Internationally and domestically, Beyoncé keeps finding new ways to get people to protest against her. In late September, B’s concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was canceled because the nation’s Muslim population protested her skimpy costumes. After Knowles journeyed over to Ethiopia to celebrate that country’s bi-millennial extravaganza recently, she left in her wake thirty hunger-striking student protestors who lamented her meeting with Ethiopian Orthodox Church patriarch Abune Paulos. The incident even spawned an open letter that pleaded with Beyoncé not to come to Ethiopia, as the current Meles Zenawi regime is “internationally condemned as one of the worst human rights violators” and “has committed atrocities and murder, engaged in genocide and is, even as we write this, committing massacres in the Ogaden and other places.” Beyoncé, like any good diplomat, later proclaimed that Ethiopia was like “her second home.”

While Beyonce is in the middle of a massive world tour that has her nowhere near Nevada, B has still found a way to rub Reno residents the wrong way. This time, it’s not really her fault, though. Clear Channel first angered the citizens of Reno by placing huge billboards that obscured the town’s view of the outlying mountains. Radio station Z93.7 then exacerbated the situation, thinking that maybe placing an enormous billboard near a residential area with a photo of a bikini-clad Beyoncé would be a good idea. It wasn’t. Now, the town’s really heated. “It’s obscene,” resident Pamela Keeney said, “I have my two little grand kids coming over here, and they don’t need to be seeing that.” Keeley, who previously never even heard of Beyoncé, remembers the horror of witnessing the billboard going up: “I was sitting out the porch one morning, and they were putting up another one. It was a naked lady. All she has on is two little triangles that cover her breasts.” Z93.7 defends the billboard, saying the picture was provided to them as a publicity shot. Though the town has authored a hundred signature-strong petition demanding the billboard be taken down, Beyoncé’s Bootyliciousness still dominates the Reno skyline.

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