. There are no secrets with our sauce,” he emphasizes. Ian concurs. “The way we do it is not necessarily the right way, it's just the way we do it and this is what works for our system,” he says.

“Every pizzeria is unique and has its own way of doing things and making pizza; that's the beauty of this industry,” Mike notes.

“Our sauce is derived directly from authentic Neapolitan style pizza,” states Ian. “They are very particular. They use a type of tomato called San Marzano style tomatoes. The San Marzano style are plumb tomatoes that are steamed, peeled and then packed in their own juice.”

Mike points out that the San Marzanos are a variety of tomato that are grown in the volcanic soils of Pompeii. That style is referred to in the industry as “San Marzano DOP.” The growers of these varieties have to go through a regional food bureau of standards that monitors quality, taste and authenticity.

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“But we use California 'San Marzano style' tomatoes which has to do with packing them in their own juices whole, with basil and they are steamed and peeled—that's it,” says Ian. “Then we add kosher salt.” Mike states, “We choose the best California tomatoes we can get and we really like a brand called DiNapoli.”

Ian says, “We have a relationship with Rob DiNapoli and he has a lot of passion for his tomatoes. They're really good.”

SouthCreek's tomatoes are simply ground in a food processor and a little kosher salt is added. The fresh sauce is never pre-cooked or heated and goes onto the pizza dough at room temperature, sourced from large 200 once containers that are at-the-ready on the service line.

If simple is best, then SouthCreek Pizza Co. has found a formula that makes freshness their calling card and the proof is in the taste.

In Part 2 of our feature, we will explore their fresh mozzarella, the local seasonal ingredients they source, and we'll look at their holiday wine and beer offerings, while getting into some more menu items you'll enjoy this winter season.

And as if they aren't busy enough making us all drool, Linda and Mike Madan find time to perform in the musical ensemble The Reno Swing Set. They'll be playing live on November 14 at The Mountain Music Parlor on Center Street in Reno. Here's a link to the event page: facebook.com/events/1651319335146142/ SouthCreek Pizza Co. is located at 45 Foothill Rd, Reno, NV 89511.

(775) 622-1620. Hours are Tuesday-Friday 11:30a-9p; Saturdays 1p-9p. Sundays 4:30a-9p. Closed Mondays. Happy Hour is from 2:30p-5p Tuesday through Friday.

Their lunch special is one of the best values in town: an individual pizza with a fresh garden salad and a soft drink for just $12. southcreekpizza.com

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Disciplined Indulgence It's the most wonderful time of the year, holiday parties, grandma's homemade baked goodies and cocktails galore... I have a food hangover just thinking about it. The average American can gain 3 to 10 pounds over the four weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas. The good news is we can manage and minimize the damage easily while still participating in the festivities.

The Shot Spot has created Pinterest boards for each of the following tips. Thanksgiving is one day of fabulous indulgence that can be modified to fit Paleo guidelines. Staying 80 percent Paleo and 20 percent non Paleo this day is still satisfying and even decedent. You definitely won't feel left out of the festivities. Board: Thankful for Paleo.

Christmas is more challenging because it's more than just a one day indulgence. It's navigating through four weeks of absolute carb carnage!

Right now think about the sentimental foods that will be hard to resist, your favorite Aunt's sugar cookies, fudge or grandma's rum cake.

Make a short list of these favorites and say yes to one serving in a day. You can apply the French Women Don't Get Fat principles when deciding serving size. Three bites of a sinful selection is one serving. That's all you need, it has been proven that there is very little left to the taste experience after three bites. Training yourself to savor and be mindful of the first few bites will save you countless unwanted calories and pounds.

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Drinking cold water in the winter is not appealing to me so I drink hot water instead.

Adding leaves of spearmint, cinnamon stick, cranberries or lemon; this is a cozy way to get your ounces in. Board: H20 Happiness, this water board is not a punishment.

Stay consistent with your B12 fat burner routine.

You want to keep your metabolism running high to help burn off that pumpkin spice goodie that you've been having a seasonal fling with. Listen, sometimes carbs happen to good people, we just want to keep a tool box of tricks to help offset the potential for pumpkin plumpness.

Weight loss and wellness are important during the winter months. Keeping your weekly B-Skinny shot on your calendar will keep your immune system boosted and help with seasonal stress. We have vitamin C and Glutathione too for cold and flu season. Board: B12 Fun Facts To keep you accountable and healthy during the holidays we are offering a three month package of shots at a discounted rate, saving you seventy five dollars.

Visit our website www.theshotspotb12.com to purchase packages. The Shot Spot is located at 615 Sierra Rose Drive Suite 4 in Reno, NV 89511 off Kietzke Lane behind Lowe's.

Drop-ins welcome. For more information call 775-826-1008. theshotspotb12.com

After enjoying your chosen goodie, get right back on the Paleo Path; avoid using the indulgence as an excuse to devour everything in sight. Meaning if you have ten bites instead of three don't let that little voice tell you "you blew it today might as well eat the entire red velvet cake and wash it down with a tin of Christmas cookies." That's the beauty of the list, you have pre-approved items that you have allowed and planned for. Board: Cavemen Love Christmas.

Drink 100 ounces of water everyday. "Water doesn't taste good, it's boring." Well, let's figure out how water can make you happy because it's really the best way to cut cravings, hydrate your system and flush fat.

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Magician Alex Ramon @ Sammy's Showroom in Harrah's Reno

Reno-Tahoe loves its magicians, from illusionist Eli Kerr's top-rated haunted house attraction the Slaughterhouse at the Freight House at Aces Ballpark, to Justin Impossible's new magic store and theater space at Smithridge Business Center, the region is brimming with top-tier talent.

Bay Area native magician Alex Ramon, who was Tahoe's top entertainment attraction for two years running a few years back at the old Horizon Hotel & Casino, brings his new show aptly named #NewMagic, to Sammy's Showroom inside Harrah's Reno. The lithe, twenty-something put on quite a show, showcasing some nifty Michael Jackson-style dance moves, confident stage patter and great audience interaction and rapport.

The pre-show started off with a video reel of Ramon doing up-close magic and card tricks. The taped voice over the theater public address system encouraged the audience to take photos and share them liberally on social media. Then Ramon appeared, welcomed the audience and proceeded to introduce his lovely assistant Meghan Doyle, a leggy brunette with a dancer's sinewy muscle tone and gorgeous showgirl face. The levitation that followed was not mind-blowing by any means, but when the lights went dark, the duo's outfits were outlined in luminescent EL wire, which made for an effective visual effect.

The show's music, costuming and overall look and feel was hip and upbeat. Ramon's own audience engagement kept the hour long show

moving at a healthy clip through the oohs and ahhs of some confounding up-close tricks and tongue-in-cheek mentalism. Ramon, who clearly enjoys his craft, ripped through a medley of tech enabled tricks, a few variations on some classic cringe-inducing, magician's assistant contortions and the funny audience bits that he excels at executing. The cool thing for me as a fan and practitioner of up-close sleight-of-hand and card tricks, is how effortless Ramon made the tricks seem as he fully immersed the audience in his never-before-seen magic.

Though the show is called #NewMagic (and it is definitely the newest thing happening at the very dated Harrah's Casino, which was once the jewel of the downtown strip), Ramon gave some magical history lessons, reprising some tricks that debuted in both the 19th and 20th centuries, to an enthusiastic reception from the adoring audience, made up of feeder market weekenders and out-of-staters from as far away as Pittsburgh.

The show closed with an impressive flurry (Ramon's act seemed to get stronger as the night progressed), capped by a death-defying stunt that brought the audience to its feet. #NewMagic delivered laughs and thrills and is a great date night out in downtown Reno this holiday season.

Catch magician Alex Ramon in #NewMagic, a special limited engagement, running Thursdays through Sundays at 7p at Sammy's Showroom. Tickets are available online through Ticketmaster; at the showroom box office, or by calling 855-CEI-SHOW. Reno Tahoe Tonight 57

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1251 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89502 Open daily from 10a-6p (775)-324-4141 Artist Nancy Nelson lives and breathes her art. Her aesthetic is feminine, graceful and her eye gravitates towards elements of beauty, nostalgia, nature, native cultures and religious iconography.

“It’s all about hunting for the 'treasure' whether it is in a local thrift shop or a side street market in Italy,” notes Nelson. “As an artist I see things differently, something that may seem ugly or ordinary to an average person could be a treasure to me. I have such a great appreciation and respect for lost treasures, so it only seems right to give them another life.”

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of gorgeous art objects, hand-made and vintage jewelry, figurines and fabrics. On the booth's west wall, birch limbs with their textured skins create a canopy for adornments of light and ornate tapestries, antique wedding gowns and mannequin busts dressed to the nines. The east corner features brightly colored tribal displays of native totems, angels and saints, carvings, hand-woven wall hangings and eclectic pieces of Americana, collectibles, books, button tins, pillows and throws.

“I think about the craftsmanship and how long it took to create certain pieces. For example, the other day I found these small handkerchiefs from the 20s made specifically for people drinking champagne, they were no bigger then a 3-inch square with embroidered champagne glasses on them. People would use them to wipe their mouths while drinking champagne; I was astonished by the thoughtfulness and delicacy.

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“In today’s generation there is a loss of personal touch; everything is online and so immediate.

No one stops to pause and observe the details in things, whether it is the handwritten thank you letter from your grandmother, or an heirloom passed on by generations. I like to think I remind people of the past details they are forgetting. In my booth (#89 at the Virginia Street Antique Mall), I have items ranging from 1800s to current items of today. Everyone and their family can come in and find something special that relates to them.

“A personal touch of mine is reincarnated jewelry. I find vintage rosaries, personal broken jewelry, and mix it with new chains. Each piece tells a story and draws in a different person.

Someone may love the vintage button on a handmade cuff I made because it reminds him or her of their grandfather's sweater. I love the

Saints, so one of my main focuses is religious art and collecting old rosaries, and metals.

“I do what I do because it’s my passion, and it brings me happiness to recycle these personal items. Each item has a story and a piece of history with it. To me when I see someone come in and relate to an item’s past and share his or her story with me, it reminds me why I do what I do.”

Looking for beautifully crafted American Thanksgiving dinner table settings and centerpieces? Stop in the Virginia Street Antique Mall for your holiday decorating and visit the many vendor booths and displays throughout the 17,000 square feet of showroom space. You're sure to find something you'll treasure. And come in for their HUGE “Black Friday” store-wide sale on November 27 from 10a-6p.

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A Quick Chat About Hygiene PSYCHIC SAMANTHA FE Text Samantha Fe Photo Jessica Brown Illustration Jenna Chandler We’ve all heard the age-old saying, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” And I’m sure we all have our opinions about what that means to us. Now, with some of you that may resonate and bring up some very validating points about your personal hygiene, while with others… not so much. I want you to know that either way, I do not care how many times a week you wash your hair or brush your teeth. That is not the area of your life we are here to discuss.

What I do care about is your personal energetic hygiene routine. Our energetic bodies are just as important to take care of and maintain as our physical bodies.

Some people are able to work this space freely, though unconsciously, through physical exercise, creativity and even laughter. My goal is to raise your awareness to bringing that energetic cleansing to conscious intention. By doing so, it allows you to be more conscious with every step you take as well as every decision you make, bringing greater clarity and intent into your life. The biggest difference in understanding yourself as an energetic being is simply being able to identify that you are in fact using, creating and releasing energy as you go about your day.

Oftentimes, we allow our energy to be scattered or sloppily distributed along the path of our day.

Take a second to think. Close your eyes. Bring

your awareness to the center of your head, and see who is there. Is it your boss holding a list of to-dos? Is it your drinking buddy nagging you to go out drinking? Is it a tense conversation you had recently with your significant other? We often will allow other people’s energy to affect us by taking their ‘ish’ with us even after our interaction with them has come to completion.

Every idea or circumstance has an energetic charge. Some ideas, or thoughts, are yours and some are not. The foreign energy, or energy that is not yours, can be cleared out with a simple shift of awareness and a clear intention. It is crucial to notice that it is in fact someone else’s energy, and you do not want it there. By removing the energetic charge from the center of your head, you can offer yourself freedom and clarity in all areas of your life.

When you release these, you have more room for yourself. And remember, it’s perfectly OK to be completely selfish in taking the space inside your physical as well as your energetic body for yourself. It’s your body; it’s your head. You can wear your crown and sit on your very own throne in the center of your head.

This is your space.

I invite you to visit SamanthaFe. com or on Facebook at Intuitive Samantha Fe. These resources have helpful tidbits on how to release old stale energy, as well as how to create new beneficial energy in your life. The first step to moving forward is identifying a pattern.

For questions regarding psychic readings, please visit SamanthaFe.com or simply email sf@samanthafe.com. 775.233.8965

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“When I first started in radio, I went from being a part timer, to the overnight guy, to the evening host in a matter of 3 months. I was a fan with a microphone, not a DJ. There was this one kid who would call me every night and ask question after question (most of which I had no answer to, for I had just started and never went to a formal broadcasting school). We became friends. It was apparent that we were all about the music. I helped him get his FCC license, and taught him what I knew. When I was at KRZQ, I hired him as the overnight guy, and made him the assistant music director. The rest is history, as Chris [Payne] has dedicated his life to radio, and making the best new music available to all who listen.

Some brothers you get by blood, others you get through the love of shared interests.” -Max Volume KRZQ's Chris Payne is the Ace Face of modern rock radio in northern Nevada and one of the iconic on-air voices of his generation. From board-ops and live remotes, to his distinctive and ubiquitous voice-over work, Payne has done it all, with trademark style, precision and excellence.

Here, the 2014 Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee tells us how his radio journey started.

Oliver X: You have a near encyclopedic knowledge of music – especially in the rock genre(s). Were you one of those kids who loved music and knew what he wanted to do right from the get-go?

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Chris Payne: Thank you for the compliment.

I credit my parents... They played a variety of bands and artists when I was growing up (Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Joan Baez, The Beatles, and more), but music didn't really start to affect me until I saw KISS on the cover of a magazine. Once I saw Gene Simmons, I knew I had to research who this band was that caught my eye. My first album was 'Destroyer'.

The rest fell into place after that.

Oliver X: When did you develop an interest in broadcasting? Talk about your early radio career and where you got your start.

Chris Payne: My fascination with radio started to take shape when I was eight years old. My mother would always have the radio on in the car, and the way the DJ's spoke when they'd crack the mic always intrigued me. I thought, Are they supposed to sound that way? Little did I know that later in life I wouldn't have to mimic their delivery to make it into the business.

My first stint in radio was doing an amateur hour on KOZZ. The day I locked that in changed my life. I walked into the lobby, spoke with the receptionist. She said, 'Can I help you?' I said, 'Hi, my name is Chris Payne and I've been sending you postcards to do the amateur hour, but I have a feeling because they're Motley Crue postcards, you're throwing them away.' She laughed and said, 'Let me get the Program Director.' Enter Steve Funk, 'Hi, I'm Steve.

How can I help you?' After a five minute meeting with him, I was on the air three weeks later. I was so high after being on the air that I knew this was my calling.

The next stop: “The Max Volume Crash Course in Broadcasting.” The only way to be a part of it: help KOZZ's morning man, Brian Elder, become the most popular morning DJ by voting for him in the RGJ. Sound familiar? I would wait outside of the paper while they dumped out the previous day's papers into a dumpster. I wound up turning in a little over 4,000 ballots, which was the second largest amount. Max taught ten of us the in's/out's of radio over a three week course. At the end, we got to do a four hour radio show on the night of our choice. I picked Thursday, mainly because that was the same night 'Metal Shop' was on. Max let me program the hour. I was so pumped. Just like after the amateur hour, I was high as a kite, but not satisfied.

The next stop was hosting another amateur hour the following year. Still unsatisfied but not sure how to break in to the field, I called (then) X102

which is now Radio Tri-Color, 101.7. The jock on the air was also the Program Director. He said, "you have a good voice. Have you ever thought about doing radio?" Me, "ever since I was 8 years old!" Carey (the PD), "why don't you come down and fill out an app?" Me, "GREAT! I'll be there in 15 minutes!" I was there in 10. Within minutes after my arrival, I was hired. A few months into working there, pushing buttons, a fellow jock (Tim Solero) overheard a conversation between the PD & the MD (music director): PD 'I'm short air talent. I need to find someone.' MD 'Why not Chris Payne? You hired him to eventually put him on the air, right?' PD 'No. I hired him to be a board operator.' Tim called me immediately to share the conversation. I was pissed, but still determined to make it happen. I reached out to Max Volume who was working at KRZQ, aka 96 Rock. He told me to make faux air checks so he could have some ammo to give to his boss. Little did I know that one fateful Thursday night/Friday morning, one phone call would change my life:

manager, as well as a good programmer. He will remain nameless, but if he's reading this, you know who you are.

Oliver X: Listeners can hear that passion for sure. What still excites you about rock radio and what is the best thing about your job?

Chris Payne: This always comes off weird, but I always tell people that I don't have a job. I have a career, and the best thing about this career is staying passionate on a day-to-day basis, no matter what curve balls are thrown your way. I was once asked by a great friend, 'How do you stay so cool at work? I haven't seen you lose your sh_t one time.' My response, 'The beer is always colder at the finish line when you get done what needs to get done asap.'

Oliver X: You have met a lot of celebrities in your occupation and you always seem to feel right at home in their company. Who are the coolest celebs you've met to date?

[Phone rings as I'm on the other line with my girlfriend.] 'Hello? (other voice) 'Hi, may I speak to Chris Payne please.' (Me) This is he. (other voice) 'Hey, it's Daniel Cook from KRZQ. I need someone to work for me.' (Me) 'OK. Sure I can ‌ hold on a minute. THIS IS THE SARGE. FROM 96 ROCK! (other voice) 'Yes it is, now can you do it or not?'

(Me) 'Yeah, I can ‌ ooh, wait a minute. (other voice, sounding annoyed) 'What's up?' (Me) 'My car's broken down and I'll have to take the bus.' [other voice, still annoyed.] 'How long's that going to take?'

(Me) about 40 minutes. (other voice) 'Forget it.

I can just go to the next name in my book." [Me, without batting an eyelash.] F_ck the bus, I'll take a cab and be there in 10 minutes! [Other voice, very pleased.] 'That's what I needed to hear. See ya in a few hours.' (click).

Chris Payne: What a great question, mainly because I've met a number of incredible people in my time and because they're still out there.

The list of celebs/musicians that make the list (and in no particular order): Rob Zombie, Bill Murray, Barbara Dare, def tones (they're like family to me at this point), Aaron Bruno (AWOLNATION), Steven Tyler, all of the dudes in Lit, New Politics, Kobe Tai, WWF superstar and now Brock Lesnar's wife, Sable, Josh and Sarah from Phantogram, Michael Franti, Sage Francis, former Reno Aces/Arizona Diamondbacks ace Barry Enright, Pete and Sam from Chevelle, to the recent ones Dean Cain, Adrienne Barbeau, Reggie Lee, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, Ted Raimi, Caity Lotz, Katee Sackhoff, and so many more.

Suddenly I'm on the radio within 20 minutes of that call, losing my mind and feeling euphoric all at once. The time is now 5:13am, and Daniel Cook pulls up to the station. He walks in, introduces himself, then asks, 'So when do you work for Carey Edwards at X102?' (Me) 'Weekends. I'm just a board op.' (Daniel) 'Tell him you don't work for him anymore. Tell him you work for me.' [As he extends his hand out]. Welcome aboard." I thought my head was going to explode, 'NO WAY! Thank you so much! I promise you won't regret this day!'

Twenty six years into the game, six radio stations, and nine different radio owners, and I haven't lost an ounce of passion for what I do. I will say that I worked with one person five years ago who almost got me to quit based of his inability to be a good

Oliver X: With the rise of mobile media and internet radio, what do you see as the future of commercial terrestrial radio?

Chris Payne: Strong question. Mobile media, internet radio are to be recognized while staying two to five steps ahead of everyone else. Whether it's the use of Social Media or podcasts that come from said media properties. I'm excited to see the next wave and embrace all it has to offer.

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Pumpkin spice wafting through the air, teasing nostrils and tantalizing taste buds. November’s ushering in the holiday season and I, in my festive weakness, have submitted wholly and completely to the merriment. Maybe it’s because Brad and I recently bought a home and will, for the first time, host Thanksgiving at our casa. Perhaps it’s because we have a legitimate guest room that my Texas mother will occupy for a week during the feasting holiday. The numerous gifts that bless my life in unabashed bounty robe this season with deep gratitude.

All those factors have contributed enormously to my uncharacteristically exuberant joy for these ensuing holidays. One additional factor has contributed to the extension of my elation beyond its typical radius: “TAHOE: A Visual History.”

The blockbuster exhibition has received numerous accolades from the community and art world alike, and has attracted thousands of visitors. Those inspired visitors have the opportunity to take home a Tahoe-themed item to commemorate their visit, all for sale in the Museum Store.

That’s right. Shopping. Not mindless, consumptive shopping. Rather, shopping that elevates your Museum experience from patron to participant.

Jackie Clay, Nevada Museum of Art director of retail and reception services, approaches retailing with a curatorial eye.

“I was a history curator for 20 years,” Clay said.

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That perspective gives her the experience needed to fill the store with merchandise specifically related to whatever feature exhibition the Museum has on display that season. For much of this year, Tahoe has guided Clay’s decision making. Actually the selection process begins one to two years ahead of a show’s run date.

“Once I know the exhibition schedule, I start scouting items and keep a running file of potentials.” As the months advance, Clay narrows her focus and chooses, with care and intention, not only what she thinks will sell, but also what fits the Museum brand and exhibition motif.

“Objects have to achieve a certain level of good taste and design,” she says. “They have to be more art than craft.” To pass the muster, objects must also possess a high quality. Clay seeks objects with a maker-feel.

“If things are made locally, or at least touched by human hands, the gift-giver gets extra credit for being thoughtful,” she jokes. Though said with a smile, Clay takes this art of retail curating seriously. She will not stock items found at other local retailers.

“Our product mix extends wide and shallow,” Clay says, indicating the treasures you unearth you won’t blanket the streets. Except for sweet custom t-shirts.

For “Tahoe: A Visual History” Clay worked with artists included in the show to produce unique

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wares aligned with works on view in the gallery.

The Phyllis Shafer bracelet is a great example of this, a whimsical, rhythmic arm cuff only available during the exhibition run. Shafer is a Tahoe-based plein air painter who has two works featured in the exhibition. The Museum Store also features a few higher-priced creations, like one-of-a-kind historic baskets woven by Washoe weavers.

And the books. The books actually deserve their own column. The store started carrying so many books—in part because the Nevada Museum of Art has become a publishing machine in recent years—that part of the atrium has been converted to a bookstore wing. Clay has stocked the prow with not only Museum publications and staffwritten books, but also informative, educational art books not found at Barnes & Noble. Within the walls of the Store, she has a beautifully curated collection of artfully illustrated children’s books.

Throughout most of November and December, the book prow will convert to a pop-up store featuring American-made, locally designed outdoor orientated clothing by tahoefab, a new business. The Store will be the only venue in Reno carrying the product. Noon to 3 pm on Saturday, December 12, the Museum Store hosts a Made in Tahoe Pop-up Shop featuring hand crafted pieces by Tahoe artists Andy Blanchard, Barb Kallestad, and Casey Wold. Truckee-based Blanchard creates functional pottery informed by a business management and philosophy background.

Kallestad, a watercolorist, has been a practicing graphic and fine artist and art teacher for over

40 years. Wold creates handcrafted jewelry and accessories with a timeless twist, utilizing mixed metals and mixed mediums.

“We get compliments for being the best museum store people have ever seen,” Clay says.

Though a little biased, I have to agree. Doing your holiday shopping at the Museum Store reduces the chances that others’ purchases will mimic yours. Further, the gift with which you walk away will possess an elevated quality of thoughtfulness not achieved through conventional shopping tactics. The best part? Your festive frenzy contributes to the bottom line of the state’s only accredited art museum, a small gift from you to this cultural jewel.

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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REAL ESTATE Text Debra Menchel

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Hiring An Agent You Can Trust

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lthough there is no such thing as a routine Reno real estate transaction, there are some general guidelines that can help you know what to expect and how to proceed when you are ready to buy or sell a home.

First, before you even begin looking for your dream home, go shopping for a mortgage. Find out how much you can borrow. This narrows down the field and time spent looking at properties. Find something you can comfortably afford, not a number you been talked into.

Once you are pre-approved, there is risk that the deal won't go through and you will appeal to area home sellers, a plus if there is more than one offer made on the house you want. Come up with a down payment, usually 5-20 percent of the asking price. The bigger the down payment on the property, the more of the you house you actually own come closing day.

Do some research to determine what Reno homes are selling for in your neighborhood and the listing prices of the homes that appeal to you. When you zero in on an area and house you like, find comparables or recent sales of homes similar to your target house.

Finding a licensed, reliable agent you can trust is one of the most important things you can do during your real estate transaction process.

You want someone who will protect your best interests in this vital financial transaction.

For a consultation on the process, contact The Menchel Group at findyournevadahome.com, or call Debra at 775-339-1393.

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Green Rush Eco Clothing 745 South Virginia Street Reno, NV 89502 (775) 332-4704 Open every day 11a-7:30p Sunday – 11a to 4p

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reen Rush Eco Clothing store looks like the gift shop that the Plump Jack Squaw Valley Inn doesn't have. Hip and trend-leading like Concepts, but more Burner-street. Green Rush sells men's and women's clothing and accessories for students, professionals, yoginis, hikers, skaters and ski bums, environmentally conscious shoppers and genuinely good people who care about the planet. All the apparel is made from earth-friendly natural fibers derived from plants like soy, hemp, bamboo and organic cotton.

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heaven. Recycled wood panels the walls. The rustic mountain dĂŠcor perfectly complements the lifestyle store's culture. Wood grain and color excite the eye. The room is brightened by sun rays from skylights. High-ceilings make the wellstocked store seem spacious.

I spoke with owner Billy Jacobs, a thirty year veteran retailer, about his background, concept and vision for the store as, we enter the store's first holiday shopping season in Reno.

Oliver X: What's your retail background?

Billy Jacobs: I have been in retail in one form or another for over 30 years. My father, brother

and I, started Spyder Skiwear in 1978. As the company grew I wore many hats, from design, to merchandising, to working with athletes, to marketing, to sales. I enjoyed working with retailers and sales reps the most, and made that my niche in the company. Long story short, we sold the company in 2004 and I moved to Tahoe to ski and start a family.

Oliver X: Describe the impetus behind starting Green Rush Billy Jacobs: One day I randomly got a call from an old college roommate who was living in Amsterdam and had started a successful hemp clothing brand in Europe called "Hemp

Hoodlamb." He was looking to expand into the US market and wanted to know if I would help him sell the collection here. I figured why not! I knew clothing and retail, and was intrigued by what he was doing, plus I needed a job, so I said yes! As I started working in the organic lifestyle space, I got educated on hemp and other natural fiber clothing like bamboo, soy and organic cotton.

I learned that the clothing industry is one of the most toxic and wasteful there is because of all the pesticides and water used for farming cotton, not to mention the manufacture of synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon. This combined with all the excessive use of plastic in the packaging made me start to see the importance of sustainability in Reno Tahoe Tonight 87

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“OK...I can't believe there aren't any reviews yet for this place. This is another great location we checked out on our 2015 artwalkabout. My husband and I fell in love with how unique this store is. As soon as you walk in you get a good vibe. They carry Nomads clothing and some skateboard equipment too! Lot's and lots of Hemp made products...organic is good folks! ... It is beautiful to see midtown Reno becoming beautiful. Thanks Green Rush Eco Clothing for helping the area look beautiful!�

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clothing, not only for the health of the planet, but organic clothing feels so much better to wear and it's healthier for your body too. The thing that really got my attention was there were very few hemp clothing brands, and even fewer retail stores selling it. That's when I decided to open Green Rush and offer only the best sustainable and organic brands under one roof.

not only all the major brands, but also has a hall dedicated to Eco brands (earth-friendly) and smaller niche brands. So that is always fun to walk around and see if something stands out. As for the rest of the store merchandise, I simply buy things that I like and that I think complement a conscious lifestyle.

Oliver X: Where do you source your apparel?

Oliver X: What has the response been to the store so far?

Billy Jacobs: Over the years I have built up a network of suppliers that I work with, and brands that I trust and like. I spend a lot of time searching on the internet for new clothing brands as there are quite a few smaller start ups that are offering unique styles. I network with other shops and we will talk about what is new, or what is trending for them etc. and compare notes. I also like to go to festivals and see what's trending.

There is the largest fashion trade show on the planet in Las Vegas every year that showcases

Billy Jacobs: The response to the store has been amazing! People walk in and say "Wow am I still in Reno? The shop looks natural on the inside and that is something people do not expect. I get college kids coming in and saying that they are studying sustainability and want to start wearing only organic clothing. I get a lot of moms looking for cute styles that are organic fibers. I get lots of men buying our organic cotton button-up shirts for work; we get kids looking for the latest fitted hemp hats. The cool thing is that we offer

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clothing styles for everyone and our customer base is very diverse. Everyone who comes in the store makes a comment about how they really like what we are doing so that makes me feel really good.

Oliver X: What's new on the horizon for your industry?

Billy Jacobs: Well, we are starting to see more fashion designers use hemp fabrics and that is growing. Hemp is considered to be the pinnacle of sustainability and if you use it in your clothing line, you're cool! Versace is using hemp in pants that they sell for about $500! Adidas has a hemp sneaker. The most exciting thing on the horizon is: I have a friend who is developing a new fabric that will revolutionize the fabric industry. He is making fabric out of volcanic rock. He has found a way to take black shiny volcanic rock, melt it down, and with heat and pressure, he is extruding

it into fine fiber which he is then weaving into fabric! The benefit of this is it is a non-petroleum based fiber that is natural, but obviously very strong. It is a brand new process and he already has a contract with the military to use it under Humvees for blast protection and body armor because it is stronger than Kevlar. He's now developing a way to bond the volcanic rock fiber to hemp fiber to be used in clothing. Patagonia is interested in it and it might be the next cool thing to take clothing fiber to another level.

The Creative Coalition of Midtown is hosting its 3rd Annual Black Friday Shopping Pass Event. Green Rush will be offering 20% off store-wide; FREE mimosas; FREE t-shirt with $50 gift certificate.

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SLUDGE THE UNFILTERED COFFEEBAR JOURNEY Text Greg Buchheister Photo Grant Kaye and Michael Okimoto I have this dream where I walk into Coffeebar early in the morning; grab the New York Times; get a cappuccino from my favorite barista (yes I have one) and read the paper cover to cover.

I can usually accomplish steps one and two depending on the day, but step #3 has been ever elusive these past five years. As I am writing this morning, I am sipping a single origin coffee from Panama in my favorite Denver Broncos mug (circa 1973); pondering my next cappuccino with equal weight to my next paragraph.

Last month, I talked about the extreme difficulty of running a coffee shop in Truckee, California. Hiring, turnover, training, more hiring… The Truckee two-step: two people in and two people out. While publicly voicing the trials and tribulations of running a business in a seasonal mountain community, I am also reminded that while things are difficult, there is a lot to be thankful for.

then you have a higher chance for success.

To steal a quote from Simon, “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it!”

The reason why Coffeebar has been successful where others have failed is very simple – our ‘why.’ “At Coffeebar we make people feel good, so they can go out into the world and achieve their dreams.”

Simple! Does that say anything about great coffee? Gelato? Beer and wine?

Nutella croissants? No. Those are all delivery mechanisms for our ‘why’. “We make people feel good!” It is such a basic statement, but it’s truly the reason for our existence. Without it, we would just be another coffee shop on a corner serving up the brew of the day. So as we head into the holidays, I am grateful for many things, but I am truly thankful that I know my ‘why’.

What's yours?

October 11th was our five-year anniversary at the Truckee location. Wow! Five years has gone by in an instant. I remember very clearly the first few months, but since then it has been a blur of espresso shots, dishes, regulars and seasons. The one thing that hasn’t changed since day one is why I opened Coffeebar; why I love it; why I work the long hours, and maybe the most interesting question: why Coffeebar has reached the five-year mark in a location where two other coffee shops had failed?

Why do you get out of bed in the morning?

What inspires you? Simon Sinek has a great Ted Talk called “Start With Why.” In this talk, which I highly recommend, he explains the concept of the Golden Circle. There are three circles that relate to a company or product: the What, the How and the Why. To summarize his talk, almost 100% of employees know what their organization does. Some employees know how they actually do it, but very few people know why they exist. We are not talking about profit here, we are talking about purpose. The ‘why’ of your business is the secret ingredient.

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THE COUTURE CLOSET Text Isha Casagrande Photos Jeramie Lu Photography Model Nick Sorrentino Stylist Isha Casagrande Self confidence is sexy and first impressions are powerful.

Contrast the season's style with rugged masculinity and a gentleman’s polish to create an irresistible chemistry that attracts everyone to you.

A) Style Society Fit is an essential element to a stylish image. Small details make a huge impact and turn fads into long term trends.

Built in pocket squares and pops of color turn a simple look into an envious ensemble. Top with a fedora and some masculine jewelry and you are made to model.

B) Raw & Rugged Follow the layering laws to find your perfect cold weather look. Do not be afraid to go multiple layers deep. Keep things unbuttoned, layer in lightweight materials and be true to your size in pieces that fit close to your body. Wear a tonal palette with a bold pop of color and every layer's details will shine.

C) Power Player It is all in the details. Contrasting buttons, collars and cuffs, patchwork details and leather touches create an alpha look that takes you from day and night. Sweaters become an accessory when used in unexpected ways like tied at the waist or around the shoulders.

D) Casual Confidence Wearing jeans and a tee take on a new twist this winter with heavier materials and special detailing. Add a basic beanie and bracelet and your casual look is handsomely sexy.

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November embodies fullness, thanks, giving back and love across the board. Yet one thing that truly stands out more than everything is food. For those who embark on the amazing journey of health, wellness and fitness, the month of November can be one to really put a wrench in their goals if they are not fully prepared or guided on other ways to stay in tune with themselves and in tune with their loved ones.

As the biggest travel day approaches in late November, people feel forced to grab a bag of chips in the airport for a source of fuel. They drink a few more cocktails at the bar due to lay overs and become less active because of extended travel itineraries.

These scenarios become unhealthy challenges and poor dietary triggers for some, as they have the potential to completely knock you off the wagon of health and wellness if you're not careful.

Those are some examples of the indulgences leading up to the day of Thanksgiving, not to mention what we all do on the actual day, that help create a whirlwind of careless actions that leave most in pure guilt the day after Thanksgiving. We wake up lethargic, puffy, irritated or panicked! The inner voice is very harsh after a few days of these indulgences – which are not always a bad thing if done in moderation. Luckily there are some healthier choices that you can choose to pursue during this month of extreme temptation.

TRAINING TIPS Text and photo courtesy of Camie Cragg Lyman

Camie Cragg Lyman’s 8 Tips to Avoid Over Indulgent Moments This Thanksgiving:

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Instead of a bag of chips, grab a piece of fruit when walking down the terminal.

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Need something to drink? Splurge with sparkling water and lemon.

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During long travel days in the car or on a plane, make an effort to walk, pace or walk in place for five minutes when waiting anywhere, to keep blood circulation working at it’s finest.

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Drink lots of water in early morning and mid afternoon, before Thanksgiving dinner is served.

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Bring a couple surprise platters to your Thanksgiving location to secure a couple healthy choices if you are normally locked in with non-healthy choices.

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Use real ingredients when cooking instead of the artificial sweeteners or fats. Your body will feel better digesting real, as opposed to fake – which in the end – is easier to burn off.

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Enjoy family and friends by making them the focus of your day instead of focusing on the food. Engage and be present, without being submerged with over-eating and feeling guilt later.

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Take little bites and chew all your food up almost to a puree in mouth, which calls for more energy and time, which then leads to less eating in the long run due to all the energy, spent.

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When I begin a class, I want to collectively create a space filled with love and acceptance, where we can honor and listen to our bodies and be free of stresses, worries and judgment. I choose to use affirmations that inspire and uplift. Our yoga practice is the perfect time for us to be aware of what the little voice inside our head says. I want to influence my students self-talk during class to be, “I got this and if it's not happening today that's okay, I'm here practicing and loving my body.” We often tell ourselves I will be happy when... when I loose ten pounds; I can touch my toes; I master that pose. We need to love ourselves right now, as is, unconditionally.

Examining your self-talk during your practice will give you a good idea of how you are talking to yourself in everyday life. A perfect example is when you are extending into a standing forward fold. What's going on internally? Are you being accepting of the fact that maybe, today, your low back and hamstrings are really tight? Are you automatically adding an extra bend in your knees to decrease the strain? Are you speaking kind and loving words to your tight spots as you breath, rocking back and forth through the spine? Or are

you stubbornly keeping your knees straight and extending through your back, cursing at your body for it's inability to get your hands to reach the floor?

Another pose that's good to observe self talk in is Balancing Half Moon. It is a pretty challenging pose that can fluctuate from day-to-day. What happens when you come into that pose and you just aren't hitting it? Inside are you belittling yourself and repeatedly trying to raise your top hand in the air, while looking around at everyone else in class who seems to be getting it right, letting your ego take over? Or are you accepting where you are today and just getting into the benefits of the pose and focusing on what you are achieving?

Next time you go into your yoga practice, observe the dialogue that takes place with yourself and make sure that it is loving and kind. Start being aware of things you might be saying that aren't positive or beneficial. I want you to be able to hear this voice in your practice because it's a quieter time to hear it. When you get out into the real world things get a whole lot louder. Be aware of when you speak negatively and replace that voice with optimism. When I feel negative, I stop that voice right away with a positive affirmation. My favorite affirmation right now is, “I can, and I am!”

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DECEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Text Oliver X Photos courtesy of Jeff Dow, and Eric Russell Happy holidays everyone! Here's a preview of what's coming next month in the December 2015 issue of Reno Tahoe Tonight. Enjoy!

Cover Story: Reno Engineering Corporation With Arlington Towers, StartUp Row Properties, the Roff Street Parklet and much more—Reno Engineering Corporation has got it going on. RTT takes you inside of how they're helping to facilitate the Reno Revival and re-imagining downtown and beyond.

Feature: Frey Ranch Estate Distillery We chat with Ashley Frey and Colby Frey, fifth generation farmers from Fallon's Frey Ranch Estate Distillery and leaders of the emerging “ground to glass” movement, about the family's sustainable ranching and farming practices.

Then we'll find out what all the fuss is about with their crafted vodka, gin and whiskey offerings, that have earned critical raves.

Food: Truckee Tavern and Grill Next month in the December 2015 issue of Reno Tahoe Tonight, we pick up Part 2 of our food feature on Ryan Dierks and Chris St. Martin from Truckee Tavern and Grill and see what they have cooking up for winter 2015.

Review: STONED Dr. James Forsythe M.D., H.M.D. and his Century Wellness Center have a remarkable five-year remission rate of 65 out 100 for patients with Stage IV cancer! Compare that with the national average five-year survival rate of just 2 out of 100 for patients treated by conventional physicians. In his new book STONED: The Truth About Medical Marijuana and Hemp Oil, the renowned integrative medical oncologist shares fascinating information about the controversy, the hurdles and the hope surrounding medicinal cannabis and hemp oil as a treatment for cancer and other conditions.

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