Week of March 20, 2024

From the editor’s desk

What’s bugging you these days? Divisiveness in politics? Reno’s ever-expanding sprawl? Photo editor David Robert asked a few locals for our Streetalk feature, and they had no trouble coming up with answers. 

Republicans and Democrats each claim there is an existential threat to our republic, should the other side win the next election. This month’s guest commenter, Michel Rottman, critically examines some Republicans’ claims against Joe Biden.

These days, Reno food fans can find great examples of just about every style of pizza there is. As our region ramps up its pizza cred, food scribe David Rodriguez asked some of the people behind the pies to talk about what drives them, and how they staked their claims in the wide world of pizza.

At Chapel Tavern, a new cocktail aging system—12 small barrels and a maze of copper pipes, mounted high on the wall, based on a traditional “solera” wine-aging process—helps bartenders coax interesting notes of flavor into a boulevardier. Cocktail scribe Michael Moberly explains.

Calling all documentary film fans: Put Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on your must-watch list. It’s a nine-episode Netflix series that tells the story of the ongoing threat of nuclear Armageddon, from Hiroshima to current-day Ukraine. “It’s as thorough and enthralling as a documentary on nuclear war, and the Cold War that followed it, could be,” writes Bob Grimm.

Peter Farrelly’s new comedy Ricky Stanicky … well, it’s not all that funny. But if you’re curious, it’s streaming on Amazon Prime.

RN&R publisher Jimmy Boegle has always appreciated the teachings of Jesus Christ—values like kindness, forgiveness and fellowship. The frustrating part is that the church doesn’t always abide by these values, a situation he was all too acutely reminded of by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York’s disdain over activist Cecilia Gentili’s funeral. 

“Jíbaro Soy,” a 20-foot-high sculpture of a farmer by Puerto Rican artist Mark Rivera that debuted at Burning Man in 2023, is slated to be installed as part of a new crop of outdoor art at Jacobs Entertainment’s Neon Line on West Fourth Street. (And since we published that news earlier in earlier this month, Jacobs announced three additional sculptures for the neighborhood as well.)

Take care,

—Kris Vagner, managing editor