Week of May 22, 2024

From the editor’s desk

Many Native communities in our region still don’t have access to suitable broadband, writes Taylor Patterson, our latest guest columnist, a member of the Bishop Paiute Tribe and executive director of the Native Voter Alliance. And overregulation isn’t helping.

“Art is mostly seen as a private club—you need special keys to enter,” said poet Shaun Griffin. He’s been working to inform people (perhaps most notably by teaching poetry in prisons for three decades now) that art and poetry are useful tools for self awareness and living a good life. Now that he’s been appointed the Nevada Poet Laureate, he can spread the word even further. 

Ever wonder how you can avoid accidentally buying a disappointing bottle of wine? Wine scribe Steve Noel’s latest lesson is all about how to read the scores and medals you see on shelves and bottles, and how to use them to your advantage.

“After three episodes of Dark Matter, a brain-twisting new series starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, I am totally hooked,” writes film/TV guy Bob Grimm. “This is a challenging and entertaining show, and it grabbed me within its first 15 minutes.” It’s now showing on Apple+.

Is Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers a tennis story? A love story? A very complicated love story? Yes, yes and yes, Bob says. Plus, it’s a great vehicle to let Zendaya flex her skills—both dramatic and comedic.

Despite an overall dip in craft beer sales nationwide, Pigeon Head Brewery is going strong. The downtown Reno brewer just celebrated its 10th anniversary, still cranks out its signature lagers, and has a shiny new beer garden.

Imagine you suddenly learned that you could take six people with you to the afterlife, and you have to choose right this second. This is the premise of DC Cathro’s 2022 dark comedy play You May Have 6, onstage at Reno’s Goodluck Macbeth Theatre through Saturday, May 25. Here’s Jessica Santina’s full review.

Have you voted in the Best of Northern Nevada’s nomination round yet? If so, great! If not, what are you waiting for? Get thee to vote.renonr.com—and be sure to vote in at least 10 categories!

Take care,

—Kris Vagner, managing editor