Category: Culture
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Adventures in our own backyard: ‘Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada’
Author and photographer Stephen H. Provost’s Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada is the fourth volume in his growing Highways of the West series, historical travel guides to iconic highways in the West. Previous volumes have dealt with America’s Loneliest Road, the Victory Highway in Nevada and the Lincoln Highway in…
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Your local tour guide: Mikalee Byerman’s updated Reno guidebook is full of advice for locals and visitors
Author Mikalee Byerman leaves no bucket list unturned in the second edition of her guidebook, 100 Things to Do in Reno Before You Die, published in September. It’s a fun, precise, absorbing read on local food, drink, music, entertainment, sports, culture, shopping and more. A full-time freelance writer, Byerman has been voted Best Creative Writer…
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Story of continuance: The Great Basin Native Artists’ latest exhibit helps ensure that Native art isn’t relegated to a historical footnote
The exhibition It Started With Willows, now showing at the Bristlecone Gallery at Western Nevada College in Carson City, is a fiercely eclectic show, encompassing sculpture, drawings, prints, collage and basketry—featuring work that has been made over the span of the last 70 years or so. It hangs together beautifully. Winnowing trays, seed gathering baskets,…
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Handmade for the holidays: Buy your gifts from local artists
Reno potter Tom Drakulich makes mugs in four sizes—classic, all-day, latte and espresso. They’re priced between $28 and $32. When he sells them on a large marketplace site like Etsy, he has two problems. While the platform is ostensibly for independent creators, searches for handmade mugs also yield offers for similar-looking products that are mass-produced…
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Setting the stage for the season: Your guide to holiday performing arts
As I write this, my house is decorated with pumpkins and spiderwebs—and we’ll bundled up in coats and hearing jingle bells in a matter of weeks. You’re probably already marking your calendar for the next two months of inevitable parties, gift swaps, kids’ end-of-year recitals and other holiday bucket-list activities. So while your calendar’s out,…
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Survival in postapocalyptic Las Vegas: Jarret Keene’s ‘Hammer of the Dogs’ explores a fierce new world
Set in the wasteland of post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, Hammer of the Dogs is a literary dystopian adventure filled with high-octane fun starring 21-year-old Lash. With her high-tech skill set and warrior mentality, Lash is a master of her own fate as she helps to shield the Las Vegas Valley’s survivors and protect her younger classmates at a…
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Prepare for a scare: A sneak peek into Dark Corner Haunted House
RN&R Photo Editor David Robert went behind the scenes of Dark Corner Haunted House and found a team of local actors and artists with opulently detailed makeup, props and costumes, ready to deliver a full-service fright. Holly Spahr, known for her immersive art exhibitions at venues such as the Potentialist Workshop, is a co-owner and…
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Your move: Rogue Worx’s ‘The Game’ brings a bit of philosophy and a lavish amount of fun
“This is the real secret of life,” said the English writer, speaker and philosopher Alan Watts, “to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” Watts, who made a name for himself by popularizing Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu philosophies for…
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The costs of growing old: RLT’s ‘A Facility for Living’ confronts realities of aging in America
My friends and I joke a lot about aging. We commiserate about the back spasms caused by merely loading the dishwasher and the stray gray hairs that crop up in our eyebrows. We laugh and say, “Retirement? What’s that? Who can afford to do that?”—only we’re not really joking. Aging is not for the weak,…
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Q+A with April Bey: Touched by colonialism and dystopia, the Bahamian artist creates portals of escape
“Let me write my music not for earth alone, but for the worlds” ―Sun Ra We are living in dystopian times; that much is clear. Through the miasma of wildfires, hurricanes, socioeconomic upheaval and civil unrest, the individual strains to envision benevolent futures. For the global majority, the reality of dystopia has long been the…