Week of May 25, 2022

From the editor’s desk

When COVID-19 restrictions closed businesses and locked down the state in March 2020, our last edition had the finality of a tombstone. Our news racks have stood empty for two years as we survived online. But this Memorial Day weekend, the RN&R will return to racks, street boxes, venues and shops. A flipbook version of our June edition is online. Check it out, but also pick up a print paper later this week. Give it a read; let us know what you think.

In our online edition, Janice Hoke, an aviator in her own right, swoops in to Reno’s Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1361 to report on the group’s program to give folks who want to be pilots a taste of what that training entails. In June, the group will also host a workshop for kids who want to build and fly a radio-controlled aircraft.

Back on the ground, the curtains are rising on live theater in Northern Nevada. Jessica Santina sets the stage with our summer performing arts schedule, a plethora of dance, comedy, tragedy and musicals set to hit the boards all around Reno-Sparks, Lake Tahoe and Carson City.

Speaking of returning to theaters, movie reviewer Bob Grimm has the low down on potential summer blockbusters headed for the big screens. He also spotlights summer streaming premieres for those of you who prefer to stay home, sink into a massage chair and graze on Skittles. Bob also reports that “George Carlin’s American Dream,” a two-part documentary streaming on HBO Max, is an excellent tribute to the comic who became the counterculture Mark Twain, and gives high marks to “Men,” the latest flick by Alex Garland, a director known for his horrifying cinematic imagery.

Music editor Matt King spent some time with the Cryptilians, an energetic Reno rock band  punk enough to play with punk bands and with enough metal in its DNA to share the spotlight with metalheads.

One reviewer wrote that “The Paradise Notebooks,” by Richard J. Nevle and Steven Nightingale, is “full of stunning writing, taking the reader on a journey through the Sierra, weaving together the scientist as poet and the poet as scientist.” We agree. That’s why we published an excerpt from “Paradise” in our Western Lit feature.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend — and keep your eyes peeled for our June print issue.

I’ll see you in the funny papers,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor