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Biggest little VegasRe “Recovery?” (News, Oct. 18):
This is hysterical! I give you JonRalston’s latest: “New poll showsObama leads in Nevada by 7, Oct. 17,2012” http://tinyurl.com/95dmj6b. Ithink we sometimes forget that Renois not Las Vegas. Cheers!
Ursula PowersReno
Don’t trust parentsWe’re told we can depend on our par-ents until we’re 25. Maybe no one’ssaying it outright, but FAFSA [FreeApplication for Federal StudentLoan] requires information aboutyour parents’ income if you’re under25, health insurance companies aremandated by law to cover children upto age 25 on their parents’ healthplans, and parents of full-time stu-dents can claim their children on theirtax returns up to age 24. But whatabout those who can’t even dependon their parents up to age 18? At a2012 youth-targeted homeless countin Reno, 56 homeless youth under 24were counted. These included somewho had recently aged out of fostercare and some who were exiting thejuvenile justice system with nofamily support. It didn’t includeyouth who don’t even recognize thatthey’re homeless; who sleep onfriends’ couches or live with anotherfamily on a temporary basis. WashoeCounty’s annual spending on thehomeless exceeds $14 million. Weneed to educate youth to be inde-pendent and prevent them frombecoming homeless in the first place.We need required life skills classes inhigh schools, teen mentoring pro-grams, and youth-centered supportivehousing. These youth cannot do it forthemselves. It is up to us.
Jeanine MorelandReno
God bless you, Brad BynumRe “Mr. Rotten” (Musicbeat, Oct. 11):
Hats off to Brad Bynum and hisinterview with John Lydon of PublicImage Limited! It was the most soul-
ful interview with a musician I’veread in a long time. Cut it out and putit on the refrigerator door type ofstuff. John Lydon is an incrediblyinsightful human being. I find it awe-some that he has gone from frontmanand iconic vocalist of a punk rockband that helped ignite a whole gen-eration of musical change and spawncountless genres of musical territory,to an “elder statesman” of sorts, withthat same fire and attitude—justlisten to the latest PIL album—as hisyounger years, but now temperedwith wisdom and maturity...I didn’twant the interview to end. (I read thewhole interview on line!). So, thanksBrad ... nice job.
Rob PelikanReno
Don’t trust politiciansRe “Separation of powers battle”(Election, Oct. 11):
Thank you to RN&R for yourrecent article about the differentitems on the upcoming ballot. Irecently moved back to Nevada andwas not aware of Question 1. Readingthe article, I was thinking it soundedlike a good idea. That is until I cameto the quote by Sen. Moises Deniswhere he states, “I think it’s anopportunity for us to do things thatwe didn’t do at the Legislature thatare important.” Really? If thesethings are important, please explainto the people of Nevada why youdidn’t address them at the Legislaturewhile you were in session. You didn’thave time because you spent toomuch time on things that weren’timportant? This is a power grab bythe Legislature so that they can uni-laterally extend their session (andtherefore their pay) without any sayby their constituents. This bill shouldbe defeated in its present form andonly passed when it allows theLegislature to call itself into specialsession only for the impeachment orremoval from office of State Officersas allowed under the StateConstitution.
Keith E. DeutscherReno
Don’t trust HSUSRe “For the pets” (Letters to the Editor, Oct. 18):
“We have no problem with theextinction of domestic animals. Theyare creations of human selectivebreeding.”—Wayne Pacelle, HumaneSociety of the United States
The above is a direct quote.Sound familiar? What exactly does itmean? It means my Chihuahuas andmy pit/lab mix, none of whom havedone harm to anyone—ever. It meanseveryone’s dogs and cats. It meansFarmer Joe’s cows, chickens, hogsand sheep. It means all pets and alllivestock, including exotic birds.Snake and lizard fanciers are also notexempt from this HSUS madness.Laws against keeping reptiles willalso proliferate and become moredraconian. The HSUS is all aboutlaws, going state by state, makingtrouble for honest ranchers andanimal breeders who treat their ani-mals well. All this harassment carriesa hefty price tag, however; not alllawyers work pro bono. In 2008, forexample, HSUS paid out less thanone-half of 1 percent of their $100million budget towards actual care ofsheltered animals. The rest went topension plans, lobbying efforts forlaws to put ranchers and breeders outof business, reimbursement of theirhuge legal team, and God knowswhat other facets of their warpedanti-human/anti-pet agenda. Logictends to suggest that the numbershaven’t improved in the animalsfavor in the years leading to current.There is also the matter of approx$500 million which may have beenunder reported income for HSUS(IRS tax fraud case #29-92012).
People, do not support theHSUS! Donate to local shelters only.Otherwise, you merely feed themonster.
Robert Orlin Franklin JohnsonSun Valley
Don’t trust doctorsSuppose you needed surgery. Youthen find out the surgeon injured aprevious patient due to serious neg-lect. This was a preventable injury
that any surgeon of similar trainingwould have recognized. This surgeonignored complaints of the patient andrequests that would decrease pain andinjury. Due to the failure to performfurther evaluation and preventivemeasures this resulted in permanentpain and disability, medicationdependence, further medical testing-procedures-surgeries. At conclusion,to prevent embarrassment and a law-suit, the hospital surgeons did theirbest to hide the whole incident. Theyeven had an attorney threaten thepatient. Are these medical profession-als you would entrust your life or thatof a loved one to? This is exactlywhat happened in Reno. NevadaMedical Board and Health QualityAssurance do a very poor job of pro-tecting patients’ interests.
Connie MckamyEureka, Calif.
Trust good stuffRe “Recovery?” (News, Oct. 12):
I get a lot of my “news” from theinternet. I am often startled by thenumber of unpaid amateurs out thereposing as journalists. I once was forcedby a lawyer to define what a reporterdoes. I haltingly told him: “They goout and find out stuff and tell it topeople.” Dennis Myers did a prettysterling job of “reporting” this story.He actually “went out.” He visited theObama headquarters, actually wit-nessed the conditions he found there.He “found out stuff.” And he “told us”about it. While he filtered those factsthrough a journalist’s mind, his conclu-sions were pretty well confined. By thetime this information is aggregated bythe bloggers on the internet, the infor-mation will be diluted and twistedbeyond recognition. Fox News: Lazystaffers blow election for LiberalObama. Rush Limbaugh: Feminazisdemonstrate Obama’s four years of afailed policies. Ann Coulter: EvenObama campaigners hate their candi-date. Mitt Romney: If I had acampaign headquarters it would bebetter managed. Just like I saved theOlympics. Oh, well.
Duct-tape solutionWelcome to this week’s Reno News & Review.
So the Reno News & Reviewdid this really cool thing.Starting about nine months
ago (OK,three yearsago, when wedecided tomove theBest ofNorthernNevada so it
wouldn’t impact Election 2012coverage), I started interview-ing partners to help us have agreat election site. We selectedDemocracy Live because theypromised to include our local“down-ballot” races.
At any rate, problems werehad. The RN&R did our part.Most of the candidates didtheirs by responding to anonline questionnaire. TheWashoe County Registrar ofVoters did its job. (In fact, dur-ing this election, I’ve beenfloored by the level of compe-tency of the Registrar’s office,particularly Brian Takemotoand Luanne Cutler, whileRegistrar Dan Burk is out, hav-ing had emergency surgery.)Democracy Live experiencedinnumerable technical difficul-ties, first promising a Sept. 28launch, then an Oct. 5 launch,then a whole variety of datesand reasons for delays.
All the while, our readerswere deprived of the informa-tion they needed.
So, anyway, our operationsteam, led by John Bisignanoand Jonathan Schultz, wentinto action, creating a down-and-dirty gadget based on theresponses the candidates gaveus. If I’m able, I’ll also link tocandidates’ info on theRegistrar’s site for those whodidn’t respond to us.
Today is Tuesday. I have noidea what the site is going tolook like come Thursday, but Iknow people are voting now,and I want those voters to seewhat the candidates had tosay. For all I know, DemocracyLive may have gotten their acttogether. Our duct-tape solu-tion may not be beautiful, butit couldn’t wait any longer.
Please go to www.newsreview.com/reno/liveballot. Plug in your address,and you’ll get some combina-tion of what Democracy Livedid along with informationfrom the candidates. It maynot be pretty, but you’ll get theinformation you need.
—D. Brian Burghartbr ianb@newsrev iew.com
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THIS MODERN WORLD BY TOM TOMORROWBIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HE ADERS GIZA 15pt 55k (60% OF BIG HE AD)
We’ve got just a few more election endorsements beforethe main event on Nov. 6. We’re not endorsing in everyrace. There are lots of reasons for that. First, we don’t wantto endorse in races where we don’t have a clear preference,as in the general improvement districts. Our advice in theGIDs: Pick your neighbor.
Likewise, we don’t really need to endorse in some ofthe state races. We think Heidi Waterman is a nice person,but we don’t need to endorse David Bobzien to be prettysure which way this race is going to go. In uncontestedSupreme Court “races”, vote eitherway, and you get the same result. Vote“None of these candidates,” and youcan feel like you cast your protestvotes. Seems like in the future, theIndependent American Party couldfloat some candidates into these nonpartisan races toreally screw up the judiciary. That would make peoplepay attention.
So let’s go. We like Teresa Benitez-Thompson inAssembly 27. In fact, except in races where there’s noDemocratic competition, we’re looking at a Democraticplate: Rodney Petzak, Mike Sprinkle, Skip Daly and RichDunn (Assembly 26, 30, 31, 40, respectively). MarshaBerkbigler will probably win the District 1 spot on theWashoe County Commission, but you should vote AndrewDiss, just so it won’t be so obvious that rich people boughtthe seat. We can endorse Republicans Pat Hickey inAssembly 25 and Ira Hansen in Assembly 32 because,well, Democrats are pussies. Same with RepublicanVaughn Hartung for Washoe County Commission District4—until they come up with a write-in option or a “none”option with teeth, the uncontested candidates are among
our favorites. Go team!On the state board of education District 2, we like
Donna Clontz. Come on, we need to be sensible. Educationis underfunded. Period. It’s just possible that some reason-able, rational people will recognize that education has toimprove in order for the economic climate to improve inthe urban areas of the Silver State. People who take optionsfor improvement off the table before they are even dis-cussed need to stay retired. Clontz has been strong in thisstate in many ways for many years. Let’s put the sensible
person in charge.In that Justice of the Peace race,
Reno/Verdi, Department 1, we’re prettyambivalent. Both Patricia Lynch andGreg Shannon are qualified and skilledcandidates. But Lynch has held the seat
for five years or so, and we haven’t seen any particularreason to replace her. She’s got the direct experience. Shedoesn’t come as much from a prosecutorial point of view(which is heavily overrepresented in local judgeships), sheseems much more agreeable than she did as Reno cityattorney. On the other hand, there are people who thinkincumbency and a prosecutorial attitude are exactly whatthey want in a Justice of the Peace. We’re still endorsingPatricia Lynch—let’s keep the good ones.
In fact, let’s make that our theme for Election2012. Keep the good ones, replace the tools with edu-cated, thoughtful people, stay home if you don’t likeour suggestions.
One more suggestion: Now, at the end, pay no attentionto complaints filed with official government bodies like thestate Ethics Commission by desperate candidates.
But if you do want change, by all means, vote. Ω
By all means, vote
Keep the good ones.
BIG HE ADERS GIZA 25pt 25k SMALL HE Do debates
change your votes?Asked at the Great Basin Brewing Co., 846 Victorian Ave., Sparks
Karen MurdockBanker
No. When you get tired of hearing themevery day, day in and day out, itbecomes aggravating to the point whereit all runs together.
Gary BenchRetiree
I don’t put a lot of credence in debates.What you find is not reliable. It’s soundbites, and it’s for the effect it will havein the moment.
Paul MaineriQuality control worker
They have yet to because they talk abouta bunch of mostly useless informationthat is not very pertinent. Neithercandidate talks about the NationalDefense Authorization Act, section 1021.Neither candidate talks about therestrictions that are really taking placeon the second amendment.
Art YoungHighway worker
No. I’ve already pretty much—I’ll votethe party. I’ve already got my idea up asfar as the candidates go. It’s nice towatch the candidates argue their points.
Barbara HinsparkRetiree
No, because I’ve usually made up mymind pretty much before they go on.Sometimes you can get an idea of howstrong a candidate is. So I guesssometimes they influence me, but Idon’t think they’d make me change [myvote] necessarily.
by Dennis Myers
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Most of the Christian guides areimprecisely worded. They do notusually reference specific issues, pre-sumably because they expect that theusers of the guide know their ownminds. Where they are vague, theystill contain language that managesto communicate messages.
Intercessors for America, a groupbased in Purcellville, Virginia, hasproduced a guide, “SpirituallySwinging the Swing States,” that isthe most specific and detailed ofthose available. IFA’s guide has anentry on each swing state, providesbackground for those states, and rec-ommends particular approaches inprayers for the different states. ForColorado, for example, it discussesthe importance of women andLatinos as voting blocs and then sug-gest prayers that the votes of thestate’s women “be motivated by adesire to seek goodness, opportunity,and to follow a path of wisdom, thattheir decisions would be neither self-seeking nor self-defeating. Pray forresponsible choices, the protection ofunborn life, commitment to family,and personal fulfillment in marriageand in singleness.” For ColoradoLatinos, other types of prayers arerecommended: “Ask the Lord toshield them from busyness, apathy,cynicism and misinformation onelection day.”
Sources listed for each of thesestate entries are news coverage. Inthe case of Nevada, the authorsrelied on reports in the Salt LakeTribune, Washington Post, andUnited Press International. UPI has
been a favored media source inevangelical circles since it was pur-chased by the Unification Church in2000. Though it is not specificallycited, the Nevada entry in the guideappears to draw especially on anAug. 11 piece by David Montero inthe Salt Lake Tribune (“Latino votekey in Nevada, a swing state ravagedby housing crisis”).
The Nevada entry first discussesvoting laws in the state, particularlyvoter identification and the “dis-placement of voters” as a result ofthe high mortgage foreclosure rate. Itclaims that union members will beactive in “pushing back against voterID laws.” However, Nevada doesnot have a voter identification law,at least at the polls. Only in regis-tering are voters required to produceidentification.
The guide then describes the jobsituation in the state. In its next sec-tion it highlights Latinos as the keyvoting bloc in the state. Finally, itrecommends prayers, advice that isless specific than in the case of someother states:
“Intercede for voters to registerand engage. Pray for those undergo-ing economic difficulties in Nevadaand specifically Washoe County. Inthe midst of their struggles, pray thatthe Lord would guard them fromcynical or naïve thinking, that Hewould grant them a balanced per-spective and remarkable foresight.”It then recommends Proverbs 23:1-7as particularly applicable to Nevada.
The IFA guide takes a particularinterest in U.S. Senate races and pro-vides descriptions of the candidatesthat are fair and respectful. In thecase of Nevada, Democrat ShelleyBerkley is portrayed in part as work-ing hard to create jobs in the stateand obtaining funding for renewableenergy projects. Her opponent,Republican Dean Heller, is describedas having worked for transparency inelections and for consumer protec-tion when he was secretary of state.It has little on his record in theHouse, where he began serving in2007, or the Senate. He wasappointed to the Senate last year.
Riots?Another guide, written by DavidButts, was produced by HarvestPrayer Ministries, which publishesPrayer Connect magazine. Its recom-mendations for prayer are moregeneral than in the IFA guide. It sug-gests prayer for candidates so thateach “come to know the fear of thelord so that they will walk in wisdomthroughout this long campaign
If the ears of Nevadans are burning, it may bebecause they are the targets ofremote prayer in the weeks beforeElection Day.
Across the nation election prayerguides are being distributed, someof them tailored to Nevada and theother swing states. They mostly—but not entirely—reflect evangelicalChristian concerns.
Remote prayer—also calledintercessory prayer—has mostlycome to public attention when usedto try to affect the health conditionof sickly people. The election pur-pose, however, is to “return to thefoundations of our nation—founda-tions that are based solely on theWord of God … to become engaged‘in the spirit’ in this battle for thefuture of America,” according to oneof the guides.
There are at least three or four ofthe guides and they are not just usedby the groups that originated them.They have been recycled by otherreligious groups, a practice encour-aged with verbiage like, “Thisarticle may be freely downloaded,provided copyright statement andlinks are included.”
If prayer counts, some religious groups areready for the November election.
byDennis Myers
“Pray for God’s Spirit to stirthe hearts and minds of
Christians.”40 Prayers in 40 Days
Booklet
Political prayersThere are religious vibes headed Nevada’s way
Paycheck messageThe Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce has provided employers
with a “paycheck stuffer”—a list of candidates that will fit inside apaycheck envelope—and is encouraging them to “print out, copy ... andinsert [it] into your paycheckenvelopes.”
The candidates are about whowould be expected—conservatives, plus inevitablewinners in non-competitive raceswho under other circumstanceswould not get the time of day fromthe Chamber.
“Studies have shown thatemployees trust therecommendation of theiremployers when it comes topolitical matters and candidates,”reads an accompanying letter fromChamber lobbyist Tray Abney. “Inorder for the business communityto have an impact on this election,we need to get the word out aboutour pro-economic freedomcandidates. That means ensuringthat this endorsement list isdistributed beyond the people inyour company who receive thisemail. It means making sure thatevery person in your company hasthis list in their hands when they go into the voting booth.”
The list does not include a choice for the presidential race.
Warning filmThere’s a movie that is getting praise from both right and left.
The Forbes magazine film critic called it a “chilling documentaryabout the portrayal of women and its impact on young girls and boys.”
The Mother Jones film critic wrote that it describes the “dangerouspotential side effects for girls sitting on the other side of the screen.”
It is Miss Representation, a movie that takes on the portrayal offemales by the media—advertising, television, movies, etc.—and theway that portrayal shapes the self image of young women, drives ratesof ill-health and depression, reduces school performance and ambition.
A preview can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY.There will be a local showing of Nov. 8 at the McKinley Center, 925
Riverside Drive, Reno, 5 p.m.. Donation, $20, students $10. The Renoshowing is sponsored by the Nevada Women’s Lobby.
School’s outIn a postcard mailed to voters about Democrat Debbie Smith, theState Senate campaign of Republican Kathy Martin reported, “Smithhas been in the Legislature for 11 years with Nevada’s low rankingeducation, it is no surprise that the Nevada State EducationAssociation gave her a ‘D’.”
Education could use help, if only to do something about run-onsentences and comma splices.
School’s inThe state jobless rate in September dropped to 11.8 percentfrom 12.1 percent in August. Washoe County unemployment fellfrom 11.5 to 10.8 percent.
The number of new jobs statewide—about 14,600—is nearly twicethe number expected. State officials attributed it mostly to new privatesector hiring.
September is usually a month in which jobs jump as a result ofback-to-school hiring, but it was uncertain what would happen this yearbecause the state’s population growth has leveled off.
—Dennis Myers
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season … that they will surroundthemselves with skilled staffers, menand women who will offer wisecounsel … [and that the candidates]may be energized and invigorated bythe campaign process, rather thandrained.”
There are numerical themes tothe guides that are reminiscent of themoral reform groups like the mostlyProtestant moral reform groups ofthe early 20th century (Committeeof Fifty, Committee of Nineteen,Committee of Sixty) that pushed foralcohol prohibition. Guides includethe “Nine Points for Prayer for 2012Election,” “7 Prayer Targets for theNovember General Elections,” “40Prayers in 40 Days,” which kickedoff a prayer regiment on September28. Sample from day 5, Oct. 2:“Pray for God’s Spirit to stir thehearts and minds of Christians whoare still disengaged from the politi-cal process.” Zechariah 8:16;Thessalonians 5:14: “And we urgeyou, brother, admonish the idle,encourage the fainthearted, help theweak, be patient with them all.”
The “7 Prayer Targets” guideseems to foresee a turbulent electionday: “For those who may be plan-ning to plan riots or unlawfuldemonstrations, pray that they befound our [out?] before these eventstake place, and that they be broughtto justice. ‘… those who are evilwill be destroyed, but those who
hope in the LORD will inherit theland (Psalm 37:9).’”
Most of the guides exhibit a cer-tain distrust of journalism. “NinePoints for Prayer”:
“Pray for the media (Pray for amiracle!) Intercede that eachmember of the print and broadcastmedia will report the facts of thiselection cycle in truth, avoiding anybias in their comments. … Pray thatGod will make Himself real and per-sonal in their lives. … Pray that anycorrupt practices that may be presentin these circles be exposed andbrought to justice. ‘There is nothingconcealed that will not be disclosed,or hidden that will not be madeknown.’”
We were unable to find anIslamic guide, but there is“Elections 2012/A JewishPerspective.” This guide has all thedetail and specificity that most ofthe Christian guides lack, dealingwith economic fairness (“Wealthmust be redistributed”).
Sermon Central, an evangelicalorganization based in ColoradoSprings, is also providing a post-election prayer guide, presumablyfor celebration or commiseration,whichever is needed. Ω
Only two county-level ballot questions will appear on Washoe County’s 2012 generalelection ballot, but both have important implications regarding the health andwell-being of residents.
WC-1 asks voters if local governments should unite in an agreement to pro-vide the closest unit emergency response to fire and medical emergencies—anarrangement known as automatic aid. If passed, WC-1 would require emer-gency response teams from both the Reno Fire Department and the TruckeeMeadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) to disregard their jurisdictionalboundaries, responding instead to the emergencies which they can reach first.
Opponents of WC-1 say an automatic aid agreement wouldleave the TMFPD shorthanded. According to the ballot lan-guage argument, the City of Reno relies too heavily onautomatic aid from the TMFPD, habitually closing stationsclosest to TMFPD boundaries when strapped for money. As aresult, the ballot wording argues that over the past two yearsTMFPD units responded to the City of Reno “550 times annu-ally more than City units responded to TMFPD.”
County Commissioner David Humke, a member of theTMFPD Board, said that although the commission recognizesthat the City disproportionately benefits from an automatic aidagreement, he believes that the public benefit of automatic aidoutweighs any disparity.
“Automatic aid just makes sense—it’s a good neighbor policy,” he said.In a Sept. 11 meeting of the TMFPD Board of Fire Commissioners, Chief
Charles A. Moore said the reluctance of the City and TMFPD to reach an auto-matic aid agreement unnecessarily endangers the public. Because emergencyunits respond only to calls within their own jurisdictional boundaries, certainareas in Washoe County cannot be reached in under eight minutes—theregional standard. Automatic aid, Moore said, would provide a quick remedy.
“I believe the citizens need to know that the closest fire truck to the scene ofthe emergency is not being dispatched. It defies logic, in my opinion,” he said.“Jurisdictions should and even must have automatic aid if you’re going to havethe best possible service delivered to your citizens.”
WC-2, the second of the two county questions, asks Washoe County votersif more funding should be provided for “essential public services such as seniorservices, public safety services, and public infrastructure.” If passed, the meas-ure would increases the Government Services Tax from its current rate at 4percent to a maximum of 5 percent of the depreciated value of a motor vehicle.
If the Government Services Tax is increased by one percent, the averageadditional cost to a motor vehicle owner would be roughly $43 dollars per year.
County Commission chair John Breternitz said although he traditionallydoes not favor tax increases, he supports WC-2. Breternitz, a Republican, saidsenior services are particularly under-funded in Washoe County.
WC-2 opponents fault the question for its broad focus. Instead of dedicatingthe funds raised through the proposed tax increase solely to senior services, itthat a portion of the funds would be directed toward “public safety services”and “public infrastructure.” Last week in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza,Republican Jim Clark—who said he drafted the sample ballot argument againstthe measure—wrote that WC-2 does not actually bind the county to use thenew revenue for “the purposes they are implying” such as senior services.
Republican Humke said the broad focus of WC-2 was intended, as a safe-guard against wasteful taxing. He said the commission once made the mistakeof dedicating a tax source to a single purpose, earmarking a $0.03 property taxrate strictly for animal control services. “The property tax raised more moneythan the county could spend on animal services, and that’s not a good situa-tion,” he said. “I subscribe to the theory that in government, you don’t spendmore money just because you have it.”
WC-2 not only provides much-needed funding for senior services, butallows the commission to address other manifest needs in Washoe County, suchas the under-funded Sherriff’s Department. Humke said the sheriff’s depart-ment currently has 28 empty deputy positions—a serious public safety issue.
In public infrastructure, Humke said the money would be used for small,but necessary capital improvement projects such as replacing roofs on publicbuildings. He also said such projects create creating jobs in the valley. Ω
Questions about questions
Into town or out intothe county?
Story and photo byBethany Deines
To read the ballotmeasures, both local
and state, go towww.co.washoe.nv.us/
voters.
Both ballot measures,by the way, are-non
binding, and thecounty commission
already has theauthority to do what
the measurespropose.
On Oct. 20, the first day of early voting, shortly before 11 a.m., there were 47 people in line or voting at the Scolari’sgrocery store on Caughlin Parkway. In all 9,638 people voted in Washoe County that first day, shattering records. Therewere 4,604 Democrats, 3,619 Republicans, with the remainder being third party members or non-partisan voters.
Eager voters
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All shook upLast week, schools and businesses in the area participatedin the Great Nevada ShakeOut, an effort to increase earth-quake preparedness. The event, held on Oct. 18 at 10:18 a.m.,led participants through a drill about what to do in the eventof an earthquake: “Drop to the ground (before the earth-quake drops you!); take cover by getting under a sturdy deskor table, and hold on to your shelter and be prepared tomove with it until the shaking stops,” according to theRecommended Earthquake Safety Actions guide, available on theShakeOut website, along with other information pamphlets, such aspreparedness for people with disabilities.
More than 510,000 people participated in the drill,most of whom were students in the Washoe CountySchool District and local colleges. Every county inNevada registered, and Washoe County had around100,000 participants.
The Great Nevada ShakeOut is part of the global ShakeOut program,and other states and countries—including New Zealand, southern Italy andJapan—take part. While the main ShakeOut drill was Oct. 18, people were encouragedto participate throughout the month of October. To read the information pamphlets or regis-ter an organization for a drill, visit http://www.shakeout.org/nevada/.
Pipe blockageProgress on the Keystone XL pipeline was put on hold for a few days due to potential safety risks,reported by the Associated Press last week. According to the report, “The possible safety issueswere found on part of the pipeline that extends between Missouri and Illinois.” Engineers were sent toinvestigate the problem, which was referred to as a “small anomaly,” to ensure that the crude oilwould not leak, despite the claims that the pipeline is the “safest ever built,” according toTransCanada, the company leading the project.
The pipeline has been highly controversial, particularly since it will run through the Ogallalaaquifer, which provides water to several states in the west and Midwest regions of the U.S.
BackpedalingThis year’s Edible Pedal drew in nearly 1,000 participants, exceeding last year’s numbers. The websiteis already set up to take registrations for the 2013 ride.
In our coverage of the event, “Bikes and bites” (Aug. 30), we did not include the efforts of localpublication Edible Reno-Tahoe, who help organize the event.
“Edible Reno-Tahoe is the ‘edible’ in Edible Pedal,” Amanda Burden, editor and publisher of EdibleReno-Tahoe, said in an email correspondence.
We regret the omission. For more information about Edible Pedal, visit http://www.ediblepedal100.org/.
—Ashley Henneferash leyh@newsrev iew.com
Homeowner Tish DeValliere likes saving time by not dusting her home constantly andclearing surfaces of the black dust that comes in through the attic. She alsoappreciates the quiet, now that her ducts have been properly sealed, considering70 percent of the ducts were not connected in her 50-year-old home. DeValliereand her family are members of the EnergyFit Nevada program, which helpsassess and finance energy improvements to residential buildings.
“I wanted to better conserve energy,” DeValliere says. For around $200,homeowners in the EnergyFit Nevada program can get a home assessment,also often referred to as an energy audit (“Homepowered,” Aug. 9). Anassessment will target specific improvements a homeowner can make toreduce wasted energy, improving heating/cooling and saving money onenergy bills. Then, EnergyFit will help homeowners finance retrofitsthrough rebates or low interest loans. Homeowners can receive $3,000 inrebates if homes meet a 15 percent energy savings. The program is organ-ized by HomeFree Nevada, an organization that serves as the Nevadabranch of Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES), and is funded bythe Nevada State Office of Energy (NSOE).
“This is a check-up for your home,” says Stacey Crowley, director ofNSOE, relating the home assessment to receiving a diagnosis from a doctor.Crowley also says energy efficiency is “really an economic developmentdriver” because it employs people trained in the construction industry who maybe unemployed because of the housing market. But Crowley notes that it’s notjust about money—energy efficiency also contributes to better home comfortby improving air quality and better maintaining temperatures within a home.
Bob Conrad, energy outreach coordinator for NSOE, agrees. Conrad had hishome assessed earlier this year by the EnergyFit Nevada assessors, who wereable to target several areas in need of improvement. After changing the canlighting in his home, which had been letting air in through the garage, Conradsays the difference “was almost instantaneous.”
“We’ve noticed an improvement with the air quality, and the house ismuch quieter.”
Oct. 22, 23 and 24 were proclaimed as EnergyFit Nevada days by Reno,Sparks and Washoe County. According to Denee Evans, director of HomeFreeNevada, these days are intended to bring awareness to financially feasiblyoptions homeowners have for retrofits.
Energy experts encourage homeowners, who are considering adding renew-able energy resource to the homes, to start first with an energy audit, in whichan auditor will survey a home to find areas where energy is being wasted.
“It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a shotgun wound,” Conrad says. “You’renot addressing the air being let out unless you look at that first.”
During the fall and winter season, hot air generated by heaters escapesthrough poorly insulated windows, through vents leading to garages or attics, orother features, like skylights or screen doors. After existing problems have beendealt with, then a homeowner can invest in new appliances or energy genera-tors like solar panels.
EnergyFit Nevada recently announced a winter rebates program to helptackle winterization projects. The organization reported that around 150 resi-dents have made home improvements since the program’s inception last fall. Ω
byAshley
Hennefer
ash leyh@newsrev iew.com
Nevada Energy Officedirector Stacey Crowleyspeaks at a BuildersAssociation of Nevadanews conference.
Get fitEnergyFit Nevada
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IT WAS THE NIGHT OF THEELECTION, NOV. 8, 1988.
I stayed in my off ice in the statecapitol all evening. As chief deputy
secretary of state of Nevada, I wantedto be on hand in case there wereproblems. There were none. The onlycalls I got were from the Japaneseconsulate in Los Angeles asking whowas winning the U.S. Senate race. (Forsome reason, import car dealers hadpoured money into Nevada, trying todefeat Gov. Richard Bryan’s run forthe Senate.)
But down south something was happen-ing. We’d heard about official-looking noticesarriving in African-American precincts inClark County that threatened people withprosecution for voting. On election night, Imonitored what turnout looked like in someof those precincts.
It foreshadowed what has now become amore sophisticated strategy—suppressing thevotes of usually Democratic voters using ethi-cally dubious means. Today, the technique is
much more advanced, though no more ethi-cal, and its advocates want to use state lawsto accomplish their ends.
In state after state, Republicans and conser-vatives have generated publicity aboutnonexistent voter fraud in order to get lawsrequiring voter identification cards that are leastlikely to be in the hands of low-income people,groups noted for voting Democratic. At a timewhen voters have to be dragged kicking andscreaming to the polls, Republicans want onemore way to discourage them.
CAMPAIGNS AGAINST VOTING“We once heard of a woman who continued tovote for her husband after he died, although ourability to contact that person failed. That wassix years ago.”
That’s Washoe County Registrar of VotersDan Burk trying to come up with some actualcases of voter fraud.
Down in Carson City, Clerk-Recorder AlanGlover also searched his memory. He laughedas he recalled one case.
“Had a little lady, I think it was fouryears ago. … She was 87 years old withAlzheimer’s, and they didn’t find out untilThanksgiving when her granddaughter andher daughter were at the table: ‘No, I tookGrandma to early votes.’ ‘Well, I took herdown on Election Day’”
It’s not surprising that such cases stand outin their memories. Although they investigate allcharges of fraud, the cases of it actually happen-ing are so rare that they’re easy to remember.
Nevada voters do have to provide identifica-tion to register to vote. After that, the problem isto get them to vote at all.
From 2001 to 2009, the Bush administrationran a crackdown on voter “fraud” cases. It wasa factor in the U.S. Attorneys Scandal when sixU.S. Attorneys—including David Bogden ofNevada—were fired on Dec. 7, 2007. Some andpossibly all of them were regarded by Bushofficials as unwilling to prosecute weak voterfraud cases.
The administration did get some cases intocourt. Most resulted in not-guilty verdicts orwere thrown out. Most involved innocent cir-cumstances, such as already-registered voters
who were given voter registration forms whenthey renewed their driver licenses and filledout those forms.
Not until five years into the Bush adminis-tration did its own U.S. Justice Departmentstudy the problem. That study’s conclusion:There is virtually no serious voter fraud. Mostcases involved simple mistakes or poorlyinformed citizens.
That didn’t dissuade either the administra-tion or Republican forces. Each timesubsequent studies have shown the same thing,they dispute the evidence with anecdotal evi-dence or name calling.
Voting fraud peddlers are masters of theanecdote. They constantly cite isolated casesinvolving tiny numbers of people but never
provide evidence of a broader pattern.Here, for instance, is an excerpt from a
fundraising mailing from CatherineEngelbrecht, founder of the Tea Party
group True the Vote: “In Mississippi,an NAACP executive was recentlyconvicted on 10 counts of casting
fraudulent absentee ballots. InMaryland, a Democratic candidate
for Congress just dropped out of herrace after it was discovered she had beenvoting in BOTH Maryland and Florida for anumber of years. And, in Arkansas, four men
were just arrested for trying to buy votes withfood, ‘cheap vodka’ and whiskey. … Thesearen’t isolated cases.”
These are the very definition of isolatedcases, because she provides no evidence thatthe cases of the six people she describes rep-resent any broader problem and because,using the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate of
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the six peopleconstitute 0.0000019
percent of the nation.Nowhere does she provide any evi-
dence of a pattern of illegal voting.Moreover, her language does not suggest
that her activism is on behalf of all voters.Rather, she portrays herself as a combatant in apolitical contest: “True the Vote’s national vol-unteer ballot security program has the liberalsvery, very scared.”
On those rare occasions when voting fraudpeddlers do move beyond anecdotes and getspecific, it’s a fiasco. In July, True the Voteclaimed that the registered voters in LaSalleCounty, Ill., amounted to 520 percent of thecounty’s population. It turned out that the groupwas using stale census figures to make its cal-culation. It has not apologized to JoAnnCarretto, the offended county clerk who hadsuddenly faced a media frenzy.
Last year after both the New York Timesand Washington Post ran reports on the lackof voter fraud in the U.S., Hans VonSpakovsky, head of the Bush adminstration’sfailed voter fraud program, responded with—anecdotes. He cited individual instances inNorth Carolina, Mississippi, the District ofColumbia, and Florida, but no evidence ofany broad pattern of fraud.
“All claims about vote suppression andsupposedly huge numbers of voters whodon’t have ID are based on a dubious studyreleased a week ago by the Brennan Center,a partisan and unobjective advocacy organi-zation,” he said.
Setting aside the fact that Von Spakovsky’sessay was posted on the website of the HeritageFoundation—a partisan and unobjective advo-cacy organization—in fact, numerous reportson the absence of major voter fraud depend noton Brennan but on other sources, such as thosewho actually administer elections.
FACEOFFWhat’s unfortunate is that the accusers seldomhave to confront those election officials whoseperformances they impugn. It did happen herein Reno earlier this year, though, when JimMoneyhun, a Republican activist who heads agroup called NV Clean Up the Vote, was on apanel with Registrar Dan Burk (“Governmentapproved voters?” RN&R, Jan 26).
Each time Moneyhun made an accusation,Burk gave simple explanations for the luridlyexpressed claims or audience membersdemanded evidence from Moneyhun. Eachtime, Moneyhun was unable or unwilling tosubstantiate his claims, as when he said hehad personal knowledge of a Californianvoting in Nevada but refused to providenames or other information.
Burk’s calm approach was successful indefusing concern among all but the most dog-matic in the audience as he urged people touse common sense and not succumb to outra-geous claims that cannot pass a “smell test.”On the question of illegal aliens voting, forinstance, he asked whether it was really sensi-ble to believe that most such people would
take the chance ofcoming to official attention:
“Does it really seem like a personwould do that to cast a single vote … at therisk of getting kicked out of the country?” Inthe end, voter fraud accusations were notvalidated in a situation where the accuserhad to face one of his targets.
One charge Moneyhun made has been dis-credited but voting fraud peddlers keep usingit. Moneyhun said that in 2010 the ServiceEmployees International Union (SEIU) “setthe software [of the Clark County ballotsystem] so that when you want to vote forsenator, the button had already been pushedfor Senator Reid.”
This story was generated by a singleviewer to a Fox television news station in LasVegas in 2010. The station put it on the air
without checking it out.Both the union and Clark County Voter
Registrar Larry Lomax denied it. Lomaxpointed out that no complaint had beenmade to election officials who would haveinvestigated it. No evidence was ever pro-vided, but the accusation took on a rich lifeof its own. Lomax’s denial is posted onmore than 3,500 websites—but voting fraudpeddlers have posted the original charge onmore than a million sites.
Once accusations are made, they hardeninto fact in the conservative blogosphere, asat the website of the “National Legal andPolicy Center.”
On that page, the Center—whose slogan is“Promoting ethics in public life”—has falseinformation posted that has never been cor-rected: “Votes without voters—the notionseems like something from The Twilight Zone.Yet this outcome, the result of a mysteriouscomputer glitch, may have helped re-electSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid over hisRepublican challenger, Sharron Angle, lastweek by a 50.2%-44.6% margin. Actually, the
‘mystery’ is very likely the doing of a local ofthe Service Employees International Union(SEIU). … Critics are charging that votingmachines throughout Clark County (LasVegas), where about three-fourths of Nevada’spopulation resides, were rigged to place checkmarks next to Reid’s name before a personeven had voted. County officials insist that notampering occurred. But the possibility can’tbe dismissed, especially given that one ofReid’s sons is county commission chairman.”
As an example of the way this kind offalse information is spread, note that nowheredoes the Center flatly state anything as fact.That might be legally actionable. It’s all innu-endo—“may have helped,” “very likely,”“critics are charging,” “can’t be dismissed.”
TECHNIQUESToday, the hazard is less in the voting endthan in the counting end—something votersuppression outfits studiously ignore. Truethe Vote’s website is devoid of any men-tion of the Bush fundraiser, WaldenO’Dell, whose Diebold Corporation pro-vided voting machines and software usedin the 2004 election. Nor is there any refer-ence to Hart Intercivic, which Gerry Belloand Bob Fitrakis of Free Press havereported was founded by former Bain andCompany executive Tony Tamer. Hart sup-plies voting equipment to several statesand a report commissioned by the Ohiosecretary of state found Hart equipmentflawed by security problems.
But even counting errors are rare, withnumerous safeguards in place.
In some states, Republicans who don’t wantto pay for health care want elaborate “voterprotection” bureaucracies established. StrategicAllied Consulting, a business used byRepublicans in Nevada and four other states tosign up new voters, was itself accused ofdumping Democratic registration forms andother improprieties.
Voting fraud peddlers find ominous mean-ing in ordinary and innocent things, such aspeople who have inconsiderately died withoutremembering to cancel their voter registrationsfirst. The “Voter Integrity Project” in NorthCarolina posts “Nearly 30,000 Dead VotersFound on NC Election Rolls” on its website.What the Project doesn’t tell the reader is thatin a state of 9,656,401 people, 30,000 deadvoter registrations is not out of line. But eventhat number that did not withstand scrutiny—not even close. But it lives on, online.
Or there are charges about lots of false reg-istrations. It sounds sinister. But this is a mobilesociety. People move from place to place, usu-ally because of employment. They register attheir new address without thinking to canceltheir registration at their old address, but even-tually they’re purged for inactivity. And wouldsomeone really try to vote at their new addressin Sante Fe and then get to their old pollingplace in Portland to cast one more vote?Common sense, Burk asks.
Critics point to instances of voter fraud thatare actually alleged registration fraud or otherproblems that have nothing to do with—andwould not be remedied by—voter identificationcards on election day. Then there’s the tech-nique of pointing to disputes that soundsuspicious but represent cases where no oneever got close to a voting booth because elec-tion officials spotted the problem and dealt withit. Glover describes a tax resident of CarsonCity who registered here to avoid taxes in hishome state—and then was caught when hecleverly submitted an application for an absen-tee ballot to be sent to his actual out-of-stateresidence, triggering an investigative tripwire.
It’s not just private groups and Republicanorganizations that claim voter fraud is ram-pant. Sometimes public officials do, too. InJanuary, South Carolina Atty. Gen. AlanWilson notified the U.S. Justice Departmentthat more than 900 dead people voted in thestate’s presidential primary. But when the S.C.Election Commission undertook name-by-
name scrutiny of the claim, it was unable tosubstantiate Wilson’s charge.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gesslerclaimed an estimated 11,805 noncitizens wereon the rolls, but after he got the publicity, hecould only confirm 141 cases, 35 of whomactually voted—according to him. No inde-pendent investigation was done.
So it goes. Reliable private studies, officialprobes, press investigations repeatedly reachthe same conclusions—only to be dismissed as“liberal.” After the New York Times ran a3,136-word piece that found little evidence ofvoter fraud, von Spakovsky—he of the Bushadministration—wrote in National Review thatthe “latest voter-fraud convictions in Troy,N.Y., must be very inconvenient to … liberalmedia outlets like the New York Times.” Whathappened in Troy? Here’s the anecdote: Twomunicipal officials were convicted of castingabsentee ballots in the primary election of a
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third party. “Our democracy is under siege froman enemy so small it could be hiding any-where,” Stephen Colbert has said.
All this voter fraud activity serves a finan-cial purpose. Pitting the people of the UnitedStates against each other is big business, anindustry that generates hundreds of millions ofdollars a year through political figures likeRichard Viguerie, the conservative direct mailfundraiser who regularly sounds the alarmabout supposedly illegal voting. Voter fraudalarmism helps fund plenty of rightist causes.
PUBLIC SERVANTSThe spectre of voter fraud as a political weaponhas a long history. Three days before the 1916election, the administration of white suprema-cist Woodrow Wilson announced that an armyof “60,000 negroes have been transportedrecently from the south into Ohio, Indiana,Illinois and other states” and that “a number ofthe negroes have fraudulently registered andthat other election frauds disclosed includepadding of registration lists reaching into thou-sands of false names in one city alone.”
Threats against voters have also had a rec-ognized value, because there are always acertain number of voters who don’t want thehassle of engaging with officialdom. Threedays before the 1918 election, in whichNevadans voted on whether to ban alcoholicbeverages from the state, an ad headed“ILLEGAL VOTERS NOTICE” ran in theReno Evening Gazette. Above the signature“MARK WALSER/Manager Nevada DryCampaign,” it read, “We will arrest at the
polls those who case illegal ballots. We have alist of occupants of hotels, lodging houses,certain residences and other localities and willprosecute to a final ending every one, man orwoman, who casts an illegal ballot. …”
No one today says there is no voter fraud.But this is a nation of 300 million people andelection officials are good at preventing it, andthey get better all the time.
And no one says the number of people whowould be discouraged from voting would belarge. But at a time when the United States iscompeting with other nations for the lowestvoter turnout, what is the benefit (other thanpolitical) in driving any voters away?
Urban political machines were once famousfor “voting the graveyard.” But that was in thedays when political bosses controlled all thelevers in local governments—county clerks,prosecutors, police. Today there is rarely thatkind of control, but there are many electronictripwires. In addition, trying to vote the kind ofnumbers needed to influence the outcome of anelection is too easily detectable—and gettingmore so all the time, given the new concernover identity theft.
While voting fraud peddlers chase their willo’ the wisp, election officials plug away, gettingbetter all the time at erecting barriers to fraud.At one point—Glover believes it was whenDean Heller was secretary of state—screeningwas done in all the California counties thatborder Nevada “and they did not come up withone person who had voted in both states.”
It is becoming easier for people to cancelold registrations. With the advent of online reg-istration, Nye County Clerk Sandra Merlino last
week told the Pahrump Valley Times that ofevery 50 people who have used the system sofar, about 20 do so to cancel previous registra-tions. Washoe’s Burk works with the U.S. PostalService using a tracking system that cross refer-ences change-of-address forms with voterrecords to remove some former county votersfrom the lists. Western secre-taries of state are working on asimilar interstate system.
All of that deserves attention. But it’smore politically marketable to demonizeelection officials.
If voter fraud were being covered up, therewould be a reason for it. Dan Burk is one of ourneighbors. He lives here, pays taxes here, some-times has lunch at Michael’s Deli on SouthVirginia Street. He’s been Washoe voter registrarfor 15 years, and was an election official inOregon for more than 18 years before that.What’s his motive for covering up?
Alan Glover is a member of a family thatgoes back generations in Carson City. While stilla student at the University of Nevada, Reno, hewas elected to the Nevada Legislature where heserved as a conservative Democrat in both theAssembly and Senate. He sold insurance beforeeventually becoming clerk-recorder. He’s amember of Carson Rotary. What’s his motive?
Before citizens listen to political con artistsabout the performances of people like Burk andGlover, they should demand more than anec-dotal evidence. Burk, Glover, and otherofficials like them have earned a better hear-ing when they are under attack from votingfraud peddlers. Ω
“YES, WE’VE HAD IT.BUT HAVE WE HADVERY MANY? NO.”
Alan GloverCarson City ClerkRecorder
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“It’s a rock ’n’ roll movie,” Nick Ramirez says as ifthat’s the only description needed.
He’s talking about the filmNowhere Nevada, described by itswebsite, www.nowherenevada.com, as“a drug-fueled, embittered journeythrough the gritty streets of under-ground Nevada where recently firedexotic dancer Christy and street-hustlerT.J. find themselves on the run fromdrug dealers, plunge rockers, alienintegration authorities and more! … Adreamscape-laden examination of thefrailty of existence, the happenstanceof inherited bedfellows, and last ditchefforts of self-discovery/validation.”
What could be more rock ’n’ rollthan that? The movie centers on sub-cultures surrounding the NorthernNevada music scene. The movie ispredominately about music, eventhough the plot deals more with thelives of the two main characters andthe people and environments uniqueto the Northern Nevada area theyinteract with. Music is the heart andsoul of the film.
Musical inspirationThe story starts long before the pro-duction of this movie began with awoman entrenched in the NorthernNevada underground music scene,Marianne Psota. Psota, a long timepromoter of local bands, wrote theoriginal script for Nowhere Nevada.Ramirez, the director of audio, sound-track and script for the production, metPsota while promoting bands in the’90s and the two were partners untilshe passed away in May 2004.
“She first started writing it whenshe worked in a little audio shop onRalston Street,” remembers Ramirez.“We’d sit in bed and she’d ask, ‘Didyou read it? What do you think?’‘Yeah, I like it, but wouldn’t it be coolif this happened here?’” he says. “I fig-ured a couple more rewrites, and Marywould have her script, and then wecould go shop it around.”
Psota finished two drafts of thescript, working on it while she wassick, before she died. Ramirez foundedMarianarchy Productions in her honorand puts on the musical event
Marianarchy, a fundraiser featuringlocal bands that raise money for localfamilies or organizations in need.Ramirez carried around the script foryears before approaching a friend,David Richards, a once-a-weekdelivery driver for the RN&R, nowthe director of Nowhere Nevada,about turning it into a film.
“When Mary passed, I promised Iwould turn this into a movie,” saysRamirez. “You never want to commityourself emotionally to it when it stillcan be disappointing and turn aroundand not happen at all. Once we startedday one of filming I was like this is forreal, it’s really happening. … It’scathartic. On the emotional side, itbrings up dormant emotions.Thinking about how the movie andmusic and everything is going tocome together—I hope that they doMary proud.”
As musical director, Ramirez has apool of around 30 bands—all of themlocal—that will somehow be involvedin the film. The list includes GunshotLicker, Kate Cotter, The Atomiks, Phat
Couch, Candyshoppe, Los Pistolerosand The Shames. The soundtrackwill most likely be a double disc fea-turing music from these bands andothers and, some of the bands andmusicians will actually show up incameos or be featured in the produc-tion.
“A lot of this stuff is music thatMarianne loved and nurtured,” says
From left, producerBrian Sutherland, JuliGreen of NevadaCasting, ShaneWhitecloud of Seasonsof Insanity, GuerillaProductions co-ownerRiana Ekins andCandyshoppe singerCheyenne Leigh.
In Rotation 16 | Art of the State 17 | Foodfinds 18 | Fi¬m 20
A fundraiser for NowhereNevada will be held at Jub
Jub’s Thirst Parlor, onSaturday, Oct. 27, at 2 p.m.For more information, visit
www.nowherenevada.com.
PHOTOS/MEGAN BERNER
she was all about that, too, alwayswanting to hear new bands she’dnever heard of.”
Some of the bands will be playingat Jub Jub’s Thirst Parlor on Saturday,Oct. 27, to help raise money to pay forpostproduction, distribution and festi-vals. The event starts at 2 p.m. andgoes on into the night—the organizersare calling it a circus. It will include apet adoption van from the HumaneSociety, a dunk tank, an ass grabbingbooth—apparently it goes bothways—a raffle with prizes includingdonated gift certificates, an art auc-tion, food trucks, a silent auction, andlive music from Los Pistoleros, HellaA Capella, Candyshoppe and more.
The money raised from thefundraiser will be used for media kitsand festival submittals. The ideal goalis to find a proper distributor that cancarry the film nationally and interna-tionally—and show the rest of theworld a slice of Northern Nevada.
Richards started working on the scriptearlier this year, and the movie wentinto production in June. Such a shortturnaround time could have beenproblematic for anyone trying to puttogether such a big production.However, community support hasbeen overwhelming. Everyoneinvolved in the film has talks abouthow many people came out to backthis endeavor.
“Everywhere we went, peopleoffered help,” says Brian Sutherland,the film’s executive producer. “Wedidn’t even have to ask them—justnothing but an outpouring of fellowNorthern Nevada recognition.”
The production received a dona-tion from Sani-Hut for a portable toiletto blow up for one scene in the movie,
and Bill Woody has donated studiotime and access to equipment at theMusicians Rehearsal Center,among other numerous donationsof goods and time.
Juli Green of Nevada Castingplayed a huge part in recruiting localtalent. In the process, the crew foundthat they didn’t need to bring inanyone from outside the community.They found plenty of local talent inNorthern Nevada—musicians, actors,directors. On top of that, the entiremovie is shot in the area.
“We’ve almost gotten to the pointwhere we’re not pitching the movieanymore, we’re pitching NorthernNevada,” says Sutherland. “We haveour own thing going on here.”
Green has worked on many filmsmade in the area for the last 10 yearsand says that this is the one of theprojects she is most proud of andexcited about.
“The vibe, the feel, the story, thecommitment has just been amazing,”Green says. “I don’t know if it’sMarianne’s story, but the people wereso in love with Marianne. Everybodythat you talk to talks about their com-mitment to Marianne and Nick andhow much they love them. It’s ablessed project. It’s the love thateverybody is putting into this.”
“Everybody is giving 110 percent,”says Ramirez. “The people who knewMary are doing this out of love, andyou can tell. This is the best art projectI’ve ever been a part of.”
It seems only right that all theenergy, effort and love that Psota putinto this community would be givenback to a project that promotes all ofthe things that she worked on in herlife to highlight. The fact that shemade such a huge impact is shown inthe massive amount of support andcoming together of people to makethis movie a reality. Ω
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Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 | 7:30 p.m. | Nightingale Concert HallFlawless and fluid, the renowned Grammy-nominated, BBC-awarded, world-music innovator Debashish Bhattacharya earned his country’s reverential Pandit (master) designation as what one critic has called “the Indian embodiment of Jimi Hendrix.” Not only is he one of the best guitarists in the world, but when his basic slide guitar failed to support the astounding range of his modern riffs and spiritual ragas, Bhattacharya just invented several new ones. His intermingling of American jazz and Delta blues with the ethereal traditions of India is simply otherworldly.
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musicians, including Andersen’s band mates in TheNovelists, as well as local chanteuses Whitney Myerand Kate Cotter, guitarist Eric Stangeland, and drum-mer-who-can-play-anything Jason Thomas. There arealso guest spots from some semi-famous guys, likeDaryl Stuermer, of Phil Collins’ band.
But on “Save Face”—again, the album’s best song—it’s just Andersen’s voice and piano, a minor key, aslow tempo, a haunted melody, and some very minimalstring accompaniment (it sounds like just two cellos).Lyrically, there are hints of condescension—the songseems to be directed at a spurned ex-lover who does-n’t appear to handle the break-up very well—but themelody and arrangement are so sad and spacious asto invite repeated listens. Sometimes less is more.
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Local songwriter Eric Andersen is an agree-able throwback to an earlier era—particu-larly the softly rockin’, piano-led sounds of
’70s singer-songwriters, like Elton John, Billy Joel andRandy Newman. He also has the unerring knack formelody of Ben Folds, and a bit of his satirical lyrical wis-dom. “Turn off Your Brain,” for example, the upbeat open-er of Close to Home, Andersen’s new seven-song superset, is an ode to getting fucked up (at least that’s one
interpretation).More than half the disc is re-recorded
versions of songs that Andersen has previ-ously released. “Milo” is from his 2010 album Plane Rides &Ocean Tides. “Blue Green,” “Soul Sucker” and “Fortnight,”are from Backstory, an album released earlier this yearby the songwriting collective/acoustic rock group TheNovelists, a band of which Andersen is an integral part.
But it’s a testament to Andersen’s ever sharpeningdevelopment as a songwriter that the best songs on thisrecord are the three new cuts. In addition to “Turn offYour Brain,” there’s the mini prog rock epic “Reign,” and“Save Face,” easily the disc’s best song, which finds theusually sunny Andersen in a plaintive, even mournfulmood. The album gathers together many top-tier local
SOFTROCK
Often the key to good rock music is not individual musi-cianship, but the relationships among theband members. Singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Charles Mallett and drum-mer Mike Adamo are both solid—even
exceptional—musicians, but their project YeahNo, atleast on their new album, Leveraging a Down Market,only sounds like half a band.
The sonic architecture is great, withsome fantastic guitar playing, sometimes
many overdubs worth, and moody keyboard and bassbackdrops. But Mallett’s singing voice is limited, and hissongwriting is strong on arrangements but weak instructure. In other words, it works well in space, but notin time. It sounds good, but doesn’t go anywhere.
If Mallett and Adamo hook up with a stronger vocalist,with a good sense of strong structure, there’s a lot ofpotential here. But for now, it’s a Yin in search of a Yang.
—Brad Bynum
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If you’re looking for a little fire and brimstone thisHalloween season, Nevada RepertoryCompany’s Doctor Faustus has it inspades. Thanks to a recent theater upgrade,its staging provides a delicious atmosphereof fear and dread.
It took almost $1 million to upgrade theRedfield Proscenium Theatre in theUniversity of Nevada, Reno’s Church FineArts building, to bring its 50-year-old,potentially dangerous rigging system up todate. The new, computer-operated, motor-ized system installed this past summerenables new levels of creativity and stuntwork, as well as vital skills for UNR the-ater students.
And it’s clear the department usedevery tool in its chest for The TragicalHistory of the Life and Death of DoctorFaustus by Christopher Marlowe, the story
of a man so greedy and conceited thathe sells his soul to Satan to get a littleotherworldly magical power.
Faustus (Ethan Leaverton), clutch-ing his doctoral degree, opens with asoliloquy about the pointlessness oflife. He’s learned everything worthlearning: Why study logic, when argu-ment for its own sake yields nothing?Why study medicine when, ultimately,everyone dies? The only thing he doesn’tyet know is magic. For this, he mustsummon the power of hell.
After a few incantations, under thewatchful eyes of his good angel (AshleyGong) and his bad angel (Scott Davis)—harnessed to wires and patiently floatingoverhead for the duration of the play—Faustus repudiates God and calls uponLucifer to take his soul in exchange for 24years of power.
It is Mephistopheles (Cassandra Ambe),Lucifer’s servant devil, who arrives atFaustus’ door in the figure of a beautifulwoman. I liked this departure from
Marlowe’s script, which originally indicatesthat Mephistopheles arrives as a Franciscanfriar. It provides lustful overtones to therelationship between Faustus andMephistopheles, whom Lucifer (LucasPeterson) agrees to let serve Faustus for 24years in exchange for the man’s soul.
The stage trap doors and below-stagestaircase, combined with the wire work upabove, really give Nevada Rep the opportu-nity to play with the ideas of heaven andhell, and audiences will be impressed byhow much scenery there is to absorb.Costuming and make-up are tremendoushere as well, lending marvelous authenticityand beauty.
Ambe is lovely towatch, and makes it hardto imagine the characterever being male.Additionally, SarahRodriguez is hilarious asRobin the clown, theplay’s comic relief.
While the acting onthe whole is quite good,and Ethan Leaverton ablyportrays the damnedFaustus, the weightyElizabethan language
becomes difficult to follow due to twothings: 1) the proscenium, in-the-round stag-ing forces actors to deliver most lines withtheir backs to part of the audience; and 2)the tendency to just get through the difficultlines causes lightning-speed delivery.Leaverton, in particular, often compromisesmeaning for expediency, rushing his linesout so quickly that his powerful soliloquiesare lost on the audience. And Peterson’sLucifer lacks fire; his muttered lines portrayboredom rather than intimidation and evil.
Despite these few flaws, Nevada Rep’sDoctor Faustus is visually spectacular anddelightfully sinful. Ω
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The good angel (Ashley Gong)and the evil angel (ScottDavis) overlook the devilishdoings of Faustus (EthanLeaverton) and Mephistopheles(Cassandra Ambe).
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The wine list is proper and featuresseveral by-the-glass selections ($7-$14). I needed something worthy, withcomplex flavors to stand up to thissensory celebration, so I chose theApaltagua pinot noir ($8). It filled theglass with a clear, brilliant red rubycolor. On the nose, it emphasizesaromas of cherries and raspberries wellcombined with soft notes of oak. In themouth, it has smooth and elegant tan-nins that finish soft and delicate.
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While watching Paranormal Activity 4, the latest in aseries of bland found footage films trying tosqueeze scares out of home security and cellu-lar phone videos, I compiled a list in my headto keep from falling asleep.
I listed the reasons why I would ratherwatch the grainy, live black and white securityfootage on the monitor behind the counter at aconvenience store than watch the wannabescary security video in Paranormal Activity 4.
Number 1: The convenience store videodoesn’t feature an actress—like KathrynNewton in PA4—who looks like she’s alwaysgoing to laugh whenever delivering a line,even if that line requires her to be serious orscared out of her fancy pajama bottoms.
Number 2: I strike a rather impressivefigure on black and white security video whilewaiting in line to buy my Altoids. I really do.
Number 3: It’s fun to wonder whether theguy standing next to me in the conveniencestore video plans to use his Ben & Jerry’s“Cherry Garcia” as a snack or weapon. Haveyou ever been hit in the head by a pint of Ben& Jerry’s ice cream? That shit is like a mini-cinder block. A sweet, awesome cinder blockthat’s tasty in a thousand different gloriousways, but a cinder block all the same.
Number 4: I wonder whether the angryRussian guy two people over will start a fightwith one of the attendants about cigarettes,followed by the other ex-con male attendantpicking a physical fight with the Russian guy,with me stuck in the middle trying to keepthem apart, thus creating an awesome actionscene better than anything in ParanormalActivity 4. (This actually happened to me oneChristmas Eve at a convenience store. It wasawesome!)
I guess the overriding reason I would wantto watch the convenience store security videorather than PA4 is because the conveniencestore video has Twinkies in it. That’s betterthan anything in PA4, for sure.
In my humble, and sometimes somewhatcontested, opinion, the Paranormal Activityfranchise peaked in the final two minutes ofthe first installment. That would be when arather boring movie about bed sheets movingby themselves actually became recommend-able based on a startling ending that left melegitimately shaken and wanting to hold some-one’s—anyone’s—hand.
Since that moment, the series has been onescene after another of rooms where something,be it a sound, be it a shadowy figure strollingthrough, or a basketball coming down thestairs by itself, is going to happen. Or some-times it doesn’t happen, and the director fakesyou out. The directors of this installment,Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, are big fansof the open refrigerator door fake-out.
This is a film that wants you to think the“front door open” voice on some people’shome security systems is creepy. While thatvoice is bland and sad, it’s far from creepy, yetwe hear it MANY TIMES in Paranormal
Activity 4. The film also fails in the
scary child department. Themovie I reviewed last week,Sinister, had a bunch ofdecent scary kids in it. I giveit a B+ for scary kids, andplace it in a league with TheShining and Pet Sematarywhen it comes to spooky chil-dren. The kids in this movieare supposed to be creepy andperhaps demon-possessed, butthey just look depressed, as ifsomebody took their videogames and juice boxes away.
So, I’ve officially gradu-ated from dreading the nexthorrid Saw flick to dreadingthe next Paranormal Activityflick every October.
Halloween used to be fun at the movies, withstories about werewolves and gargoyles andmasked serial killers and whatnot. Now it’sabout watching a couple of jerky kids Skypeeach other.
A Google search reveals that Paramount isprepping another Paranormal Activity for nextyear. Joy of joys. Ω
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1Alex CrossTyler Perry tries to fill Morgan Freeman’sshoes as detective Alex Cross, a role
Freeman occupied in Kiss the Girls and AlongCame a Spider. Perry is actually not terriblehere, but everybody and everything surround-ing him is. Director Rob Cohen employs sloppyediting, a maudlin soundtrack and bad support-ing performances all around this hackneyedstory of an assassin (played very poorly by anextremely thin Matthew Fox) and his inexplica-ble vendetta for Cross. Fox got real skinny forthe role, and the effort shows in his physique.Unfortunately, the film also reveals that Lostmay’ve represented his acting peak, becausehe’s ridiculously overwrought and amateurishin every scene. Perry handles a couple of heavyemotional scenes with palpable strength,although he doesn’t quite cut it as an actionstar. Edward Burns shows up as Cross’s part-ner, and it turns out he’s a pretty bad actor aswell. Horribly edited fight scenes and silly dia-logue kill this movie. I have a feeling Perry isn’tgoing to get a franchise out of this one.
4ArgoBen Affleck makes another meaty moviewith this spellbinding recreation of the
late ’70s/early ’80s Iran hostage crisis, and thestrange CIA mission that helped to extricate sixAmerican citizens from Iran at a most inoppor-tune time. Affleck directs and stars as TonyMendez, who hatches an elaborate plan to poseas a Canadian film director scouting Iran forshooting locations, with the six Americans pos-ing as his Canadian film crew. The whole sce-nario seems ridiculous, yet it actually hap-pened. Having lived through this period ofAmerican history, I can tell you that Affleckdoes a terrific job of capturing the look andmood of the time. The late ’70s were sort ofhumiliating both in terms of our status over-seas and the way folks were wearing their hair.Bryan Cranston, John Goodman and Alan Arkinare all superb in supporting roles. This one willbe in the running for some Oscars.
3FrankenweenieTim Burton directs this enjoyable black-and-white stop-motion animated movie
based on his own short film about a family dogbeing resurrected … Frankenstein style! Burtonmade the short film 28 years ago. While thestory isn’t an especially electric one, the artdirection is superb, and there are enough goodlaughs to make it worthwhile. Also worth not-ing: Winona Ryder voices a young girl characterthat looks suspiciously like Lydia, her characterin Burton’s Beetlejuice. Other voices includeBurton alumni such as Catherine O’Hara andMartin Landau, once again using his Bela Lugosivoice from Ed Wood. A finale sequence involvinga giant, Gamera-like turtle and rabid sea mon-keys gives the film a nice retro-horror feel. It’sa little sleepy in spots, but too impressive inother ways to completely overlook.
2Hotel TransylvaniaThis animated take on Dracula (AdamSandler) and other big monsters like
Frankenstein’s monster (Kevin James) and theWerewolf (Steve Buscemi) has a fun setup andsome great gags. But its overall feeling is thatof total mania in that it barely slows down longenough for you to take it in. It’s often unnec-essarily spastic in telling the tale of a nervousDracula dealing with his daughter on her 118thbirthday—young in vampire years). A human(Andy Samberg) shows up at the title place, abuilding Dracula created to keep dangeroushumans away, and his daughter (SelenaGomez) falls for him. The overall story is hardto digest, but there are some great moments,such as every time the vampires turn intobats (cute) and a werewolf baby knowing whatplane flight somebody is taking by smelling hisshirt (unbelievably cute). Even with the cutemoments, there were too many times when Ijust wanted to look away because the anima-tion was far too frantic.
5LooperJoseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, a lonerliving in 2042 who has actually been sent
back from the year 2072 to kill people thatorganized crime wishes to dispose of. He standsin a field with his gun aimed at a tarp, waitingfor his hooded victim to zap back from thefuture and receive a very rude greeting. Verybad, and very entertaining, things happen whenthe man sent back to be executed is actuallyJoe’s future self (Bruce Willis). Willis is greathere as a tired and scared old criminal hell benton fixing his future. Gordon-Levitt is even bet-ter as an embittered, callous young man lookingto preserve his future and get his older self outof the picture. Gordon-Levitt, made up to looklike a younger Willis, does a nice job of capturingthe Willis stare and growl. Emily Blunt is onhand as a mother trying to protect her child,and Paul Dano lights up the screen with a piv-otal supporting role. This is one of the year’smost ingenious films, and one of the best timetravel yarns you’re going to see.
4The Perks of Being a WallflowerWriter Stephen Chbosky makes animpressive directing debut with this
adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novelabout high school kids in the early ’90s. LoganLerman plays Charlie, a shy freshman looking tomake friends who eventually winds up hangingout with a fringe group of students includingPatrick (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson).The new friends help Charlie come out of hisshell, and he ultimately realizes things abouthimself that need to be examined. Lerman isespecially good here as the film’s anchor, whileMiller continues to exhibit the great talents heshowed in We Need to Talk About Kevin. Watsongets to step away from her Hermione role, andshe does so successfully, making Sam a com-plex, real kid. One of the better films about highschool to come along in quite some time.
5Seven PsychopathsThis is a wildly engaging movie fromMartin McDonagh, the man who brought
us the brilliant In Bruges, my pick for the year’sbest movie in 2008. Like Quentin Tarantino, PaulThomas Anderson and Wes Anderson,McDonagh creates movies that transcend gen-res. Colin Farrell stars as Martin, a charactermodeled after the director. Martin is trying towrite a screenplay called Seven Psychopaths,and he’s wracking his brain for seven charac-ters with distinctive killing methods. The waythese characters appear to him is part of thisfilm’s unending fun. Sam Rockwell plays Billy,Martin’s best bud, a struggling actor whomakes money on the side kidnapping dogs withHans (a scene-stealing Christopher Walken).When they kidnap the beloved dog of a psy-chopath (Woody Harrelson) very funny and vio-lent things happen. Martin is trying for depthand beauty with his screenplay, while Billyscreams for shootouts. Both characters gettheir wishes.
3SinisterEthan Hawke, who did a great job lookingscared in movies like Before the Devil
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Page Hamilton is the bandleader of Helmet, aband that exists at a weird cross-road of metal and post-punk. Theygroup had a series of hits, like“Unsung” and “Milquetoast,” inthe ’90s heyday of alternative rockand is coming back to town withthe Toadies on Sunday, Oct 28.
If somebody says they like Helmet, youdon’t necessarily know what other bandsthey like.
I was having a conversation about thiswith somebody recently in terms ofbands we’ve toured with and playedwith. We toured with the Beastie Boysin Australia. We did shows withSlayer, Mötley Crüe, Marilyn Mansonin Europe. We did shows withAerosmith. We did shows with RageAgainst the Machine. We did showson the Warped Tour … Thursday, RiseAgainst—completely different. I likethat about the band … but from thestandpoint of being a saleable com-modity, it’s not good, because peopleneed to identify with it.
But the albums Betty and Meantimewere both commercial hits.Meantime sold 650,000 records in theU.S., and that’s huge. We never reallyexpected that. … We were as sur-prised as anyone, but at the same timewe thought we were a really goodband. … But there was always goingto be a limit. We’re never going to sell6 million records, and the record labelprobably thought we were—that wewere going to do Nirvana. Have youlistened to Nirvana in terms ofHelmet? There’s nothing—Nirvana isa great pop rock band. It’s accessible.There are hooks. And we’re aboutthese riffs and weird rhythms dis-guised in 4/4 drumbeats, and a guythat has a—let’s just say, interestingvoice [laughs]. Stream of conscious-ness lyrics and he’s singing kind of,but he’s more of a vocalist than anactual singer. I always loved Iggy Pop,
Jim Morrison and Nick Cave. Are theysingers? Yes, in a sense, but we’re nottalking about vocal histrionics orAmerican Idol—but I have no interestin that. To me that’s not music. To memusic is about having your own per-sonality and developing your ownvocabulary, and that’s way more excit-ing and interesting to me. When Iheard bands like Wire, Killing Joke,Gang of Four and the Buzzcocks, Iwas excited. I was like, what is this?It’s rock music, but it’s not like theAerosmith and Zeppelin I grew up on,but it’s just as cool.
You did a stint as a touring guitar playerfor David Bowie?Yeah, in ’99. I had a terrible year turnaround quickly. I broke up with mywife and companion of 10 years inJuly, and in August, David Bowiephoned me, which was a real trip. Itwas just such a great learning experi-ence and confidence booster and anhonor, needless to say.
It’s weird to imagine you in a support-ing role …I feel like part of being a musician is toadapt to whatever situation. Once youaccept a gig … you be a team player.It’s not about me. It’s about doingwhat’s right for the situation. Rightnow I’m writing music for a movie …serving somebody else’s vision, butwithin those confines you have theopportunity to be creative yourself, andthat’s really exciting and fun. … Youhave to be humble to be a musician,and be a good musician. … I’ve writ-ten a couple of jazz tunes this year. Igot together with Tony Bennett’sdaughter, Antonia, and worked on abossanova thing I had. It was really funand a different kind of challenge. I likeall those challenges. If I was only inHelmet for 25 years, I’d be boring andone-dimensional. When I see theseguys that are just rock musicians, and Iwon’t name any bands, but some ofthese new metal bands that started toget together with Desmond Child justto write hits to support their lifestyle,and the guitar-shaped pools and themansions and whatever. I’m like, man,is that why you do this? And theanswer’s yes, that’s why they do it.That’s not why I do it. I mean, I wish Ihad a guitar-shaped pool—it would besaltwater, because I don’t like chlo-rine—but I don’t need it to be happy.It’s not what I got into music for. I gotinto it because I’m genuinely a com-plete geek and it’s so exciting whensomething blows my mind. Ω
In the meantimeHelmet
byBrad Bynum
bradb@newsrev iew.com
Helmet is fronted byguitarist and vocalist
Page Hamilton, far left.
Helmet performs withToadies and Ume at Cargo
in CommRow, 255 N.Virginia St., on Oct. 28 at
8 p.m. For tickets or moreinformation, visit
http://commrow.com
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Buster BlueOct. 26, 7:30 p.m.The Holland Project140 Vesta St.742-1858
3rd Street, 125 W. Third St., 323-5005:Comedy Night & Improv w/Wayne Walsh, W, 9pm, no cover
Catch a Rising Star, Silver Legacy, 407 N.Virginia St., 329-4777: Ben Hague, KinsieDamon, Th, Su, 7:30pm, $15.95; F, 7:30pm,9:30pm, $15.95; Sa, 7:30pm, 9:30pm,$17.95; Thea Vidale, Tu, W, 7:30pm, $15.95
The Improv at Harveys Cabaret, HarveysLake Tahoe, Stateline, (800) 553-1022:Dat Phan, Marc Price, Th-F, Su, 9pm, $25;Sa, 8pm, 10pm, $30; Nick Griffin, David Gee,W, 9pm, $25
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THURSDAY 10/25 FRIDAY 10/26 SATURDAY 10/27 SUNDAY 10/28 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/29-10/313RD STREET125 W. Third St., (775) 323-5005
THE ALLEY906 Victorian Ave., Sparks; (775) 358-8891
WILD RIVER GRILLE17 S. Virginia St., (775) 284-7455
Sunday Jazz, 2pm, no cover
Brian Callahan, Thomas Riek Band,7pm, no cover
Reno Music Project Acoustic Open Mic, 6:30pm, no cover
Saxaholic, 8pm, no cover Rock’N J Entertainment, 8pm, no cover
DJs/dancing, 7pm, no cover DJ Casket, Motorhome, Punktematrix,Gasmik, 9pm, $5 after midnight
Nigel St. Hubbins Halloween Party w/Cheap Lick, 8pm, no cover
Skaraoke, 9pm, no cover Na Na Nonchalant, Stabby Unicorn, 9pm, no cover Judgment Day, 9pm, no cover Sunday Night Strega Mic,
9pm, no coverLadies Night Halloween Dance Party,9pm, W, no cover
Strange on the Range, 7pm, M, no coverTuesday Night Trivia, 8pm, Tu, no cover
Halloween party w/Alias Smith, 9:30pm, no cover
Halloween party w/Greg Golden Band, 9:30pm, no cover
Black and Blues Jam, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover
Halloween party w/Formerly Known As (A Tribute to Prince), 10pm, $3
Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Halloween Costume Party, 9pm, no cover Live jazz, 7:30pm, W, no cover
Hip Hop and R&B Night, 10pm, $5; no cover charge for women before midnight
Karaoke w/DJ Hustler, 9pm, Tu, no coverHip Hop Open Mic, 9pm, W, no cover
Dust on the Bottle, 8pm, no cover Lady and the Tramps, 8pm, no cover Lady and the Tramps, 8pm, W, no cover
Karaoke w/Rockin’ Steel, 7:30pm, no cover
Halloween party w/Hired Gunnz, 8pm, no cover
Gemini, 9pm, no cover Halloween dance party w/Gemini, 9pm, no cover Corky Bennett, 7pm, W, no cover
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7pm, no cover
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 9pm, no cover
Karaoke hosted by Gina Jones, 7:30pm, W, no cover
Open Mic Night w/Dale Poune, 7pm, no cover Open jazz jam, 7:30pm, W, no cover
Acoustic Open Mic hosted by Roger Scime, 8pm, no cover Steve Starr Karaoke, 9pm, W, no cover
2) Boggan, 11:30pm, no cover1) PiL (Public Image Ltd), Merkin,8:30pm, $25-$50 2) Mike Madnuss, 11:30pm, no cover
1) Boogieman’s Ball w/Jelo, Erik Lobe, DJ Freez, Sam Kane, 7pm, $10 2) Erik Lobe, 11:30pm, no cover
1) Waka Flocka Flame, 8pm, W, $29-$60
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ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA3800 S. Virginia St., (775) 825-47001) Grand Ballroom Stage 2) Cabaret
CARSON VALLEY INN1627 Hwy. 395, Minden; (775) 782-97111) Valley Ballroom 2) Cabaret Lounge
CIRCUS CIRCUS500 N. Sierra St., (775) 329-0711
CRYSTAL BAY CLUB14 Hwy. 28, Crystal Bay; (775) 833-63331) Crown Room 2) Red Room
ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO345 N. Virginia St., (775) 786-57001) Showroom 2) Brew Brothers3) BuBinga Lounge 4) Roxy’s Bar & Lounge
GRAND SIERRA RESORT2500 E. Second St., (775) 789-20001) Grand Theater 2) WET Ultra Lounge3) Xtreme Sports Bar 4) Mustangs5) 2500 East 6) The Beach 7) Summit Pavilion
HARRAH’S LAKE TAHOE15 Hwy. 50, Stateline; (775) 588-66111) South Shore Room2) Casino Center Stage 3) VEX
HARRAH’S RENO219 N. Center St., (775) 788-29001) Sammy’s Showroom 2) The Zone3) Sapphire Lounge 4) Plaza 5) Convention Center
JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks; (775) 356-33001) Showroom 2) Cabaret 3) Orozko4) Rose Ballroom 5) Trader Dick’s
PEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO2707 S. Virginia St., (775) 826-21211) Tuscany Ballroom 2) Terrace Lounge 3) Edge
SILVER LEGACY407 N. Virginia St., (775) 325-74011) Grand Exposition Hall 2) Rum Bullions 3) Aura Ultra Lounge 4) Silver Baron Ballroom5) Drinx Lounge
3) Ladies Night & Karaoke, 7pm, no cover
1) Wild Erotic Ball, 9pm, $20, $252) Chili Sauce, 9pm, no cover
2) Chili Sauce, 9pm, no cover 3) Dance party w/DJ Teddy P, 9pm, no cover
4) Jason Buell, 9pm, no cover 4) Jason Buell, 9pm, no cover1) Back to Back w/Piolo Pascual and Angeline Quinto, 8pm, $58-$984) Jason Buell, 9pm, no cover
1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, $19.95+2) Audioboxx, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Jersey Nights, 8pm, $19.95+2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover 3) Skyy High Fridays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, 9:30pm, $19.95+2) Audioboxx, 10:30pm, no cover3) Addiction Saturdays, 9pm, $10 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, $19.95+2) Audioboxx, 10pm, no cover 4) Live piano, jazz, 4:30pm, no cover
1) Jersey Nights, 7pm, Tu, W, $19.95+ 2) Live Band Karaoke, 10pm, M, DJ ChrisEnglish, 10pm, Tu, Steele Breeze, 10pm,W, no cover
2) Who Cares, ErnieFresh, IVJ,VinylRichie, 10pm, no cover
1) Creepers Ball w/Tainted Love, 9pm, $25
Joey Carmon, 10pm, no cover Joey Carmon, 10pm, no cover Joey Carmon, 10pm, no cover
2) Jo Mama, 7pm, no cover 2) Jo Mama, 8pm, no cover 2) Jo Mama, 8pm, no cover 2) Steve Lord, 6pm, Tu, W, no cover
2) Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 8pm, no cover1) Thunder From Down Under, 8pm, $35, $392) Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 4pm, Decoy, 10pm,no cover
1) Thunder From Down Under, 8pm, $35, $392) Red Hot Smokin’ Aces, 4pm, Decoy, 10pm,no cover
2) Decoy, 8pm, no cover 2) Atomika, 8pm, M, Tu, W, no cover
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CITY OF SPARKSGeno Martini - Mayor, Julia Ratti - Ward 1, Ed Lawson - Ward 2, Ron Smith - Ward 3, Mike Carrigan - Ward 4, Ron Schmitt - Ward 5, Shaun Carey - City Manager, Tracy Domingues - Parks & Recreation Director.
Mayor and Council members can be reached at 353-2311 or Sparks City Council Chambers, 745 Fourth St.
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TERRIFYING TALES FROM NEVADA HISTORYFred Horlacher retells Nevada’s stories of human sacrifice, murder, putting a witch to death, weird and repulsive types of food, and a headstone that glows in the dark. Th, 10/25, 7PM, $10 adults; $5 for children under age 12 (includes museum admission). Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144
NEVADA DAY WALKING TOUR OF SPARKSCelebrate Nevada Day and learn about the history of downtown Sparks. This one-hour walking tour includes 18 buildings, many on the National Register. F, 10/26, 8AM-noon, $15/person; $10/museum members. Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-1144
DTR POTTERY OPEN HOUSEDreams to Reality Pottery Studio is hosting its first open house and pottery sale, featuring Artist and ceramics instructor Karen Vetter. F, 10/26, 9AM-6PM and Sa, 10/27, 10AM-5PM. DTR Pottery Studio, 9105 Spanish Trail Dr., Spanish Springs (775) 425-9271
SCOT MARSHALLTh, 10/25, 5:30PM, F, 10/26, 6PM and Sa, 10/27, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
STEPPEN STONZTh, 10/25, 7PM, F, 10/26, 8PM and Sa, 10/27, 8PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave.
(775) 356-3300
SHAKAF, 10/26, 6PM, Sa, 10/27, 5:30PM and Su, 10/28, 5:30PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH ALIAS SMITHF, 10/26, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030
PUTTING YOUR GARDEN TO bED FOR THE WINTERPresented by Roxanne Martin. Covers what you need to know to winterize your yard and garden. Plant protection, mulching, pruning, cleaning and creating
micro-climates. Sa, 10/27, 11AM, free. Rail City Garden Center, 1720 Brierley Way (775) 355-1551
SCARY GUITAR CLINICMake your electric guitar play scary good! Sponsored by: Sundance Guitars and the Musician Rehearsal Center. Free. Sa, 10/27, 3:13-4:20PM. Musician Rehearsal Center, 581 Dunn Circle (775) 355-9494
HENRY AND FRIENDSLive music with Henry and friends, Oct. 27 at 8PM Sa, 10/27, 8PM, no cover. Elbow Room Bar, 2002 Victorian Ave. (775) 356-9799
MUSIC AT THE MARINAPocket City will be making its third appearance at the Sparks Marina. Prize for the best Halloween costume. Sa, 10/27, 9PM, no cover. Anchors Bar & Grill, 325 Harbour Cove Dr. (775) 356-6888
HALLOWEEN PARTY WITH THE GREG GOLDEN bANDSa, 10/27, 9:30PM, no cover. Sidelines Bar & Nightclub, 1237 Baring Blvd. (775) 355-1030
SCHEELS KIDS KLUb: HALLOWEEN COOKIESStop by Scheels and decorate your very own Halloween sugar cookie! All participants will receive a free ride on the Scheels Ferris Wheel. Please meet... M, 10/29, 6PM, free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700
SAFE ZONE FOR TRICK OR TREATINGThis Halloween, the Outlets at Legends is hosting a safe zone for trick or treating. With parental concerns ranging from safe neighborhoods to safe candy... W, 10/31, 5-7PM, free. Outlets at Legends, 1310 Scheels Dr. (775) 358-3800
NILSW, 10/31, 6PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
ART ADVENTURES FOR KIDSIt’s painting, collage, clay and more! Explore different media and techniques weekly. Give your child a sound base for a lifelong appreciation of the arts. Th, 4-5PM through 11/1. Opens 9/27, $45 for six classes. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd. (775) 353-2385
FUN WITH DRAWINGGive your child a lifelong gift learning the fundamentals of drawing. Your child will learn value, shading and an introduction to perspective while developing techniques. Th, 5:15-6:15PM through 11/1. Opens 9/27, $45 for six classes. Alf Sorensen Community Center, 1400 Baring Blvd. (775) 353-2385
DJ LARRY WILLIAMSDJ Larry Williams at Trader Dick’s. No cover. F, 10PM, Sa, 10PM. John Ascuaga’s
Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN PARTYJohn Ascuaga’s Nugget and KBUL Radio present Halloween Hoedown This free party will cast a spell on the Casino Cabaret from 9PM to midnight. Sa, 10/27, 9PM. No cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
ITCN 47TH ANNUAL CONVENTIONThe Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. (ITCN) will host its 47th Annual Convention, 10/29-11/1. Opens 10/28, 8AM-5PM. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
TRICK OR TREAT SAFELY AT SCHEELSPlay games! Get candy! Have fun! Scheels will create a safe atmosphere for your child to trick or treat. Wear your costumes. W, 10/31, 5-7PM. Free. Scheels, 1200 Scheels Dr. (775) 331-2700
ITCN 47TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN DANCECome celebrate Halloween with the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. There will be a costume contest, so dress in your scariest, most unique costume. Music. W, 10/31, 9PM-midnight. $10 at the door. Poolside Terrace Room, John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
JAZZWith First Take, featuring Rick Metz. Th, F, Sa 6PM. Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen, 1180 Scheels Dr. (775) 657-8659
bEADS AND bOOKS!Learn basic beading techniques with volunteer beading expert, Jamie, and work on projects with other beaders. First Su of every month, 1-3PM, free. Spanish Springs Library, 7100A Pyramid Lake Highway, Spanish Springs (775) 424-1800
KARAOKEASPEN GLEN bAR Every Sat night. Hosted by Mike Millard of Cycorockstar Entertainment. Sa, 9PM-2AM through 9/14. Aspen Glen Bar, 5215 Vista Blvd. 89436 / (775) 354-2400
SPIRO’S F, 9PM, no cover. 1475 E. Prater Way (775) 356-6000
THE ROPER DANCEHALL & SALOON Country music dance lessons and karaoke, Th, 7:30PM, no cover. 670 Greenbrae Dr. (775) 742-0861
OPEN MICGREAT bASIN bREWING Open mic comedy. Th, 9PM, no cover, 846 Victorian Ave. (775) 355-7711
STEPPEN STONZTh, 10/25, 7PM, F, 10/26, 8PM and Sa, 10/27, 8PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave.
(775) 356-3300
SHAKAF, 10/26, 6PM, Sa, 10/27, 5:30PM and Su, 10/28, 5:30PM, no cover. John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave. (775) 356-3300
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Events2012 RENO ZOMBIE CRAWL: “Undead” hordes
will descend on downtown Reno duringthe annual pub crawl which features aZombie Fashion Show, Zombie Weddingand a “Thriller” dance under the RenoArch. More than 40 downtown bars willoffer drink specials to participants incostume and with an official pub crawlcup. The crawl can start at CommRow,St. James Infirmary or Imperial Bar. Sa,10/27, 8pm. $5 for commemorative cupand map. Locations vary, (775) 342-9565, http://renozombiecrawl.com.
BATTLE BORN DAYS: The inaugural event is asalute to the men and women who haveserved in the U.S. Armed Forces for thepast 236 years. There will be living his-tory and battle re-enactments, tributesand military honors, static displays, mil-itary equipment, weaponry, militaryaircraft and vehicle displays, as well asThe Traveling Vietnam Wall, USO Danceand Bomber Girl Pin-Up Pageant. Allshows, exhibits and attractions are freeexcept for the Battle Born Days GunShow and the USO Dance. Th, 10/25, 12-5pm; F, 10/26, 12-5pm; Sa, 10/27, 10am-9pm;Su, 10/28, 10am-3pm. Free. Mills Park, 1111E. William St., Carson City, (775) 720-7216,www.battleborndays.com.
BLACK CATT HALLOWEEN BALL: Trex andTruckee Tahoe Lumber present theannual ball featuring live music by TheWhitney Myer Band, music spun by DJSilver BoomBox Thief, a raffle and cos-tume contest with $500 cash for firstplace, $300 for second and $200 forthird. The event is a fundraiser for theContractors Association of TruckeeTahoe. Sa, 10/27, 7pm. $20 advance; $25 atthe door. Hangar No. 1, Truckee TahoeAirport, 10356 Truckee Airport Road,Truckee, (530) 550-9999, www.ca-tt.com.
BRÜKA’S ANNUAL HALLOWEEN FREAKERS’ BALL:Dress as your favorite character frompast Brüka Theatre shows or as yourown creation at Brüka’s 15th annualparty featuring theatrical antics, danc-ing, costume contests and a raffle.Open to guests age 21 and older. Sa,10/27, 8pm. $20 advance, $25 at thedoor. Brüka Theatre, 99 N. Virginia St.,(775) 323-3221, www.bruka.org.
DOLLAR EXCHANGE AT NEVADA STATE MUSEUM:Reno Coin Club and The Nevada StateMuseum presents the Nevada Day CoinExchange and Minting on Old Coin PressNo. 1 in celebration of Nevada Day. Allnew U.S. coins will be available at faceor cost. There will be presidential dol-lars and national park quarters,including four of the San Francisco mintquarters, a display of ancient and obso-lete U.S. coins and free foreign coins forkids, as well as the Old Coin Press mint-ing a new medal. F, 10/26, 8:30am-3:30pm;Sa, 10/27, 8:30am-3:30pm. $8 adults, freefor children age 17 and younger. NevadaState Museum, 600 N. Carson St.,Carson City, (775) 687-4810 ext. 237,http://museums.nevadaculture.org.
HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN PARTY: John Ascuaga’sNugget and KBUL Radio present thisparty in the Casino Cabaret, featuringmusic by Rick Hays & American Steel,Halloween drink specials for patrons incostume, $1,000 costume contest andgiveaways. Sa, 10/27, 9pm. Free. JohnAscuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave.,Sparks, (800) 843-2427,www.janugget.com.
HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE BALL: Gózalo DanceCompany holds this fundraiser featuringperformances by the entire dance com-pany, music spun by DJ XM Fredie and DJR Boogie mixing salsa, bachata, cumbiaand merengue. Dance lesson from 7:30 to9pm. Th, 10/25, 7pm-1am. $10 advance; $15at the door. Mambos Nightclub, 3652 S.Virginia St., Ste. D1, (775) 813-1143 ext. 775,www.salsareno.com.
HALLOWEEN WALK: The gates of the oldVirginia City Cemetery open to visitors.W, 10/31, 6-11pm. $5 adults; $3 childrenage 12 and younger. Downtown VirginiaCity, C Street, Virginia City, (775) 847-0281, http://comstockcemetery.com.
ITCN 47TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN DANCE: TheInter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. cel-ebrates Halloween with a costumecontest and music will be provided byWild 102.9 DJ-Boogie. W, 10/31, 9pm-mid-night. $10. Poolside Terrace Room, JohnAscuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Ave.,Sparks, (775) 355-0600 ext. 140,www.itcnccdf.org.
MEET THE COLLECTOR: WILL DURHAM ON THELIGHT CIRCUS: Celebrate Nevada Day atthe Nevada Museum of Art by learningabout the artistic significance of neonin Nevada with collector Will Durham. F,10/26, 12-12:30pm. $10; free for NevadaMuseum of Art. Nevada Museum of Art,160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333.
NEON NEVADA: Journalist and writer PeterLaufer and photographer Sheila Swannwill talk about exploring Nevada’s neonpast and the cultural and visual effects ofneon’s rich history in Nevada. Th, 10/25, 6-7pm. $8 NMA members; $10 non-members.Nevada Museum of Art, 160 W. Liberty St.,(775) 329-3333, www.nevadaart.org.
NEVADA DAY CARSON CITY: The annual celebra-tion marks the 148th anniversary ofNevada’s statehood. The festival fea-tures the Nevada Day Parade, RSVPCarnival, Pancake Breakfast, Nevada DayClassic Run/Walk, World ChampionshipRock Drilling Contest, Beard Contest,Annual Chili Feed, free local concerts andmore. Th-Su through 10/28. Opens 10/25.Free for most events. Call or visit web-site for details, (775) 882-2600,http://nevadaday.com.
NEVADA DAY WALKING TOUR OF SPARKS:Celebrate Nevada Day and learn aboutthe history of downtown Sparks duringthis one-hour walking tour andfundraiser for the Sparks Museum. Thetour includes 18 historical buildings andspots that have played an importantrole in the history and development ofSparks and Nevada. Tours are everyhour on the hour. F, 10/26, 8am-noon. $15per person; $10 for museum members.Sparks Heritage Museum, 814 VictorianAve., Sparks, (775) 830-4369,www.sparksmuseum.org.
NORTH TAHOE SKI/SPORTS SWAP: The 49thannual event heralds the beginning ofwinter ski and snowboard season. Thisyear, in addition to snow sports gear,the event will offer all types of sportingand outdoor equipment and clothing,including water sports, hiking andbiking. To sell your gear, registrationwill be from 4pm to 9pm on Oct. 26. Sa,10/27, 9am-3pm. $1. North Tahoe HighSchool, 2945 Polaris Road, Tahoe City,(530) 581-4001.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: The Friends of theCarson City Library present a perform-ance by the comedian. Poundstone isthe national spokesperson for TheAssociation of Library TrusteesAdvocates Friends & Foundations(ALTAFF). She is supporting libraries ona local level by partnering with promot-ers and the local Friends organization incities where she performs. F, 10/26,7:30pm. $35-$45. Bob Boldrick Theater,Carson City Community Center, 851 E.William St., Carson City, (775) 887-2290,www.ticketderby.com/event/paula-poundstone-id-9193.
PEOPLES AND ENVIRONMENTS OF NEVADA:Galena Creek Visitor Center presents anew series of talks that will focus onthe history, prehistory and past andpresent environments of Nevada. Thetalks, which will be held on the lastThursday of each month, will be pre-sented by local experts in the fields offederal and state resources manage-ment and specialists in their fields. LastTh of every month, 6pm. $5 per person.Galena Creek Visitor Center, 18250 Mt.Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948,www.galenacreekvisitorcenter.org.
PUTTING YOUR GARDEN TO BED FOR THE WINTER:Roxanne Martin will discuss what youneed to know to winterize your yard andgarden. Plant protection, mulching, prun-ing, cleaning, creating micro-climates,winterizing containers and winter water-ing requirements will be covered. Sa,10/27, 11am. Free with canned food dona-tion. Rail City Garden Center, 1720Brierley Way, Sparks, (775) 355-1551,www.railcitygardencenter.com.
SPIRIT TRAIN FUNDRAISER: This fundraiserfor Sierra Nevada Cancer Centerincludes an evening of trains, spirits(wine & beer), music and appetizers. Sa,10/27, 6pm. $55 per person; $100 percouple. V &T Railroad Train Depot, 370 FSt., Virginia City, (775) 883-3336.
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Little ghosts and goblins will roam the streets on Halloweennight, but many locals believe spirits are active all year atVirginia City. Nevada’s most popular boomtown will celebrateits haunted history with several events through the end ofthe month. Ghost tours will be held at various Virginia Citylocations, including the Washoe Club, 112 South C St., theSilver Queen Hotel, 28 North C St., and several Comstockcemeteries, through Oct. 31. Call 847-7500 or visit www.vis-itvirginiacity.com for links to various ghost-hunting tours.The Washoe Club is also the site for the Washoe ClubHalloween Spook Show, a paranormal magic show featuringJames Anthony, on Oct. 26-27. Tickets are $10. Call 847-4467or 250-8222 for details. Costumed trick-or-treaters can par-ticipate in the Virginia City Goblin Parade down C Streetstarting at 5 p. m. on Oct. 31. Finally, there’s the Ghost Huntand Dinner on Halloween night featuring a champagne recep-tion, dinner and a ghost hunt at the historic Mackay Mansion,129 South D St. Tickets are $100. Call 721-9305.
—Kelley Lang
TERRIFYING TALES FROM NEVADA HISTORY: FredHorlacher retells Nevada’s stories of humansacrifice, murder, putting a witch to death,weird and repulsive types of food, a head-stone that glows in the dark and ghosts thatwonder through the night. Th, 10/25, 7pm. $10adults; $5 for children under age 12(includes museum admission). SparksHeritage Museum, 814 Victorian Ave., Sparks,(775) 355-1144, www.sparksmuseum.org.
VIRGINIA CITY HAUNTED 5K RUN/WALK: A hauntedrun around the cemetery in historic VirginiaCity. Wear a Halloween costume that youcan safely run in. This event is a fundraiserfor Global Voice, an international youth vol-unteering group in Virginia City. Sa, 10/27,8am. $10-$25. Miners Park, 135 E. Carson St.,Virginia City, (775) 847-9311 ext. 108,www.active.com/running/virginia-city-nv/virginia-city-haunted-5k-run-walk-2012.
All AgesANDELIN FAMILY FARM PUMPKIN PATCH: The annual
pumpkin patch features a one-acre cornmaze, pedal cart track, hay bale maze, trac-tor-pulled hay rides, an Art Barn and plentyof pumpkins and gourds to pick. M-Th, 10am-3pm through 10/31; F, Sa, 10am-6pm through10/27. $6 per person. Andelin Family Farm, 8100Pyramid Highway, Spanish Springs, (775) 425-6315, http://andelinfamilyfarm.blogspot.com.
BLOOD MOON: The first full moon after theHarvest Moon is called the Hunter’s Moon orBlood Moon. Join Galena Creek Visitor Centerto learn more about names of the moon andthe lunar cycle and view a nearly full moonright before Halloween. Advance registrationrequired. F, 10/26, 6:30-8pm. $5 per personsuggested donation. Galena Creek VisitorCenter, 18250 Mt. Rose Highway, (775) 849-4948, www.thegreatbasininstitute.org.
FERRARI FARMS PUMPKIN PATCH: Get lost in a cornmaze, pick through the pumpkin patch, ridea mechanical bull, take a hayride, jumparound in the bounce house and see farmanimals. F, Sa, 9:30am-10pm through 10/27; M-Th, Su, 9:30am-8pm through 10/31. Call for info.Ferrari Farms, 4701 Mill St., (775) 856-4962.
GREAT MAY CENTER PUMPKIN WALK: Check out adisplay of hundreds of lighted, carvedpumpkins and Halloween decorations. Alongthe way, you’ll meet costumed characterspassing out candy. This event is strollerfriendly, not too spooky and appropriate forall ages. Sa, 10/27, 6:30-8pm. $4 per personsuggested donation. Wilbur D. May Museum,Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N.Sierra St., (775) 785-5961.
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You wrote in your column, “Men are compelled to ditch what’schasing them and chase what’s trying to ditch them.” Itseems you’re advising that the simple desire to love a manmust be approached without authenticity and personal integri-ty. Must a woman really scheme to get a man, using a painfullyconscious strategy based on men’s psychological makeup, andwait and wait like Cinderella until he reaches out to her?
You think of employing restraint as “scheming.” Um,scheming is talking a guy into a $10 million insurancepolicy and then sending him skydiving with a bustedparachute. The notion that it’s morally bankrupt torefrain from chasing a man is an idea out of somefuture gender-neutral utopia where everyone wears“Star Trek” uniforms, eats single little cubes of lunch,and grows babies in Mason jars.
As I’ve written before, any sexual encounter had ahefty potential cost for a woman during the StoneAge—a particularly crappy time to be a single moth-er. Because of this, women evolved to be choosierabout partners, and men coevolved to expect that ofthem. Times have changed, but our psychology reallyhasn’t. So, when a woman throws herself at a manlike a big flopping flounder, he’s likely to duck—sus-pecting that she probably isn’t worth having, for any-thing beyond a quick romp, if she’s so easy to get.This is unfortunate, but whining endlessly about it isan ineffective strategy for getting what you want,unless what you want are polyps on your vocal cords.
What you’re really arguing foris, “Why shouldn’t I be able tothrow all self-discipline out the window and have theman I want drop down my chimney like Santa?” In asimilar vein, I often wonder why I’ve been unable tobecome incredibly wealthy by napping. (Welcome toreal life. Please visit often in the future.)
The answer is neither throwing yourself at a mannor waiting for him to notice that you dropped yourglass slipper. You flirt to indicate that you’d be inter-ested in going out with him, if only he’d ask. Flirtingtakes patience and self-control, but it isn’t exactly ahorrible chore. It’s playful and fun. Kind of like tag.You run a little, and if all goes well, the guy chasesyou. Men just love to chase things—women, animals,purse-snatchers. In the U.K., they even have a tradi-tion of chasing a big wheel of cheese down a hill.Wait—don’t get ideas. You will need to flip your hairand make eye contact and teasing remarks. You can’tjust throw yourself down a grassy incline.
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HALLOWEEN HOWLS MOVIE NIGHT: Families canchoose between two Halloween-themedmovies. Popcorn and other refreshmentswill be available. Kids are invited to weartheir Halloween costume for free admissionto the museum and a special Halloweenscavenger hunt. Wallace & Gromit starts at3pm, followed by Hocus Pocus at 6pm. F,10/26, 3 & 6pm. $3 per movie. Wilbur D. MayMuseum, Rancho San Rafael Regional Park,1595 N. Sierra St., (775) 785-5961, www.maycenter.com.
LATTIN FARMS FALL FESTIVAL & CORN MAZE: LattinFarms celebrates the fall harvest with apumpkin patch, hayrides, corn maze, fresh-from-the-farm produce, home-baked goodsand more. F, 5-8pm through 10/26; Sa, 10am-8pm through 10/27. Corn maze: $7 adults, $5children ages 4-14; free for children underage 4. Lattin Farms, 1955 McLean Road,Fallon, (866) 638-6293, www.lattinfarms.com.
R.I.S.E. AND DINE: PEOPLE FEEDING PEOPLE: Eachweek Reno activists and volunteers shop,prepare and cook for local persons andfamilies without a home. On Saturdays at5pm, volunteers meet outside of theCommunity Assistance Center and serveabout 250 or more of Reno’s most poverty-stricken until 6pm. All assistance anddonations are appreciated. Sa, 5-6pmthrough 12/29. Free. Community AssistanceCenter, 335 Record St., (775) 322-7143,www.renoinitiative.org.
SAFE TRICK OR TREAT AT NAM: Stay warm whileyour goblins, princesses and action heroescollect their treats. The museum will have abook walk and games specifically for young-sters. W, 10/31, 4:30-7:30pm. $2 per person.National Automobile Museum (The HarrahCollection), 10 S. Lake St., (775) 333-9300,http://automuseum.org.
SAFE ZONE FOR TRICK OR TREATING: The Outlets atLegends invites parents and kids to spendthe evening trick or treating throughout theoutlet. In addition to the traditional candyand costumes, there will be free bouncehouses and face painting for the kids. Bringtrick or treat bags. Costumes are required.No masks allowed. W, 10/31, 5-7pm. Free. 1310Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 358-3800,www.outletsatlegends.com.
SCHEELS KIDS KLUB: HALLOWEEN COOKIES: Stop byScheels and decorate your own Halloweensugar cookie. All participants will receive afree ride on the Scheels Ferris Wheel. Meet inGramma Ginna’s. M, 10/29, 6pm. Free. Scheels,1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700,www.scheels.com/events.
TOLL HOUSE PUMPKIN PATCH: The annual pumpkinpatch features a haunted house, climbingwall, bounce houses, petting zoo, hay fort,pony rides, train rides and lots of pumpkinsto pick. M-Th, Su, 9am-8pm through 10/31; F, Sa,9am-9pm through 10/27. $1-$20 for tickets. TollHouse Pumpkin Patch, 12185 S. Virginia St.,(775) 636-5100, www.tollhousepumpkins.com.
TRICK OR TREAT SAFELY AT SCHEELS: Play games,get candy and have fun at this safe trick ortreat event. Kids in costume will receive afree ride on the Scheels Ferris Wheel. W,10/31, 5-7pm. Free. Scheels, 1200 ScheelsDrive, Sparks, (775) 331-2700.
ArtARTISTS CO-OP OF RENO GALLERY: Wings and Waves:
Air and Water Features. Ann Weiss and LarryJacox are the featured artists for October.Their show is themed around their love forplanes, birds, skies and water. The co-op alsohosts three guest artists: Sandi Burke,Marilyn Newton and Jenny Antonucci. Through10/31, 11am-4pm. Free. 627 Mill St., (775) 322-8896, www.artistsco-opgalleryreno.com.
DTR POTTERY STUDIO: DTR Pottery Open House.Dreams to Reality Pottery Studio hosts itsfirst open house and pottery sale. Worksinclude pit fire, raku, horse hair and func-tional pottery. F, 10/26, 9am-6pm; Sa, 10/27,10am-5pm. 9105 Spanish Trail Drive, SpanishSprings, (775) 425-9271.
HOLLAND PROJECT GALLERY: 80 Million GallonSummer, 40 Million Gallon Winter. SculptorCait Finley combines found objects withceramic fauna and flora, presenting them likea natural science museum. Tu-F, 3-6pm through10/26; Third Annual Stranger Show, This proj-ect and exhibition pairs Hug High studentswith local artists for a month to collaborateon and create an art piece. Tu-F, 3-6pm through10/26. Free. 140 Vesta St., (775) 742-1858,www.hollandreno.org.
NORTH TAHOE ARTS CENTER: Fall Cornucopia andTeapots & Teas. North Tahoe Arts embracesthe changing of the season with an exhibitionof fall-inspired photography by award-win-ning photographer Geoff McGilvray and anexhibit of teapots, tea accessories by NancyOlson, a selection of locally made teas andwall art by Heidi Reeves, Deb Rich and EileenBlodgett in the Main Gallery. M, W-Su, 11am-5pmthrough 10/29; Bits & Pieces: A Sculpture &Mosaic Exploration. North Tahoe Arts fea-tures five sculpture and mosaic artists whosebody of work includes glass, ceramics, wood,canvas, found objects and paint swatches. M,W-Su, 11am-5pm through 10/29. Free. Art Gallery& Gift Shop, 380 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City,(530) 581-2787, www.northtahoearts.com.
OXS GALLERY, NEVADA ARTS COUNCIL: A Study ofHuman. Eunkang Koh uses intaglio printmak-ing to depict creatures that are part humanand part animal. Through 11/16, 8am-5pm.Free. 716 N. Carson St., Ste. A, Carson City,(775) 687-6680.
SIERRA ARTS GALLERY: Master of Fine Arts: Mid-Way Exhibitions. An exhibition by ColbyStephens, a master of fine arts candidate atUniversity of Nevada, Reno. M-F, 10am-5pmthrough 11/2. Artist Reception, F, 10/26, 5pm.Free. 17 S. Virginia St., (775) 329-2787.
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO: PerspectivesInternational Festival of Digital Art. TheUniversity of Nevada, Reno presents thethird iteration of the PerspectivesInternational Festival of Digital Art, to beheld on and around the university campus.The festival is focused on the work of gradu-ate student artists, from a range ofdisciplines, who use and experiment withdigital media. This year’s offering includes amonth-long exhibition in the SheppardGallery in the Church Fine Arts Building andother campus and off-campus venues.Through 11/2. Free. 1664 N. Virginia St., (775)784-1110, www.unr.edu.
MuseumsNEVADA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Latimer Art Clubs
Miniature Show. More than 100 paintings,including water media, oils and acrylics,pastels, graphite and mixed media will be forsale during this show of miniature paintings,hosted by the Latimer Art Club. This year’stheme is “Nevada: Heart of the West.” W-Sa,10am-5pm through 12/8. Free. 1650 N. VirginiaSt., (775) 688-1190.
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: Rebeca Méndez: At AnyGiven Moment, W-Su through 1/20; The Bookof the Lagoons: Helen Mayer and NewtonHarrison, W-Su through 1/6; Bovey Lee:Undercurrents, W-Su through 1/2; JorindeVoigt: Systematic Notations, W-Su through1/6; Juvenile-In-Justice: Photographs byRichard Ross, W-Su through 1/13; JacobHashimoto: Here in Sleep, a World, Muted toa Whisper, W-Su through 1/1; Ice Music, W-Suthrough 10/28; The Light Circus: Art ofNevada Neon Signs, W-Su through 2/10; HoorAl Qasimi: Off Road, W-Su through 1/27. $1-$10.160 W. Liberty St., (775) 329-3333,www.nevadaart.org.
SPARKS HERITAGE MUSEUM: A Salute to OurMilitary, This exhibit commemorates thenation’s battles from the Civil War to theglobal war on terrorism. The show includesphotos, weapons, artifacts, models and uni-forms donated by more than 30 localveterans and their families. Tu-Su through11/17. $5 adults; free for children under age12, museum members, active duty military.814 Victorian Ave., Sparks, (775) 355-1144,www.sparksmuseum.org.
FilmHAUNTED NEVADA SERIES: Zomboo, the host of TV’s
Zomboo’s House of Horrors, will stop by tomeet and greet with his fans. He will show aNevada-themed sci-fi movie called The Wizardof Mars (1965). It was filmed in two Nevadalocations: Fallon and the Great Basin NationalPark. Free temporary parking permits areavailable. Sa, 10/27, 11am-2:30pm. Free. NevadaHistorical Society, 1650 N. Virginia St., (775)688-1190, www.nevadaculture.org.
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JEREMY JONES FURTHER: Teton Gravity Researchpresents Further, the second installment inthe Jeremy Jones snowboard movie trilogy,Deeper, Further, Higher. Further will exploresome of the world’s most remote mountainterrain while continuing Jones’ mission tocamp deep in the backcountry and on thesummits of unridden lines to access nearlyvertical spines and wide-open powder fields.Th, 10/25, 8pm. $12-$20. CommRow, 255 N.Virginia St., (775) 398-5400,www.commrow.com.
ONIBABA: Artemisia Moviehouse presents ascreening of Kaneto Shindo’s horror-drama.Tu, 10/30, 7-10pm. $7 general; $5 members,bicyclists, students. Midtown Good LuckMacbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775) 337-9111,www.artemisiamovies.org.
MusicDEBASHISH BHATTACHARYA: The Grammy-nomi-
nated world-music innovator performs musicthat blends American jazz and Delta blueswith traditional Indian sounds. W, 10/31, 7:30pm.$5-$24. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church FineArts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno,1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278,www.unr.edu/arts.
JAMES WINN WITH ADELA H. PARK: The masterpianist presents an evening featuring worksgenerated by religious sensibilities throughthe ages. Winn will be joined by Dr. Adela H.Park, for “Visions de lamen” by OlivierMessiaen. The concert will also featuremusic by Bach, Liszt and Charles Wuorinen.M, 10/29, 7:30pm. $20 general; $5 UNR stu-dents. Nightingale Concert Hall, Church FineArts Complex, University of Nevada, Reno,1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278,www.unr.edu/arts.
L-CUBED: LUNCH, LOOK & LISTEN: Each Wednesdayduring the fall semester, the departments ofMusic and Art at the University of Nevada,Reno team up for free lunchtime concertsand exhibitions. W, noon through 11/28. Free.Randall Rotunda, Mathewson-IGT KnowledgeCenter, 1664 N. Virginia St. University ofNevada, Reno, (775) 784-4278,
MARINA ROZNITOSVKY ON HARP: Roznitosvky is theharp teacher at the University of Nevada,Reno and Truckee Meadows CommunityCollege. She is also the principal harpist withthe Reno Chamber Orchestra, SusanvilleSymphony and the Nevada Opera. Sa, 10/27,7pm. Free. Nightingale Concert Hall, ChurchFine Arts Complex, University of Nevada,Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., (775) 784-4278,www.unr.edu/arts.
NEVADA DAY PARTY WITH ANTSY MCCLAIN AND THETRAILER PARK TROUBADOURS: Antsy will sharenew music from his just released CD Livingthe Dream, as well as expected crowdfavorites. Sa, 10/27, 8-10pm. $23-$35.Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511W. King St., Carson City, (775) 883-1976,www.breweryarts.org.
THIBAULT CAUVIN: The classical guitar performs. M,10/29, 7pm. $15 donation. First CongregationalChurch of Reno, 627 Sunnyside Drive, (775)298-1686, www.sierraguitar.org.
OnstageFRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN GAY PROMETHEUS: This
modern variation on the Frankenstein storyfollows Frankie Stein, still green, cominghome from his first semester of college andhas he got big news for his parents—Victorwho’s vying to keep his boys attention andElizabeth, an empty-nester trying to fill herlife with something to replace her son. Th-Sa, 7:30-10pm through 10/27; Su, 3-5pm through10/28; W, 10/31, 7:30-10pm. $14-$20. MidtownGood Luck Macbeth, 713 S. Virginia St., (775)322-3716, www.goodluckmacbeth.org.
GUYS AND DOLLS: TMCC Performing Arts pres-ents this musical fable of Broadway basedon a story and characters of DamonRunyon. F, Sa, 7:30pm through 11/10. Opens10/26; Su, 2pm through 11/11. Opens 11/4; Th,11/8, 7:30pm. $10-$17. TMCC RedfieldPerforming Arts Center, 505 Keystone Ave.,(775) 789-5671, https://www.showtix4u.com.
MACBETH: Brüka Theatre opens its 20th seasonwith William Shakespeare’s tragic playabout a couple’s ruthless quest for power.Th, 10/25, 8pm; F, 10/26, 8pm. $12-$20. BrükaTheatre, 99 N. Virginia St., (775) 323-3221,www.bruka.org.
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE & DEATH OFDOCTOR FAUSTUS: Based on the Faust story,this Christopher Marlowe drama tells of abrilliant academic who sells his soul to theDevil for the promise of knowledge andpower. Although the play dates back morethan four centuries, Nevada RepertoryCompany promises a modern twist withCirque du Soleil-style aerial stunts. W-Sa,7:30pm through 10/27. $15 general, $12 sen-iors, $10 general students and UNR faculty,$5 UNR students. Redfield ProsceniumTheatre, Church Fine Arts Building,University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. VirginiaSt., (775) 784-4278, www.unr.edu/arts.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the comingdays, many of your important tasks will bebest accomplished through caginess andcraftiness. Are you willing to work behindthe scenes and beneath the surface? I sus-pect you will have a knack for navigatingyour way skillfully and luckily throughmazes and their metaphorical equivalents.The mists may very well part at your com-mand, revealing clues that no one else butyou can get access to. You might also havea talent for helping people to understandelusive or difficult truths. Halloween cos-tume suggestions: spy, stage magician,ghost whisperer, exorcist.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The comingweek could have resemblances to the holi-day known as Opposite Day. Things peoplesay may have meanings that are differentor even contrary to what they supposedlymean. Qualities you usually regard as liabil-ities might temporarily serve as assets,and strengths could seem problematical orcause confusion. You should also be wary ofthe possibility that the advice you get frompeople you trust may be misleading. Forbest results, make liberal use of reversepsychology, freaky logic and mirror magic.Halloween costume suggestion: the oppo-site of who you really are.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I don’t have abig problem with your tendency to contra-dict yourself. I’m rarely among theconsistency freaks who would prefer you tostick with just one of your many selvesinstead of hopscotching among all nine. Infact, I find your multilevel multiplicity inter-esting and often alluring. I take it as a signthat you are in alignment with the funda-mentally paradoxical nature of life. Havingsaid all that, however, I want to alert you toan opportunity that the universe is cur-rently offering you, which is to feel unified,steady and stable. Does that sound evenvaguely enticing? Why not try it out for afew weeks? Halloween costume suggestion:an assemblage or collage of several of yourdifferent personas.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): An avocadotree may produce so much fruit that thesheer weight of its exuberant creationcauses it to collapse. Don’t be like that inthe coming weeks, Cancerian. Withoutcurbing your luxuriant mood, simply moni-tor your outpouring of fertility so that itgenerates just the right amount of beautifulblooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and fluidic,but not unconstrained or overwrought orrecklessly lavish. Halloween costume sug-gestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a richartist or an exotic dancer with a bowl offruit on your head.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I hope your fatherdidn’t beat you or scream at you or molestyou. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffer-ing. I also hope that your father didn’tignore you or withhold his best energy fromyou. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks ata time and act oblivious to your beauty. If hedid those things, I mourn for your loss. Now,it’s quite possible that you were sparedsuch mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dadgave you conscientious care and loved youfor who you really are. But whatever thecase might be, this is the right time toacknowledge it. If you’re one of the luckyones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one ofthe wounded ones, begin or renew yourquest for serious and intensive healing.Halloween costume suggestion: your father.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you knowhow to tell the difference between super-stitious hunches and dependable intuitions?Are you good at distinguishing betweenmediocre gossip that’s only 10 percentaccurate and reliable rumors that provideyou with the real inside dope? I suspectthat you will soon get abundant opportuni-ties to test your skill in these tasks. Toincrease the likelihood of your success,ask yourself the following question on aregular basis: Is what you think you’reseeing really there or is it mostly a projec-tion of your expectations and theories?Halloween costume suggestions: a liedetector, an interrogator with syringesfull of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am officiallyprotesting you, Libra. I am staging a walk-out and mounting a demonstration andlaunching a boycott unless you agree to mydemand. And yes, I have just one demand:that you take better care of the neglected,disempowered and underprivileged parts ofyour life. Not a year from now, not whenyou have more leisure time, now! If andwhen you do this, I predict the arrival of aflood of personal inspiration. Halloweencostume suggestion: a symbolic represen-tation of a neglected, disempowered orunderprivileged part of your life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s so fineand yet so terrible to stand in front of ablank canvas,” said French painter PaulCezanne. Many writers make similar com-ments about the excruciating joy they feelwhen first sitting down in front of an emptypage. For artists in any genre, in fact, get-ting started may seem painfully impossible.And yet there can also be a delicious antici-pation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesceinto coherent images or words or music.Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’refacing a comparable challenge in your ownchosen field. Halloween costume sugges-tion: a painter with a blank canvas.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Asyou contemplate what you want to be forHalloween, don’t consider any of the follow-ing options: a Thoroughbred racehorsewearing a blindfold, a mythic centaurclanking around in iron boots or a seahorsetrying to dance on dry land. For thatmatter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t comeclose to imitating any of those haplesscreatures even in your non-Halloween life.It’s true that the coming days will be anexcellent time to explore, analyze and dealwith your limitations. But that doesn’tmean you should be overwhelmed andovercome by them. Halloween costume sug-gestions: Harry Houdini, an escapedprisoner, a snake molting its skin.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Doesanyone know where I can find dinosaurcostumes for cats?” asked a Halloweenshopper on Reddit. In the comments sec-tion, someone else said that he needed abroccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bringthis up, Capricorn, because if anyone coulduncover the answers to these questions, itwould be you. You’ve got a magic touchwhen it comes to hunting down solutions tounprecedented problems. Halloween cos-tume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaurcostume.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The LiveMonarch Foundation made a video on howto fix a butterfly’s broken wing(http://tinyurl.com/FixWing). It ain’t easy.You need 10 items, including tweezers, babypowder, toothpicks and glue. You’ve got tobe patient and summon high levels of con-centration. But it definitely can be done.The same is true about the delicate healingproject you’ve thought about attempting onyour own wound, Aquarius. It will requireyou to be ingenious, precise and tender, butI suspect you’re primed to rise to the chal-lenge. Halloween costume suggestion:herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman orother healer.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s not agood time to wear Higher Power Spanx orany other girdle, corset or restrictive gar-ment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willingparticipant in any situation that pinches,hampers or confines you. You need to feelexceptionally expansive. In order to thrive,you’ve got to give yourself permission tospill over, think big and wander freely. Asfor those people who might prefer you tokeep your unruly urges in check and yournatural inclinations concealed, tell themyour astrologer authorized you to seize amassive dose of slack. Halloween costumesuggestions: a wild man or wild woman; amythical bird like the garuda or thunder-bird; the god or goddess of abundance.
BY ROB BREZSNY
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Al la cartecandidateSamuel KoepnickShort of a political earthquake, oneprediction about the 2012 electioncan be safely made—that theDemocrat running for the northwestNevada U.S. House seat will lose.Samuel Koepnick of Carson City cameup the winner of the Democratic pri-mary after no big name got into therace. He’s a liberal who emphasizespersonal liberty issues.
What made you take on a racethis difficult?I didn’t actually choose this race. I chose toenter the Democratic primary really as asymbolic gesture … against the SOPA bill[Stop Online Piracy Act] that was goingthrough the House at the time. So really, itwas just a way of saying, “You know what?We’re here, we’re angry about this, andwe’re bipartisan.”
Since you did win the nomination,did you hear from the nationalor local Democratic Partyoffering you a threshold offinancial support to tie up[Republican candidate] MarkAmodei so he’s not helping otherRepublicans?No. … I’ve got some local support, but Ithink the problem is that they don’t want to
throw good money after bad in a racethat they already consider to be a loss. Idon’t share a lot of Democratic ideals. …I’ve got some really funny hate mailaddressed to me. I’ve been called a DINO,which I later found out was a “Democratin name only.”
Where do you differ with theparty?Basically it comes down to support of thepresident and constitutionality. There’s alot of things the president has done that Idon’t like, and I don’t officially supporthim. I don’t support Mitt Romney, either,but I don’t have unwavering support forthe party and I treat it like I treat every-thing else in life, piecemeal. I take thegood ideas, where I take the good ideasbut I refuse to deal with the bad in thiscase, so for instance when PresidentObama signed the NDAA [National DefenseAuthorization Act]—very, very critical
about that, very unhappy that he did that,officially stripping habeas corpus fromAmerican citizens. He’s done a lot ofthings that I really, really don’t like and thefact that I’m willing to call him out on it andsay that, “Look, these aren’t the thingsthat our country is supposed to standfor,” didn’t make the powers in the partyvery happy.
If you felt like that, why didn’tyou file as a Republican?Because I feel that the Democratic partyis closer … to what I believe. Let’s not foolourselves, it’s a two party system. There’sa couple of third parties, but they’realways going to be also-rans, so we juststart changing the fundamental nature ofthe system. And personally, I think that thetwo-party system is disgraceful for anykind of democratic society.
What are the areas where youdo agree with the Democraticparty?Universal health care. Huge on decreasingdefense spending. Make education … avail-able for everybody. But really, where Iagree with the Democrats mostly is onsocial issues. I actually tell my friends,“Look, I’m a fiscal conservative but I’m stilla social liberal and that’s not going tochange.”
After this is over, do you thinkyou’ll run for office again?Absolutely not. Ω
by Dennis Myers
Do it straightIf President Obama loses this
election, I would point my finger at hisinability to pound one very importantmessage through the ever-thickeningskull of America—“I’ve done somegood stuff, and here’s what it is.”
It’s continually frustrating to seethe Dems flub and fluster when itcomes to defining their achievements.Election after election, they come upshort in this crucial department. Inthis campaign, for example, I wouldhave taken half the millions spent onanti-Romney bashing and used itinstead to smash the following intoAmerica’s ADD-addled consciousness:
1. “I became president at thebeginning of a Very Bad Recession. Iwalked into the Oval Office on Jan. 20,2009 and you know what I saw on mydesk? A big flaming sack of dogdoo,that’s what! Thanks a heap,Dub’n’Darth! So Job One—stop thebleeding, put on the brakes, and makedamn sure this doesn’t blow up into afull tilt Depression. You’re welcome.”
2. “Unemployment at the peak of
The Recession, October ’09, was 10.2percent. Now, three years later, it’s7.8 percent. Is this great? No. Butobviously, we’re heading in the rightdirection. Stick with me, because Ithink we can get it back to 5.0 per-cent. And I know we can do it if youget McConnell, Boehner and Kantoroutta my face!”
3. “There have been no terrorattacks on the U.S. during my firstadministration. Zero. We’ve beenbeatin’ Al Qaida’s ass. Those dronesare damn handy. And, of course, wegot The Big O. Just sayin’.”
4. “I’ve decreased the number ofwars we’re fighting by 50 percent. Ithink that’s cool. Agree? One down,one to go.”
5. “We refused to let GM go bellyup. It was not a popular decision atthe time. But now, it looks like a pret-ty good move. Right?”
6. “The Dow Jones IndustrialAverage in March of ’09 was at 7,000.Now, it’s back in the 13,000s. So about85 percent growth in three years?
Not too shabby.” 7. “Finally, we
got a nationalhealth care sys-tem in this coun-try. This is a bigdeal. Or, as the Vice President so mem-orably put it at the signing ceremony,‘This is a BFD.’ I’m proud of this. It’s agood thing. And it will get better.”
These points, cleaned up for properpresentation, would make a good, solid,positive 60 second ad. The anti-Romney barrage is old, stale and overalready. Sooner or later, we want tohear about (1) what you’ve done, and(2) what you’re gonna do.
Especially important is point num-ber 2. Stress current reality over yes-teryear’s nightmare. The economy washorrible. It’s now below average. Weare, indeed, bouncing back.
Reasonable people can be spokento reasonably. The question—is theReasonable demographic beingburied by goons, blowhards anddimwits? Ω
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