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THIS TIME, ON COLORES!

IMAGINATION AND THE LOVE OF COMFORT FOOD ARE INCLUDED IN THE RECIPE FOR Q'S CAKES AND SWEETS BOUTIQUE'S ADVENTUROUS NEW HORCHATA CAKE.

A BLAST FROM THE PAST.

PLAY VINTAGE ARCADE GAMES AND PINBALL MACHINES AT THE REPLAY AMUSEMENT MUSEUM.

THE PEABODY MUSEUM EXHIBITION "MADE IT" IS DEDICATED TO THE WOMEN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED FASHION.

CELEBRATING ALL THEY DO, MURALIST BRYCE CHISHOLM HONORS THE VOLUNTEERS AT THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA.

IT'S ALL AHEAD ON COLORES!

A TASTY NEW COMFORT.

[WHIRL FROM MIXER] >> Q: You have all these different ideas and it's kind of like running around in your head and then when you're able to finally release that and see it, it's almost like a- high almost you know?

Like a huge release for me.

>>Q: So this is the first time I'm making this comfort food cake and I've had it in my mind for a while.

I will say that I do have a very vivid imagination <laughing>.

So I love being able to just kind of craft like a little baking Macgyver almost <laughs>.

>>Q: I have my horchata and I'm going to measure out about a cup of this <Pouring>, whisk this into here.

Nice and combined.

>>Q: The perfect cake to me is a cake that is nice and dense, but not super heavy.

A cake that's moist, has a nice crumb to it.

It's flavorful, you could taste the vanilla, you could taste the butter.

A nice mix of frosting to cake ratio.

>Mixing< >>Q: I started baking when I was eleven years old.

My grandmother had a bag of flour, and on the back of that flour there was a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.

I took my allowance and got the remaining ingredients and made chocolate chip cookies and took them to all the kids in the neighborhood.

So that's my first experience with baking.

>>Q: Alright, I'm going to add my cinnamon.

You know when you think of comfort food, you think of home, you think of family, you think of love and being comforted and - that place in your life or even at home where you're just you, you know?

You're free, you're happy.

>>Q: And then-- next is vanilla.

>>Q: It just brings back memories and so, I just came up with that amazing idea to have comfort food cake.

Cause' I want people when they taste it, to taste whatever that comfort food is for them.

So if that comfort food for you is a chocolate chip cookie, when you taste the chocolate chip cookie cake, I want you to taste that as well.

>>Q: Just a little bit -- okay, now this is ready to go in here.

>>Q; I get my inspiration from things I enjoy and love.

With the horchata cake I had never really had that drink before until I moved to New Mexico and um- the first time I tried it I thought it was so nice and refreshing and different tasting.

And so that is what inspired me to put it into cake form.

>>Q: Anybody want to lick the paddle?

<Laughs>.

Licking the paddle was the best part when you're younger.

That anticipation is always there.

>>Q: Horchata was a little bit of a challenge, I won't lie, because it is a drink versus a solid food.

So with that I had to rely heavily on the drink itself and incorporate that into the mix, into the frosting, so I could get that unique taste.

>>Q: I'm definitely trying to pull the subtle flavors of the rice, of the cinnamon, those are the two main ingredients you get when you make horchata, or when you taste it.

So I definitely wanted those to come out.

But I wanted a nice balance so it's not overpowering with the cinnamon, but you can still taste the rice flavor as well.

>>Q: I like to write down what I did this time, taste it, and then if I need to make corrections I will make them next to this so that I know "Okay, this much cinnamon in this part and that part".

So the main thing about this cake that makes it different is substituting the milk with the horchata.

So with the milk I definitely did a one-to-one ratio with this.

For the batter itself, I added two teaspoons of cinnamon and then for our um- frosting, I only added about one teaspoon.

So now I know what I did, and um- we'll see how it comes out and if I need to make changes, then I can make changes.

But this is my initial, so I always put number one for my version one, and then if I need to make any changes then I will put number two and number three, and so on.

But hopefully- prayerfully, we'll only need number one!

<Laughs>.

>>Q: So this recipe is actually adapted from the traditional recipe for a red velvet cake.

It's called a "Ermine frosting".

This is more horchata, so instead of using regular milk, I am using the horchata so I can really get that flavor in the cake and in the frosting.

So now that that's on there, we're going to let it simmer.

Because once it starts to simmer that's when the magic happens.

>>Q: The decorating part is where the fun comes in, I'm always trying to make sure that it looks presentable because people eat with their eyes first.

So you want something that's going to draw them in and- have them thinking "what is that?"

if they don't know exactly what it is, or if they see it they are able to recognize it fairly quickly.

>>Q: I put the cake down and give it a little push, to kind of secure it.

Here we go!

Ima put a dollop right there... >>Q: I always love feeling like I did what I was supposed to do and what I expect of myself.

Um- I am my harshest critic, I am very critical of myself, and I want to make sure all of my customers are happy.

And even if they're not, I can take responsibility from it- for it, or learn from it you know?

Because I think mistakes are important in life because they help you grow, they help you figure things out.

It's how you handle those mistakes.

>>Q: Alright, nice and smooth.

There we go...

So I'm gonna start there -- and no problem.

>>Q: Alright so now is the moment of truth, I'm going to cut this and see if it tastes like how I expected it to.

Ooh, it cuts nice!

>>Q: Okay let's see... Yeah!

This is it!

This is it!

Mmhmm.

This is exactly how I expected, Yay!

Oooo, this is good!

Goodness gracious.

>>Q: Ultimately what it comes down to is, I love what I do and I feel honored and blessed at everyday I get to do what I love for a living.

So even when I do have those moments when I'm really really tired, I think about the fact that there is so many people who wish they could live their dreams like I do.

>>Q: And that to me pushes me, invigorates me, and drives my passion is that I get to do what I love for a living.

HISTORIC AND FUTURE ARCADE GAMES.

[8-bit melody] >>Bobbi Douthitt: My name is Bobbi.

I work the front desk and help handle our event calendar, try to plan some fun events for people to come out and play for.

I've worked here for four years.

I love it.

My husband and I actually had our, our wedding here, so I love it like it's mine, even though I just work here.

Brian and Becky are just big gamers themselves.

They love amusements.

They love playing games, so I think that they amassed this collection and kind of felt selfish, just keeping it all to themselves and wanted to share it with the rest of the world.

>>Stephen Jones: A place like Replay is like a test ground for these games.

We see things break that nobody else sees.

We have problems that nobody else will encounter because of the amount of plays that these games get on them.

You know, longevity is always the goal, going to make sure each repair is something that's going to make the game last a lot longer, hopefully, as opposed to, like, continually going back in and fixing something.

But, yeah, there's sort of a checklist as far as like looking for bad connectors, because that can just cause things to overheat.

If there's not a good signal going through.

>>Douthitt: Just cleaning the pinballs so that the game will play properly is a big part of it.

>>Jones: A lot of the older games we'll switch out to different style of light bulbs and put LEDs inside of them.

So just to take away the heat.

It draws less power.

So there's, there's certain things like that to keep in mind.

The designers of the game would put notes in the game that a well lit game is going to be played more and for that matter a clean, well lit game.

So it's more like, you know, we got people that come in for the first time and they kind of just start walking around and it's kind of hard to say what makes them go up and put their hands on that first game, especially if it's one they haven't seen before.

But I think it always comes down to some part of like what they've been through in their life, some part of their history, whether they're into cars or like if it's some kind of movie that they're into.

It could be a band that's, that's highlighted on one of these games.

A lot of it will, will definitely be like the artwork.

I feel like if you're able to see the game, it's going to be the artwork.

>>Douthitt: I don't know if it's the colors, if it's the imagination.

I mean, the older pinball machines from the 70s, they definitely pop.

They're trying to be eye catching.

Sometimes maybe slightly suggestive in a sexual manner.

But these were back in the days when it was, you know, a room full of guys playing pinball where there weren't really children involved, maybe not women around.

So you can see the, the kind of development and change of art kind of moving back from risque art pieces and being more family friendly.

>>Jones: I mean, you can find out a lot about yourself just by playing games, whether it's just by yourself.

You can kind of tell, like, how competitive of a person you are and how well you deal with like stressful situations.

>>Ryan Bobko: To me, it's gaming therapy.

It's very relaxing, getting to hit the flippers, just to see how much the game has evolved over the years.

I just love it.

>>Jones: In a place like Replay with the games that we have here, this style of gaming is something where even if you're playing by yourself, you still have like a social connection with people, whether you hear somebody yelling out of frustration because they just lost the ball or somebody is like cheering because they just got a replay or an insanely high score.

We definitely have people coming in that are trying to set high scores.

Replay is known for having scores that are just like super hard to beat because of how many people come in and play the games.

>>Bobko: I had a number three, number four for a little bit and I've, I've been surpassed, so I'm gonna have to chase it again.

>>Douthitt: My best high score here is going to be my GC on Tales of Arabian Nights.

It's forty four million.

I got to the wizard mode and rescued the princess.

Part of my like high score chase isn't even technically the score.

It's more beating the game and reaching that wizard mode, whatever that final objective is.

>>Paul Keske: My son is in the Navy now.

He's up in, in South Carolina.

I'll send him like a text message real quick and say, look at the score I just put up and he'll do the same thing.

If he goes out in the community and he's able to play pinball or any of the video games, he'll send me a score back.

So it's a way for us to stay in, in contact with each other and connect, even though we're, you know, hundreds of miles apart.

>>Douthitt: Seeing the generations actually enjoy, and love these games is why I do what I do.

I know we're doing the right thing.

I know we're here for the right reasons and we are sharing all this fun with generations to come because we need the younger kids to be interested in this.

If there's any history or future for arcades, we got to get kids playing.

We got to get kids playing pinball.

We got to get kids playing the retro games because someone's got to be interested once we're gone.

WOMEN CREATING FASHION.

>>Reporter: It's the strange thing about women's fashion that for most of its history, it's men who've been the designers deciding not only what women might wear, but how they wear it.

>>Petra Slinkard: Yeah, yeah, it doesn't make sense.

>>Reporter: But this exhibition is the exception.

It's a winding tour through 250 years of the women, as the Peabody Essex Museum proclaims, who revolutionized fashion.

Petra Slinkard is a co-curator.

>>Slinkard: You know, one of the things that I think is very frequently sort of taken for granted is how innovative many of these women designers were and are, putting pockets in skirts, the kinds of examples of improvement to a system that women are building on for themselves.

>>Reporter: Starting as we find here in the 1700s, when Marie Antoinette was the queen atop the fashion scene.

>>Slinkard: In regard to silhouette, you know, here, a woman's silhouette, even if she is of a diminutive stature, is still taking up almost three times the size of her male counterpart.

>>Reporter: For well over a century, European women were part of a guild system where they made the clothes men told them to until in the 1800s, they began to push back.

In the U.S., Elizabeth Keckley was an enslaved woman who purchased her freedom and ultimately fashioned her own success, dressing the upper crust and one very famous figure.

>>Slinkard: She became the in-house dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln.

She became her confidante and, you know, lived and worked very close with her for many years.

It's her sense of scale and proportion and fit that makes an ensemble like that work on someone of such a short stature in which, you know, I think just speaks to her artistic ability.

>>Reporter: But for all the stitches and strides, it would take years for the story to change.

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Good morning, Mr.

Woodcock.]

>>Reporter: If you've ever seen the movie Phantom Thread, you know, here's this powerful figure, right?

He's sort of larger than life, but he's almost sort of like the conductor.

But if you really look at that film again, you start to see the army of women behind the closed doors who are actually doing the making.

And then you start to see this narrative, you know, play out that it has for, you know, hundreds of years.

But when the alterations came, we saw them like hemlines rising with the tides of change, especially in the 1960s.

>>Slinkard: Women were experiencing a new sense of independence that I think in some way was also experienced earlier in the 1920s when you saw another moment where hemlines rose and, and waistlines went away.

But that there is this sort of democratization that is taking place in the fashion of the 1960s.

>>Reporter: And where men had put women in constricting corsets and couture, women like Elsa Schiaparelli and Gabrielle Coco Chanel let the seams out.

>>Slinkard: It upset Chanel so much that she came out of retirement and that's where we start to see that boxy Chanel suit really gain in prominence.

And it was in part because I think it was easier to wear.

>>Reporter: Barreling through the 20th century, Vivienne Westwood turned punk.

Rei Kawakubo deconstructed dress and Katharine Hamnett literally made fashion statements on t-shirts.

>>Slinkard: She's using them as a billboard, so even if you say nothing, you say so much, you know, with what you've chosen to wear.

>>Natalie Chanin: I do think that it has been one of our great goals to, you know, make very beautiful things that also, you know, you can drive your car and pick up your child.

>>Reporter: Natalie Chanin is the founder of Alabama Chanin, a fashion and lifestyle company based in Florence, Alabama, where she joined us by Zoom.

Until Chanin came along, Florence was a former textile town time forgot.

And how many people work for you?

>>Chanin: Altogether, a little over 50, 50 people altogether.

So, small business.

>>Reporter: And how many of the 50 people do you know?

>>Chanin: All of them.

>>Reporter: Which is important to you?

>>Chanin: Yes.

Yes, it is.

>>Reporter: Chanin's design is fully considered.

From her local employees to her use of organic materials to the garments she hopes will still be worn decades from now.

>>Chanin: I really do have this philosophy about what we wear being utilitarian, but also, you know, made with beauty and this care for the environment in mind.

>>Reporter: Moving fashion forward to today, the runway still traffics in gowns, but also now in burkinis and all body types because Slinkard says women have fashion all zipped up.

>>Slinkard: What makes women and men different in their designs that, you know, women are designing from that standpoint of hand, heart, and head, and that it is emotional and that it is powerful, but it's powerful because of what it represents.

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER.

I'm Nicole Lamboley and I'm the President and CEO of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada.

We are a charitable food distribution organization serving 90,000 square miles throughout Northern Nevada and the Eastern slope of the Sierra.

Today we're standing in the warehouse out here on Italy Drive in McCarran or Sparks Nevada.

This is our warehouse where we receive inventory and distribute food to our 147 partner agencies throughout our service area.

Where we are actually standing is our volunteer area.

And volunteers are the life blood of our organization.

They provide over 30,000 hours annually.

They have their hands in everything that we do and they help bring so much inspiration and passion even to the staff who are here doing the job alongside them.

We literally could not do this work without them.

Our team of marketing and communications professionals brought this idea forward about how do we really reflect our appreciation to our volunteers.

And so they went through a process and contacted several artists throughout the community who have done work in the Northern Nevada area.

They submitted proposals and then we went through a process of evaluating who really could capture a message that we wanted to share with our volunteers.

I'm Bryce Chisholm.

I paint under the name, ABC Art Attack.

I'm an artist and muralist around the Reno area.

My style is somewhat graffiti inspired, very colorful and bright.

And it's got that high contrast pop.

One of the things I like about what I do with my colors, I call it color therapy.

I free my mind and it's just coloring, you know, as a kid would.

And I feel like that's how people should go about art is that free minded creation.

Don't overthink it, just let it go.

The food bank reached out to me and they had an idea of they want to do something that would incorporate volunteers and bring it all together.

We're so thrilled to have the opportunity, to create a mural that really captures the heart of the food bank and the service that our volunteers provide to us.

The mural is a little girl biting into an apple and everything behind her.

The words and everything are different positive words for food health.

I fight hunger, nourishing hope, themes that the food bank has incorporated into their model.

All of the employees are getting the opportunity to choose a word from a list that we put together as a staff.

And I chose to paint the word together.

When the community comes together the smallest acts makes such an enormous difference for so many people in our community.

And so to me, togetherness really sums up what this work is for me.

It's really special to have the employees come about and like be able to put their artistic touches into the mural.

It creates that sense of ownership where they can come back and be like, look it, I painted this right here, and I was part of that.

I was there that day when we did all that.

So it's a great feeling for them as well.

Having the opportunity was a little nerve wracking to be able to get up there and say particularly as a lefty, can I actually paint words with penmanship that's legible, but it was really fun.

And I felt inspired by being able to participate.

And I think that's what is so great about Bryce as an artist is that he has the trust in people to also contribute to his masterpiece that he is doing for us.

I painted indispensable because our volunteers are truly indispensable.

I think the mural is gorgeous.

It's really just a beautiful piece of art that signifies what goes on here.

It's a place that's just alive and it says what needs to be said about the operation of this whole facility.

Volunteers are members of our community and together as a community, we can lift up people needing nourishment through food bank services, through the arts and celebrating the contribution of artists.

So volunteers are just part of the American culture and of who we are as a community.

And so we are proud to be able to provide the opportunity for people to serve their fellow neighbors.

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