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Reno, Nev., does not immediately come to mind as home base for a mindfulness guru, but Hayes has taught at the University of Nevada campus in Reno for 20 years. Driving to his house took me past a number of sad old casinos where you can find haggard gamblers trying their luck at 6 a.m., the lights from the slots lambent in their expressionless eyes...
...over (to show how meaningless words can become-try it with I'm depressed). And although Hayes teaches mindfulness at ACT workshops around the world, he epitomizes "the absent-minded professor," according to Barlow, the psychologist who taught Hayes at Brown in the '70s. Hayes is famous at Nevada-Reno for passing students in the hall without so much as a nod. But it's worse than they think. According to Hayes' wife Jacqueline Pistorello, in December the couple went to the mall to buy Christmas gifts. They split up so they could shop for each other...
...This week a group of Nevada residents began a campaign to legalize marijuana in the state of Nevada. The group's slogan is, Whores and gambling aren't enough." --CONAN O'BRIEN...
...closing movies of the Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, is the story of Howard Spence, a washed up bad-boy star of Westerns, who makes a last ditch effort to reconnect with the people who genuinely love him. The film, which was shot in small towns in Utah, Nevada and Montana and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 17, reunites German director Wim Wenders and American playwright/actor Sam Shepard, two icons of the independent art world who first teamed up for the acclaimed Paris, Texas (1984). They spoke to TIME about their creative process...
...sense of place is something that?s about to get lost in movies and we wrote Don?t Come Knocking for Elko (Nevada) and we wrote it for Moab (Utah) and we wrote it for Butte. Even for money reasons we could not have made it anywhere else...