Issue: May 31, 2001
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Summer Guide: Mountain of sand—Desert quest
Our arts editor goes in search of singing sands and off-road adventures at Sand Mountain.
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Summer Guide: Video games—Screw the great outdoors!
Screw the great outdoors! Spend your summer on the couch with summer game releases for the PlayStation 2.
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Summer Guide: Barbecue—The quest for fire—and food
We asked local barbecuing experts for some tips. Here’s what they had to say.
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Summer Guide: Pyramid Lake—Desert lake with the bovine mystique
After forcing the kids to ditch school and swim, the Pike family, in a karmic twist, narrowly escapes death by cow on the Pyramid Highway.
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Summer Guide: Horseback riding—Saddle up!
One of our staffers got on a horse for the first time in her life. Except for a few smells, she liked what she experienced.
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Summer Guide: The Marina—They should call it Lake Breslow
The Sparks Marina is fostering community in the Rail City—unless you want that community to include dogs.
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Summer Guide: Tanning—Being a helplessly white boy in a tan-crazy society
Our editor laments on what it’s like to be a burner, not a tanner.
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Summer Guide: Lake Tahoe—Speeding across emerald bay
Forget those slow-moving paddleboats. Get a thrilling tour of Lake Tahoe from the deck of the Tahoe Thunder, the fastest Coast Guard-approved passenger boat in the country.
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Summer Guide: Movies—Yet another summer movie preview
Bob Grimm’s annual take on what this summer’s slate of movies will have to offer.
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Summer is time to vote in Sparks
Sparks voters head to the polls June 5 to pick two new City Council members and a judge.
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This tree is fishy
An interview with the fish tree on Riverside Drive.
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Amazing museum
The amazing new Nevada Museum of Art will be the best part of downtown redevelopment to date; Gov. Kenny Guinn did the right thing when he vetoed a car stereo noise bill.
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Gifted kids need funding, too
Legislation in front of both the Nevada Legislature and the U.S. Congress could make or break programs for gifted and talented students.
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Letters for May 31, 2001
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Pump up the volume
Our columnist gives his two cents on ginko biloba, Marilyn Manson, $40 hamburgers and the Irritating Car Stereo Volume Act.
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Education and re-deregulation
Good ideas are inextricably mixed with crap pellets in end-of-session state lawmaking.
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Alternative art
A Sierra Arts program lets teens express themselves and benefit the community, too.
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Happy and he knows it
Alt-country singer Todd Snider, who opens the RN&R’s Rolling on the River concert series June 15, is happy to be where he’s at.
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Lydia Pense and Cold Blood
An event of note from the weekly calendar.
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Scene&herd
Richmond Fontaine lead singer misses Reno but is finding modest success elsewhere.
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A roller coaster ride
Reno Little Theater’s A Thurber Carnival has its ups and downs.
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Missing the mark
Pearl Harbor wants to be Titanic, but it lacks the emotional potency and skilled story modulation that the big boat movie boasted.
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Sharing their insight
Local band 13th Insight plays eclectic music with an uplifting message.
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Fresh, fast, flavorful
Jalapeno Fresh Express offers tasty and inexpensive fast food without the grease and fat.
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