Week of March 22, 2023

From the editor’s desk

As the generation that lived through the Holocaust vanishes, deniers are trying to erase the systematic murders of 11 million people from our history books. Speakers at this year’s Day of Remembrance program next month will debunk those lies as they recall the Nazis’ attempt at genocide—and take aim at the liars who pretend those horrors never happened.

Political columnist Sheila Leslie, meanwhile, checks in with the 2023 Legislature—and is underwhelmed, to say the least. She says Democrats are caving in too early on important issues—and wonders why the state keeps throwing money at Tesla.

Award winning artist Erik Holland, a former longtime RN&R contributor, is a landscape artist, represented in several galleries in Reno and California. Today, Holland needs some help—and lending him a hand is the purpose of a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, March 24, at the Savage Mystic Gallery in Reno.

Movie reviewer Bob Grimm was disappointed by Shazam! Fury of the Gods, a weak sequel to Shazam!, a “fun and charming” flick from 2019 that spawned “a tiresome and redundant” follow-up. Some superhero movies, Grimm notes, just aren’t worthy of becoming franchises.

Our Western Lit feature profiles Falling, a new young-adult paranormal romance by Tori Briar, set in a fictional city in the Sierra foothills. “Place matters; where we are informs who we are,” Briar says, explaining that she hopes readers will leave this book “with a sense of place as well as an exhilarating story.”

Readers’ epistles in our March mailbag include reactions to the trapping of wild horses at Fish Springs, the vandalism of a pride flag at a Reno church, the prospect of cannabis lounges in Northern Nevada, and more.

I’ll see you in the funny papers.

Take care,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor