Wednesday, August 12: Things to do in Carson City

You may have one eye on the weekend, but don’t underestimate Wednesday in Carson City. The Ormsby Club has special deals for you pool shooting ladies. Jazz it up at Sassafras with Three Olives and a Twist or get your jam on at the Firkin and Fox with Josh and Janera. Jamie Rollins performs at Living the Good Life and Terri and Craig will entertain you at Glen Eagles.

WEDNESDAY: Jazz and Beyond

• Back to School at Carson Hot Springs (Free 17 and younger admission per paid adult; outdoor pools only; 7am-10pm)
• NAA Exhibit by artist Nancy Clarke at the Carson Visitor Center (8am-5pm)
• ‘Wally’s World: The Loneliest Art Collection in Nevada’ in the OXS Gallery at the Nevada Arts Council: 716 N. Carson St. (8am-5pm)
• Industrial Art at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
• CCAI Exhibit: BRIC Art 5 at the BRIC: 108 E. Proctor St. (8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm)
• Back to School Walk-In Vaccination Clinic at Carson Health and Human Services: 900 E Long St. (9am-11:30; 1pm-5:30; no appointment necessary, call 775-887-2195 for more info)
• Bowling Special: $1 per person per game at Carson Lanes (9am-4pm)
• Farm to Fork Farmers Market at Sierra Gourmet Grill: 1378 Hwy 395, Gardnerville (9am-1pm)
• Lampe Park Farmers Market has temporarily moved to the Douglas County Community and Senior Center parking lot: 1329 Waterloo Lane, Gardnerville (9am-1pm)
• Photography Art Show at the Nevada Artists Association Gallery in the Brewery Arts Center (10am-4pm)

Hey stargazers, the Perseid Meteor Shower is in full force. Earthgrazer meteors are rare but most exciting and memorable, and can only appear at early to mid-evening, when the radiant point of the shower is close to the horizon. The meteors don’t really start to pick up steam until after midnight, and usually don’t bombard the sky most abundantly until the wee hours before dawn. You may see 50 or so meteors per hour in a dark sky. Give yourself at least an hour of observing time, for these meteors in meteor showers come in spurts and are interspersed with lulls.

• Jazz and Beyond: Live Music: Americana and Blues with David Leather at Comma Coffee (12pm-2pm)
• Workforce Strategies Workshops: Resume building, etc. at the Carson City Health and Human Services Conference Room: 900 E. Long St. (2pm-4pm)
• Ladies Night: half off pool and drinks at the Ormsby Club (4pm-11pm)
• CCAI Exhibit: Tow’ring High, by photographer Deon Reynolds in the Sierra Room of the Carson City Community Center (available during public meetings and most evenings 5pm-8pm)
• Special Olympics Soccer Practice at Mayor’s Park, corner of Koontz and Center St. (5:30pm-7pm)
• Dungeons and Dragons at Nerdvana, 385 Hot Springs Road, Suite 1 (5:30pm-7:30pm AND 8pm-10pm)
• Cigar Appreciation Night at Jimmy G’s Cigar Bar (6pm-10pm)
• West Wind Sangha Sitting Group at the Methodist Church: 213 N. Minnesota, Youth Group Building corner of Proctor/Minn. (6:30pm-8pm)
• Open Jam with Billy Starr at the Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City (6:30pm)

It’s boot-scootin’ time at the Eleventh Frame Lounge inside Carson Lanes with lessons for the beginner, couples, and more advanced line dancers. Trivia lovers should head over to Lake Tahoe Brewing Company where it might pay to know that today is filmmaker Cecil B. Demille’s birthday. Bonus round, Demille directed the 1934 movie, Cleopatra starring Claudette Colbert. Coincidentally, on this day in 30 BC, Cleopatra succumbed to a self-inflicted snake bite following Marc Antony’s suicide.

• Country Line Dance at Carson Lane’s Eleventh Frame Lounge (6:30pm-10pm; Couples lessons at 6:30pm, Beginners at 7:15pm, Intermediate at 8:15pm, Expert at 9pm; $5 donation)
• Jam with Josh and Janera at the Firkin and Fox (7pm-9:30pm; bring your instruments)
• Ladies Night at Carson Cigar Co. (7pm)
• Jazz and Beyond: Live Music with Terri Campillo and Craig Fletcher at Glen Eagles Restaurant (7pm)
• Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night hosted by Mikey at the Lake Tahoe Brewing Co. (7pm)
• Jazz and Beyond: Live Music with Jamie Rollins at Living the Good Life: 1480 N. Carson (7:30pm)
• Jazz and Beyond: Jazz Jam hosted by Ron Newton’s Three Olives and a Twist at Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint: 1500 Old Hot Springs Rd. (7pm-10pm; no cover)
• Karaoke at Crossroads Bar (8pm)
• PERSEID METEOR SHOWER