Week of July 6, 2022

From the editor’s desk

During the pandemic, we reported how emergency housing protections kept roofs over the heads of families and kept evictions at bay. But as assistance programs dry up and local rents soar, evictions are on the rise—with thousands more lockouts waiting in the wings. Many will occur under the official radar, because state law allows landlords to evict tenants without a court’s involvement unless tenants file an answer to the summary notice.

My camera and I walked through gardens full of larger-than-life beasts in a preview of Dragon Lights, the glowing menagerie which continues at the May Arboretum through Aug. 11. Photo editor Dave Robert was on hand when steam locomotives converged at the Nevada Railroad Museum for its recent celebration of the iron horses that served the Silver State’s mining boom.

Bob Grimm gives high marks to the Season 4 finale of “Stranger Things,” which provides answers to mysteries that were piling up in the latest incarnation of the popular horror series.  But Bob was unimpressed by director David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” which he deems ”shockingly dull and shlocky.”

RN&R music reviewer Matt King gives readers a glimpse of Forest Ray, a four-piece band whose lush soundscapes merge indie rock and blues, coated with psychedelic flavor. The group, now preparing to release “Always,” its fourth album, will on the bill at Reno’s the Matador Lounge this evening, July 6. On July 7, Big Gigantic brings its mash up of jazzy funk, 2010s pop, rap and electronic to the Grand Sierra Resort.

Star gazer Robert Victor tells us when to catch up with the planets as they continue their celestial travels this month, and when to expect the rising of a “super moon” July 12 and 13.

After a two-year hiatus, we’re again asking readers to get out the vote for our Best of Northern Nevada edition. In the current open-ballot primary,  readers write in and vote for whatever businesses, personalities, animals, minerals and abstract concepts they like. That voting ends July 10; the final round of voting is slated for July 18 through Aug. 8, with the winners announced in our September print issue.

I’ll see you in the funny papers,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor