Week of June 7, 2023

From the editor’s desk

Design work for the Center Street Cycle Track, a project debated and planned for years, was suddenly put on hold in 2021 after casino interests made a pitch for a bikeway on Virginia Street instead. Some city officials want to abandon the Center Street route, but local cyclists and some City Council members want it back on course.

Speaking of bicycles, Dave Robert’s 15 Minutes column profiles iCan Shine, a nonprofit organization which runs around 100 iCan Bike camps in 35 states, benefiting close to 3,000 people with disabilities each year. Diana Rovetti, Reno’s iCan Shine coordinator, explains that more than 80% of people with autism and 90% of people with Down syndrome never learn to ride a two-wheel bicycle—often because they are never given a chance.

In libations news, Michael Moberly’s Liquid Conversations column gives readers a glimpse of The Loving Cup, a watering hole and music venue on California Avenue that “keeps the dream of the early 2000s dance bar alive.” Steve Noel, meanwhile, devotes his column to rosé, a unique and distinct wine style that comes in many different hues and flavors

In this month’s Art of the State, Kris Vagner explains how the Lilley Museum at UNR turned its second-floor gallery into a space designed to collect feedback from patrons in an effort to learn everything it can about what people want in a museum.

Movie reviewer Bob Grimm takes a look at Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the second chapter in a trilogy, which he says builds upon the visual brilliance of the original’s animation with “amazing technical achievements and kinetic story.” Grimm wasn’t as impressed with The Boogeyman, a Stephen King short story which made it onto the big screen minus the scary parts.

The RN&R’s On Nevada Business feature spotlights the finalists and winners of the 2023 Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition at the University of Nevada, Reno.

In his Publisher’s Note, Jimmy Boegle recalls how an unpaid summer internship at the RN&R 27 years ago set the course for his newspaper career.

And in our Guest Opinion slot, activist Cale Christi asserts that the proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, rather than being an environmentally-sound way to fight global warming, would only do more irreparable harm to Nevada—and the planet.  

These and more stories, columns and features are tucked between the pages of our June edition, available free at newsstands across Northern Nevada. Oh, and be sure to cast your votes in this year’s Best of Northern Nevada nomination round, an open-ballot primary where readers write in and vote for whatever businesses, personalities, animals, minerals and abstract concepts you like. The deadline for ballots is June 11, so click on vote.renonr.com before the first round of voting closes.

I’ll see you in the funny papers.

Take care,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor