Week of Sept. 7, 2022

From the editor’s desk

Paul Revere Williams, who designed what is now the Lear Theater on Reno’s Riverside Drive, was dubbed “architect to the stars” in the 1930s. But, as a Black person, he was excluded from the neighborhoods where his “roomy estates” and “stately mansions” were built. Arts writer Kris Vagner interviews Janna Ireland, a Los Angeles photographer who has spent the last few years researching and photographing buildings designed by Williams. Her exhibition, “Janna Ireland on the Architectural Legacy of Paul Revere Williams in Nevada,” is featured at the Nevada Museum of Art through Oct. 2

Food writer Cheree Boteler explores South 40, a one-acre, family-friendly venue on South Meadows Parkway that offers a variety of dining, music and gaming (the adult kind and the kid kind), and more. Steve Noel, meanwhile, visits a trio of Reno-Sparks based wineries, including two that share a single roof, as the businesses crush their way through grape harvest season.

Outdoors writer Maggie Nichols spotlights classes and workshops where adults can learn to make the best of Northern Nevada’s outdoor recreational opportunities—from biking and hiking to climbing, fly-fishing and kayaking.

In my September print edition note to readers, I discuss the importance of this year’s Washoe County School Board election, while publisher Jimmy Boegle explains in his column that the RN&R has long welcomed a diversity of viewpoints—but those viewpoints have to be grounded in reality.

Movie/TV reviewer Bob Grimm, who was less than enthusiastic (“it stinks,” he wrote) about the debut episode of “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” on Amazon Prime, says the series’ second episode shows a lot more promise. “The action picks up; dwarves show up—and things start to really click,” Bob notes.

I’ll see you in the funny papers,

—Frank X. Mullen, Editor