Issue: September 09, 2004
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Feel the burn
The Burners will tell you why they’re there. They’ve just come home.
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Free-fat product
A Reno casino used to pay to get rid of a waste product that it now uses to heat the building.
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TV to books
Phil Davis changed careers at midlife. He went from television advertising sales to owning a used-books store.
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Letters for September 9, 2004
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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Fill ‘er up and kill ‘er up
You can’t fill someplace with development without draining someplace else.
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American pie is ‘cat’ spelled backwards
Surreal is just another word for incongruous juxtapositions.
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Whale of a tail
Linda S. Fitz Gibbon’s innovative and quirky ceramic sculptures possess more depth than you might expect from teacups and whale tails.
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Pass it on
Backstage passes come predominantly from one place: Reno.
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The camel’s back
The Camel Races started out as a hoax. Now it’s a yearly Virginia City event.
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Bad politics
War, sedition, lies, divisiveness. Sounds like a certain upcoming election. It’s not. It’s Julius Caesar.
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Rotting trash heap
Paparazzi is a most foul addition to the end-of-summer cinematic trash heap.
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Elusive band
Our writer had been trying to do a story on PUSHBoX for almost two years, when he finally got an interview. He doesn’t know quite what it is, but there’s just something about PUSHBoX.
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Sausage served saucy
Sinbad’s Hot Dogs is great if you like irritated servers and a food that contains unknown animal parts. Our food critic is such a person.
This article was published on 09.09.04