Issue: October 17, 2002
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Reno is Familytown
Low-budget events like Reno’s Fall Family Festival are intended to appeal to folks who don’t usually come downtown—like band parents and fire aficionados.
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Cleaning the Parking Gallery
The city’s grimy garage gets a make-over.
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Death at Manzanita Lake
A fraternity pledge’s drowning stuns the university community.
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Promoting a gentler activism
Longtime environmental activist Dave Foreman does not have a prosaic past. As a founder and leader of Earth First! in the early 1980s.
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Signs of the times
When Cory Farley ran a quip about readerboard road signs that promote political agendas in his Street Beat column on Sept. 22, politicos and news organizations around the area perked up their ears.
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R-1, a vote on the arts & recreation bond
A ballot question offers voters a say in the city’s plan to borrow bucks to fund arts, culture and recreation programs.
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No risk in voting ‘yes’ on 9
We’ve got questions about the pot initiative, a “yes” vote gives us two years to look for answers.
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Letters for October 17, 2002
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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The end of the world
One more reason to avoid Yellowstone National Park: the super volcano.
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View from the fray
If Koppel’s not afraid, neither am I—no matter what the Weekly World News predicts.
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The notorious, “Whoa”
Margaret Cho brings her eyebrow-raising comedy to Reno.
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Feels like feng shui
Adele Trebil integrated Feng Shui elements into Reno homes long before the Chinese design philosophy invaded America’s interiors.
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Army hospital antics
Truckee Meadows Community College’s production of M*A*S*H gets off to a shaky start but turns out charming.
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Terror tape
The Ring features creepy videotape, a remote cabin in the woods and budding horror mistress Naomi Watts.
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Peace to the world
Burning Peace markets itself globally while performing locally.
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