Week of March 27, 2024

From the publisher’s desk

Hello! Kris Vagner, our managing editor, is on a much-deserved vacation, so I am taking the newsletter reins this week. Off we go!

Tia Flores is a Reno artist and a program director at the Sierra Arts Foundation. She recently returned from the San Juan de Yanayacu village in Peru, where she taught women about making crafts and selling them. Flores told our Helena Guglielmino about all the things she’s learned on her trips—and why she can’t wait to go back.

Kathie and Bob Russell started learning about wine production back in the 1960s, when Napa Valley wasn’t known as the winemaking haven it is today. In 2024, they’re running a local vineyard, Palomino Vines, and sharing info on the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

Paul Rudd is unlikable in a movie? How is that even possible? Movie scribe Bob Grimm explains how the makers of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire pulled off this seemingly impossible feat, and expresses sadness at the sorry state of this film “franchise.”

Nick Larsen’s exhibit of collages, Old Haunts, Lower Reaches, is now on display at the Nevada Museum of Art. The Santa Fe., N.M.-based artist talked to Delaney Uronen about how he was influenced by the time he spent working with an archaeology firm here in Reno, his hometown.

There’s a whole lot of discarded plastic food packaging in landfills—but a growing number of Nevada purveyors are taking steps to reduce food-packaging waste. Delaney Uronen takes a look at some local businesses and organizations who are doing their part.

Whether you are involved in the business world or not, negotiations are all around you. Getting the landlord to fix the sink in your apartment, obtaining a raise at work, deciding what movie to stream with your significant other—these are all negotiations, even if you don’t think of them as such. Chris Yount offers some tips on how to navigate these negations in our On Nevada Business column.

As I type this, our April print edition is on a truck somewhere between here and Las Vegas. Be sure to watch out for it on newsstands as it starts hitting streets this weekend and next week!

Take care,

—Jimmy Boegle, publisher/executive editor