Week of Feb. 28, 2024
From the editor’s desk
Hi RN&R Readers,
The March print edition will be hot off the press this weekend and next week! Keep an eye out for it at your favorite local businesses. Meanwhile, I’ve got some book, film and music news for you right here.
In 1974, Nellie Shaw Harnar, a Northern Paiute woman who had a master’s degree in history and a long career as a schoolteacher, published a book titled Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada. In 2023, her son, Curtis Harnar, along with Billie Jean Guerrero from the Pyramid Lake Museum and Visitors Center in Nixon, got the book back into print. You can pick up a copy at the museum.
RN&R‘s film and TV writer Bob Grimm has two strong dis-recommendations this week. Drive-Away Dolls, Ethan Coen’s first narrative film without his brother, Joel, now in theaters, is “a rushed, sloppy story that offers a few laughs. … The film offers hints of the brilliance and comedic edge that have propelled the Coen brothers’ movies through the decades, but the overall experience is grating.“
And Anyone but You, starring the likable Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell in a riff on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, is so blunt and predictable that Bob’s already dreading the sequel.
In the summer of 2019, Virginia City poet Shaun Griffin went for a long bike trek in the Oregon and Idaho wilderness with his sons, who, by then, had been out of the house and living their own lives for 10 years. Having time to disconnect from the world and reconnect with his family was precious. Griffin’s memoir about the experience, River Ask Me Why: Into the West on Two Wheels, will be available after March 15.
Teree Yount, aka DJ TigerBunny, has been performing locally for 24 years. Her eclectic live show features a few staples, like a vinyl-only set from her massive collection, and an emphasis on unconventional gems you won’t find in other modern DJ sets. She talked with music scribe Matt King about what inspires her in the Lucky 13 Q+A.
Take care,
—Kris Vagner, managing editor
From the RN&R
Carrying on the lineage: Curtis Harnar, wanting young Paiutes to have access to their history, helped get his mother’s 1974 book republished
By Lucy Birmingham
February 28, 2024
Curtis Harnar, 84, has helped get his mother’s 1974 book, Indians of Coo-Yu-Ee Pah (Pyramid Lake): The History of Pyramid Lake Indians in Nevada, back into print.
Any film but this: ‘Anyone but You’ is a romcom with no chemistry and no surprises
By Bob Grimm
February 26, 2024
Anyone but You made our reviewer long for those miserable Matthew McConaughey romcoms.
The Lucky 13: Teree Yount, also known as DJ TigerBunny
By Matt King
February 27, 2024
DJ TigerBunny has been performing for 24 years. Her shows highlight unconventional gems—often from her massive vinyl collection—you won’t find anywhere else.
The gift of slow travel: Shaun Griffin’s new book traces the 1,200-mile bike trek of a father and two sons
By Frank X. Mullen
February 22, 2024
Virginia City poet Shaun T. Griffin and his sons Nevada and Cody biked more than 1,000 miles across the West in 2019. Griffin’s memoir, a meditation on fatherhood, family and “slow travel,” hits the shelves in March.
Sloppy comedy: Ethan Coen botches ‘Drive-Away Dolls,’ his first narrative film without his brother
By Bob Grimm
February 26, 2024
Drive-Away Dolls is a rushed story that offers a few laughs, but ultimately shows that Ethan Coen might need a couple more solo efforts under his belt before hitting his stride.
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